Professor Richard Bentall Writes An Open Letter To Stephen Fry
Richard Bentall writes an open letter to Stephen Fry on the BBC’s All in the mind season as a response to Fry’s support of the Biomedical approach to mental distress. Bentall is…
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Academic Awarded Prestigious Fellowship
Joining some of the leading names in science and psychology, Geoff Beattie, Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of…
Here’s Why You Eat More When You Drink
The work of Dr Paul Christiansen (not to be confused with Adele) gets a mention in Time Magazine. There’s a reason you’re snacking so much after cocktails… Snacking after drinking is…
What Happens When A Narcissistic Female Is Told “No”?
Summary: A new study by Victoria Blinkhorn, Minna Lyons, and Louise Almond, at the University of Liverpool, suggests that narcissistic women are just as likely as narcissistic men to engage in serious and…
Memory Loss And Psychosis
As disabling as its delusions and hallucinations, psychosis’ devastating toll on memory arises from dysfunction of frontal and temporal lobe regions in the brain that rob sufferers of the ability to make…
Alice Wearn: Women And Weight
I’m not one to be stereotypical; however, I have to admit that more often than not when you walk into a commercial gym, you will see the same thing… males…
University Of Liverpool’s Improbable Ig Noble Winner: Dr Minna Lyons
Minna Lyons, University of Liverpool wins an Ig Noble award for a study that suggested that people who are higher in the Dark Triad traits of Machiavellianism and secondary psychopathy…
Ig Noble winner Minna Lyons: Interview
ergio A. Silverio is a Third Year student who has settled into Liverpool life well over the course of his degree. Whilst spending time both here and in our partner…
Prof Peter Kinderman Takes Chlorpromazine
Since early childhood, I have lived with people who take powerful psychiatric medication and for many years in my professional life as a clinical psychologist I have worked with people…
Peter Kinderman In Paris
From time to time we hear about scientists who conduct experiments that generate a lot of excitement. It is perhaps unsurprising though that their research is often perceived as being…