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Sexual addiction: symptoms, causes, consequences
Sexual addiction is sometimes referred to as compulsive sexual behaviour, hyper sexuality, or sexual dependency.
View resultTackling racism should not be left to individuals
A recent TUC report argued that workplace racism should be treated as a health and safety issue. Occupational psychologist Christeen George, a member of the BPS’s Division of Occupational Psychology, agrees and argues that race equality practices need to be embedded throughout an organisation.
View resultNational Children’s Day UK: Time to hear
Ahead of National Children’s Day on Sunday 16 May, Dr Sarah Taylor Whiteway asked a group of children why listening to children may be the most important thing we do this year.
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The jokes that toddlers make
15 November 2012
Whereas the two-year-olds were just as likely to copy or riff off their parent’s jokes as to make their own original attempts at humour, the three-year-olds most often came up with original jokes.
- Developmental
During jokes, the teller and responder engage in an involuntary "dance"
10 September 2014
Bodily movement was in synchrony between knock-knock joke tellers and responders.
- Social and behavioural
Jokes are a serious part of business
09 December 2005
A little bit of laughter may make your next round of business negotiations go a little more smoothly, according to new research.
- Work and occupational
That joke isn't funny anymore
15 November 2016
Rats stop laughing when they are in dangerous situations. Sophie Scott argues that we should do the same.
- Government and politics
Dad jokes and serious issues
14 March 2023
Our Editor, Jon Sutton, introduces the April issue of The Psychologist.
- BPS updates
- Education
- Qualitative Methods
- Quantitative Methods
How to tell a joke to an ape
11 March 2024
New research finds that great apes playfully tease each other, suggesting our shared sense of humour may date back to common ancestors at least 13 million years ago.
- Social and behavioural
‘Dad jokes? That’s the way eye roll…’
14 March 2023
Marc Hye-Knudsen on the pedagogical value of a much-maligned art form.
- Language and communication
- Social and behavioural
Immature jokes: what kids’ humour can tell us about their ability to empathise
23 September 2021
There’s nothing less funny than explaining a joke. But analysing humour can actually tell us a lot about the development of sympathy and empathy in children.
- Developmental
- Social and behavioural
How many psychologists does it take... to explain a joke?
05 April 2013
Christian Jarrett investigates the psychology of humour and comedy.
- Cognition and perception
- Social and behavioural
Locating the "sweet spot" when jokes about tragedy are seen as funny
21 January 2014
Photo: Damage wreaked by Hurricane Sandy at Bay Head, New Jersey. Image: Skrum / Getty Images.
- Emotion
- Social and behavioural
Joking robots and intelligent apes: the week’s best psychology links
04 October 2019
Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web.
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BJEP Monograph Series II: Part 7 Understanding Number Development and Difficulties
Date of Publication: 01-01-2010
Author(s): Lieven Verschaffel, Joke Torbeyns, Bert De Smedt, Greet Peters, Pol Ghesquière
View BJEP Monograph Series II: Part 7 Understanding Number Development and DifficultiesStrategy flexibility in children with low achievement in mathematics
Series: Educational and Child Psychology Volume: 24 Issue: 2
Date of Publication: 01-01-2007
Author(s): Lieven Verschaffel, Joke Torbeyns, Bert De Smedt, Koen Luwel, Wim Van Dooren
View Strategy flexibility in children with low achievement in mathematicsSexual jokes and conversations at the workplace and their relation to employee well-being: Results from a longitudinal study
22-01-2024
- Sabine Hommelhoff
- David Richter
- Susanne Scheibe
How children tell a lie from a joke: The role of second-order mental state attributions
01-06-1995
- Kate Sullivan
- Ellen Winner
- Natalie Hopfield
Learning from errors versus explicit instruction in preparation for a test that counts
11-01-2024
- Janet Metcalfe
- Judy Xu
- Matti Vuorre
- Robert Siegler
- Dylan Wiliam
- Robert A. Bjork
Being Sherlock Holmes: Can we sense empathy from a brief sample of behaviour?
04-11-2015
- Wenjie Wu
- Elizabeth Sheppard
- Peter Mitchell
Warmth in mother-child and father-child relationships in middle childhood
01-09-1989
- Alan Russell
- Graeme Russell
Cross-cultural verbal deception
29-06-2018
- Sharon Leal
- Aldert Vrij
- Zarah Vernham
- Gary Dalton
- Louise Jupe
- Adam Harvey
- Galit Nahari
An unusual presentation of probable dementia: Rhyming, associations, and verbal disinhibition
28-02-2014
- Gail Robinson
- Amelia Ceslis
OUTLINES OF RESEARCHES REPORTED IN THESES PRESENTED FOR HIGHER DEGREES OR DIPLOMAS
01-02-1939
- R. P. B. K. PILLAI
Behavioural coping patterns in Parkinson's patients with visual hallucinations
21-03-2013
- Jim Barnes
- Vince Connelly
- Laura Boubert
- Ksenija Maravic
‘H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, PEE! Get it? Pee!’: Siblings’ shared humour in childhood
09-01-2019
- Amy L. Paine
- Nina Howe
- Gassiaa Karajian
- Dale F. Hay
- Ganie DeHart
Interpersonal competence, social assertiveness and the development of humour
01-03-1986
- Nancy J. Bell
- Paul E. McGhee
- Nelda S. Duffey
Relationship of humour to health: A psychometric investigation
16-12-2010
- Gregory J. Boyle
- Jeanne M. Joss‐Reid
Affiliative and aggressive humour in leadership and their relationship to leader–member exchange
31-07-2014
- Alexander Pundt
- Felicia Herrmann
OUTLINES OF RESEARCHES REPORTED IN THESES PRESENTED FOR HIGHER DEGREES OR DIPLOMAS
01-06-1939
- ALEXANDER LAING
Organizational stressors, work–family interface and the role of gender in the hospital: Experiences from Turkey
28-03-2013
- Meral Turk
- Asli Davas
- Feride A. Tanik
- Anthony J. Montgomery