Summer Spending Spree! How Summer Burns A Hole In Your Pocket
Research conducted in Israel shows that the temperature is directly related to the number of purchases made on a popular Israeli e-commerce site.
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Emotions for Hire – The Emotion Economy
About a third of the UK workforce works in a customer service role. Up to three quarters of us service customers in one way or […]
Book Review: Places of the Heart by Colin Ellard
You know a book was worth reading when you finish with four pages stuffed full of notes. That was exactly the case for me when […]
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?
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 […]
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 […]
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?