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Editorial, November 2024

Dr Carol Cole is the new Chair of the British Psychological Society's Board of Trustees.

'We need to listen to that heartbeat'

Dr Yi-Ling Lai wins the 2024 British Psychological Society Presidents' Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge.

'Caring is central to psychology'

Ella Rhodes reports on a British Psychological Society campaign.

‘Every child deserves access to a high-quality education’

The third iteration of the BPS Careers Festival will be on for five days in November 2024.

Psychology careers festival 2024

Dr Louise Edgington writes on the British Psychological Society joining the Climate Minds Coalition.

Personal change leads to system change

Can magic truly be witnessed through the ears alone? The $200 Auditory Magic Challenge invites innovators and illusionists to create captivating illusions that rely solely on auditory perception.

Sleight of sound

Dr Sian Williams – author, broadcaster and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, has appeared at the Senedd with the charity Maggie’s (‘Everyone’s home of cancer care’). 

‘To not lose the joy of living in the fear of dying’

Ella Rhodes spoke to Dr Venetia Leonidaki and Dr Rebecca Lockwood about their work in treating behavioural addictions, and upcoming events.

‘There’s something quite unique about behavioural addictions’

Five ways ‘honest’ placebos can help

Thanks to an embarrassing fMRI study, we now know a lot more about what causes us to blush.

What’s behind a blush?

New study sheds light on individual differences in response to small doses of LSD.

Varied responses to LSD may muddy microdosing results

New meta-analysis suggests that unconscious exposure therapy is surprisingly effective.

Could exposure therapy, without conscious exposure, actually work?

New research from the US finds that emphasising diverse hiring practices may backfire, leading White conservatives to more strongly favour White candidates.

For some, diversity initiatives may encourage pro-White hiring decisions

Marcus Munafò explores randomisation processes.

Dispelling myths about randomisation

Ella Rhodes hears from those using the technology: has its early promise been realised?

The power of virtual reality

Margreet Hendriks reflects on the condition, her practice, and the stories of the women she meets. 

Endometriosis: 190 million unheard voices

Our editor Dr Jon Sutton meets Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield, Director of the Sussex Health Outcomes Research and Education in Cancer (SHORE-C) group at the University of Sussex. 

‘I know how to measure difficult things’

Cara Ghiglieri, a post-doc research fellow at the University of Aberdeen, on a research journey shaped by personal experience.

Living and dying with oesophageal cancer

Dr Briony Hudson, associate director for internal research at Marie Curie. 

How can psychologists shape the future of end of life care research? 

Ian Florance interviews Anna Lagerdahl, a clinical psychologist with a special interest in Oncology and Palliative Care.

‘The work concentrates on essentials: the things that really matter to people’

Mark Hudson, Allan Skelly and Victoria Shimmens.

Intellectual Disability revisited: The Emotional Development approach

We feel ashamed of our vulnerabilities and imperfections, but others will often see courage and authenticity in our self-disclosure, writes David Robson in an edited extract of his new book, The Laws of Connection.

The beautiful mess effect

Zhenlin Wang reviews the book 'The Psychology of Starting School: An Evidence-Based Guide for Parents and Teachers', by Claire Hughes, Caoimhe Dempsey and Elian Fink.

Linked lives in ‘school readiness’

Our editor Dr Jon Sutton meets Professor Claire Hughes, Deputy Director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge, and co-author of The Psychology of Starting School – An Evidence-based Guide for Parents and Teachers. 

‘Happy children are better learners’

Clinical Psychologist and author of 'You Don’t Understand Me: The Young Woman’s Guide to Life', Dr Tara Porter, on the books that have made their mark on her.

Books that shaped me… Dr Tara Porter

Professor Antonia Hamilton (Professor of Social Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London) on a creative and cultural collaboration…

The neuroscience of theatre

New exhibition, War and the Mind, from Imperial War Museums.

