The Psychologist, Summer 2024
Can sports psychologists help everyone win at life?
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Editorial, Summer 2024
Editor Jon Sutton introduces the issue.
Five key psychological areas for the next UK government
Ella Rhodes reports on a British Psychological Society manifesto.
BPS election results; plus in brief
Dr Laura Dean will serve as the next BPS President-Elect and David Carew is a newly elected trustee.
What every psychological therapist should know about working with prescribed psychiatric drugs…
The BPS has collaborated to deliver guidance materials for psychological therapists to support them in working with issues of prescribed drug dependence.
‘Bad things happen when good people choose to stay quiet’
Ella Rhodes reports on the Infected Blood Inquiry.
Three new Royal Society Fellows from Psychology
Welcoming Professors Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Adrian Owen OBE and Heidi Johansen Berg.
Bumper King's Birthday Honours list for Psychologists
Several members of the British Psychological Society honoured for services to mental health care, research, public service, Ukrainian refugees and more.
The psychology of secrets
Emma Young lifts the lid…
Making mistakes easy aids teacher–student relationship
New research points to the practical importance of a positive error climate in the classroom.
Uncomfortable heat may interfere with policing and justice
Recent analysis of Texan law enforcement data suggests high temperatures may interfere with decision-making in some roles.
We're surprisingly reluctant to reach out to old friends
New study explores the dynamics of making contact with a long-lost friend, and the factors that keep us distant.
The Psychologist guide to… Weather
Most of us feel that the weather has a major influence on our daily lives; psychologists are beginning to understand how deep that impact goes. Jennifer Gledhill has eight insights…
Thinking more positively about failure
Olympic medallist Annie Vernon, and Associate Editor for Research Marcus Munafo.
Change in research and in journal publishing
We fired questions at editors of British Psychological Society journals…
Children of the replication crisis
Dr Charlotte Pennington on the importance of teaching students how open science can reform psychology.
Life lessons from the Olympics
Can sports psychologists help everyone to win at life? Deputy Editor Jennifer Gledhill speaks with some to find out if an Olympic mindset could benefit us all…
Movement in sport
Our editor Jon Sutton speaks with sports psychologists in a quest to improve his five-a-side performance…
The ‘five-inch course’
Will McConn-Palfreyman (pictured), Head of Psychology for Scottish Golf, on the psychology within and beyond the mental game.
On measurement, meaning and myth
Anthony Montgomery asks whether Organisational Psychology is forgetting its epistemic roots.
Featured job - Serco Psychological Services
Could you help to turn lives around in prison?
‘The hospital has the feel of a massive living thing’
Fauzia Khan interviews Dr Charlie Jones, Consultant Clinical Psychologist at North Bristol NHS Trust.
‘How caregivers regulate their behaviours is impacting how their babies detect change’
Editor Jon Sutton meets Dr Sobana Wijeakumar (University of Nottingham).
Reader recommends…
For our July/August issue, we asked - via Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and BPS Member Connect - what books, films, programmes, exhibitions and more you thought others should seek out.
The echoes of Psychology’s past
Erin Robbins and Akira O’Connor pick out some examples from their new book, ‘Colonised Minds - Narratives That Shape Psychology’.
Uncivil attention
Jade Fawcett looks to Psychology and Geography to ask, why is running a free ticket to public harassment on the streets of Britain?
Complexity from simple elements
Ian Florance interviews counselling psychologists Tom Bichard and Petra Kagleder.
Serious problems in discourse
A response to ‘Liberating’ not ‘oppressive’ over Gaza' in the June 2024 issue of The Psychologist.
The importance of reflexivity for aspiring psychologists
Dr Jonathan Day writes in; plus a response, from Hugh MacCuish.
‘My framing of the perceived difficulties living as a wheelchair user changed profoundly’
Ayad Marhoon reflects on cognitive shifts on a recent trip to Iraq.
Dr Sarah Knight OBE 1966-2024
A tribute to the British Psychological Society Fellow.
Professor Jerome Barkow 1944-2024
A tribute from Lance Workman (University of South Wales).
From the archive: What the Olympics mean to me
Helen O'Connor revisits her 2012 contribution...