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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.
"AI offers many benefits to society, but it should not replace the human support essential to mental health care. Instead, tools like chatbots should be used to complement existing services which help ...
The BPS is delighted to announce that Dr Abigail Fiske is the winner of the Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology 2024.
For the fourth year, the BPS will march in Pride in London in support of equality, diversity and inclusion. This year the theme of BPS participation is Unity, and the society is asking parade ...
The British Psychological Society (BPS) has welcomed a new mental health and wellbeing strategy centred on early intervention and prevention.
Responding to the UK Supreme Court judgment on women and sex in the case of For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers, Dr Roman Raczka, BPS President, said: We acknowledge the Supreme Court's ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...