The Psychologist, December 2017
Nasty or nice?
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‘There’s this conspiracy of silence around how science really works’
Our editor Jon Sutton meets Marcus Munafò, winner of the British Psychological Society’s Presidents’ Award, Professor of Biological Psychology at the University of Bristol, and a key player in the debate over replication and open science.
‘This is about their truth’
Clinical psychologist Dr Rachel Happer on her role as Head of the National Confidential Forum.
A safe space for tough topics
Sally Marlow and Hilary Brodsky review 'Gin for Breakfast' at the Tristan Bates Theatre.
Basquiat – ‘hauntingly relevant to today’s world’
Basma Alharthy visits an exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery.
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From our December edition.
What to read… if you’re losing faith in humanity
Can both fiction and non-fiction restore it?
iGen – science or advertisement?
Amy Orben on Jean Twenge's new book.
Deserves a wide readership
Paul Moloney reviews 'The Masses are the Ruling Classes' by William Epstein.
Interdisciplinary funding opportunity
Money available to prevent disease.
The women who made psychology
Ella Rhodes reports from the British Psychological Society's seventh annual Stories of Psychology event.
Turing Fellowships for psychologists
Ella Rhodes reports.
A Nobel nudge
Award for Professor Richard Thaler.
Child victims of war and disaster
Ella Rhodes reports from an event of the British Psychological Society's Crisis, Disaster and Trauma Psychology Section.
Dr Pamela M. Kenealy AFBPsS (1952–2017)
An appreciation from her husband.
Supporting expert witnesses
The Chair of the British Psychological Society's Expert Witness Advisory Group writes.
Clinical guideline confusion
Questions asked by those working with them.
Ins and outs of stereotyping
Ben Aaron MacLeod writes.
Failure of ruling elites
Dr Hugh McCredie writes.
Women drivers
Les Hearn writes.
The positives of boarding schools
Mallory Wober responds to recent coverage.
President’s Letter, December 2017
The latest from Nicola Gale.
Car-dependency – built in to the system?
David Brew writes.
Responding to first responders
A police officer and member of the British Psychological Society writes.
Should elite performance come second?
Two letters from our December edition.
Hearing the hidden hashtags
Hugo Maximillian Metcalfe and Alex Smith write.
‘As public intellectuals, it is possible to be both polite and radical’
One on One with Anne Cooke.
‘…constantly at work in the laboratory of my own mind’
Jan Noyes on Conwy Lloyd Morgan, the first psychologist to become a Fellow of the Royal Society.
L is for… Loneliness
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Nasty or nice?
Elena Lemonaki and Patrick Leman consider overt and insidious forms of sexism.
‘There was no standardised treatment for people who set deliberate fires'
Professor Theresa Gannon (University of Kent) on her journey to impact. As told to our journalist Ella Rhodes.
The coddling campus
Craig A. Harper believes the road to (political) hell is paved with good intentions…
Eliminating the false divide
Dr Jo Wilson, Essex Partnership University NHS Trust, reports from 'Creativity in co-production' at the King's Centre in Norwich.
Life consuming
Dr Emily David watches Louis Theroux's 'Talking to Anorexia'.
Diving into something new
Tanya Bhayani reports from the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival.
The body as a barrier
Nadia Craddock reads 'Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body', by Roxane Gay, published by Corsair.
Talking failure in therapy and beyond
A conversation across the Atlantic, between Dr Tony Rousmaniere and Professor Miranda Wolpert.