It is almost as pointless to ask, “When did cognitive psychology start?”, as to enquire, “How long is a piece of string?” However, the year 1956 was of crucial importance. At a meeting at t…
Why do some of us fall in love quickly and some of us never quite feel we have fallen in love? The answer may lie in our past attachments: our own attitudes can be as important as meeting the ri…
For most of our adult lives, we have been studying the human mind and teaching our students what we and other psychologists have learned about it. We’ve each written articles in professional jou…
By the time this 7th edition of Psychology: The Science of Mind and Behaviour is published, it will be 28 years since the first edition appeared (and 30 years since the contract for that first edi…
It is especially exciting to be an evolutionary psychologist during this time in the history of science. Most scientists operate within long-established paradigms. Evolutionary psychology, in cont…