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Bouncing back from failure: Some lessons from sport psychology
On A Levels results day, we caught up with sport psychologist Professor Pete Coffee for some tips on how to respond positively when results might not go our way…
View resultAn Investigation Into The Associations Between Maths Anxiety In Secondary School Pupils And Teachers' And Parents' Implicit Theories Of Intelligence And Failure
Peer Review Week 2020
Here at the BPS, we understand that Peer Review may not always be perfect but is vital to help us protect and promote scientific quality and rigour.
View resultThe pressure of taking spot kicks
As England prepare for their quarter final clash against France in the football World Cup tomorrow, with the prospect of penalties looming should the match be drawn, Chartered BPS member Dr Greg Wood argues that how prepared players feel for a penalty shootout should not be left to chance.
View resultAversion Therapy in the 1950s and 1960s
The following article was written by David Pilgrim, Honorary Secretary of the BPS History and Philosophy of Psychology Section.
View resultKeeping the Olympic Torch Alight: Supporting athletes’ psychological wellbeing at the Paris Games
On the eve of the 2024 Olympic Games, psychologists Richard Simpson and Helen Heaviside consider how practitioners can use positive and social psychology to help competitors flourish during and after the event, showing the impact that a psychological approach can have.*
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BPS Policy Statement - Early years care and support
The early years are an important time for child development.
View resultGuilt and Shame: Safeguarding Professionals in the Aftermath of a Safeguarding Breach
by Dr Noreen Tehrani.
View resultHelp us to make sure we continue to #FundNHSHubs
Earlier this year, I introduced a campaign that we’ve been leading, calling on the government to continue funding NHS staff mental health and wellbeing hubs.
View resultSociety paying the price for failure to invest in mental health services, warns BPS
27 March 2024
The BPS is urging politicians to consider long-term investment in mental health, as a new report lays bare the soaring economic and human cost of mental ill health.
- Mental health
- NHS
Study explores aspects of psychological safety in different work settings
15 February 2024
Hybrid workers are more likely to cover up their mistakes and view failure as a weakness than fully remote or office-based workers, new research suggests.
- Research
- Work and occupational
Budget a ‘missed opportunity’ to improve the lives of millions
06 March 2024
The BPS has called today’s budget a ‘massive missed opportunity’ to improve the lives of millions, with a failure to commit to spending on the NHS mental health workforce, NHS staff wellbeing services, a national roll out of Early Intervention Hubs and the Essentials Guarantee.
- Government and politics
- Mental health
- NHS
BPS responds to the Spring Statement, warning the escalating cost of living crisis will have long-lasting impacts on mental health
23 March 2022
The BPS believes the absence of measures from the Chancellor to support the most vulnerable with the soaring cost of living is glaring.
- BPS updates
- Government and politics
Draft Online Safety Bill still leaves users vulnerable to harm, warns BPS
17 March 2022
The draft Online Safety Bill still leaves online users vulnerable to harmful content and fails in its promise to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online.
- Government and politics
- Digital and technology
BPS response to NHS staff survey results
11 March 2021
The British Psychological Society is not surprised by the increase in high levels of stress among NHS staff highlighted by the results of the 2020 NHS staff survey.
- NHS
BPS responds to six-month extension to £20 Universal Credit uplift
03 March 2021
We've responded to the announcement today in the budget that the £20 uplift to Universal Credit will be extended for six months.
- BPS updates
- Government and politics
Online Safety Bill still leaves children and young people vulnerable to harm and must be strengthened, warn BPS and YoungMinds
19 April 2022
Children and young people will still be left vulnerable to harmful content online unless the Online Safety Bill is toughened up as it comes before parliament.
- Children, young people and families
- Digital and technology
BPS responds to the King’s Speech
07 November 2023
The BPS is deeply disappointed that the government has failed to commit to bringing forward bills to ban conversion therapy and reform the Mental Health Act in the King’s Speech.
- BPS updates
- Mental health
- Sex and gender
Stephen Fry urges the government to protect NHS staff mental health and wellbeing hubs
17 May 2023
Help protect NHS Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs by emailing your MP today.
- Government and politics
- Mental health
- Work and occupational
BPS response to Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill report
19 January 2023
The BPS is pleased to see the report reflect a number of recommendations from its submission of evidence.
