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International panel Vaughan Bell, Uta Frith, Alex Haslam, Elizabeth Loftus, Asifa Majid the psychologist vol 29 no 6 june 2016 the issue ...debates As the 2015–2016 football season got under way, the football fans letters 412 among us here at the Leicester- new Society President stirs debate; impact; faith and therapy; welfare fund; based British Psychological Society boarding school; obituaries; President’s Letter; and more were not optimistic about our local club’s chances. Having narrowly ...digests avoided relegation the owners had turned to Claudio Ranieri as deradicalisation, the ‘mental abacus’ technique, effective leadership, and more, manager, an appointment widely in the latest from our free Research Digest (see www.bps.org.uk/digest) 430 greeted as ‘uninspired’ and a ‘huge punt’. The bookies duly installed ...meets them as a 5000–1 shot for the title. Even if you hate football, you may interview 458 be aware of what happened next. 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I just have a few questions to put to the new When I mentioned that psychology has had negative effects President, Peter Kinderman, having read his ‘One on One’ article on people, I was thinking of instances when psychology is in the May issue. brought into criminal proceedings; where advocates for the I gathered from the article that you believe that psychology prosecution and the defence each present psychological research should take a more active approach in influencing social issues to achieve their own goals. Often this research is twisted or and policy; but what would you consider going too far? While exaggerated, and sometimes (when examined from a psychology has undoubtedly had many positive influences on commonsense standpoint) it has no bearing on the issue at all. society, it can’t be denied that it also complicates many issues How much influence do you believe psychology should have and has had very negative effects both on specific individuals when people’s lives lie in the balance? and on wider society. Are you concerned that by brining psychology into a position Psychology is the study of human nature, and human where it can have real influence over people on a wide scale, that nature is always subjective. Who can say that what is popularly psychology will experience the same change that the Catholic believed now will not change in a 10 years’ time; and if Church had on medieval England? An institution which psychologists play a large part in enforcing a way of thinking originally had its own interests and doctrines quickly grew in that is no longer valid (or perceived as valid) further down the power and influence and held sway over many people’s lives; line, would psychology then be doing more harm than good? resulting in grievous instances of corruption and hypocrisy that You said in your article that our thinking is constrained by our had profound effects on the ways people thought and behaved.