Archive

December 2011
A healthy contribution
Marie Johnston, John Weinman and Angel Chater introduce a special feature to mark the founding of the Society’s Health Psychology Section 25 years ago

November 2011
The lure of horror
Christian ‘Jeepers’ Jarrett with a Halloween special, on the intriguing insights into our psyche offered by scary stories

October 2011
The Riots: a comment special
What was behind England’s riots, and how can psychology contribute going forward? Download PDF for full version.

September 2011
The shock of the old
Stephen D. Reicher and S. Alexander Haslam introduce a special feature which reconnects with Milgram’s vision for social psychology

August 2011
Wish you were here?
Christian Jarrett examines the psychology of holidays

July 2011
Is it not beautiful?
Alex Forsythe and the late Noel Sheehy look to aesthetics, fractals and more in order to understand art.

June 2011
Ouch! The different ways people experience pain
Christian Jarrett examines the psychology of pain perception

May 2011
The menopause
Beverley N. Ayers, Mark J. Forshaw and Myra S. Hunter look at lessons learned from a global outlook

April 2011
Special Issue: Psychology, religion and spirituality
Joanna Collicutt opens the special issue

March 2011
The value of pets for human health
Deborah Wells has a menagerie of surprising and controversial research on animal antics

February 2011
The deadly sins
Christian Jarrett examines the relevance of the idea of sin to modern life, and introduces a special ‘sin week’ on the Society’s Research Digest blog at http://www.researchdigest.org.uk/blog

January 2011
Psychology at the end of the world
Ron Roberts examines mind and behaviour in the Antarctic