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 ...

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 ...

John Bowlby (1907–1990) first attained fame – some would say notoriety – in 1951, with the publication of his monograph Maternal Care and Mental Health. In it he presented evidence that maternal care ...

What is the Code of Ethics and Conduct? Under the terms of our Royal Charter, the BPS maintains a Code of Ethics and Conduct (current revision from 2009). The society's Member Conduct Rules require ...

The idea that touch, when it's wanted, can boost both physical and mental health is well-established. But the wealth of studies in this area has produced such an array of findings that it can be ...

"It is well established that religiosity correlates inversely with intelligence," note Richard Daws and Adam Hampshire at Imperial College London, in a new paper published in Frontiers in Psychology, ...

First impressions have long been a mainstay of psychological research. In the past, much of the focus has been on how particular facial features influence our perceptions of how dominant others are, ...

'Friendship is the single most important thing affecting our psychological health and wellbeing, as well as our physical health and wellbeing.' Spending time with our friends releases endorphins in ...

Many of us know that taking a photograph of something hinders rather than helps our memory of it. Linda Henkel first reported this 'photo-taking-impairment' effect back in 2014. Since then, a wealth ...

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 ...

'Manifestation' is the belief that you can attract success in life through positive self-talk and visualisation, and behaving as though you've already achieved your goals. As of May 2023, TikTok ...

In our clinical practice, we are guided by neurodiversity affirmative principles based on our understanding of the Neurodiversity Paradigm (the underlying philosophy) and Neurodiversity Movement (a ...