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THE PSYCHOLOGIST Is the Official Monthly Bulletin of the British Psychological Society The British THE PSYCHOLOGIST is the official monthly Bulletin of The British Psychological Society. It will publish official statements on behalf of the Psychological Society when appropriate, and from time to time. Society It will also provide a forum for discussion and controversy among The British Psychological Society was members of the Society. As a consequence, views expressed in any founded in 1901, and incorporated by section of this journal which are signed by the writer are the views Royal Charter in 1965. Its principal exclusively of that writer: publication in this journal does not constitute objects are "to promote the endorsement by the Society of the views so expressed. This is in no way advancement and diffusion of a affected by the right reserved by the Managing Edttor to edit all copy knowledge of psychology pure and published. applied and especially to promote the Equally, publication of advertisements in THE PSYCHOLOGIST is not efficiency and usefulness of Members of an endorsement of the advertiser nor of the products and services the Society by setting up a high standard advertised. Advertisers may not incorporate in a subsequent of professional education and advertisement or promotional piece the fact that a product or service has knowledge; to maintain a Code of been advertised in THE PSYCHOLOGIST. The Society reserves the right Conduct for the guidance of Members to cancel or reject any advertisement without notice. and Contributors, and to compel the observance of strict rules of professional conduct as a condition of membership; Information for Contributors to maintain ... a Register of Chartered The Managing Editor welcomes Psychologists". • News of Members (Extract from The Charter). • Reports from Divisions, Sections, Branches and Special Groups of the Society Officers of The Society • Brief reports of research recently published which would be of interest to psychologists in other fields (200- 400 words) President: Professor Anthony Gale • Feature articles of general interest to psychologists, up to a maximum of 2,000 words. These should be written as for an intelligent, educated but President Elect: non-specialist audience, shared knowledge of theory should not be assumed, Professor Peter E. Morris and references kept to a minimum. 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The Psychologist Incorporating The Bulletin of The British Psychological Society Vol. 2 No. 11 November 1989 Published by Features The British Psychological Society, Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Psychologist St Andrews House, John Raven explains why psychology should replace economics 456 48, Princess Road East, in policy development Leicester LE 1 ?DR. Psychological Safety in Student-centred Learning Telephone: 0533-549568. • Beatrice Heywood-Taylor looks at the relationship between stu­ 473 ~"---------~ dent and teacher Managin~ Editor: Reminiscences of a Wartime Army Psychologist Elizabeth apston~-~ Edgar Anstey reflects on his experiences 475 -------~~. Honorary Editors: Glynis Breakwell, Academic Department of Psychology, A Critique of the Evaluation of the "Child Development University of Surrey, Programme" (Barker and Anderson 1966) Guildford, Jim Stevenson 460 Surrey GU2 5XH. Tel: 0483 571281 Response to Critique of the CDP's Evaluation Document 9 Graham Davey, Walter Barker and Richard Anderson 463 Department of Social Science & Humanities, City Universtty, Research in Brief 467 London EC1V OHB. Conference Reports 469 Tel: 01 253 4399 News 471 Assistant Editors: Media Watch 472 Art: Les Prince Books Received 479 Books: Chris Fife-Schaw Computer Column: Tony Gillie Letters 467 Conference Reports: Computer Column 492 Marcia Kelson Interviews: Celia Kitzinger Research in Brief: Geoff Lowe Society Special Features: Round the Board Room Tables Andrew Stevens Colin Newman reports on a meeting of the Professional Affairs 494 Board Editor/al Sub-Committee: Dates of Meetings 494 Mary Boyle Ann Colley News of Members 497 Lynda Phillimore Announcements 495 Maryon Tysoe Jenny West Advertisers' Announcements 498 Diary 502 Book Review Consultants: Michael Billig The lighter Side Cary Cooper A Balance Sheet on Bathing Judith Greene John Morton Nicky Hayes reports on recent research 504 Mark Williams Illustrations Cover and Democracy, Bureaucracy and the Psychologist (p.458) - Sigismund Rhomboid dvertising: Psychological Safety in Student-centred Learning (p.473) - David Wilcox G. Scott, , Portrait of Edgar Anstey (p.475) - Rosalind Eastman 30-32 So ampton Street, London C2E ?HR. Contributors are reminded that copyright for all material published in The Psycho­ Tel: 01-la40 2032 logist resides with The British Psychological Society unless otherwise specifically Tele~ 299181 stated. It is a condition of acceptance of all feature articles that they are not of­ Fa;/61-37\?155. fered elsewhere, and that first serial rights are available to the Society unless clearly stated otherwise. Material published by the Society may be offered else­ where by the author, but only after publication in The Psychologist and only on / \ condition notice of this prior publication is included with any subsequent publica­ tion elsewhere: wording is given on the inside front cover. DEMOCRACY ·I AND 6 THE PSYCHOLOGIST Citizens have the utmost difficulty in in­ fluencing the way the two thirds of their Why psychology should replace "income" devoted to taxation is ultimate­ ly spent. The extent of these changes is not generally recognised. In all EEC coun· economics as the key discipline tries, approximately 45 per cent of GNP is spent directly by governments. This does not include local authority expendi­ in poiicy development ture or expenditure by the nationalised industries. When this is added on, the Public servants and politicians should be gulclecl by psychological figure comes to some 65 per cent. This still does not include the effects of legis· considerations, rather than economic ones, John Raven argues. Only lation requiring firms to install such when the Insights available through psychological research are things as safety and pollution-control applied to public policy can we ensure that public servants and equipment or motorists to insure their politicians act in the public Interest. cars. Nor does it include grant and levy legislation which is designed to ensure that people spend much of their "own" n writing the best case for social re­ the past 40 years, dramatic changes money in ways deemed appropriate by search that has ever been published, have come about in the way in which government. When these are added, IRothschild (1982) argued that social society is organised. We now live in the total comes to some 75 per cent. scientists had not laid claim to the major what is essentially a managed world One can argue about the figure of 75 role
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