- Government and politics
- Mental health
Cost of living crisis disproportionately impacting women’s anxiety
07 October 2022
Ahead of World Mental Health Day, the BPS is warning that women's mental health is being hit hard by the cost of living crisis.
- BPS updates
- Mental health
- Poverty
How to cope with failure, according to psychology
16 March 2021
Here are five findings that could help you cope with failure.
- Social and behavioural
On the dignity of failure
16 July 2014
Steven Sharman, an assistant psychologist, considers the importance of positive risk taking; and we talk to Andy Evans about his work with performers.
- Careers and professional development
Failure as a platform to learn
30 November 2016
Gina Wieringa with a letter from our January edition.
- Decision making
Parents who think failure is harmful to learning have children who think ability is fixed
09 June 2016
Parents with a more positive attitude to failure tend to encourage their children to use failure as a chance to learn.
- Developmental
- Education
Overcoming fear of failure at university
05 September 2024
Jeremy Hopper (Manchester Metropolitan University) explores the issues.
- Teaching and learning
Talking failure in therapy and beyond
26 April 2017
A conversation across the Atlantic, between Dr Tony Rousmaniere and Professor Miranda Wolpert.
- Counselling and psychotherapy
Thinking more positively about failure
01 July 2024
Olympic medallist Annie Vernon, and Associate Editor for Research Marcus Munafo.
- Cognition and perception
- Decision making
- Sport and Exercise
Success Versus Failure: What Causes the Difference?
04 December 2020
An extract from 'The Myth of Experience: Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons and Ways to Correct Them' by Emre Soyer and Robin M. Hogarth, with kind permission from the publisher PublicAffairs.
- Decision making
- Personality and self
Sigmund Freud and penis envy – a failure of courage?
08 May 2018
Riya Yadav with a critical take on one of the psychoanalyst’s most controversial theories; with an update.
- History and philosophy
- Personality and self
What does success or failure look like?
28 November 2017
John Marzillier responds to a recent conversation.
- Counselling and psychotherapy
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Problematic smartphone use and daily cognitive failures among university students: The mediating roles of sleep quality and academic stress
Series: BPS Branch Awards Volume: 1 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-06-2023
Author(s): Charlotte Hall
View Problematic smartphone use and daily cognitive failures among university students: The mediating roles of sleep quality and academic stressThe Fear of Failure-considerations for Educational Psychology
Series: Psych-Talk Volume: 1 Issue: 103
Date of Publication: 01-10-2022
Author(s): Hannah George
View The Fear of Failure-considerations for Educational PsychologyHow I Changed my Approach to Failure
Series: PsyPag Quarterly Volume: 1 Issue: 122
Date of Publication: 01-06-2022
Author(s): Georgina Wren
View How I Changed my Approach to Failure‘I’m not a failure for asking for help’: A mixed method service evaluation of Strategies for Relatives (START) programme
Series: FPOP Bulletin: Psychology of Older People Volume: 1 Issue: 158
Date of Publication: 01-04-2022
Author(s): Erin Dalziel, James Olvanhill, Sarah Straughan, Eliza Ross
View ‘I’m not a failure for asking for help’: A mixed method service evaluation of Strategies for Relatives (START) programmeTransforming nothing: The failure of the Transforming Care Learning Disability Policy framed by the criticisms of Orwell’s Politics and the English Language
Series: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 350
Date of Publication: 01-02-2022
Author(s): Allan Skelly, Victoria Shimmens, Aimee Corner
View Transforming nothing: The failure of the Transforming Care Learning Disability Policy framed by the criticisms of Orwell’s Politics and the English LanguageBringing failure in therapy to the fore: Obligation, benefits and ways forward
Series: Clinical Psychology Forum Volume: 1 Issue: 326
Date of Publication: 01-02-2020
Author(s): Benjamin Kwapong
View Bringing failure in therapy to the fore: Obligation, benefits and ways forward‘I am a failure, quiet like a mouse with no good qualities’: Adapting the Tree of Life method to work with an individual with learning disabilities diagnosed with schizophrenia and her network of support
