It’s happening again. After a period of welcome sanity – where those covering their faces in community settings could accurately be...

LIFE BEFORE I belong to a privileged generation. Not that I was raised in affluence; far from it. Born in 1958, to a mother who worked...

Summary Since the advent of the covid-19 era in early 2020, many countries across the world have deployed behavioural science...

The state’s strategic deployment of fear, shame and peer pressure – or ‘affect, ‘ego’ and ‘norms’ in the language of behavioural science...

The last few weeks have witnessed an outpouring of vitriolic abuse and imposition of prejudicial policies directed against a group of...

Throughout last year I, and many other psychological specialists, urged the British Psychological Society(BPS) to address our widespread...

A middle-aged woman, walking along a pavement in the afternoon sunshine, sees a young family approaching and instantly becomes stricken...

After six months of evasion and obfuscation, the British Psychological Society (BPS) has made its position clear: it sees nothing...

It is increasingly recognised that the Government’s coronavirus communications campaign has relied heavily on covert psychological...