Archive
December 2015
A matter of life and death
Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson argue there’s a role for psychologists in helping people with their Advance Decisions. With the online-extra of our editor Jon Sutton's own Advance Decision.
Attachment – beyond interpersonal relationships
Antigonos Sochos considers whether a familiar concept can be extended to social groups, ideological systems and social institutions.
Giving a voice to people with advanced dementia
Amanda Henwood and Maggie Ellis on ‘Adaptive Interaction’.
The uncensored truth about morality
Chelsea Schein, Amelia Goranson and Kurt Gray consider why immoral acts always seem to be those that cause harm – especially to children.
Madness from the outside in
Gail A. Hornstein considers artistic depictions of insanity.
Can we be scientific about science education?
Zayba Ghazali with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information).
‘I took the plunge and chose the risky option’
Lance Workman meets Gerd Gigerenzer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin.
November 2015
Wu-wei – doing less and wanting more
The only way to succeed is to not try, argues Edward Slingerland.
Psychology and the Great War, 1914–1918
Ben Shephard considers our discipline’s involvement, on all sides.
Prisoner suicide
Graham Towl and Tammi Walker consider public management, punitiveness and professionalism (an 'Online first' publication).
Choice and control for animals in captivity
Laura M. Kurtycz looks at how to counter ‘learned helplessness.
A perceptual control revolution?
Warren Mansell and Timothy A. Carey introduce a theory dating back to the 1950s that is increasingly touted as revitalising the behavioural sciences.
New Voices: Working in a ‘goldfish bowl’ – ethics in rural practice
Steven MacDonald with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information).
October 2015
Close encounters of the psychological kind
Christopher C. French considers explanations of UFO sightings, alien encounters and even abductions.
Encountering extraterrestrial intelligence
Albert A. Harrison looks for lessons from history.
New Voices: The flat landscape
Clementine Edwards considers emotional deficits in schizophrenia, in the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices).
Interview: What would you say to an alien?
Jon Sutton talks to Douglas Vakoch, clinical psychologist and Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Psychology in deep space
Nick Kanas considers issues and countermeasures..
Eye on fiction: The alien in us all
We asked for your favourite alien entity, and what their depiction says about our own psychology.
September 2015
The transition to school
Claire Hughes asks what matters and why.
From adversity to buoyancy
Marc Smith reconceptualises academic resilience in schools.
Why do we ‘like’ social media?
Ciarán Mc Mahon considers the psychology behind Facebook and more.
The Geel question
For centuries, a little Belgian town has treated the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful? Mike Jay investigates.
The best choice?
Katherine Woolf, Henry Potts, Josh Stott, Chris McManus, Amanda Williams and Katrina Scior consider evidence on selection into the healthcare professions.
New voices: Do schools need lessons on motivation?
Laura Oxley on reward and punishment in the classroom in the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information).
August 2015
Making holidays work
With the holiday season in full swing, work and organisational psychologist Jessica de Bloom takes a tour of the world of vacation research.
Rhetoric and resistance
Stephen Gibson uses qualitative analysis to understand Milgram’s studies – are they really ‘obedience’ experiments?
Crossing into the digital realm
Sarah Riley, Adrienne Evans, Christine Griffin, Yvette Morey and Helen Murphy look at the issues for researchers in online and digital research. Watch their discussion too!
Let a thousand flowers bloom
Anna Madill outlines how qualitative methods in psychology, and the Society’s Section, have blossomed over the years.
Breaking out of the silo mentality
Rachel Shaw and Nollaig Frost argue for pluralism and mixed methods, introducing this month's special feature.
Learning from the ‘lifeworld’
Joanna Brooks introduces a range of approaches to phenomenology in qualitative psychology.
July 2015
It’s not just cricket
As the 2015 Ashes series comes to England, Jamie Barker and Matt Slater consider the psychology at play.
The monster mind
Enlisting the help of Godzilla and a few of its friends, Jonathan Myers considers why we see monsters and what form they take.
Reaching out to the ‘Untouchables’
Paul Ghuman gives a psychological perspective on Dalit resistance and identity.
New Voices: Helpful categorisation or limiting label?
Caitlin Cherry with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information).
‘The families are at the centre of all this’
Jon Sutton meets clinical psychologist Fleur-Michelle Coiffait to hear about her work with Leicestershire Partnership Trust.
‘We need to link our research to the real world’
Ian Florance talks to Professor Susan Golombok.
What passes between client and therapist?
Stephanie M. Cobb imagines three perspectives on transference and countertransference.
June 2015
Better not look down…
Leading neurosurgeon Henry Marsh reflects on mistakes, mystery and the mind.
Opening up to disclosure
Anna Ruddle and Sarah Dilks consider whether therapists should talk about themselves in therapy.
