Archive

December 2004
The pros and cons of caffeine
Can caffeine actually keep you fit and healthy into old age? Rebecca Thompson and Karen Keene investigate.

November 2004
Bats amongst birds
Daniel Freeman and Philippa A. Garety take a look at the psychology of paranoia.

October 2004
Drawing conclusions from children's art
Esther Burkitt on whether those pictures stuck to the fridge are really a window to a child’s mind.

September 2004
Terrorism, 9/11 and psychology
Andrew Silke looks at the responses, obstacles and ways forward.

August 2004
Intersex - special issue
Lih-Mei Liao and Mary Boyle guest edit this special issue. Iain Morland exposes the psychoanalytic roots of modern surgical management of intersexuality; Celia Kitzinger discusses the implications of intersexuality for the psychology of women; Melissa Hines writes on the role of hormones in brain development and behaviour; and Lih-Mei Liao and Mary Boyle ask what we can learn from intersex people themselves.

July 2004
Sieges, the police, and a psychologist?
Gerard Bailes looks for the reality behind the TV depictions.

June 2004

May 2004
The use and abuse of student participants
Hugh Foot and Alison Sanford on the practical and ethical issues involved in using students in research.

April 2004
Are you what you have?
Helga Dittmar on consumer society and its effects on our sense of identity.

March 2004
The trouble with 'doing boy'
John Archer argues that social constructionist research favours politically biased interpretations of discursive material, at the expense of a large body of empirical evidence.

February 2004
Don't look now... I'm trying to think
Gwyneth Doherty-Sneddon on the importance of children’s eye gaze.

January 2004
Not at all in the genes
Jay Joseph argues that all the research to date into the genetics of schizophrenia, intelligence and criminal behaviour is so flawed that the results are meaningless. Craig Newnes went to meet him.