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A manifesto for psychological health and wellbeing

At this year’s Latitude Festival, The Psychologist appeared in the Wellcome Trust Arena again, for Professor Peter Kinderman and Professor Victoria Tischler in conversation with Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones.

I is for… Identity

The Psychologist A to Z continues.

Featured Job: September 2017

Clinical/Forensic Psychologists with Priory Healthcare and Partnerships in Care

Online mental health – revolutionary help in higher education?

Erika Payne on MePlusMe and other web-based support systems for students.

How sentient is this mouse?

Helen Cassaday poses an ethical dilemma, provides her view and seeks responses.

Folk illusions – more than child’s play

Clai Rice and Brandon Barker consider what some classic tricks tell us about perception and our understanding of reality.

We have spent the past seven years studying an overlooked kind of children’s folklore: a genre of play in which youngsters perform traditionalised kinaesthetic and verbal actions in order to...

A broad experience

Dinsa Sachan considers the evidence on how foreign living shapes us.

Recent research shows that people who live abroad are often more creative and successful in their careers. But there’s also one big downside associated with foreign experiences.

The parent connection

Talia Berkowitz, Marjorie W. Schaeffer, Christopher S. Rozek, Sian L. Beilock and Susan C. Levine consider what kinds of parent support promote children’s academic achievement.

Parents are often unsure what role they should play in supporting their child’s academic development. How much help should they give, and what kind? Partly due to the mixed messages that...

Featured job: Psychology Graduate Support Worker, Bramley Health

From our August edition.

A book that shaped me – Dr Alison Rodriguez and others

On Twitter, we asked our followers to share ‘a book that shaped me’.

H is for… Habit

The Psychologist A to Z continues.

Keeping the memory alive

Ilyana Kuhling is the winner of our annual poetry competition.

Seeing red

Can exposure to the colour red change behaviour? G. Neil Martin reviews the evidence.

Anthropologists have had a field day with the colour red. It has been used to signify everything from danger to romance to horror to sexual allure. But what does the psychological research...

When winners need help

Derek Larkin and colleagues consider mental health in elite sport.

The hidden costs of working when sick

Mariella Miraglia and Gail Kinman review the evidence on presenteeism.

Have you ever struggled into work when you felt sick enough to stay at home? If so, you are one of the 43 per cent of European workers (according to a 2012 Eurofound survey) who have engaged...

Forgiveness

Loren L. Toussaint and Everett L. Worthington Jr review the evidence and look at interventions.

Rumination undercuts forgiveness and keeps the offender, the offence, and the burning emotions of revenge and hatred fully alive. How can psychological research and practice help people to...

The future of transport?

The psychology of self-driving vehicles, with Stephen Skippon and Nick Reed.

Self-driving or autonomous vehicles (AVs), once the stuff of science fiction, are poised to become reality. Automotive manufacturers are progressively automating more and more aspects of...

A psychology A to Z

We collect together the entries so far.

Your summer reading

A round-up of some recent book extracts we've published here, with thanks to the publishers.

Wonder Woman: the first psychological superhero

In an exclusive extract from his new edited book Wonder Woman Psychology, Travis Langley introduces a superhero with particularly psychological origins.