Edition 11
Ciarán O’Keeffe marks the 20th anniversary of a notorious BBC Halloween special with a look at its legacy and links with psychology
Gareth Norris with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information)
working in residential care, with Cian Aherne and Noelle Fitzgerald; we talk to Jon White about working in public relations; plus the latest vacancies
Including failure; memoirs of an addicted brain; Geoffrey Beattie; and life after trauma
Jon Sutton meets Craig Knight (University of Exeter and Director of IDR) to talk about identity and the design of our environments. You can listen to or download the interview in full by clicking on the speaker link below.
Orla T. Muldoon and Aisling T. O’Donnell on a novel idea for your classroom
Thomas C. Scott-Phillips on the research that won him the Society’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology
How do we signal signalhood? That is, how do we know when others are trying to communicate with us? And what effect, if any, do such problems have on the development of novel communication systems...
Catherine Sebastian, joint winner of the Society’s Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology, on rejection and the adolescent brain
Adolescents are anecdotally sensitive to peer rejection. Many people can vividly recall, even as adults, instances during their teenage years in which they were excluded by a particular clique or...
Stephen Joseph discusses the psychology of post-traumatic growth
The field of psychological trauma is changing as researchers recognise that adversity does not always lead to a damaged and dysfunctional life. Post-traumatic growth refers to how adversity can be...