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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

Nobody likes you… what now? Roy Baumeister describes some surprising experimental effects, in the final contribution for the Society’s ‘Year of Relationships’.


Rejected and alone

Chris McManus gave the C.S. Myers Lecture at the Annual Conference in Manchester.


Myers and medicine

Peter Kinderman calls for big changes in training and career structures. 


Personal space: The applied psychology revolution

Frank Tallis on Freud, Vienna, and the centenary of a landmark publication. 


Sex in the city

Jim Cromwell on some tricky problems psychologists can face testing deaf people who use sign language.


Deafness and the art of psychometric testing

John Marzillier with the latest in our series of psychological perspectives on fiction – and perhaps fictional perspectives on psychology.


Eye on fiction: The American dream

Jon Sutton talks to Tanya Byron about her TV work, disseminating psychology on a mass scale.

A tearaway success

Following September’s Dispatches programme ‘The Dyslexia Myth’, The Psychologist featured an article by Rod Nicolson in the November issue (‘Dyslexia: Beyond the myth’). Here, Julian Elliott, who featured prominently in the original programme, responds to Nicolson’s article. We also present the views of others who wrote to our Letters page concerning the topic. All have been edited.


The dyslexia debate continues

President's column, December 2005

Susie Warden on research in the voluntary sector.


Students, December 2005

Letters, December 2005

News, December 2005

Media, December 2005

The Psychologist, December 2005

Guest editors Charles Abraham and Susan Michie introduce the special issue.


Towards a healthier nation

Lynn Myers and Charles Abraham on helping patients to act on healthcare professionals’ advice. 


Beyond 'doctor's orders'

Charles Abraham and Susan Michie on their work with the government’s Division of Public Health.	


Contributing to public health policy and practice

Jane Wardle and Andrew Steptoe discuss how to take health psychology to the next level.


Psychologists making a difference... Public health psychology

Dave Bartram, winner of the Society’s Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology, on the role for psychologists in a new web-based era.


The changing face of testing

Rod Nicolson comments on the recent Channel 4 programme and subsequent media coverage.


Dyslexia - beyond the myth

Peter K. Smith on an important and suprisingly underresrearched relationship.

Grandparents and grandchildren

Harriet Gross on recent coverage of the IQ and gender debate.


Media, November 2005

Including the dyslexia debate, developments in neuroscience, bi-invisibility, bad psychology, and teaching qualitative methods.


Letters, November 2005

Including the BPS response to RAE consultation, and Arthur Summerfield (1923-2005).


Society, November 2005

Including the euthanasia debate, Lord Layard's speech, awareness in abused children, psychological universals, funding news and more.


News, November 2005

The Psychologist, November 2005

Sergio Della Sala on the bizarre ‘Dr Strangelove syndrome’ and what it tells us about free will.

The anarchic hand

Paul Singh Ghuman on Asian girls in the West.


Daughters of tradition

Ian J. Deary delivered the Hans Eysenck Memorial Lecture, on the new field of cognitive epidemiology, at the Annual Conference.


Intelligence, health and death

Anna Madill, Brendan Gough, Rebecca Lawton and Peter Stratton advise.


How should we supervise qualitative projects?

John Read wonders what happened to the ‘psycho’ and ‘social’ in explanations of mental illness.

The bio-bio-bio model of madness

Why I study... relationships and culture

Jon Sutton interviews Professor Susan Greenfield.

A higher consciousness

Peter Bull on oratory and the mistiming of applause.


Leader speeches at the 2005 party political conferences

In a special web-only article inspired by the centenary celebrations, Eugene Sadler-Smith discusses how the composer was influenced by psychology.

Psychology and the music of Michael Tippett - a song of innocence and experience

Including sex and intelligence, terrorism, CPD and more.


Letters, October 2005

Including reports from the British Association Festival of Science and the BPS Cognitive Section annual conference; mobiles and driving; psychological support in Iraq; Sir Michael Tippett; babies and music; and the dyslexia myth.


News, October 2005

President's column, October 2005

The Psychologist, October 2005

Tony Manstead and Margie Wetherell introduce a special issue on the state of UK social psychology, with lessons for all. With articles by Russell Spears, Wendy Hollway and Derek Edwards ('Three views on hate'), Stephen Reicher and Stephanie Taylor ('Similarities and differences between traditions'), S. Alexander Haslam and Brian Parkinson ('Pulling together or pulling apart? Towards organic pluralism in social psychology'), and Stephen Reicher again ('Where next?').


Special issue - Dialoguing across divisions

Sharon Smart (the Society’s Assistant Press Officer) meets educational psychologist Alan McLean.


Engaging work

Susan Johnson with a letter from across the Atlantic.


The evolution of couple therapy

President's column, September 2005

Secrets of the sexes, The house of obsessive compulsives, and banning the F-word.


Media, September 2005

Including membership survey, President's award, and public engagement grants.


Society, September 2005

Including olfaction and sexuality, London branch, VAT, Michael Stone and more.


Letters, September 2005

The state of UK social psychology, and more.

The Psychologist, September 2005

Joint winner of the Presidents’ Award, Tony Manstead, describes his research.


The social dimension of emotion

Peter Hepper on the embryonic science of fetal psychology.

Unravelling our beginnings

Constantine Sedikides delivered the Michael Argyle Lecture at this year’s Annual Conference.


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