The new findings, published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, revealed a strong link between children’s mood and how often their thoughts wander.

The William Inman Prize 2025 will award £2,500 to a researcher specialising in psychosomatic ophthalmology or psychological factors in physical conditions.

The BPS says that politicians should come from the widest variety of backgrounds possible to improve public trust.

Jessica Deighton, Director of Applied Research and Evaluation at Anna Freud – a mental health charity for children and young people – and Professor in Child Mental Health and Wellbeing at the UCL ...

Let's say you and a friend have plans to go out to dinner. You want to try a local Indian restaurant, while your friend prefers the idea of Italian. What fairer way could there be to settle this than ...

The Mental Capacity Advisory Group (MCAG) has recently released two important documents aimed at supporting psychologists in assessing mental capacity: one on testamentary capacity (capacity to make a ...

More than 50 years after his death, claims of fraud, malfeasance and eugenic ideology against former British Psychological Society president Sir Cyril Burt continue to divide the profession. In 1980, ...

My time in the Royal Marines and later as a police officer gave me a front-row seat to the psychological toll that high-stress roles can have – not just on individuals, but on their families and teams ...

We have all had some experience of being 'educated' in school. That our unique experiences of 'education' will be different will be due in part to the ethos of the schools we attended. In light of ...

Joanne, you're a Professor of Applied Digital and Behavioural Psychology. Can you tell us a little more about your research interests? Sure. It encompasses several strands, but the core of it tends to ...