The Psychologist, October 2015
Out of this world
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Out of this world
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Out of this world
A special feature on aliens and space travel, including an interview with Douglas Vakoch, clinical psychologist and Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Reviews
Books from our October issue, including Oliver Sacks' memoir.
‘As with fairy tales, you used to ask me to tell you the famous studies over and over’
Psychology graduate Melanthe Grand interviews her mother, Chartered Psychologist and novelist Voula Grand.
'I am lucky that I’ve always known what I wanted to do’
Ian Florance interviews Doyin Atewologun.
‘Nothing you learn is ever redundant’
One on one… with Jo Silvester
Big Picture: Motion illusions in static patterns
Image and words from research by Johannes Zanker (Royal Holloway University of London).
President’s column: September 2015
… from Jamie Hacker Hughes.
New Voices: The flat landscape
Clementine Edwards considers emotional deficits in schizophrenia, in the latest in our series for budding writers.
Encountering extraterrestrial intelligence
Albert A. Harrison looks for lessons from history.
Close encounters of the psychological kind
Christopher C. French considers explanations of UFO sightings, alien encounters and even abductions.
Eye on fiction: The alien in us all
We asked for your favourite alien entity, and what their depiction says about our own psychology.
Psychology in deep space
Nick Kanas considers issues and countermeasures..
What would you say to an alien?
Jon Sutton talks to Douglas Vakoch, clinical psychologist and Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
From the Research Digest, October 2015
The issue selection from the Society's Research Digest blog.
A place for confidence intervals
From October 'Letters'.
Demanding greater rigour
Are misrepresentations rife in the teaching of psychology?
News, October 2015
More from the October issue.
So, have we found psychology's non-stick frying pan?
Responses to Phil Banyard's letter.