Series: FPID Bulletin: The Bulletin of the Faculty for People with Intellectual Disabilities Volume: 15 Issue: 3
Date of Publication: 01-12-2017
Author(s): Aleksandra Laszczynska, Lorna Robbins
View ‘I am a failure, quiet like a mouse with no good qualities’: Adapting the Tree of Life method to work with an individual with learning disabilities diagnosed with schizophrenia and her network of supportThe treatment of eating disorders: Successes, failures and the need for new options
Series: DCP-S Review Volume: 1 Issue: 16
Date of Publication: 01-01-2017
Author(s): Susan Simpson
View The treatment of eating disorders: Successes, failures and the need for new optionsResearch Note: The relationship between fear of failure and self-talk in winning and losing situations
Series: Sport & Exercise Psychology Review Volume: 10 Issue: 1
Date of Publication: 01-03-2014
Author(s): Tim Pitt, Sandy Wolfson, Mark Moss
View Research Note: The relationship between fear of failure and self-talk in winning and losing situationsTest-to-speech software: Failure by schools to implement this exam access arrangement
Series: Assessment and Development Matters Volume: 5 Issue: 4
Date of Publication: 01-01-2013
Author(s): Malcolm Litten
View Test-to-speech software: Failure by schools to implement this exam access arrangementTrait interpersonal vulnerability attenuates beneficial effects of constructive criticism on failure responses
30-10-2018
- Gregory K. Tortoriello
- William Hart
Treatment failure in cognitive-behavioural therapy: Therapeutic alliance as a precondition for an adherent and competent implementation of techniques
13-08-2014
- Florian Weck
- Florian Grikscheit
- Marion Jakob
- Volkmar Höfling
- Ulrich Stangier
Emotion regulation styles and the tendency to learn from academic failures
14-06-2024
- Yonatan Sharabi
- Guy Roth
Why have I failed? Why have I passed? A comparison of students’ causal attributions in second language acquisition (A1–B2 levels)
26-10-2019
- Manuel Soriano‐Ferrer
- Elena Alonso‐Blanco
A cross-cultural comparison of the roles of emotional intelligence, metacognition, and negative coping for health-related quality of life in German versus Pakistani patients with chronic heart failure
09-07-2019
- Hina Ghafoor
- Rana Altaf Ahmad
- Peter Nordbeck
- Oliver Ritter
- Paul Pauli
- Stefan M. Schulz
Identifying and shifting educators' failure pedagogical mindsets through reflective practices
23-12-2023
- Amber Simpson
- Alice Anderson
- Megan Goeke
- Dara Caruana
- Adam V. Maltese
Learning from errors and failure in educational contexts: New insights and future directions for research and practice
24-09-2024
- Susanne Narciss
- Ecenaz Alemdag
Fear of failure and student athletes’ interpersonal antisocial behaviour in education and sport
24-11-2010
- Sam S. Sagar
- Ian D. Boardley
- Maria Kavussanu
Experiences of living with congestive heart failure: A qualitative study
24-12-2010
- K. Thornhill
- A. C. Lyons
- A. Nouwen
- G. Y. H. Lip
Development and validation of a work-specific measure of cognitive failure: Implications for occupational safety
10-01-2011
- J. Craig. Wallace
- Gilad Chen
Justice judgements, school failure, and adolescent deviant behaviour
19-08-2011
- Cristina Sanches
- Maria Gouveia‐Pereira
- Felice Carugati
Smartphone use and daily cognitive failures: A critical examination using a daily diary approach with objective smartphone measures
14-09-2022
- Andree Hartanto
- Kristine Y. X. Lee
- Yi Jing Chua
- Frosch Y. X. Quek
- Nadyanna M. Majeed
GOAL SOURCE, GOAL DIFFICULTY, AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCE VARIABLES AS PREDICTORS OF RESPONSES TO FAILURE
01-02-1988
- AHYOUNG KIM
- MARGARET M. CLIFFORD
Selective impact of reattribution of failure instructions on task performance
01-02-1985
- Chris R. Brewin
- David A. Shapiro
Constructive response to failure in music: the role of attribution feedback and classroom goal structure
01-02-1993
- Walter P. Vispoel
- James R. Austin
Performance correlates of self-reported cognitive failure and of obsessionality
01-11-1986
- Donald E. Broadbent
- Margaret H. P. Broadbent
- Julian L. Jones
Performance deficits following failure: Learned helplessness or self-esteem protection?
06-06-2011
- Tomasz Witkowski
- Joachim Stiensmeier‐Pelster
Failure and defeat as determinants of group cohesiveness
01-06-1984
- J. C. Turner
- M. A. Hogg
- P. J. Turner
- P. M. Smith