Methods: Building confidence in confidence intervals
Graham D. Smith and Peter E. Morris encourage you to rely less on significance tests.
Youth employment – the missing facts
Angela Carter looks to a better understanding of young people by employers.
New voices: Deception – understanding lies with collaboration
Emma Williams with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information)
Does psychology have a gender?
Alexandra Rutherford, Kelli Vaughn-Johnson and Elissa Rodkey.
This is improbable too
Marc Abrahams, Guardian columnist and founder of the Ig Nobel prizes, with more research to make you smile and think.
May 2015
Back to the ballot box
Our journalist Ella Rhodes meets researchers in psychology and politics in search of answers to voter apathy.
In search of an authorial identity
James Elander looks beyond plagiarism.
Filming trauma
Edgar Jones explores the making of an innovative film designed to show the treatment of soldiers suffering from shell shock.
Becoming an MP
Helena Cooper-Thomas considers the transition into the role, and how this compares with other workplaces.
Developing strong and diverse political leaders
Jo Silvester and Madeleine Wyatt look at the issue of training for politicians, and its relationship with work psychology.
The age of celebrity politics
Sharon Coen considers psychology’s role in a modern phenomenon.
New voices: The ‘minority’ man?
Jessica McCarrick with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information)
April 2015
What has neuroscience ever done for us?
Jonathan Roiser (winner of the Society’s Spearman Medal 2013) considers the case of mental health.
The exciting side of boredom
Our journalist Ella Rhodes meets psychologists who think boredom has had a bad press.
Looking Back: How it all began
Alan Baddeley describes the origins of the multi-component model of working memory.
Seeing through the double blind
A randomised controlled trial is quality research, right? Not necessarily – Lewis Killin and Sergio Della Sala explain.
Interview: Dispelling mind myths and debunking pseudoscience
Sergio Della Sala lets Lance Workman into his world.
The power of personality
John D. Mayer argues that ‘personal intelligence’ shapes our lives.
New voices: Calling time on Alzheimer’s
Could circadian rhythms be the key? Brianne Kent with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information)
March 2015
Words and sorcery
Simon Oxenham and Jon Sutton consider the causes and consequences of bad writing in psychology.
Managing and coping with sexual identity at work
Y. Barry Chung, Tiffany K. Chang and Ciemone S. Rose consider the issue of LGBT people in the workplace
New voices: Are we mindful of how we talk about mindfulness?
Kate Williams with the latest in our series for budding writers.
An interactive mind
Our editor Jon Sutton talks to Andreas Roepstorff (Aarhus University).
Eye on fiction: A disquieting look at dementia
Mike Bender provides a critique of Lisa Genova’s novel Still Alice, the film adaptation of which is out in March.
Masculinity, trauma and 'shell-shock'
Tracey Loughran delivers a fitting tribute to the men who suffered in the First World War, and in more modern conflicts.
Eldercare: The new frontier of work–family balance
Lisa Calvano on the psychological impact of caring for spouses and parents
Sweet memories
Michael A. Smith looks at glucose effects on human memory performance
February 2015
The surprising world of synaesthesia
Jack Dutton meets those with the condition and the researchers who study them. Might it have benefits, and could it even be taught?
How relationships help us to age well
Laura Soulsby and Kate Bennett consider a rich evidence base
Does our unconscious rule?
Magda Osman refocuses our view on the evidence.
The unheard victims
Michelle Lowe and Bob Balfour look at service provision for male sexual abuse survivors
Experiencing death to improve life
Jelena Martinovic on near-death experiences and psychology in the 1960s and 70s
New Voices: together against bullying
Suzy Clarkson with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information)
‘We are not islands, there is such a thing as society’
Robin Dunbar talks to Lance Workman about his attempts to see the big picture and find the big number.
"I felt let down by psychology"
We hear from a brain injury survivor, researchers and a practitioner.
January 2015
The ‘street children’ of Latin America
Graham Pluck with a story of challenge and survival for millions of young people worldwide.
The 'strange death' of radical behaviourism
Freddy Jackson Brown and Duncan Gillard argue that it has a fundamental role to play in psychology making a difference in society.
Mindfulness in psychology - a breath of fresh air?
Edo Shonin, William Van Gordon and Mark D. Griffiths
Are understandings of mental illness mired in the past?
John Cromby ('yes') and Vaughan Bell ('no') go 'head to head'.
The line between conformity and resistance
Jolanda Jetten and Matthew J. Hornsey take another look at Solomon Asch’s famous line-judgement studies.
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ISSN: 0952-8229 (Print), 2398-1529 (online)
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Geoff Bunn introduces a special issue marking the 150th Anniversary of Gustav Fechner’s Elements of Psychophysics
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