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What an Auschwitz survivor taught NHS safeguarding leads about resilience
Mike Drayton, Jessica Memarzia and Sarah Robinson on work with NHS England.
W is for… Willpower
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
We’re only human, after all
Emily Hutchinson on how organisations can improve safety by really understanding psychology.

All organisations have a duty to keep their employees safe, and most organisations sink considerable amounts of money and time in minimising risk. Yet things still go wrong...

A yawning gap
Jim Horne wonders why more psychologists aren't fascinated by yawning.
Is isolation or networking the pathway to genius?
An exclusive chapter from 'The Genius Checklist: Nine Paradoxical Tips on How You Can Become a Creative Genius', by Dean Keith Simonton. Tip 9: Withdraw Alone to an Isolated Retreat / Social Network with Kindred Spirits!
Featured job: Young People's Transition Practitioner
A new role with HF Mencap.
Shining a light on the dark side
Adrian Furnham on the importance of personality at work, and how to select the right stuff.

Another leader fails and derails. A CEO resigns, is sacked or sent to prison. The costs are high for all stakeholders, the consequences...

The Psychologist Guide to… Pets
Evidence-based tips, pulled together by our journalist Ella Rhodes.
The psychologists’ tree of life
A special feature on psychologists working with non-human species.
V is for… Vulnerable
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Dear Undergraduate me
Speakers from the British Psychological Society careers events, to be held in Newcastle and London later this year, write to their first-year selves.
The forgotten impairment
Leanne Greene, an assistant psychologist, gets social.
Sleeping like a baby: Sleep in the first years of life
An exclusive chapter from Alice Gregory's book Nodding Off: The Science of Sleep from Cradle to Grave (Bloomsbury).
Featured job: Educational/clinical psychologists, Witherslack Group
From our September edition.
U is for… Unity
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
The broken hearts club
Dinsa Sachan talks to psychologists about their research on the effects of relationship break-up.
Feelings Day
Miranda Wheeler, Shelley Boddy and Kerry Ferguson attempt a novel way of engaging girls with diabetes.
Yawning at the apocalypse
Cameron Brick and Sander van der Linden on how psychologists can help solve the largest social dilemma in history.

A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree. A crow remarked, ‘You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots, the tree will wither and die.’ ‘...

An awakening
Steve Taylor on a type of experience he feels has been neglected by psychology.

For more than two decades now, positive psychology has brought an emphasis on positive human experiences. But is there one type – perhaps the most positive of all – that has not been...

The Psychologist and Research Digest survey 2018
Your chance to have your say!
It's coming home…
A football-themed trawl of the archives to mark England's World Cup progress.
How origami frogs can help jump the health gap
Kate Hamilton-West compares the rhetoric and reality of how people manage their health conditions; and introduces a novel practical task which might bring the issues to life.
Vacancy – Deputy Editor, The Psychologist
An exciting opportunity to work full-time for The Psychologist, making a real impact in the world of psychology.
T is for… Thinking
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Are neurodevelopmental disorders discrete conditions?
Emilia Misheva considers the evidence.

There is abundant evidence to indicate that neurodevelopmental disorders tend to co-occur, rather than existing as individual conditions. Could this ‘comorbidity’ reflect an overall atypical...

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