Rethinking conflict through a psychological lens

The curator and advisors to the Imperial War Museum exhibition pick out some significant items.

'Every exhibit raises fascinating links between war and the mind'

Three Higher Assistant Psychologists in Rehabilitation Inpatient Services with Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust share cultural offerings which have shaped their views on addiction.

'We still have so much to learn about addiction'

Cordelia Galgut asks: Is colleagues’ lived experience of cancer believed, valued and used enough within our profession?

‘My cancer made me a better therapist – so why do we live in the shadows?’

John Raven asks where the interest and research is…

The most important End of Life choice

Working in secondary mental health care has led George Holliday to realise many patients are confused by what their diagnosis means…

‘I don’t see EUPD; I see you and your situation’

Assistant Psychologist Avneet Sandhu embraces identity in clinical psychology.

‘My identity is a powerful asset to my practice’

Looking to tell stories of outsight

Dr Sara Ireland writes in; plus an editor's note on the October issue cover.

Funding and extending what works in prison

Professor Karina Nielsen (1973-2024)

Sally Morley 1942-2024

Professor Celia Kitzinger, Cardiff University, on her November 1998 cover feature.

From the archive: Towards lesbian and gay psychology, November 1998

'Talking about sad, bad and difficult things'

The Psychologist, November 2024

Peter Bull on how our bodies can speak volumes.


State of the art - nonverbal communication

Andrew M. Colman discusses the specialist vocabulary of psychology and the problems of compiling a psychological dictionary.


Defining issues

Why I study - Interthinking

Paul Skirrow, Christina Jones, Richard D. Griffiths and Sue Kaney (Liverpool University’s Intensive Care Research Group) describe some of the little-known psychological consequences of a stay in intensive care.


Intensive care - easing the trauma

Differing values - Research quality in higher education and the NHS

Susan Howard and Martin Bauer look at the roles psychology has taken on in the mass media. 


Psychology in the press 1988-1999

The Chairs of the Boards with their views on what the next 100 years has in store for psychology, a centenary lecture from Mike Burton on the use of CCTV, and a biography of Kenneth Craik.


Centenary, December 2001

The Psychologist, December 2001

Guest Editor Ray Bull introduces a special issue on the contribution of forensic psychology to helping the police get the truth... and nothing but the truth.


After the facts

Andrew Silke with his practical recommendations for preventing further atrocities.


Terrorism

At the Centenary Conference in Glasgow Geoff Bunn gave the C.S. Myers Memorial Lecture on Myers himself and his role in the establishment of psychology in Britain.


Charlie and the chocolate factory

The Psychologist, November 2001

Is a bat conscious? Susan Blackmore argues that there must be something radically wrong with the way we are currently thinking about consciousness, or we would not find ourselves with seemingly intractable problems.



State of the art - Consciousness

Martin Roiser and Dave Stevens take a look at the television quiz Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in search of legendary themes and roles.



Who wants to be a millionaire? The quiz as quest

Why I study... epilepsy

At the Centenary Annual Conference Jon Sutton described the work that won him the 1999 Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology.

Bullies – Thugs or thinkers?

David Pilgrim and David Hewitt discuss the practical and legal implications of the proposed ‘clinical supervisor’ role. 



Mental health act reform - Emerging challenges

Is the internet a safe communication environment for socially anxious individuals, or does it in fact increase social isolation? Robin-Marie Shepherd and Robert J. Edelmann report.



Caught in the web

The Psychologist, October 2001

Amanda Waterman, Mark Blades and Christopher Spencer ask nonsensical questions – but their research has serious implications for anyone who interviews children.

Is a jumper angrier than a tree?

Neil Martin, Associate Editor for ‘Research in brief’, with 100 odd-sounding papers from the world of psychology and related disciplines.


Weird and wonderful

David Lykken and Mike Csikszentmihalyi debate the impact of genetic factors on happiness. 



Happiness - stuck with what you've got?

