The British Psychological Society audio interviews
Around 2013, science journalist Wendy Barnaby talked with some of our authors.
13 March 2023
This series of audio interviews from around 2013 features eminent Society members discussing their own areas of interest and related research. Each link below takes you to the original article from The Psychologist, which then links to the audio on YouTube.
Professor John Aggleton
How the brain regions interact to support different forms of memory
Maggi Evans
'Women in leadership - a different story'
Dr Tom Farsides
Is it important to be altruistic?
Professor Dan Freeman
'The stressed sex'
BPS Fellow Professor Chris French
Parapsychology
Emeritus Prof Stephen Lea
Psychological consequences of personal debt
Dr Khadija Rouf
Living with a severe food allergy
Dr Sophie Scott
Laughing
BPS Associate Fellow Dr Richard Stephens
How we use swearing to express our emotions (Contains some offensive words)
Professor Andy Young
The neuropsychology of face recognition
You can also listen via a playlist; and there are many more audio interviews, and videos, to discover on the BPS YouTube channel.
This page has been updated from a November 2014 original.