The 2026 Social Psychology Section Annual Conference will take place from 08 - 09 September 2026 at the BPS London Offices.

This one day online event aims to raise and discuss methodological and ethical issues involved in working with secondary data from social media and public datasets.

Drawing on theories, concepts and empirical evidence from the fields of human geography, social and environmental psychology, this paper argues for space-based interventions as new psychological inte....

Chartered Psychologist Dr Darren O'Reilly on the ‘cost of coping’.

Decades of research has demonstrated that people look to those around them for behavioural cues in novel or uncertain situations, including emergencies. One such context in which the role of social in...

The final instalment of this series, gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field. Time may be subject to change.

The second in a three part event series from the Social Psychology Section, gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field.

Dr Selin Tekin reflects on the first event in the Rising Together series, hosted by the BPS Social Psychology Section.

Across a range of recent terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, the question of how crowds behave in confined public space is an important concern. Classical theoretical assumptions are that human ...

The second in a three part event series from the Social Psychology Section, gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field.

The first in a three part event series from the Social Psychology Section gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field.

The first in a three part event series from the Social Psychology Section gathering emergency practitioners and researchers in the social psychology field.

Today (31 st  December 2019) I step down from being editor of the  British Journal of Social Psychology  (BJSP), a post I have occupied for...