The Psychologist, March 2009
Can humour make students love statistics?
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Can humour make students love statistics?
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Can humour make students love statistics?
Andy Field, winner of the Society’s Book Award, on how he makes use of eels, quails and lap dancers in his teaching.
Taking flight as a legal eagle
Craig Ward on his move from a psychology degree into the law
Alfred Binet – a truly applied psychologist
Richard Howard on a psychologist who is remembered for educational testing, but whose interests covered the full gamut of individual differences.
Active body, healthy mind
Jadwiga Nazimek on whether exercise can delay – or even prevent – dementia
Methods: Accessing expert cognition
Julie Gore and Claire McAndrew explore advances in cognitive task analysis.
Eye on fiction: The psychology of O
Sallie Baxendale looks at a psychological case study in literature.
Striking the golden section in stigma research
Jonathan D. Raskin on how the way we organise information could be the key to reducing the negative labelling of others.
Consulting on talent
Ian Florance talks to Charles Bethell-Fox, Deputy Managing Director of Personnel Decisions International (UK).
One on one... with Carol Tavris
Carol Tavris American social psychologist and author
Book Reviews, March 2009
Including web-only reviews
Forum, March 2009
Including how to 'green' our practice and research; dyslexia; integrating psychology; more on the forensic/clinical divide; and much more.
News and media, March 2009
Including the good childhood inquiry; autism traits; tackling reoffending; caffeine and hallucinations; the social brain project; dementia; young people and the media; and Harriet Gross on the misrepresentation of Simon Baron-Cohen's research in The Guardian.
Society, March 2009
Including President's column, and Psychology Teaching award