In this issue, I meet Professor Dame Lesley Fallowfield to hear about her work, helping those who are 'talking about sad, bad, and plain difficult things'. Talking of difficult things, illustrating ...

With the rise of fake news, many of us have become increasingly anxious about whether the information we read online is legitimate. To ameliorate this, many online news platforms and social media ...

I thoroughly enjoyed the September issue of The Psychologist and its consideration of the many ways to communicate science. I was particularly interested to read Dr Richard Stephen's theorising about ...

During Black History Month, which this year takes theme of 'Reclaiming narratives', Dr Denise Miller explores the power of stories and what schools and the higher education sector can do to help ...

Mr A is a middle-aged man who lives in residential care, sharing a group home with several other adults with an intellectual disability. He had lived with his father until he passed away and is now ...

To support the Member Network in contributing to the society's strategic plan and achieve the objectives set out by the society, and to be the 'voice' of the Member Network To assist the committee ...

There are two different strands to our research, both of which came out of collaborations with Jamie A Ward (a Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths where he is acting Head of the Department for Computing), ...

Anna is the lead psychologist for the clinical health psychology service and cancer psychology team at Great Western Hospital, Swindon, where she has worked for 15 years. She talks passionately about ...

When we are interested in cause and effect relationships (which is much of the time!) we have two options: We can simply observe the world to identify associations between X and Y, or we can randomise ...

As a child and adolescent, before I had even heard the word psychology, I satisfied my interest in people through books: Why was George a tomboy, and how are only children different to bigger families ...

When we're young, we like to think we're in control of our own social lives, particularly when it comes to who we choose to be friends with. Our parents, however, still shape the way we interact with ...

What strikes me most now, re-reading this 'scientific' argument for a 'Lesbian and Gay Psychology' (now 'Psychology of Sexualities') Section, more than a quarter of a century later, is how carefully ...