The Psychologist, July 2011

Alex Forsythe and the late Noel Sheehy look to aesthetics, fractals and more in order to understand art.

Catherine Campbell (Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics) talks with psychologist, feminist, activist and film-maker Janice Haaken about the challenges facing the domestic violence movement

Phil Banyard, Uta Frith, Sarah Haywood, Fiona Jones, Christian Jarrett, Annette Karmiloff-Smith, David Lavallee, Elizabeth Loftus, Catherine Loveday, Neil Macrae and Jon Sutton give their memories of this year’s event in Glasgow. Download PDF for full set of reports.

Hilary Clarke, a health psychologist with the Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation, issues a rallying call.

...with Ben (C) Fletcher, Head of the School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire

Tamsin Williams looks at Benoît Mandelbrot and the creation of fractal geometry.

Christopher Watkins with the latest in our series for budding writers.

Can incivility lead to a spiral of aggression and tarnish a culture? Christine L. Porath and Amir Erez investigate.

Sinéad Rhodes on the risks of the media’s generic view of psychologists.

Can you tell which of these pictures is the work of a child?

rationality for mortals; adjusting to life after deployment; stories of recovery and hope; and more, including web-only reviews

a tribute to Noel Sheehy; performance in psychology; honorary awards; work–life balance; response from Health Secretary; IQ at the Science Museum; and more.

speaking out on Coalition cuts; new phrenology; and Kanazawa strikes again

the future of undergraduate psychology; Royal Society fellows; gossip and vision; echolocation.