The Psychologist, June 2019
Big data in the big city
Big data in the big city
Big data in the big city
Catherine Lido on using novel technology to explore inclusion in Learning Cities.
‘We are Psychologists…’
A new film from the British Psychological Society.
Featured job: Highly Specialist Clinical or Counselling Psychologist
Employer: Adult Gender Identity Clinic, The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust
The hero's journey
The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain, Tate Britain. Reviewed by Nikki Hall.
Our Research Digest shortlisted for award
We're in the Science Blog award for this year's Association of British Science Writers' Awards for Britain and Ireland.
‘I had absolutely no idea…’
Ella Rhodes speaks to psychologist Rebecca Hitchen about a rare syndrome.
From the Chief Executive, June 2019
The latest from Sarb Bajwa.
Toxic acts, not toxic masculinity
Martin Seager and John Barry write.
A demand to avoid demand avoidance?
Richard Woods writes about Pathological Demand Avoidance.
Let’s stop doing the timewarp again
Emma Liebeskind writes about the A-level psychology curriculum.
Still the science of the sophomore?
Arathy Puthillam responds to a letter on psychology's WEIRDness.
Don’t fear jazz
Dr Nina Browne on 'letting go of the script'.
Inoculating against misinformation
Ella Rhodes on 'vaccine hesitancy'.
Emotions in the past and present
Emotional shorts (podcast) by the Centre for the History of the Emotions; reviewed by Alina Ivan.
The anatomy of online grief
An exclusive chapter from 'All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age', by Elaine Kasket (courtesy of Robinson).
'There are wolves in the forest…'
Ahead of his appearance for us at this summer’s event, Professor Andrew Przybylski (Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute) picks three myths around screen time – and how science, and some common sense, can help.
Challenging assumptions about how people work
#Upcycle your job by Anna Meller (Practical Inspiration); Reviewed by Emily Hutchinson.
A menagerie of human concepts
'Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny' by Michael Tomasello (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press). Reviewed by Kim A. Bard and David A. Leavens.
The key to consciousness?
'The First Minds: Caterpillars, Karyotes, and Consciousness' by Arthur S. Reber (Oxford University Press); reviewed by Jason Tougaw.
My shelfie… Marcus Munafo
Professor of Biological Psychology, University of Bristol
One on one... with Constantina Demosthenous
We dip into the Society member database and pick… Constantina Demosthenous, a Clinical Psychologist at Limassol Hospital, Cyprus, and a PhD candidate at the University of Cyprus studying family caregivers of people with dementia. Including online-only extras.
Why are life events troubling?
Ruth Spence, Lisa Kagan and Antonia Bifulco find it’s not a straightforward question…
‘The World Cup demonstrated what changes when people feel differently’
Pete Olusoga (Sheffield Hallam University) meets Dr Pippa Grange, the sports psychologist with the England men’s team at last summer’s event.
Notes from a weather observer
Trevor Harley on the effects of weather and climate on personality and behaviour.
‘Issues around sex and young people are changing’
Dr Roberta Babb is a Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist, Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant. Recently, she was an expert on the BBC Three programme ‘Sex on the Couch’. Debbie Gordon (Assistant to the Managing Editor) asked her about her work and the series.
The Rocky Horror Pixel Show
Where in the brain is creativity? Arne Dietrich ponders whether we’re asking the right questions.
‘Can I sympathise with mothers who have hurt their children?’
Lauren Mountain never imagined this would be one of the first groups she worked with as an assistant psychologist…
‘You don’t have to stay within the barriers’
Ian Florance interviews Nick Perham, Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
Dorothy Rowe 1930-2019
An appreciation from Craig Newnes.
Baroness Mary Warnock 1924-2019
An appreciation from Richard Kwiatkowski, a former Chair of the British Psychological Society's Ethics Committee, of the role she played in the Code of Ethics and Conduct.
To face reality and accept it
Sabrina Elasri on a concept album from Korean Pop band BTS.
Richard Edmund Warburg (1949-2018)
An appreciation.
John Rowan 1925-2018
An appreciation from his wife Sue.
James Ost (1973 – 2019)
Colleagues with 'a true memory'.