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Editorial, May 2025

Ella Rhodes spoke to Sarah Marsh, Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Political Psychology Section, about the challenges facing the field, and her own hopes for what the Section can achieve.

'Democracy is something we fought for'

This year the British Psychological Society’s Qualitative Methods in Psychology Section (QMiP) celebrates the 20th anniversary of its creation…

Progress, Power and Possibilities: 20 Years of the Qualitative Methods Section

Lyndsey Hayes, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow, and Association for the Teaching of Psychology (ATP) Representative on the British Psychological Society’s Division for Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology Committee, meets Harriet Ennis and Nick Serifin, the finalists of the DARTP Pre-tertiary Education Psychology Teacher of the Year award.

‘I have found ways to supercharge learning’

Our editor Jon Sutton reports from a one-day conference of the Behavioural Science and Public Health Network in Liverpool.

Behavioural science and public health – keeping ahead of change

Our editor Jon Sutton meets Dr Monty Lyman, winner in the ‘Popular Science’ category of the 2024 British Psychological Society Book Award for 'The Immune Mind: The New Science of Health'.

‘Physical and mental health support must go hand-in-hand if we’re to truly improve outcomes’

A survey of UK-based teachers reveals prevalent misogynistic attitudes and behaviours in primary and secondary schoolboys, and details their impacts on female pupils and staff.

Teachers triage the schoolyard effects of online misogyny

New research probes the psychological influences of hormones throughout the menstrual cycle.

Untangling links between wellbeing and the menstrual cycle

Recent work investigates Theory of Mind in children who lived through the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Pandemic kids more likely to struggle identifying false beliefs

New comparative studies illustrate similar social dynamics elsewhere in the animal kingdom.

Humans aren’t the only ones whose social circles shrink in old age

People who ask questions then answer them themselves are seen as disinterested in conversation partners, and liked less as a result, according to new research.

To improve your conversation skills, ditch ‘boomerasking’

How much misconduct should there be in research?

Dr Gil Greengross rethinks the health benefits of humour and laughter.

Cracking the joke 

Health Psychologist and British Psychological Society Chartered Member Dr Jane Meyrick discusses the changing landscape of gender-based stereotypes, attitudes and sexual violence. As told to Ella Rhodes.

‘There’s a significant change in where sexual scripts come from’

Fauzia Khan interviews Dr Madeleine Pownall, Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds.

‘Feminist psychology has its own little language… I find it beautiful and honest’

Adam Boyle talks with colleagues about the impact of the representation of men and boys using their service.

'The fewer male psychologists we have, the more the stigma persists'

Kate Quinn (clinical psychologist), Andy Kerrigan (social care worker) and Jess Ing (counselling psychologist) on merch, memes and metalcore as tools for community engagement in men’s mental health; but first, a personal story from one of their ‘Heavy Metal Therapy’ contributors, Andy.

‘From their screaming I found feeling and meaning’

Laura Gee on personal and research experiences of ‘gender inverted stereotypes’ and more.

‘You don’t look gay?’

Jennifer Gledhill talks to Dr Roxanne Khan about her new book, The Psychology of ‘Honor’ Abuse, Violence and Killings, and why she believes psychological research in this area has been neglected for so long.


'I’ve never met a single psychologist who understands enough about honour killings'

Psychologists and Sex Therapists Dr Lauren Fogel Mersy and Dr Jennifer Vencill on themes from their new book.

Seven ways to tackle desire discrepancy and the avoidance cycle

From Community Psychology to A New Understanding of ‘Dementia’ – Mike Bender describes the journey to Tony Wainwright. 

‘Maybe more psychologists need to become outsiders’

Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, Biza Stenfert Kroese, hears from Retired Consultant Clinical Psychologist Penny Priest about the real-world inspiration behind her debut novel, 'Team Of One'. Plus a review from George Callaghan.

‘I witnessed so many examples of people supporting each other’ 

Dr Nihara Krause MBE, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, watches the Netflix series.

Why does 'Adolescence' hit a nerve?

The team from the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England mark a milestone for their podcast.

Changing how the world sees bodies

Dr Emily Alexander considers cultural influence and a gendered legacy.

Hysteria: a historical mirror in the misogyny of medicine?

We hear from Nic Bowes, Sally Tilt (Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Forensic Psychology) and Dapinder Matharu.

Forensic Psychology matters

What compassion really means…

Helen Catchpole laments the dearth of research into many aspects of bereavement experience.

A need for curiosity around bereavement

Isabel Clarke, on the March 2025 issue of The Psychologist.

Meaning making and psychosis

Bhupinder Singh Kuwar, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, writes.

Why GCSE Psychology deserves recognition as the fourth science

A tribute to the eminent social psychologist, public intellectual and former President of the British Psychological Society, from David Fryer (Chartered Psychologist at the University of Queensland).

Halla Beloff 1930-2025

Words by Dr James Morris and Prof. Niamh Fitzgerald. With thanks to Jean Heather, Prof. Steve Rollnick and Trevor McCarthy.

Nick Heather 1938–2025

Tributes to the pioneering and inspirational critical psychiatrist, academic, and advocate for racial justice in mental health.

Dr Suman Fernando 1932–2025

A tribute from Jenny Taylor and Ruth Arnell.

