Archive
November 2016
New voices: One small, quiet act
Holly Kahya on how yogic breathing could enhance psychological practice, in the latest in our series for budding writers (see thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/contribute).
'We have to bust up the orthodoxy'
Our editor Jon Sutton meets Jonathan Haidt.
The everyday magic of superstition
Ella Rhodes speaks to psychologists in an attempt to understand the widespread and persistent nature of apparently irrational beliefs.
Life and death at the limits
Roger Luckhurst on ‘zombie psychology’.
Eye on Fiction: The Babadook and maternal depression
Pamela Jacobsen considers a metaphor in a horror film (warning: contains plot details).
A window to the soul and psyche?
Szonya Durant with a primer on eye tracking.
‘I still see myself as a psychologist’
Ian Florance talks to Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School.
The medieval mind
Scholars are finding that medieval science – in various fields – is more sophisticated than previously thought. Corinne Saunders and Charles Fernyhough show that psychology is no exception.
October 2016
‘Honey, I shrunk the kids’
Jon Sutton and Aidan Horner speak to the children of psychologists, and the psychologists themselves, about their parenting.
September 2016
Experiencing the ‘surveillance society’
Ian Tucker, Darren Ellis and Dave Harper ask whether psychology been slow to cast a watchful eye over its implications.
August 2016
Behind the masks
William Todd Schultz offers a psychobiography primer.
July 2016
Little people, big questions
Ian Florance talks to educational psychologist Irvine Gersch.
June 2016
Air raids and the crowd – citizens at war
Edgar Jones explores how British people responded to air raids during the Second World War, and what this tells us about coping under extreme stress.
May 2016
Are we punching our weight?
Our journalist Ella Rhodes asks whether psychology is having the desired impact, through the media and policy.
April
5 minutes with… Anna Sallis
Behavioural Insights Research Advisor at Public Health England.
March 2016
The survival secrets of solitaries
Ian O’Donnell finds resilience and growth in a most unlikely environment.
February 2016
Can psychology find a path to peace?
As the UK's Parliament votes to allow bombing in Syria, we ask - are there evidence-based ways to resolve this conflict?
January 2016
Welcome to the club
Ella Rhodes reports on our efforts to crowdsource practical ideas for an after-school psychology club for primary school children.
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