Tommy MacKay gave his Presidential Address at April’s Centenary Conference in Glasgow.


The future belongs to psychology

Associate Editor for Conference reports Kate Cavanagh introduces our coverage of the VIIth European Congress of Psychology, held at London’s Barbican Centre in July.



European Congress 2001

Biographies of Rivers, Myers and Bowlby.


Centenary, September 2001

Nonsensical questions, and the weird and wonderful.

The Psychologist, September 2001

John Archer describes a rich research agenda for evolutionary psychology in testing novel hypotheses. Peer commentaries by Robin Dunbar, Anne Campbell, Lynn Segal, David Buss, and Hilary and Steven Rose.


Peer commentary: Evolving theories of behaviour

At the 2000 London Conference Glyn Humphreys gave his Presidents’ Award Lecture on the cognitive neuroscience of action selection.


Objects, affordances... action!

Petra Boynton discusses her Woman of Achievement Award for Education (sponsored by Cosmopolitan and Secret), and tells how she believes psychologists need to make better use of the popular media. Interview by Angus Smyth.


A woman of achievement

Geoff Bunn describes factors that contributed to the founding of the Society, and Elizabeth Valentine contributes a biography of the man who called the first meeting, James Sully.


The founding of the British Psychological Society

The Psychologist, August 2001

Michael W. Eysenck offers his viewpoint on the differences between European and American psychology;
Neil Martin on why and how European publishers are taking on the American heavyweights;
Monique Anderson interviews Tuomo Tikkanen, President of the European Federation of Professional Psychologists Associations (EFPPA), to hear about European psychology and the role of EFPPA within it.

How do European and US psychology differ?

Why I study... anomalistic psychology

Marco Cinnirella on British attitudes towards European integration, and Ingrid Lunt on the VIIth European Congress of Psychology and the Society’s international role.


Forever the reluctant Europeans? / Sharing perspectives

The Psychologist, July 2001

Centenary Conference reports, 2001

Ed Cairns with his practical recommendations for ending war and promoting peace.


War and peace

Jim Horne discusses the latest research on sleep, dreaming and sleep deprivation.


State of the art: Sleep

In February we published ‘A degree of safety’ by Angus Smyth in which he said that psychology courses do not encourage originality among students. This he claimed gives rise to disillusionment and ‘playing safe’ – particularly apparent in final-year projects. 
We asked readers to tell us their own opinions and experiences. Published here are extracts from three of the letters we received. But first Hugh Foot gives a supervisor’s point of view.


Safe but disillusioned?

Jim McCourt caught up with Craig Newnes, Director of Psychological Therapies for Shropshire’s Community and Mental Health Trust, to hear an alternative perspective on research in clinical psychology.


User-friendly research in clinical psychology

Rea Reason, a winner of the 2000 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology, sets out the Society’s position on dyslexia.


Educational practice and dyslexia

Why I study... Geniuses

Conference reports, war and peace, and more.

The Psychologist, June 2001

TONY DAVID says yes, IVAN LEUDAR disagrees.


Head to Head: Is hearing voices a sign of mental illness?

KATE NATION gave her Spearman Medal Lecture at the London Conference in December.


Spearman Medal Lecture: Reading & Language in Children: Exposing hidden deficits

Alan Cowey gave his Centenary Lecture at the Royal Society in February.


Functional Localisation in the Brain: From Ancient to Modern

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore shares her experiences on secondment with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST).


Students: The award's in the POST

Hannah Steinberg is Professor Emeritus of Psychopharmacology, University College London, and Visiting Professor, Middlesex University.


A Brief History of the Society Logo

Mark Griffiths on the advantages and disadvantages of providing psychological services on the internet.


Online therapy: A cause for concern?

The Psychologist, May 2001

Andrew Scholey on research of the Human Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, University of Northumbria, using supply and demand in the brain to improve cognitive performance.


Fuel for thought

Supply, demand and cognitive performance.

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