Here’s what we found

13 June 2024

When Edel McGlanaghy decided to talk about trauma with comedy, she realised the subjects are not a million miles apart…

• Clinical
• Crisis, disaster and trauma
• Work and occupational

12 April 2013

Richard Wiseman, Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, talks to comedian Richard Herring.

• Creativity

16 April 2013

Rob Bailey with the latest in our series for budding writers.

• Social and behavioural

23 September 2015

The findings are certainly consistent with the idea that, if nothing else, laughter may be the chink of light that reminds us even the darkest days will end eventually.

• Emotion

18 December 2011

Zarinah Agnew (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) performs at London's Bright Club. E-mail 'Big picture' ideas to [email protected]

• Brain

05 April 2013

Christian Jarrett investigates the psychology of humour and comedy.

• Cognition and perception
• Social and behavioural

09 November 2022

Marc Hye-Knudsen, Aarhus University, reviews two new dark comedy series that get the audience to root for and find humour in murder; 'Bad Sisters', and 'Am I Being Unreasonable?'.

• Emotion
• Ethics and morality
• Violence and trauma

02 January 2024

We met comedian and writer Fern Brady at the PDA Society’s recent comedy fundraiser in Hackney. Here, we share a little about Pathological Demand Avoidance and hear from Fern on identity, disclosure and support.

• Autism
• Neurodiversity

11 March 2020

Chrissie Fitch MBPsS attends opening night of one-woman comedy musical ‘Lovecraft (Not the Sex Shop in Cardiff)’ at the Soho Theatre in London.

• Sex and gender

18 July 2006

Double Dutch, comedy, tragedy and psycho-babbling for beginners.

• BPS updates

07 April 2015

New research suggests that part of the reason may be that the act of laughter encourages personal disclosure: we chuckle out our secrets.

• Emotion
• Social and behavioural

16 September 2016

Pernille Frisvoll reviews a Horizon special on laughter.

• Emotion