Archive

June 2019
Big data in the big city
Catherine Lido on using novel technology to explore inclusion in Learning Cities.
‘Issues around sex and young people are changing’
Dr Roberta Babb is a Highly Specialised Clinical Psychologist, Forensic Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Organisational Consultant. Recently, she was an expert on the BBC Three programme ‘Sex on the Couch’. Debbie Gordon (Assistant to the Managing Editor) asked her about her work and the series.
'There are wolves in the forest…'
Ahead of his appearance for us at this summer’s event, Professor Andrew Przybylski (Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute) picks three myths around screen time – and how science, and some common sense, can help.
The Rocky Horror Pixel Show
Where in the brain is creativity? Arne Dietrich ponders whether we’re asking the right questions.
The anatomy of online grief
An exclusive chapter from 'All the Ghosts in the Machine: Illusions of Immortality in the Digital Age', by Elaine Kasket (courtesy of Robinson).
Notes from a weather observer
Trevor Harley on the effects of weather and climate on personality and behaviour.
‘The World Cup demonstrated what changes when people feel differently’
Pete Olusoga (Sheffield Hallam University) meets Dr Pippa Grange, the sports psychologist with the England men’s team at last summer’s event.
Why are life events troubling?
Ruth Spence, Lisa Kagan and Antonia Bifulco find it’s not a straightforward question…
‘You don’t have to stay within the barriers’
Ian Florance interviews Nick Perham, Senior Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
‘Can I sympathise with mothers who have hurt their children?’
Lauren Mountain never imagined this would be one of the first groups she worked with as an assistant psychologist…

May 2019
How do we ‘other’?
Peter Hegarty on asymmetries of reasoning for lay and professional psychologists alike.

April 2019
Experiencing the impossible
Gustav Kuhn considers the science of magic, and what it reveals about the human mind.

March 2019
Why do we need psychology? And what does psychology need?
The winning entries in our first 'Voices In Psychology' programme.

February 2019
The new hidden persuaders?
Ella Rhodes considers whether shadowy influencers are really pulling our strings.

January 2019
More than a gut feeling
John F. Cryan addressed the annual conference of the British Psychological Society’s Psychobiology Section.

