Archive
October
Hazardous to health?
Sarah Mackenzie Ross considers whether exposure to chemical substances could be damaging your brain.
The Freudian motivation behind 1967's Sexual Offences Act
Adam Jowett on Jewish Labour MP Leo Abse.
Kinship and loss
We pose some questions for Damien W. Riggs and Elizabeth Peel, about their new book Critical Kinship Studies, and publish an exclusive extract on experiences of pregnancy loss.
Little scientists – big impact
The Developmental Research Team at the University of Stirling explain why they love their psychology kindergarten.
Simulation-based education
Jennifer Cleland finds new perspectives on medical training, which could be used more widely in psychology too.
The Psychologist Guide to University Life
Ella Rhodes brings us evidence-based tips for new students of any subject, kindly sponsored by Routledge Psychology.
‘I encountered considerable hostility to the kind of critiques I was presenting’
Our editor Jon Sutton meets Professor Erica Burman (University of Manchester).
One year at university
Holly Rose Welsby gained a Triple A* from Burnley College Sixth Form Centre to progress to Cambridge University. She has just completed her first year studying psychology at Churchill College. Here she tells us about her experience so far.
‘Greater humility about what our discipline can bring could, paradoxically, strengthen our contribution’
'One on One' with Theresa Marteau.
September 2017
A broad experience
Dinsa Sachan considers the evidence on how foreign living shapes us.
August 2017
The future of transport?
The psychology of self-driving vehicles, with Stephen Skippon and Nick Reed.
July 2017
Faces in the wild
Brian Parkinson (University of Oxford) reviews the evidence on interpersonal effects of facial expression.
June 2017
Working as an expat psychologist
Patric Esters on cultural challenges and possible universals.
May 2017
Minds run free
Psychologists, like much of the population, have been bitten by the running bug. What do they get out of it, and does their experience chime with the science? Christian Jarrett and Ella Rhodes investigate.
April 2017
Five depictions of the brain
Andrew P. Wickens (a winner of the British Psychological Society’s Book Award) considers their historical significance.
March 2017
A brave new world of sleep?
Gareth Gaskell reviews the evidence on memory consolidation during sleep.
February 2017
Literature in performance, psychology in action
Philip Davis with a case history from his multidisciplinary Centre for Research into Reading, Literature, and Society.
January 2017
Why magazines matter
As we relaunch, our journalist Ella Rhodes considers style and impact in the printed form.
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