Archive
December 2018
How real people communicate
Elizabeth Stokoe introduces a special collection by tuning in to conversation analysis: in particular, is it better to ‘talk’ or ‘speak’? Includes contributions from José-Miguel Fernández-Dols, Saul Albert, Stuart Reeves and Martin Porcheron, Alexa Hepburn and Jenny Mandelbaum, Elliott Hoey, and Emily Hofstetter.
‘Impact has got to be more than ingroup grooming’
Malcolm MacLachlan is Director of the ALL (Assisting Living and Learning) Institute and Professor of Psychology and Social Inclusion at Maynooth University.
'We’re pulling bodies out of the river, we need to ask why they’re falling in’
Ian Florance meets Dawn Edge.
Early relationships matter
Rebecca Fellows is an Assistant Psychologist in a busy and expanding Infant Mental Health Service in Leeds.
Five minutes with… Dr Harbinder Sandhu
Associate Professor and Practitioner Health Psychologist Dr Harbinder Sandhu (Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick) is leading a large trial of an intervention that aims to help people with chronic pain taper their opioid use.
‘There is a problem with juries acting on myths rather than evidence’
Ella Rhodes speaks to Dominic Willmott, whose research on the role of inaccurate beliefs about rape has caught the attention of policy makers.
‘They’ve agreed to build something bigger than themselves’
Sally Marlow experiences a ‘Mile-Long Opera’ and meets its Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, David Lang.
Mindfulness and clinical science
Bergljot Gjelsvik, Alice Tickell, Ruth Baer, Chris O’Neill and Catherine Crane call for more rigour and less hype.
Relationship counselling as a ‘necessary social justice'
A letter from our December edition.
From the Chief Executive, December 2018
Sarb Bajwa writes.
November 2018
Family trees, selfies and our search for identity
Paula Nicolson looks at developing identities in the 21st century.
October 2018
The psychologists’ tree of life
A special feature on psychologists working with non-human species.
September 2018
Yawning at the apocalypse
Cameron Brick and Sander van der Linden on how psychologists can help solve the largest social dilemma in history.
August 2018
How selfish is your search for happiness?
Joe Smith on differing views over what we should strive for, and what they mean for positive psychology on the 20th anniversary of its springing to life.
July 2018
Windows on our inner and outer worlds
How do psychologists’ own artistic creations reflect their internal lives and approach to the stuff of therapy? Christina Richards introduces several musings on the writers’ own works, in a variety of artistic media. Includes online extras.
June 2018
Overrated: Our capacity to impact policy
Carl Walker, Ewen Speed and Danny Taggart believe that the nature of public policy means we can never be as influential as we’d like to be. They follow this with an article reminding us of the value of informal psychological caregiving.
May 2018
The new psychology of health
Our editor Jon Sutton introduces a special collection of articles on 'unlocking the social cure'.
April 2018
Psychologists and the media – opportunities and challenges
A special feature.
March 2018
Placing mind in the metropolis
Our journalist Ella Rhodes speaks to psychologists about what we need to bring to our urban spaces.
February 2018
The age of illusions
Nicholas Wade looks at the new world of visual illusions that emerged in the 19th century and invigorated psychology.
January 2018
Rethinking addiction
Nick Heather challenges the brain disease model.
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