| Level | File |
| Ref No | BPS/001/11/03/01/34/04 |
| Title | BPS Press Releases April 2016 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Description | 13 April 2016: BPS Award for researcher in developmental psychopathology
13 April 2016: Disability assessors must be properly trained says British Psychological Society after Channel 4 Dispatches programme
15 April 2016: Expert in social perception wins Spearman Medal
14 April 2016: British Psychological Society BPS response to BBC Wales’s report that found patients can wait several years for some specialist mental health treatments.
20 April 2016: Use of positive memories to treat mental health problems
21 April Liverpool Professor is the new President of the British Psychological Society. Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool, is the new President of the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Annual Conference 2016:
General Release: The British Psychological Society Annual Conference, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham 26 –28 April 2018
26 April 2016 Women need more mental health problems to manifest before receiving an autism diagnosis
26 April 2016 Sensitive people more vulnerable to online dating scams
27 April 2016 Listening to the radio could impair drivers’ concentration
27 April 2016 How Jeremy Corbyn has changed Prime Minister’s Questions. Jeremy Corbyn’s tactic of asking questions sourced from members of the public has had some effect in making Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) less adversarial, so influencing the style of political debate. That is the conclusion of research being presented to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society today (Thursday 28 April 2016), by Dr Peter Bull (University of York) as part of a symposium on political psychology.
27 April 2016 British Psychological Society 2016 Awards ceremony
27 April 2016 Bored people reach for the crisps
27 April 2016 Peppermint tea can help improve your memory
27 April 2016 Rosemary aroma can help older adults to remember to do things
27 April 2016 The social dilemma of dealing with Facebook troublemakers
27 April 2016: REACTIVE STATEMENT to Running a Daily Mile: “The results presented at the British Psychological Society Annual Conference are preliminary and based on a small sample size. They are not the definitive findings of the research project into the Daily Mile and its impact on school children, nor should they be portrayed as such. The full report will be available later this year.”
28 April 2016 Increased curiosity is the ‘silver lining’ of a quarterlife and midlife crisis
28 April 2016 Parents and social media: Do as I say, not as I do. Two-thirds of parents fear social media is bad for their child, yet they use it extensively themselves.
28 April 2016 Beauty companies should focus on older women’s desire to look good, not young
Thursday 28 April What happens to MPs who lose their seats? If you are a politician then losing your seat is dislocating and may be bad for your health.
28 April 2016 Paranormal beliefs can increase number of déjà vu experiences
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