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      The importance of voting

      Voting will soon be opening in our elections for 2024, and I want to encourage you to make sure you have your say on two important roles on our Board of Trustees.

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      Six reasons

      The member ballot for our proposed new sections will go out in April. In this blog post Martin Seager lays out six reasons to vote for a Male Psychology Section.

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      Inviting fresh perspectives

      Following on from last month’s advert for a new Chair of the Board of Trustees, we are now in the process of recruiting the three appointed trustees into the positions that were created following the successful member vote earlier this year.

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      Elections 2024: Elected Trustee role description and election process

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      Member Network Rules

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      The existential and emotional impact of Brexit

      Today's guest blog has been provided by Professor Emmy van Deurzen.

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      Building a more democratic BPS

      When I took over as chief executive of the society one of the first promises I made was to make us a more democratic organisation which is led by its members.

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      Special Interest Group (SIG) Operating Practices

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      Meet the nominees for President-Elect 2023-24

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      Elections 2024: President-Elect role description

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      The latest on our hubs campaign

      We’ve now passed the one-year anniversary of the funding cuts for NHS Staff Mental Health and Wellbeing Hubs, and we're doing all we can to keep this issue in people’s minds.

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      BPS and Equality

      The following article has been provided by Sophie O’Reilly, Assistant Archivist and part of the society’s History of Psychology Centre.

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        • Woman embracing each other

          Rocking the vote

          06 May 2005

          With young people increasingly less likely to vote than previous generations, can the 'Rock the Vote' debate entice them back to the polling booths?

          • Ethics and morality

        • Coaching psychology vote

          11 May 2021

          The current special group chair writes on the vote to form a Division.

          • BPS updates
          • Coaching
        • Hand dropping a ballot into a ballot box

          The psychology of voting, digested

          14 April 2015

          There’s evidence that our votes are frequently influenced by more superficial factors, from a candidate’s looks to the weather on election day.

          • Cognition and perception
          • Social and behavioural
        • Gordon Sammut

          Voting for who we want to be

          23 April 2024

          Gordon Sammut with a social psychological perspective on why and how we vote.

          • Government and politics
          • Social and behavioural
        • Man on phone in reflection

          ‘Informed’ people more likely to vote

          06 May 2005

          With voting numbers dropping postwar are people now voting depending on their own experiences and how relevant they are to a political party.

          • Ethics and morality

        • Presidential vote

          10 May 2021

          Ella Rhodes reports.

        • The people who vote

          04 March 2021

          Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology (Princeton University Press) by Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, reviewed by Dominic Jones.

          • Government and politics
        • Hands with vote stickers

          Last chance to vote for the new BPS President-Elect

          10 March 2023

          Meet Alison Clarke, Dr Natalie Lancer, Jimmy Petruzzi and Roman Raczka, the candidates in consideration for the role, and cast your vote before 31 March.

          • BPS updates
        • Brexit graphic showing a face on the Union Jack with question marks

          In or out – how brain activity can predict your vote on Brexit

          04 October 2017

          Findings suggest people’s brain responses to statements about the EU were a more accurate predictor of they way they voted in the Brexit referendum than their stated intentions.

          • Brain
          • Government and politics

        • Your vote will modernise our member grades and governance

          14 January 2022

          Katherine Carpenter writes, in a letter to go out to members with the February issue of The Psychologist.

        • APA votes 156-1 to end psychologists' participation in interrogation

          10 August 2015

          … Yet some fall-out continues. Ella Rhodes reports.

        • Woman looking at her reflection

          You’re similar to me, so have my vote

          05 November 2007

          “These findings…further attest to the role that personal characteristics of both voters and candidates play in orienting political preference,” the researchers said.

          • Government and politics
          • Personality and self