The Psychologist, August 2012
Experiencing time in daily life
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High time
Ruth Ogden and Catharine Montgomery on the effect of drugs on the perception of time.
Children and time
Sylvie Droit-Volet on what we can learn about the biological and cognitive basis of time from the way children judge duration.
Interview: 'Time is all you've got'
Catherine Loveday and Jon Sutton talk to John Wearden.
Experiencing time in daily life
Why does a watched pot never boil, or time fly when you’re having fun? Dan Zakay has some answers
Time and the sleeping brain
Penelope A. Lewis and Warren H. Meck argue that the importance of timing leads the brain to protect against damage to the system – while we sleep.
How emotions cloud our sense of time
In this online-only contribution to the special issue, Clare Allelly describes the surprising impact of facial expressions and food on judgements of time
Time and information processing
In this online-only contribution to the special issue, Luke A. Jones asks whether brain time is the same as clock time.
Media
Mark Sergeant on sex and zombie cannibals; Jon Sutton on science journalism; and the latest prime cuts
Big Picture: Untangling the web
Image by Lynsey Irvine and Peter Storey, for a series written by Aleks Krotoski.
One on one... with Ruby Bell
Head of Forensic Psychology at Roseberry Park Hospital, Middlesbrough. Includes online-only answers.
Looking Back: Walter Miles and his grand tour
C. James Goodwin recounts the 1920 visit of an American psychologist to Great Britain.
New voices: Suppressed voices, neglected lives
Romana Farooq with the latest in our series for budding writers.
When psychologists become builders
Jon Sutton investigates where Lego and psychology intersect.
Careers: Championing psychology
Ian Florance talks to Jean Gross CBE; and to Tom Stafford (University of Sheffield) – academic, author, blogger and more.
A look through the PRISM
David J. Cooke and Lorraine Johnstone on preventing violence in institutions.
Book Reviews, August 2012
Includes web-only reviews
Society, August 2012
Includes President's Column, guidance on the use of social media, new Honorary Fellows and Life Member, and more
News, August 2012
Including scientific fraud, and Queen's birthday honours.
Letters, August 2012
Engaging with the environmental crisis, and more.