Don’t you know who I am? The Psychology of Facial Recognition
How is it possible not to recognise people you know? Perhaps the question should be how are we able to recognise anyone at all?
Month: June 2020
Book Review: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
Though it’s been 20 years since The Tipping Point was first published, it’s still a great read – relevant and topical. Malcolm Gladwell is a […]
Is Depression a Disability? Beck’s Negative Triad and Depression Causes
Is depression a mental illness or is depression a disability? Is there a difference between the two? What is depression anyway?
The Psychology of Shopping: why can’t we resist the shops?
What makes going shopping so compelling, and why are people so enthusiastic to get back to the high street after so many months of only shopping online?
Book Review: The Refusal of Work by David Frayne
At £16.99 – and the most expensive book I’ve read this year – David Frayne’s Refusal of Work presents an enevitably ironic manifesto for freeing […]
How to get your work published: Five responses from journal editors
Every researcher wants to publish their research. So how do you do it, and what response could you receive?
PsyZine – Issue 2
This issue of PsyZine was published on 12 June 2020 Staying Positive Recently I’ve been getting into podcasts. It started with the accidental discovery that […]
Interview: Dr Colin Ellard
Colin Ellard is Director of The Urban Realities Lab at the University of Waterloo and author of You Are Here and Places of the Heart. […]
Is Positive Psychology Hippy Dippy Doo Da?
Martin Seligman, the founder of Positive Psychology, says it isn’t “happyology”. So what is it?
Book Review: Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
This book has absolutely nothing to do with subliminal messaging! I thought that would be quite important to clear up right away. There’s actually a […]