The Psychologist, February 2013
Searching for love
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Searching for love
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Access to PDFs of Psychologist issues is restricted to members of the society. Join us to enjoy this and a host of other benefits.
Searching for love
Robert J. Sternberg on the stages of his quest to understand what bonds us together (download PDF for tables etc).
‘I’m a scientist and sceptic at heart’
Ian Florance talks to Bryan McCrae about his work in the psychology of sales; plus Aon Dillon, Assistant Psychologist with the Challenging Behaviour Psychology Service, St Albans Childrens' Centre, on the concept of autonomy in a role; and Kay Buckby, a director of The Development Company, offering management and corporate training.
Looking Back: In defence of inclusive realism in psychology
David Pilgrim offers an alternative to radical constructionism and naive realism.
Letters, March 2013
Qualitative research and the REF; rape in India; intelligence; diagnosis; new environmental ‘Forum’ column; and more
New voices: Learning from learners
Rachel Wu with the latest in our series for budding writers.
Society
Includes President's Column, Award for Excellence in Psychology Education, Lifetime Achievement and more
Reviews
a philosophical review of The Hobbit; Science Club; apps, books, and more in our section covering psychology in any form of media
Methods: Teaching thematic analysis
Victoria Clarke and Virginia Braun look at overcoming challenges and developing strategies for effective learning
Interview: In the heat of the moment
Jon Sutton interviews Andrea Burri, psychologist and genetic epidemiologist.
Happy birthday?
Nick Wattie and Joseph Baker on relative age and its influence on human development.
Dyslexia – in tune but out of time
Usha Goswami, winner of the Society’s Presidents’ Award, examines difficulties in ‘temporal sampling’
The paradoxical brain
Narinder Kapur, Jonathan Cole and Tom Manly outline some surprising enhancements of function following brain disorder.
Digest
...nuggets from the Digest
News, February 2013
the final report on Stapel; DSM-5; national honours; the public perception of psychology; London Lectures; and more.
Letters, February 2013
the Levelt, Noort and Drenth Committees make their sole and final rejoinder to criticisms of their report on the Stapel fraud; male:female imbalance; and more
Big Picture - A novel approach
…to homelessness.
Reviews
a philosophical review of The Hobbit; Science Club; apps, books, and more in our section covering psychology in any form of media
Big picture - ‘A mind that can’t help spotting patterns'
Image by Jon Adams, with comment from Simon Baron-Cohen.
One on one with Anita Rose
"The challenge to our profession is to make psychology available to all regardless of race or culture."