The bi-annual BPS International Conference Symposium Scheme is now open for applications. Anyone from a BPS member network (this includes branches, faculties and sections) can apply for a grant from ...

BPS Ambassador, Jack Wood, shares his experience and motivations behind joining the BPS student ambassador programme.

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 ...

This year, around 1.5 million older people will be spending Christmas day alone. This stark finding comes from research carried out by Age UK as part of their campaign, 'A crisis hiding in plain sight ...

Models of social cognition generally portray people as being rational decision-makers, who will often weigh up options before deciding how to act, note the authors of a recent paper in Psychology and ...

Overconfidence has been dubbed "the most significant of the cognitive biases", with research suggesting that it contributes to poor decisions in fields as diverse as medicine, financial investing, ...

With the professional football season now well underway, improved mental health support for released academy footballers is needed now more than ever, according to the British Psychological Society ...

We are a remarkably cooperative species (at least, on the whole), capable of working together to everybody's benefit. Research into the cognitive and emotional underpinnings of this has pointed to ...