Contents
Choosing the right tools to find the right people
Jacob B. Hirsh looks at performance prediction, an area with some of the strongest relationships in psychological research
Forum
News, media and conference: Mission to Mars; sexual orientation therapy; protecting the vulnerable;
Ceri Parsons on provocative reporting in the media; and Christian Jarrett and Jon Sutton report from the European Congress of Psychology in Oslo
Intensive interaction
Luke Jefferies looks at an approach to communication and social interaction that could be coming of age;
Cathy Harding and Ruth Berry look at the case-study evidence
Firing pea-shooters at elephants
Julian Boon and Lynsey Gozna rail against the futility of much psychological research
Eye on fiction: Dramas of existential inquiry
Mallory Wober reflects on two novels by Sebastian Faulks
Methods: Incentivised snowballing
Benjamin Gardner looks at a method for recruiting to internet-based research studies; and a new power calculator
Book reviews
The invisible smile: living without facial expression; the therapeutic relationship in the cognitive behavioural psychotherapies; and more
Society
President's column; Research Board lifetime achievement award; HPC on titles and renewal; online voting; and more
Careers
Training as an educational psychologist, and what life is like once qualified; featured job
Looking back
Is the 'cognitive revolution' a myth? Sandy Hobbs thinks the term is inaccurate and unhelpful; Jeremy Trevelyan Burman disagrees
One on one
...with Helen Haste