The Psychologist, October 2018
The psychologists’ tree of life
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Major new study to ‘serve the mental health community’
Ella Rhodes reports.
Climbing the career ladder
'The Boss Factor' by Richard Boston (LeaderSpace; Pb £14.99), reviewed by Tara Dean.
My shelfie… John Hall
Visiting Professor of Mental Health, and Senior Research Affiliate in the Centre for Medical Humanities, Oxford Brookes University
Featured job: Young People's Transition Practitioner
A new role with HF Mencap.
The Psychologist Guide to… Pets
Evidence-based tips, pulled together by our journalist Ella Rhodes.
Neville Moray (1935–2017)
An appreciation.
Chris Toon (1949–2018)
An appreciation from Eileen Griffith.
Mad in the UK
Sister organisation to 'Mad in America' formed.
Failed replications only to be expected
Alexander Bird with a different view on psychology's 'crisis'.
NHS disciplinary processes
Narinder Kapur writes.
The power of appreciation
A role for 'gratitude letters' or an even lighter touch approach?
Dealing with toxic behaviour
Two letters from our October edition on the Stanford Prison Experiment controversy.
Neuropsychology award
Ella Rhodes reports.
Society AGM
The end of August saw the British Psychological Society’s Annual General Meeting held at the Leicester offices.
Expert witness survey results
New British Psychological Society report.
Lifetime achievement award for Conway
Ella Rhodes reports.
The psychologists’ tree of life
A special feature on psychologists working with non-human species.
Self and society
'Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create' by Pascal Boyer (Yale University Press; Hb £25.00) reviewed by Nirmala Jayaraman.
Computer says: Don’t care
'Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity’s Surrender to Computers' by Harry Collins (Polity Press; Pb £15.99); reviewed by Dr Chris Timms, who is an independent writer.
‘Perhaps the difference between us and other species is that we have taken it to the extremes’
Our editor Jon Sutton chats to Josep Call, Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind at the University of St Andrews.
The truth, but not the whole truth?
Horizon’s ‘A Week Without Lying’ (TV), reviewed by Saima Azeem.
A gothic mystery
Sharp Objects (TV), reviewed by Kate Johnstone (Associate Editor for Culture).
A fine artistic response
BlacKkKlansman, directed by Spike Lee, reviewed by Niall James Holohan.
The art of intelligent ageing
New exhibition features portraits of the Lothian Birth Cohorts.
‘Be the best version of yourself… that’s what African psychology does for me’
Erica McInnis talks to Ian Florance about African psychology and her career.
V is for… Vulnerable
The Psychologist A to Z continues.
Dear Undergraduate me
Speakers from the 2018 British Psychological Society careers events, held in Newcastle and London later this year, wrote to their first-year selves.
Does psychology face an exaggeration crisis?
Brian Hughes argues that we are prone to accentuating the positive, even when it comes to progress in improving our science.
The godfather of the sexual revolution?
David Bramwell on the strange world of Wilhelm Reich.
'The story of learning begins with the story of life'
Q+A with Paul Howard-Jones, Professor of Neuroscience and Education at the University of Bristol.
At the Edinburgh Fringe
Tanya Bhayani watches 'See-Through' and 'The 37th Question'.