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Can psychology change the world?

Tommy MacKay, winner of the Society’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology, on applied psychology and the human welfare agenda

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Stepping up primary care

Jim White on a radical approach to mental health, which looks beyond individual therapy to offer something more creative and relevant

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Phineas Gage – Unravelling the myth

Malcolm Macmillan updates a familiar tale, 160 years after its inception.

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Running the world-class programme in athletics

Dave Collins, Performance Director at UK Athletics, on how he will be putting his background in psychology to use in pursuit of medals this month

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Running to catch the sun

We are all heading for the grave in an indifferent universe. How do we cope with such existential concerns? Dan Jones investigates

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Psychology and visible difference

Diana Harcourt and Nichola Rumsey introduce the special issue

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On vines and minds

Miles Thomas with a call to professional arms on a topic that many of us find of personal interest.

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The great baby signing debate

Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon on an area where academia meets public interest

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The name game

We all have one, and it might determine our fate in a number of intriguing and bizarre ways. Nicholas Christenfeld and Britta Larsen investigate.

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Orgasm

Barry R. Komisaruk, Carlos Beyer and Beverly Whipple view the subject of orgasms as an experience that is an integration of body, nervous system and the mind.

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Questioning the banality of evil

S. Alexander Haslam and Stephen D. Reicher re-examine the established view, in an article based on the 2007 Argyle Lecture

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ISSN: 0952-8229 (Print), 2398-1529 (online)

...From the archive

Music — where cognition and emotion meet

John Sloboda gave the Presidents’ Award Lecture at the Society’s Annual Conference in Belfast, April 1999. He argued that millions of people could discover the joys of music making if we created modern equivalents of the village brass band and stopped focusing on the need
to be best.

Psychology and the Great War, 1914–1918
Ben Shephard considers our discipline’s involvement, on all sides.