Here’s what we found

12 February 2012

Roy F. Baumeister outlines intriguing and important research into willpower and ego depletion.

• Emotion
• Health and wellbeing
• Personality and self

18 October 2012

Including Steven Pinker's latest book, reviewed by Roy Baumeister.

• BPS updates

18 December 2005

Nobody likes you… what now? Roy Baumeister describes some surprising experimental effects, in the final contribution for the Society’s ‘Year of Relationships’.

• Mental health
• Relationships and romance

20 January 2020

Dr Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist at Florida State University. For his new book, he joined forces with science journalist John Tierney to explore The Power of Bad. Dr Tom Farsides, a Lecturer in Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, fired some questions at Dr Baumeister.

• Cognition and perception
• Emotion
• Relationships and romance

10 December 2013

Even given the freedom and resources to live a life of hedonism, many of us find it’s not enough – we want to have meaning in our lives too.

• Emotion
• Social and behavioural

12 February 2011

This post is part of the Research Digest’s Sin Week. Each day for seven days we’ll be posting a confession, a new sin and a way to be good.

• Social and behavioural

08 February 2011

This post is part of the Research Digest’s Sin week. Each day for Seven days we’ll be posting a confession, a new sin and a way to be good.

• Social and behavioural

10 January 2020

Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web.

• Research

05 September 2014

Alternatively, people with reduced beliefs in free will may be more sensitive to their physical needs.

• Cognition and perception

15 September 2011

Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology.

• Research

14 December 2007

A final experiment demonstrated how counter-intuitive these findings are, and helped explain why we are so poor at predicting how events will affect us emotionally.

• Cognition and perception
• Emotion
• Mental health

04 October 2009

Martin Seligman is Fox Leadership Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

• BPS updates