Edition 4
Marc Abrahams, Guardian columnist and founder of the Ig Nobel prizes, on research to make you smile and think
Christian Jarrett investigates the psychology of humour and comedy
nuggets from the Society’s free Research Digest service, this month on the psychology of humour
towards an activity map of the brain; new open access psychology journal; the divided brain; anorexia; the cognitive and social benefits of video games
can we be lobbyists for social change?; retirement; intelligence; abortion; unpaid posts; #overlyhonestmethods; humour and health; and more
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Richard Wiseman, Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, talks to comedian Richard Herring
Rob Bailey with the latest in our series for budding writers (see www.bps.org.uk/newvoices for more information)