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Notes from a weather observer
Trevor Harley on the effects of weather and climate on personality and behaviour.

In 1990, when the UK temperature record was beaten with 37.1°C recorded on 3 August in Cheltenham, and when the record fell again in 2003, with 38.1°C at Kew Gardens, the media went crazy and...

The Rocky Horror Pixel Show
Where in the brain is creativity? Arne Dietrich ponders whether we’re asking the right questions.
Inside lobotomies
We bring together our lobotomy articles, and point to our top picks from elsewhere.
The essence of things
Following the Notre Dame fire, we consider the importance of objects and things.
The lifespan of a dog owner
An exclusive extract from 'The Psychology of Dog Ownership', by Theresa Barlow and Craig Roberts, published by Routledge Psychology as part of their 'The Psychology of Everything' series.
The sibling spotlight
Rachel Batchelor on the challenges facing the ‘forgotten’ brothers and sisters of seriously ill children.

Siblings can shape our character, share so many experiences with us and may know us better than anyone. Healthy sibling relationships are associated with lower levels of depression and more...

Featured Job: Head of Psychological Wellbeing Service
Employer: Help for Heroes
How do we ‘other’?
Peter Hegarty on asymmetries of reasoning for lay and professional psychologists alike.

Psychological research and practice can enhance or reduce social fairness, and it often does both. This article examines how and why researchers inadvertently reproduce social inequalities...

‘We should just be told to try our best’
Laura Nicholson and Dave Putwain provide an overview of exam anxiety, its effects and what psychologists can do to help reduce it.
A message of hope and resilience
Clare Jones and Alan Barrett on the development of the Manchester Resilience Hub in response to the May 2017 bombing.
The Psychologist Presents… at Latitude Festival
Since 2015, The Psychologist has had a slot at the annual music and arts event in Suffolk. Here, we collect transcripts and reports.
Featured Job: Elysium Psychology Graduates Academy
Employer: Elysium Healthcare
Gangs – What can psychology offer?
Laura Bolger – a Trainee Forensic Psychologist and ex-police officer – gives us her perspective on the newly adopted ‘public health approach to gangs’. She explores gangs as structured, hierarchical groups involving role-transitions. Is an identity framework the key to addressing knife crime?
Experiencing the impossible
Gustav Kuhn considers the science of magic, and what it reveals about the human mind.
Excellence or ease? Exploring student evaluations of teaching
Wolfgang Stroebe is not a fan of student satisfaction measures…

When Hermann Remmers and Edwin Guthrie proposed Student Evaluation of Teaching (SETs) questionnaires in 1927, their sole intention was to help instructors to improve their teaching. Little did...

The social dilemma of antibiotic use
Optimising antibiotic use is hard. Eva Krockow explains why.
Do play with your food!
Claire Farrow and Emma Haycraft with an overview of effective strategies for increasing vegetable acceptance in young children.
Happy Valentine's Day!
A themed trawl of the archives.
Featured job: Educational Psychologist
Employer: National Autistic Society, Church Lawton School
Children’s friendships
Elian Fink and Claire Hughes review the evidence.

A strong tradition of psychological research demonstrates the central role of friendships for children’s developing social, emotional and cognitive skills. Yet media hubbub surrounded the...

Embrace the unknown
Chris Ferguson washes his hands of ‘science laundering’: cleaning up messy data for public consumption.
Why do we need psychology? And what does psychology need?
The winning entries in our first 'Voices In Psychology' programme.
Just what makes us who we are?
Dr Naomi Fisher on behavioural genetics and psychology in debates over our 'blueprints'.
Featured job: Clinical Child Psychologists
Employer: Cardinal Clinic
The new hidden persuaders?
Ella Rhodes considers whether shadowy influencers are really pulling our strings.

More than 60 years on from the influential text about psychological manipulation in advertising, how has the landscape changed? Are we being pushed and pulled in ever-more fundamental...

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