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If you expect a lecture to be boring, you’ll probably end up feeling more bored

In a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy, merely anticipating that a lecture would be boring led students to feel more bored in a recent study.

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Can you feel it the way I do?

Kate Johnstone, Associate Editor for Culture for The Psychologist reviews ABBA's Abba Voyage concert.

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'Ethics is more than just a process'

Ella Rhodes speaks with Dr Roz Collings, who recently took up the helm of the British Psychological Society’s Ethics Committee.

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    We consider the history of Psychology, and the psychology of history.

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More gardener than goddess

Viewing new motherhood through the lens of ‘matrescence’ – a body-mind process akin to the adolescence – can help support new mums

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