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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

Adrian C. North and David J. Hargreaves introduce the special issue with a look at how music psychology is changing in the digital era.


The power of music

Steven Livingstone on difficult paths and last taboos in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.


Unhappy in a unique way

Lauren Stewart on amusia, and the window it provides on musical development.


Lost in music

Jane Davidson, Robert Faulkner and Gary McPherson on how to create the right conditions to take our natural interest in music to the next level.


Motivating musical learning

Victoria Williamson compares two human universals.

In search of the language

Pam Heaton on what the understanding of emotion in music amongst those with autism could tell us about its functions and role in general.


Music - shelter for the frazzled mind?

Susan Hallam on the nature and importance of musical ability.


The role of psychology in music education

Ian Florance talks to Charlie Alcock about psychology in the community with hard-to-reach groups.

Music and change the Rowley Way 

Dean Keith Simonton examines biographical influences on composition and eminence.


Looking back: Creative genius in classical music

Professor of Music Psychology and Improvisation - including extra online-only questions and answers


One on one... with Raymond MacDonald

Elizabeth Richards Moir describes the multifaceted and fascinating role of an educational psychologist in Bahrain.

Working in Bahrain

change management; the dopaminergic mind; others in mind; masculinities; and what your stuff says about you


Book Reviews, December 2009

positive psychology; academia and applied; Strictly Come Dancing; pre-tertiary psychology education; scaring small children; and more.


Forum, December 2009

child welfare and immigration control; placement courses; reviewing primary education; debt and mental health; retirement; immersive VR; and more.


News and Media, December 2009

President’s column; research excellence framework; effort in testing; and more.


Society, December 2009

The Psychologist, December 2009

Could the most human of qualities owe their existence to tiny, mindless organisms? Justin H. Park and Mark Schaller investigate.

Parasites, minds and cultures

Wendy Iredale and Mark Van Vugt look at the Darwinian psychology of helping and generosity.

The peacock's tail of altruism

Daniel Nettle looks to an unexpected source for answers.


Social class through the evolutionary lens

Lisa DeBruine examines how evolutionary theories led to predictions that non-evolution-minded researchers would never dream of.


Beyond just-so stories 

Brian Haig advocates ‘inference to the best explanation’, a method used by Darwin and of relevance for theory appraisal in psychology


Methods: Evaluating explanatory theories

Mark H. Johnson, winner of the Society’s Presidents’ Award 2008, describes the emerging field of developmental cognitive neuroscience.


Developing human brain functions

S. Craig Roberts and John E. Lycett introduce us to some graduates from the MSc in Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Liverpool.

Darwin in the workplace

Chris Lerwill digs into the archives, 200 years after Darwin’s birth and 150 after the publication of On the Origin of Species.

Looking back: On the origins of human nature

Professor of Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Includes web-only extras.


One to one... with David Buss

Top psychologists helped us to celebrate the 150th e-mail issue of the Society’s Research Digest.


One nagging thing I still don't understand about myself

Louise Acker on her experiences of the Society’s Undergraduate Research Assistantship scheme.

Diving into the thick of things

mental toughness; consciousness; the compassionate mind; and more, including web-only reviews.


Book reviews, November 2009

Taking A-level psychology seriously; in defence of empiricism; and much more.


Forum, November 2009

Beyond the post-antibiotic apocalypse; walking in circles; gender variant youth; reports from the British Science Festival and a Martin Seligman lecture; and Kisane Prutton on the benefits of engaging with a changing media.


News and Media, November 2009

President’s column; Presidents’ Award; accreditation; journals success; and more.

Society, November 2009

The Psychologist, November 2009

Richard Gottlieb analyses Maurice Sendak’s fascinating 1963 picture book, in this 2009 article on the eve of its cinematic release.

Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are

Paul McCarthy offers some reflections on supervising writing in a PhD.


Teach & Learn - The path to prose

Steven Killick and Neil Frude talk about the psychology of oral storytelling in this 2009 article.

Eye on fiction - The teller, the tale and the told

Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck University of London


One on one - with Jay Belsky

Barbara Tizard on John Bowlby – the origins of his ideas, their impact and his often underestimated willingness to revise them

Looking Back: The making and breaking of attachment theory

Chris Frith, winner of the Society’s 2008 Book Award with Making Up the Mind, on how his ideas have developed, and the surprising implications.


Making up the mind

Including heart attack survivors; online CBT; climate change; publication of Rorschach images; a special feature on the next big questions in psychology; and more.



News, media, and the next big questions

Sophia E. Shaw, Ellen Nye, Joanna Jamel & Heather D. Flowe ask whether the media function as disseminators of knowledge or misinformation?


The print media and rape

Frank Tallis on life as a clinical psychologist and novelist.

Psychotherapy and other stories

Christian Jarrett enters the strange and controversial world of the ‘default mode network’.

The restless brain

We meet three people who’ve been making internships work for them.

The benefits of internships

Clinical Studies Officers (CSOs) working within Leicestershire NHS Partnership Trust for the Mental Health Research Network (MHRN) describe one route to acquiring valuable research skills.

Building roads to success in mental health

Saving our children from nature deficit disorder; memory; study skills; dementia; a lifetime of intelligence; and web-only reviews.


Book reviews, October 2009

President’s column; ethical code changes; going green with the DOP; and more.



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