BPS Ambassador, Jack Wood, shares his experience and motivations behind joining the BPS student ambassador programme.

The guidance is being presented at the BPS's Division of Educational and Child Psychology's conference in Bath ...

The most-read journal articles of 2025 include those on emotional eating, procrastination and links between screentime and depression.

BPS Academic Publishing Manager, Rachel Sangster, shares her publishing highlights from the past year, and what should be top of members’ to-read piles in 2026.

Bamberg and Moreau also note that prior fasting experience may matter, too. Initial evidence suggests that people who have just started fasting experience more negative psychological states than ...

Recipients in the New Year Honours List have been recognised for their outstanding contributions across all parts of the UK for their work in areas including education and healthcare, and for services ...

We are a remarkably cooperative species (at least, on the whole), capable of working together to everybody's benefit. Research into the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of this has pointed to ...

Though low mood is the best-known symptom of depression, indecisiveness and biased thinking are also common. But these problems, which can lead to delays in making important choices — and being more ...

Are women more talkative than men? It's a common assumption, note the authors of a recent study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. A prominent study from 2007, however, reached a ...

According to a well-known proverb, patience is a virtue. According to a recent study in the Personality and Social Psychology Review, though, it's actually a coping mechanism that we employ to stop ...

No holiday can last forever — but their positive effects might last longer than we thought. New research, published recently in the Journal of Applied Psychology, challenges previous ideas about how ...

The first time I stepped onto a film set in Türkiye as a psychologist and child protector, I knew I was entering a world vastly different from the clinical settings I was used to. I quickly realised ...