 | ContentsThe issueAs anyone with kids of a certain age will tell you, naturalist and TV presenter Steve Backshall is a tough guy. Perhaps this is what makes his reaction to being stung by hundreds of... |
The Psychologist
The Psychologist is the Society's monthly publication. With its readership over 47,000, it provides a forum for communication, discussion and debate on a wide range of psychological topics.
 | EditorialThe menopausal woman may not be 'an unstable oestrogen starved' woman responsible for 'untold misery' as sixties gynaecologist Robert Wilson would have had us believe. But viewed... |
 | EditorialI edited this month's cover article around the time my kids were badgering me to get a dog (or doggedly requesting a badger... I wasn't really listening). On p.172, Deborah Wells certainly makes a... |
 | Editorial'I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin', said Joan of Arc. Unfortunately most of us are rather less pious, and the Seven Deadly Sins colour our lives. The red mist descends, we... |
 | EditorialAntarctica: as Ron Roberts writes in this issue, a place where 'the transcendent coexists with the tragic, a juxtaposition of beauty and threatening natural power'. The transcendent and tragic, beauty... |
 | Produced by The Psychologist and the British Psychological Society in association with the Experimental Psychology Society and the Higher Education Academy Psychology Network, this poster would grace any classroom,... |
 | EditorialA former pupil of William James, the philosopher George Santayana, once said: 'those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'. As someone fully immersed in the history of psychology I... |
 | Editorial'Daddy,' said my six-year-old son on the day I finished interviewing Cordelia Fine, 'Did you know that boys go to college to get more knowledge, and girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider?' I chuckled... |
 | EditorialGolf: 'a good walk spoiled' (Mark Twain), or 'an interesting sport from a psychological perspective' (Jones and Lavallee, p.806)? Having tried it a couple of times, I would perhaps describe it as '... |
 | EditorialA special welcome to the thousands of psychology students receiving this issue free, in print and online. I hope it will serve as a great introduction to the discipline and the Society, and that you... |
