Archive

December 1999
Towards the new millennium
The new millennium does not, strictly speaking, begin until 1 January 2001. But it’s clear that in the public’s view the change in the calendar from 1999 to 2000 is the big psychological event. So here we present some thoughts from various perspectives on why many people see the year 2000 as so significant …

November 1999

October 1999
Unity through diversity: An achievable goal
In her 1999 Presidential Address, Ingrid Lunt outlined her belief in the Society’s ability to draw strength from the many facets of the discipline of psychology.

September 1999
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.

August 1999
In the presence of a great psychologist - Boris Semeonoff
Tommy MacKay recorded what may have been the last interview with Boris Semeonoff; on the first anniversary of his death, we publish part of that interview here.

July 1999
Education and the disadvantaged: Is there any justice?
Tommy MacKay argues for radical change in the principles and funding of the British educational system. This article is based on his Award for Challenging Inequality of Opportunity Lecture given at the Society’s Annual Conference, March 1998.

June 1999
State of the art: Personality
Sarah Hampson disentangles the Gordian knot of modern personality research.

May 1999
A case for inclusion
Guest Editors Chris Hatton, Richard Hastings and Arlene Vetere introduce a special feature on learning disabilities and mental health, initiated by the North West of England Branch.

April 1999
The horrors' of scientific research
Sally Johnson gives an account of her attempts to deal with the methodological problems of a qualitative study.

March 1999
Why I study...Social skills
Michael Argyle

February 1999
Publish and perish
Michael Gruneberg discusses some negative influences of the Research Assessment Exercise.

January 1999
Baby and me
Suzanne Conboy-Hill gives a personal history of computing.