Psychology myths

12 articles

Feeling Barmy in a BANI World?

  • Cynthia Johnson

Feeling out of sorts? A bit anxious? You may be experiencing the BANI world. BANI is a model to explain the confusion and anxiety in response to global conditions.

Taking a Chance

  • Derek Roger

Evolution is often thought to be a process of trial and error. In fact, it’s the other way round: evolution proceeds by error and trial.

Great Expectations

  • Derek Roger

We often hope that things will get better, or at least, not worse. Better or worse actually means better or worse 'for me.'

Something Mything

  • Derek Roger

​The field of stress and stress management has more myths than the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome together.

Why do we do it?

  • Derek Roger

Why do we ruminate?

Me First!

  • Derek Roger

There have been many references over the past few years to managers being narcissistic or even psychopathic.

It's not black and white!

  • Derek Roger

We emphasise that there is no 'good stress', and that all that stress offers is a life that may be shorter and will definitely be more miserable.

Where's TED?

  • Derek Roger

A recent TED talk by Kelly McGonigal was an opportunity to demonstrate that the earth is not after all flat.

Resilience: Inoculation Against Stress

  • Derek Roger

The research programme that underpins the Challenge of Change Resilience programme was based on the fundamental question in science – what's wrong?

Psycholimitations

  • Derek Roger

Many models have been proposed to try to define and explain stress, but a common feature is a reliance on capacity.

Another day, another myth

  • Derek Roger

During the 1950s and 60s two US Naval surgeons noticed a relationship between the number of things that had happened to people and their tendency to become ill.

Dangerous Myths

  • Derek Roger

The NZ Herald recently carried an article claiming that “showing your anger rather than repressing emotions is the key to a successful life at home and at work”.