Psychology and psychiatry round-up
Fragmented Intimacy: Addiction in a Social World. Author Peter J. Adams. Edition First. Publisher Springer. Pages 340. Price £36.00. ISBN 9780387726601.Adams aims to transcend familiar concepts of...
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Analysing how we tick is no mean feat
Introduction to Statistics in Psychology. Authors Dennis Howitt and Duncan Cramer. Edition Fourth. Publisher Pearson Education. Pages 560. Price £27.99. ISBN 9780132051613.
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Understanding Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
Understanding Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology. Author Helen Gavin. Edition First. Publisher Sage. Pages 424. Price £65.00/£22.99. ISBN 9781412934411/4428.
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Statistics without Maths for Psychology: Using SPSS for Windows
Authors Christine Dancey and John Reid. Edition Fourth. Publisher Prentice Hall. Pages 648. Price £32.99. ISBN 9780132051606.
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Lancaster has lost its sense of proportion 1
What on earth does Lancaster University think it is doing taking measures against an academic and his department for telling a student's mother what courses he was taking ("Don't tell Mum: academic...
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Lancaster has lost its sense of proportion 2
A woman is given information about her son's course that is freely available on the web (I checked) and a person described as a "data protection officer" threatens to report the guilty professor to...
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Blurred vision
The Arts and Humanities Research Council faces an "imperative to be distinctive in our funding role", according to Philip Esler (Letters, 15 May). Postgraduate studentships in the arts and humanities...
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Can-do phenomenon
The way five metronomes synchronise over two empty drink cans, and the fact that the same principle explains how crickets sing in time ("A beat in time strikes a chord on YouTube", 15 May), is simply...
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Art of science management
The greatest damage to the community's trust in the Science and Technology Facilities Council has been self-inflicted. Its embattled chief executive's public denial of the scale of the cuts and his...
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Logic that counts
Roy Harris should practise what he preaches ("The decline of reason", 15 May).By dismissing mathematical logic as "no use to man or beast", he betrays his own misologist tendencies and falls into the...
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Smokescreen of a title
Page 18 of your last issue: "Use a positive tone: remove negative words and conditionals" ("How to craft a grant application", 15 May). Page 19: Medical Research Council grant for a project entitled...
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Rise of the secret shoppers
I teach an undergraduate course in consumer behaviour to 150 students. Last year I directed all questions regarding the exam to the Blackboard website, thinking that students would get more timely...
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Mythical questions
Simon Blackburn contemplates a number of "myths" in his article on ten modern myths ("Reality check", 24 April). I mostly agree with Blackburn, especially on the issue of "the myth of the scientist"...
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Spell it out
We all use acronyms to show we are in the in-group. But in the name of sanity, how could you write an entire article about QR without once explaining what QR stands for ("Funding council speaks up...
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Citations - a novel index
Each week as I read ߣߣÊÓƵ I am careful not to look at the back page until I have dutifully perused the rest of the magazine. Then, having treated myself to The Poppletonian, my eye...