The Psychologist, April 2020
‘Your brain is revealing the building blocks of everyday experience'
‘Your brain is revealing the building blocks of everyday experience'
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From the President, April 2020
David Murphy writes.
Empowering women
Sara Angelini writes.
The psychological science I know and love…
Dr John Marshall writes, with a response from our editor Jon Sutton.
A culture of silence and denial
Dr Kimberly Sham Ku and Dr Abdullah Mia write, with a response from British Psychological Society Chief Executive Sarb Bajwa.
Editor's Column, April 2020
Jon Sutton introduces the issue.
‘We have huge potential to make positive change’
Ella Rhodes on the British Psychological Society’s ‘Psychological Government’ programme.
‘Change is coming’
Ella Rhodes speaks to keynote speakers ahead of the British Psychological Society's 2020 Conference.
Students – conference and community
Previewing the 2020 Conference, and developments with the online community and PsychTalk publication.
Disaster response training
Ella Rhodes reports.
From the Chief Executive, April 2020
The latest from Sarb Bajwa.
Towards ‘smart justice’
‘It’s about giving people hope’… Ian Florance talks to Geraldine O’Hare.
A life’s journey
This particular happiness by Jackie Shannon Hollis (Forest Avenue Press) reviewed by Jean Ellis-Parr.
De-medicalising mental illness
'Drop the Disorder: Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis' by Jo Watson (PCCS Books; £18.00), reviewed by Rebecca Regler.
Doing statistics better
The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter (Pelican Books), reviewed by Marcus Munafò.
A world without trees?
Abreen Rebello listens to Forest 404 by BBC Sounds.
Implicit and explicit cultural clashes
Dr Kevin Cheng watches 'American Factory' (Directors: Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar).
One on one... Nothando Ngwenya
We dip into the Society member database and pick Nothando Ngwenya, who is a Research Scientist specialising in person-centred adolescent health interventions at the Wellcome Trust funded Africa Health Research Institute in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
Ghosts of patients past
Katy Mitchell reflects on unknown endings.
Dreams and their relationship to waking life
Nikolay Petrov and Oliver Robinson.
‘Your brain is revealing the building blocks of everyday experience'
Ella Rhodes collates a series of contributions from those researching vision and perception.
Reflecting on mirror-writing
In 2012 Robert McIntosh and Sergio Della Sala, both at the University of Edinburgh, published an article in The Psychologist on mirror-writing, which has had a surprising impact…
‘The magazine is you’
Our editor Dr Jon Sutton in conversation with Professor Catherine Loveday, Chair of the Psychologist and Digest Editorial Advisory Committee.
Seven strange quirks of human vision
Emma Young digests the research.
Coronavirus – Psychological perspectives
Psychologists are actively working on the response to Covid-19, and psychological theory / research is relevant in many ways… this page will serve as a growing resource collecting those contributions.
Gamma Bias: A new theory
Martin Seager and John Barry on 'cognitive distortions' around gender.
Into a world of torment and colour
Our editor Jon Sutton visits Van Gogh - The Immersive Exhibition.
Bruce Napier 1949–2020
An appreciation from Mark Williams.
The personal and psychological experience of gender
Georgia Jerwood visits Genders: Shaping and Breaking the Binary, at Science Gallery London.
Poems for the NHS: ‘the best poem a country has ever written’
NHS poetry anthology published.
Raising body positive girls
Charlotte Markey on writing 'The Body Image Book for Girls'.
Uncertain and volatile lives
Almas Talib watches the Oscar-winning 'Parasite'.
'Are you okay?'
A clinical psychologist’s account of having a daughter with depression, from Dr Annie Hickox. Now with added postscript.
Remaining with death
Khyati Tripathi with a personal journey into death studies.