Chernobyl’s liquidators have come up with some intriguing ways of dealing with what they’ve gone through – without directly confronting painful memories.
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Smartphones, tablets and computers are increasingly expanding the availability of health services. This means we can access help anonymous at a time and place that suits us.
Are you a rigid librarian or an eccentric poet? How you see yourself may enhance your creative performance.
Research regularly shows when people try to do two things at once, they tend to do both tasks more poorly than if they’d only attempted one at a time.
What makes cults so attractive to their followers?
A new journal article has proposed that women changing their surname acts as a signal of fidelity to their husbands.
The new TV show You’re Back in the Room would have us believe a powerful hypnotist can make us do whatever he says. This is inconsistent with over 200 years of evidence from the science of hypnosis.
Could the future of pain relief be all about virtual reality games and clinics designed to promote certain sounds and colours?
Pretty much all of our perception is an illusion, whether we’re walking down the street or attempting to decode the latest card trick.
After a selfie-snapping man was mauled to death by a bear, a psychologist wonders why people feel so compelled to capture and share images of themselves.
Family members share both genetics and environment to a greater extent than people in general. And this has implications for counterterrorism approaches.
People lose their memory in many different ways. A neuropsychologist explains the lingo.
When it comes to forming relationships it turns out opposites certainly don’t attract, that love is blind and we tend to love our neighbours.
Magic plumbs the same questions philosophers have been asking for millennia.
It is a ‘modern epidemic’ – but when does healthy self-confidence become a dangerous case of me, me, me?
Hans J. Eysenck’s views on genes and intelligence were considered controversial at the time. But do recent studies vindicate the man?
Employees who admitted to being emotionally manipulative in a survey may also be perceived as being emotionally intelligent in their workplaces, a study has found.
Research shows hand gestures used in the right way can help implant false memories, with serious implications for police interviews.
Testosterone fuels risk-taking behaviour – new research shows this leads to bigger wins for men but also much bigger losses.
They may offer a cloak of anonymity, but you can peep behind the veil and learn a little about who’s at the controls.
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, Monmouth University
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Cornelia H. Dudley Professor of Psychology, Knox College
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Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology, Trinity College Dublin
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University
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Chair of Cognitive Psychology, University of Bristol
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Professor of the Psychology of Time, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Social Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
