...reviews
Dr Stacey Bedwell (Lecturer in Psychology, Birmingham City University) visits an adults-only 'escape room' in Nottingham.
'Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us' by Sara E. Gorman & Jack M. Gorman (Oxford University Press;
Hb £22.99); Reviewed by Christopher Boyle.
Eat Up! by Ruby Tandoh (Profile Books; Hb £12.99); reviewed by Madeleine Pownall.
'Elastic – Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World' by Leonard Mlodinow (Allen Lane; Hb £16.99); Reviewed by Dr Lucia Giombini.
Tony Wainwright on the book that is the cornerstone of this edition: The New Psychology of Health: by Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys, Genevieve A. Dingle & S. Alexander Haslam (Routledge; Pb £24.99).
Barbara and Michael Wilson watch 'A Love That Never Dies', produced by Beyond Goodbye Media.
Dr Catherine Loveday (University of Westminster) reviews 'Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain' by Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore.
Dr Anna Waters, Lead Psychologist for Performing Arts, at Chimp Management Ltd, encounters Great Apes at the Arcola Theatre in London.
The Female Mind: A User’s Guide by Kathryn Abel & Rosalind Ramsay (Eds.) (RCPsych Publications; Pb £13.99) Reviewed by Louise Beaton
Jon Sutton listens to The Adam Buxton Podcast, along with his new BBC Radio 4 offering You’re Doing It Wrong.
Plus a Q+A with Adam, and a selection from his conversation with Michael Lewis about Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do by John Bargh (William Heinemann; Hb £20.00) Reviewed by Tom Stafford
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker (Allen Lane; Hb £25.00) Reviewed by Niall James.
Captives of War: British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War by Clare Makepeace (Cambridge University Press; Hb £31.99) Reviewed by Jamie Hacker Hughes.
How the Child’s Mind Develops (3rd edn) by David Cohen (Routledge; Pb £19.99) reviewed by Anita Cleare.
On the Other Hand: Left Hand, Right Brain, Mental Disorder, and History by Howard I. Kushner (Johns Hopkins University Press; Hb £20.00) reviewed by Adrian C. Brock.
Our editor Jon Sutton dips into a new series from Routledge, 'The Psychology of Everything'. With links to extracts, plus an update on the second and third batch of titles.
Addiction: Psychology and Treatment by Paul Davis, Robert Patton & Sue Jackson (Eds.) (BPS Wiley; Pb £34.99, £22.75 BPS members via PsychSource) Reviewed by Dr Gurjeet Kaur Bansa
Starting Out in Methods and Statistics for Psychology by Victoria Bourne (Oxford University Press; Pb £26.99) Reviewed by Mark Andrews
Odd Girl Out: An Autistic Woman in a Neurotypical World by Laura James (Pan Macmillan; Hb £16.99) reviewed by Dr Stacey A. Bedwell