Dr Molly Bodinetz 1979–2024

A tribute from former educational psychology colleagues.

Catharina (Tiny) Arora 1944–2024

Nick Wykes 1970-2025

Penelope Leach looks back at her May 1993 feature article.

From the archive: Should parents hit their children?

Can highlighting the benefits of change for men help alter gender-based stereotypes?

The Psychologist, May 2025

Antigonos Sochos considers whether a familiar concept can be extended to social groups, ideological systems and social institutions.

Attachment – beyond interpersonal relationships

Books from the December issue (including web-only).

Reviews

Dr Jeremy Swinson on a film directed by Bill Pohlid.

Love and Mercy 

Gail A. Hornstein considers artistic depictions of insanity.

Madness from the outside in 

One on one… with Marcus Munafò

Ian Florance talks community psychology with Maggie Peake.

Striving for a fairer society

Emma Nielsen (right) and Kavita Solder (left) remove the blinkers and experience the career peaks and troughs together.

The only way is clinical?

Professor Paul A. Singh Ghuman recognised.

Award for Promoting  Equality of Opportunity

‘The psychology really dictates all the finance’

Professor Lynne Murray and Michael Bond both win the British Psychological Society's award. Ella Rhodes reports.


Book awards

Matthew Connolly reports from the fifth annual Stories of Psychology symposium, held on Wednesday 14 October 2015 at Senate House, University of London

Stories of clinical psychology 

Lance Workman meets Gerd Gigerenzer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin.

‘I took the plunge and  chose the risky option’ 

PresidentsOffice@bps.org.uk Twitter: @profjamiehh

President’s column - Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes

Zayba Ghazali with the latest in our series for budding writers.

Can we be scientific about science education?

Big picture: The flotsam and jetsam of life

Chelsea Schein, Amelia Goranson and Kurt Gray consider why immoral acts always seem to be those that cause harm – especially to children.

The uncensored truth about morality

Amanda Henwood and Maggie Ellis on ‘Adaptive Interaction’.

Giving a voice to people with advanced dementia

Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson argue there’s a role for psychologists in helping people with their Advance Decisions. With the online-extra of our editor Jon Sutton's own Advance Decision.

A matter of life and death

Antarctic challenge

Children of war

From the Research Digest, December 2015

Opening doors for girls in science

More letters…

Oliver James questions the utility of the Human Genome Project when it comes to understanding our psychology.

Not in your genes

Does a culture of graduate volunteering represent 'a socio-economic and politically driven subjugation of women'? 

Money on my mind

A letter responds to our September 'New voices' article.

Negative effects of reward systems in classrooms

Ella Rhodes reports on a role for psychology and psychologists in tackling a major societal issue.

Championing responsible antibiotic use

Ella Rhodes reports from the first-year celebration of the Wellcome Trust funded Hubbub group.

Actively investigating rest

Steve Silberman's Neurotribes, a history of perceptions of autism, has won the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction. Jon Sutton reports.

'A rallying call to respect difference'

After a social media outpouring on destinations for psychology majors, Ella Rhodes calls for a UK equivalent.

What has #ThisPsychGrad been up to?

Elisa Brann, a Research Assistant at University College London, reports from a workshop on neuroscience and the law.

Sowing the seeds on responsibility

Jon Sutton reports from the launch of the Play in Education Development and Learning (PEDaL) Centre at the University of Cambridge.

Time for serious research on play

Kate Johnstone reviews A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (published by Picador), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

A little life less ordinary

The Psychologist, December 2015

The only way to succeed is to not try, argues Edward Slingerland.

Wu-wei – doing less and wanting more

Words by Natalia Kucirkova (Open University), image by Open University. 

Big Picture: A ‘selfie’ with a difference 

Ben Shephard considers our discipline’s involvement, on all sides.

Psychology and the Great War, 1914–1918 

Reviews, November 2015

Kate Johnstone reviews a Martin McDonagh play from the Royal Court Theatre.

Hangmen 

Ian Florance interviews Siobhan O’Neill, around her policy work on suicide and self-harm.

‘There are political, moral and ethical imperatives’

Karen M. Zabrucky (Professor of Psychology at Georgia State University) describes how a tragic incident influenced her career as a cognitive psychologist.

A life ‘chasing memories’

President’s column November 2015

Steven MacDonald with the latest in our series for budding writers.

New Voices: Working in a ‘goldfish bowl’ – ethics in rural practice

Cary Cooper tells Gail Kinman about his efforts to change occupational culture through wide dissemination of psychological theory and research.

‘Be brave, psychology needs you!’  

Laura M. Kurtycz looks at how to counter ‘learned helplessness.

Choice and control for animals in captivity

Warren Mansell and Timothy A. Carey introduce a theory dating back to the 1950s that is increasingly touted as revitalising the behavioural sciences.

A perceptual control revolution?

The November issue selection from the Society's Research Digest blog.

Digest

 Dr John Alban-Metcalfe (1940–2015)

…other letters from our November issue.

Letters, November 2015

 Thomas Mckenzie Caine (1918–2015)

The debate on 'psychology's non-stick frying pan' continues.

Psychology’s contribution 

Ella Rhodes on a memorandum of understanding between the University of Bolton and Greater Manchester Police.

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