Christian's catalogue
The editor of the Society's Research Digest, Dr Christian Jarrett, also served as our journalist between 2005 and 2014. Here we collect his features.
01 December 2014
Autism - myth and reality (Oct 2014)
The age of the superhuman (Oct 2013)
The psychology of stuff and things (Aug 2013)
How many psychologists does it take… to explain a joke? (Apr 2013)
Faster, higher, stronger! The psychology of competition (Jul 2012)
When psychology came to my rescue (Jan 2012)
The lure of horror (Nov 2011)
Wish you were here? - the psychology of holidays (Aug 2011)
Ouch! The different ways people experience pain (Jun 2011)
The deadly sins (Feb 2011)
The journey to undergraduate psychology (Sep 2010)
Feeling like a fraud (May 2010)
Helping the homeless (Apr 2010)
The maternal brain (Mar 2010)
One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself (Nov 2009)
The restless brain (Oct 2009)
Get a second life - virtual worlds in teaching, research and practice (Jun 2009)
How can we improve psychological science? (May 2009)
New horizons - psychology in space (Dec 2008)
Foundations of sand? Academic myths in psychology (Sep 2008)
Mind wide open - the psychology of nonconscious influences (Apr 2008)
When therapy causes harm (Jan 2008)
The chemical brain (Aug 2007)
Is there a psychologist in the building? Psychology and architecture (Oct 2006)