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 ...

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 ...