Edition 8
David J. Cooke and Lorraine Johnstone on preventing violence in institutions
Violence prevention is a key role for psychologists working in forensic settings. The last decade has witnessed dramatic improvements in approaches to risk management. Psychologists, by training...
Penelope A. Lewis and Warren H. Meck argue that the importance of timing leads the brain to protect against damage to the system – while we sleep
Our ability to measure time persists in the face of a wide variety of neural insults. In combination with the large array of neural structures that have been shown to activate during timing tasks...
Ruth Ogden and Catharine Montgomery on the effect of drugs on the perception of time
Time rarely feels like it is passing at a constant rate; instead it expands and contracts from one activity to the next. Never is this more true than when under the influence of drugs or alcohol....
Sylvie Droit-Volet on what we can learn about the biological and cognitive basis of time from the way children judge duration
During the decades following Piaget’s work, it was believed that correct judgements of durations require sophisticated reasoning abilities that emerge at about eight years of age. However, recent...
Why does a watched pot never boil, or time fly when you’re having fun? Dan Zakay has some answers
Time shapes human life and behaviour. Physical events proceed according to objective time and biological cycles are controlled by internal pacemakers, but psychological time – how humans...
Mark Sergeant on sex and zombie cannibals; Jon Sutton on science journalism; and the latest prime cuts.