Archive

Why I study...brain injury

Barbara A. Wilson

Retiring?

John Sheppard interviewed Jeffrey Gray of the Institute of Psychiatry just before his ‘retirement’.

Obsessive compulsive disorder

Roz Shafran gave the first Award for outstanding doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology Lecture at the Society’s Annual Conference in Belfast in April.

Virtual reality

David Rose and Nigel Foreman describe the application to psychology of a fast-developing new technology.

The treadmill syndrome

Personal space - Glyn Hudson-Allez

Understanding assets and deficits in autism - Why success is more

Francesca Happé gave the Spearman Medal Lecture at the Society’s London Conference in December 1998. She argued that we can discover more about autism through examples of task success than of failure — and that it involves a distinct cognitive style, rather than deficit.

Speaking clearly before the tone...

Richard Hammersley describes some recorded message styles.

Universities need educational psychologists

Personal Space - Golda Smith

New wave analysis

Guest Editor Bryan Roche introduces a special feature on modern behaviour analysis.

Seeing speech in unexpected places - Mouths, machines and minds

Ruth Campbell delivered the C.S. Myers Lecture at the Society’s Annual Conference in Belfast, April 1999.

The internet - A possible research tool?

Carl Senior and Michael Smith look at how the development of the internet opens up new possibilities for psychological research.

Keeping the momentum going

John Sheppard interviews Tom Williams, Chair of the Society’s Professional Affairs Board.

Children's road safety

Guest Editors Antony J. Chapman and Deirdre O’Reilly introduce a special issue on child development and road safety. They believe that psychology can help to cut down the UK’s alarmingly high rates of child pedestrian accidents.

Why I study...the menstrual cycle

Precilla Choi

Qualitative methods: Beyond beliefs and desires

Karen Burt and Mike Oaksford define roles for qualitative methods in developing scientific hypotheses and in fields where objective experiment is impractical.

Student writer competition winners

In her winning entry in the undergraduate category, Kate Lothian considers the detection and treatment of depression in older people. Alice Muir, the winner in the postgraduate category, takes a new look at stress and anxiety.

Annual Conference reports

Eyewitness testimony and the Oklahoma bombing

Amina Memon and Daniel B. Wright ask what psychological studies can tell us about the search for the shadowy ‘John Doe 2’.

Why I study...Ethics

Ronald Francis

Daunting challenges - Annual Conference reports

Towards 2000

John Sheppard interviews Pat Frankish and asks her to set out her ambitions for her presidential year.

Internet addiction: Fact or fiction?

Mark Griffiths explores the empirical reality behind the media hype.

Syndromes, phenotypes and genotypes - Finding the links

Anthony Holland demonstrates how analysis of both genes and behaviour can illuminate research and clinical practice in learning disability.

Cognitive therapy

William R. Lindsay reveals how much psychologists can do to help with emotional problems even when communication is difficult.

An invisible morbidity?

Helen Prosser argues that the detection and diagnosis of mental health problems in adults with learning disabilities can be greatly improved.

Ethical dilemmas of psychotherapists

Geoff Lindsay and Petruska Clarkson explore the difficulties of psychotherapeutic work.

Why I study...Cognitive gerontology

Pat Rabbitt

State of the art: Working memory

Robert H. Logie explains what we know so far about the ‘desktop of the brain’.

Racism - Peer commentaries

Peer commentaries by Steve Reicher, Ann Phoenix, and Gerry Finn. Plus reply by Kwame Owusu-Bempah and Dennis Howitt.

Even their soul is defective

n this peer commentary target article, Kwame Owusu-Bempah and Dennis Howitt argue that psychology perpetuates racism — in particular, by contributing to the myth of black self-hatred.

London Conference 1998 - Reports

A very human psychologist

John Sheppard interviews Bob Burden, Professor of Applied Educational Psychology at Exeter University.

Working with recovered memories

Alan Frankland and Lesley Cohen present a draft of new guidelines for good practice in this difficult area, and invite comment and debate.

Multiple personality and child abuse

Katharine Mair casts doubt on the link between dissociative identity disorder and severe childhood trauma.

Variations on a theme

Associate Editor for Conference reports Fiona Jones introduces the reports from the London

Interpersonal skills of managing emotion at work

Alistair Ostell, Sian Baverstock and Peter Wright outline ways of handling damaging emotional reactions.

Affect and strategic decision making

Kevin Daniels explores how negative emotions could alter the way managers make major decisions about their organisations.

Shame in the workplace

Sue Walsh presents the case that linking psychodynamic and organisational perspectives can offer new insights into emotional experiences at work.

Feeling and smiling

Rob Briner gives an overview of what we currently know about emotion in the workplace.

Exploring feelings in the workplace - Emotions at work

Guest Editor Catherine Cassell introduces the special issue of the Occupational Psychology Section.

A very busy President