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      What are friends for? The Perceptions of Young People in Care about Peer Relationships

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      The Impact of the ‘FRIENDS for Life’ Emotional Resiliency Programme on Anxiety and School Adjustment – A Controlled Evaluation

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      May you live until 120

      It is a tradition when I was brought up to wish family and friends a long life - how long is long? "May you live to be 120" they would say.

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      Parenting young babies whilst self isolating and social distancing

      Following recently announced restrictions for mothers due to give birth, Dr Abigail Wright offers some advice for parents and carers dealing with new babies and young children.

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      Managing the holiday season during the cost-of-living crisis

      As the holiday season approaches, it can bring feelings of joy, excitement, and happiness, but also stress, worry and often sadness against the backdrop of the cost of living crisis. The BPS’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology (DECP) has offered its advice for parents on how to manage the holiday season and their children’s expectations.

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      Finding motivation when times are tough - advice for students

      Student Ambassador Meg Castro shares her advice for maintaining motivation during difficult times, and how to navigate the peaks and troughs of student life.

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      Starting your DClinPsy training? Here’s five tips to help you get started

      It’s that time of year where, if you’re a clinical psychology trainee, you’ll be embarking on the next step on your journey – starting your DClinPsy training.

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      “If you’re not yourself, who are you going to be?” An Exploration of Gender and Sexuality Diverse Pupils Experiences of Visibility Management in School

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      Qualifications Manager (Maternity cover)

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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…

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      Social class and me….reflections on the role of social class in my life.

      As part of the BPS’ senate campaign to make social class a protected characteristic, Stefan Marciniak, a professor at the University of Cambridge, explores and shares his experiences of class and the impact it’s had on his life and career.

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      Why work-life balance?

      By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day. - Robert Frost (1875 - 1963), US poet (attrib.)

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        • The importance of friends

          27 July 2021

          'Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships' by Robin Dunbar (Little Brown), reviewed by Talia Drew.

          • Relationships and romance
          • Social and behavioural
        • Woman kissing man on cheek

          Just good friends? Attraction to opposite-sex friends is common and burdensome

          16 July 2012

          “Every platonic friend I got is some woman I was trying to ****, I made a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in the friend zone. ‘Oh no, I’m in the friend zone!'” Chris Rock.

          • Relationships and romance
          • Sex and gender
          • Social and behavioural

        • Books as friends

          30 September 2021

          Keith Oatley wonders whether Marcel Proust might stand alongside William James as a psychologist, and how fiction may be important for us.

          • Emotion
          • History and philosophy
        • Line drawing of a group of friends sat talking

          The psychology of friends

          27 July 2021

          We trawled our archive for insights into why friendship matters and how we can connect safely during the pandemic.

          • Children, young people and families
          • Covid
          • Relationships and romance
        • Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin

          The reasons we stay friends with an ex

          08 June 2017

          Justin Mogilski and Lisa Welling asked a group of 348 volunteers to think of as many reasons as possible for why two former partners might want to remain friends.

          • Relationships and romance
          • Sex and gender
          • Social and behavioural
        • A representation of Psyche, taken from the BPS logo

          Siblings - friends or foes?

          10 June 2009

          Alison Pike, Tina Kretschmer and Judith F. Dunn on what the research says about achieving a harmonious household.

          • Children, young people and families
        • Two people texting on a rooftop, split image

          We're surprisingly reluctant to reach out to old friends

          21 May 2024

          New study explores the dynamics of making contact with a long-lost friend, and the factors that keep us distant.

          • Community
          • Social and behavioural
        • Flying imaginary friend

          Kids with invisible friends have superior narrative skills

          07 August 2009

          Gabriel Trionfi and Elaine Reese have presented some preliminary evidence that having an imaginary friend could even be beneficial, tending to go hand in hand with superior narrative skills.

          • Cognition and perception
          • Developmental
        • Abstract colourful figures

          Varied friends are the spice of life

          10 June 2024

          New work ties diversity and belonging to social cohesion and wellbeing.

          • Community
          • Equality, diversity and inclusion
          • Health and wellbeing
          • Race, ethnicity and culture

        • Your friendly Neighbourhood Psychologists

          23 March 2021

          Jon Sutton on the Community Action and Resilience hub from the British Psychological Society.

          • Community
          • Covid
        • Phil Salmon

          A 'critical friend' in times of need

          18 April 2003

          Trevor Butt (University of Huddersfield) interviews Phil Salmon.

          • Counselling and psychotherapy
        • Two women celebrating

          We prefer to experience good - and bad - events on the same day as a friend

          16 February 2021

          We prefer to experience both negative and positive events on the same day as a friend - as long as those events aren’t powerfully emotional.

          • Social and behavioural