The Psychologist, October 2017
Hazardous to health?
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The Psychologist Guide to University Life
Ella Rhodes brings us evidence-based tips for new students of any subject, kindly sponsored by Routledge Psychology.
Featured job: October 2017
Numerous therapy roles at the Nightingale Hospital in London.
From the PsyPAG Annual Conference 2017
Ella Rhodes reports.
Radical change at heart
Ella Rhodes talks to those behind new output from the British Psychological Society's Behaviour Change Advisory Group.
‘It’s not a crisis or problem we can sweep under the rug’
Ella Rhodes meets those trying to help refugees.
The beautiful durability of human delusion
Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently, by Beau Lotto (Hachette; Pb £12.30)
Adoption burnout
A response to our interview with Christina Maslach.
A persistent misconception
G. Neil Martin responds in an ongoing debate.
The Sussicran complex
Mallory Wober on 'the reverse Narcissus'.
Stereotype block or priming?
Hugh Coolican writes.
Driverless vehicle problems
Two letters from our October edition.
President’s letter, October 2017
Nicola Gale writes.
Censoring legitimate discussion?
Ron Roberts on antidepressants and comment.
Scattering concern for the environment
Dr Stephen Leach has some thoughts.
Unprepared undergraduates?
Madeleine Pownall, a Psychology undergraduate at the University of Lincoln, has concerns.
Advancing BME psychology
Glen Jankowski, Sarah Gillborn and Rowan Sandle write.
J is for… Justice
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
‘Greater humility about what our discipline can bring could, paradoxically, strengthen our contribution’
'One on One' with Theresa Marteau.
'When schools pay for services they demand more – that means we must be more creative in what we do’
Ian Florance meets Dr Will Shield.
One year at university
Holly Rose Welsby gained a Triple A* from Burnley College Sixth Form Centre to progress to Cambridge University. She has just completed her first year studying psychology at Churchill College. Here she tells us about her experience so far. Now UPDATED with what happened next…
Is testosterone the key to sex differences in human behaviour?
The debate.
‘I encountered considerable hostility to the kind of critiques I was presenting’
Our editor Jon Sutton meets Professor Erica Burman (University of Manchester).
Simulation-based education
Jennifer Cleland finds new perspectives on medical training, which could be used more widely in psychology too.
Little scientists – big impact
The Developmental Research Team at the University of Stirling explain why they love their psychology kindergarten.
Hazardous to health?
Sarah Mackenzie Ross considers whether exposure to chemical substances could be damaging your brain.
Christmas lectures on language and laughter
Professor Sophie Scott to deliver prestigious annual talks.
Big stars, big ideas and big data
Our editor Jon Sutton thoroughly enjoys the Annual Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society.
The flames of hate
Ella Rhodes reports in the wake of the clashes in Charlottesville.
The fringes of the human mind
The Edinburgh Fringe, the world’s largest arts festival, has attracted an increasing amount of performers to explore the topic of mental health. In recognition, this year for the first time there is a Mental Health Fringe Award, initiated to encourage and trigger conversations surrounding the stigma of mental health as well as to reconstruct the perceptions of getting help. We asked Tanya Bhayani to review some of the exciting performances on offer.
A first step in a revolution?
Samantha Wratten watches 'No More Boys and Girls: Can our Kids go Gender Free?'
Messages of hope and determination
Tiago Zortea listens in to ‘The Edge of Life’ on BBC Radio 4.
When murder is just a memory
Kim Drake watches a new Storyville documentary on false confessions and memory distrust syndrome.
'I'm still the same person'
Dr Sara Simblett visits ‘Making Faces’, an exhibition presented by Submit To Love Studios at the Southbank Centre on life after a brain injury.
A scientific glimpse of success
Josh Shepherd-Smith reviews Eric Barker's 'Barking up the Wrong Tree'.
Kinship and loss
We pose some questions for Damien W. Riggs and Elizabeth Peel, about their new book Critical Kinship Studies, and publish an exclusive extract on experiences of pregnancy loss.
The solution starts with us
Nadia Craddock reviews 'Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race' by Reni Eddo Lodge.
The Freudian motivation behind 1967's Sexual Offences Act
Adam Jowett on Jewish Labour MP Leo Abse.