The Psychologist, January 2016
Why demography needs psychologists
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The Psychologist guide to… you and your baby
In the January print edition, we distributed the first of a series of evidence-based leaflets to be passed on to a wide audience.
Book reviews January 2016
Hate the player, hate the game?
Two books reviewed in our January 2016 issue.
PDA – is there another explanation?
Rebecca McElroy considers pathological demand avoidance.
Video games – research shortcomings
John Cooter's letter responds to a review.
President’s letter
Professor Jamie Hacker Hughes, 'immersed in the membership and our issues'.
Behaviour in schools
Dr Sara Cureton responds to a letter in our December issue.
Open science and trustworthy data
Professor Peter E. Morris and Dr Catherine O. Fritz on replication and research fraud.
The mind in science
A letter from our January issue.
One on one… with Kitrina Douglas
‘Alternative stories are an antidote'
Screwed up, little despots?
Alice Violett turns to late 19th- and early 20th-century psychologists for the origins of stereotypes around only children.
Plunging into some fascinating topics
Jon Sutton reports from Psychology4Students 2015, held in Sheffield in November; and Ella Rhodes reports from the London event held in early December.
5 minutes with… Dr Zoey Malpus
…a contributor on behalf of the British Psychological Society to the Royal College of Anaesthetists Core Standards for Pain Management Services.
All in the genes?
Ella Rhodes reports from a first annual lecture by Learnus.
Memo to the President…
How can psychology influence policy? Ella Rhodes reports on a special issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Countering security threats
Ella Rhodes reports on a new research centre at Lancaster University.
Beyond the nuclear family
A series of seminars funded by the British Psychological Society.
Welcome to the club
Ella Rhodes reports on our efforts to crowdsource practical ideas for an after-school psychology club for primary school children.
The unseen, unsung heroes
Peter Beaman on the life and times of a psychology technician.
Opinion: King of the ghosts
James Russell reflects on nearly half a century of doing psychology.
‘There will always be a child whose story gets to you’
Ian Florance talks with Alison Soutter about her work in Australia protecting children.
The enigma of testing
Almuth McDowall and Céline Rojon caught up with John Rust, long recognised as one of the UK’s foremost experts on psychometrics.
Depression – more than the sum of its symptoms
Eiko I. Fried with the latest in our series for budding writers.
How biases inflate scientific evidence
Angela de Bruin and Sergio Della Sala consider the example of the cognitive benefits of bilingualism.
Reproductive health matters
Olga van den Akker argues that psychological research and policy are surprisingly embryonic, struggling to keep pace with technological developments.
Why demography needs psychologists
Gillian Pepper, Lisa McAllister and Rebecca Sear look for psychological answers to questions about fertility and population dynamics.
Digest
A selection which appeared in the January issue.