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

We have 6 current vacancies on our committee.

We’re living in a time of multiple, distinct yet overlapping crises and threats. Our journalist, Ella Rhodes, asks if psychology can help us to find a way to understand our strange new world and foste...

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

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

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

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

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

Although allyship has the potential to foster inclusivity and bring about social change, its consequences have received too little attention in the literature. In the current contribution, we aim to ....

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.

The wave of riots in England in summer 2024 were followed by swift policy responses before any detailed empirical investigation had been carried out. This paper presents case studies of the disorders ...

As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge

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

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

Collective false alarms can cause significant disruption, costly emergency response, and distress. Yet an adequate psychological explanation for these incidents is lacking. We interviewed 39 particip....

Scientific Reports - A replication of Triplett’s ‘social facilitation experiment’

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

<em>British Journal of Social Psychology</em> is an international journal publishing impactful basic and applied social psychological research from all parts of the world.

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.

Some initially assumed the commotion was a Halloween prank, but soon realised something awful was unfolding