The Psychologist, February 2014
Improving aircraft safety
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Improving aircraft safety
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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.
Improving aircraft safety
Don Harris discusses the role of human error in air accidents and how aviation psychology has contributed to making flying as safe as possible.
Interview with Marinus van IJzendoorn
Marinus van IJzendoorn met Jon Sutton at the European Congress of Psychology and talked about his research on differential susceptibility in child development.
Social psychology in the lion's den
Ian Florance interviews Jackie Abell; Reader in Psychology at Coventry University and Director of Research for the African Lion and Environmental Research Trust, based in Livingstone, Zambia, about taking social psychology into the lion's den.
The stressed sex?
Daniel Freeman and Jason Freeman consider men, women and mental health. Plus listen to an interview with Daniel.
Society
President’s column; Public Engagement award and grants; The Psychologist bath; and more
Digest
The difference between a happy and a meaningful life; childhood amnesia; the image problem of activists
Science Museum 'Mind Maps'; national honours and more
Science Museum ‘mind maps’; national honours in psychology; ‘isms’ in fashion; Psychology4Students; and much more
One on one...with Terry Dovey
Senior Lecturer at Brunel University. Includes online only answers.
What intelligence tests miss
Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West on why we need rationality quotient (RQ) tests as well as IQ tests.
New Voices: Breaking free - prisoners and mental health
Anna Roberts makes the case for improving mental health services in prisons, with the latest in our series for budding writers.
Letters: The decline of the NHS, waste in research and more
The decline of the NHS; waste in research; promoting psychology in public health; 1966 and all that; and more
Social psychology in the lion's den
Ian Florance interviews Jackie Abell; Reader in Psychology at Coventry University and Director of Research for the African Lion and Environmental Research Trust, based in Livingstone, Zambia, about taking social psychology into the lion's den.
What intelligence tests miss
Keith E. Stanovich and Richard F. West on why we need rationality quotient (RQ) tests as well as IQ tests.
New Voices: Breaking free - prisoners and mental health
Anna Roberts makes the case for improving mental health services in prisons, with the latest in our series for budding writers.
A good nose for learning
Ian Florance interviews Miles Thomas about his varied career and what brought him to educational psychology.
Big Picture: Waking a sleepy syllabus
EEG equipment donated by Plymouth University to Plymouth High School for Girls, being demonstrated by Dr Jeremy Goslin with help from students Claire Hooper and Mabel Barclay.
Sizwe Banzi is Dead…
… plus the usual mix of books and other media reviews
Looking Back: The possessions at Loudun
Craig E. Stephenson looks at their significance in the history of the science of mind.