The Psychologist, April 2016
The silent companions
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Cutting through conspiracy
Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe reviews the return of The X-Files on Channel 5.
Squandered opportunity
Sarah Smith reviews 'The Man Without a Shadow' by Joyce Carol Oates.
Book Reviews - April 2016
A selection.
Welcome to ‘blogademia’
Daniel Jolley, Fleur-Michelle Coiffait, and Emma L. Davies on purpose, positives and pitfalls.
Opium and the people
Joanna Moncrieff examines the socio-economic history of psychoactive drug use.
Big Picture: ‘H.M.’ and procedural memory
Words by artist Kerry Tribe, for a Wellcome Collection installation.
Hearing the voice of the child
Ron Davie talks to Ian Florance about his interdisciplinary life.
Hearing loss and my career
Naoimh Fox writes about the effect of a hearing impairment on her work and aspirations.
Life in a Ugandan slum
Shalini Raman reflects on some valuable professional and personal experience.
New voices: Having faith in mind
Yeni Adewoye with the latest in our series for budding writers.
One on one… with Andrew Dunn
‘Be patient, keep an open mind'
From the ZX Spectrum to smartwatches
Anna Cox takes Lance Workman through her life in human–computer interaction.
Rorschach Audio – art and illusion for sound
Joe Banks on psychoacoustics, bereavement and the public understanding of science.
Walking the radical talk
Alexander J. Bridger introduces psychogeographical psychology.
The silent companions
Ben Alderson-Day considers explanations for ‘feelings of presence’.
Starting a conversation on A-level psychology
Is the syllabus already outdated? Ella Rhodes reports.
5 minutes with… Anna Sallis
Behavioural Insights Research Advisor at Public Health England; now with March 2019 update.
Exploring psychologies of ageing
Elizabeth Peel, Carol Holland and Michael Murray report from a British Psychological Society seminar series.
Award for brain injury work
The British Psychological Society Practitioner of the Year Award.
Lifetime achievement award
British Psychological Society award for Professor Robin Morris.
Drivers for driving changes
Ella Rhodes on a new report.
Joan Kirk (1945–2016)
An appreciation.
Larraine Morgan (1950–2015)
The Occupational Psychologist remembered.
A magical mix of tricks and talks
Ella Rhodes reports from an event at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Varied routes to qualification
A letter from our April edition.
Eysenck – a competitive streak
A response from John Marzillier.
Theorising and pontificating?
A letter-writer in our April edition is perplexed and frustrated by our 'Can psychology find a path to peace?' special.
Forum: words and meaning
Tim Lomas (University of East London) with the first in an occasional series.
Achieving representation in psychology
A BPS response.
President’s letter April 2016
It's farewell from Jamie Hacker Hughes.
Boarding school syndrome
Do we need more research into the 'Strategic Survival Personality'? A letter from Nick Duffell in the April edition.
Unpleasant reactions to ‘music’
A consultant clinical psychologist reports an unusual problem.
Applied psychology – salad, not soup
A letter from our April edition.
The edge of ethics
Has Derren Brown gone too far this time? A letter from Trainee Clinical Psychologist Matthew Wilkinson.
From the Research Digest, April 2016
A selection from our blog, published in the April edition.