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Never go shopping hungry. Your willpower is sorely depleted, and you stand a good chance of ending up with bags full of impulse buys and a trolley full of treats. That's the implication of research covered in typically fine style by Roy Baumeister in this issue (p.112).
According to Baumeister, psychologists are bringing back the notion of willpower as a limited supply of energy that is used for control and self-discipline. Read on to discover how 'the moral muscle' is implicated in everything from judges' parole decisions to premenstrual syndrome.
I hope you are finding the 2012 additions to The Psychologist engaging and informative. Some welcome and positive feedback on the January issue was directed @psychmag and @jonmsutton in recent weeks. The Psychologist and Digest Policy Committee and I very much want and need this guidance in order to plot our course. We continue to do all in our power to keep everything shipshape, and we need all hands on deck as we set sail for exciting and uncharted waters. Nothing, not even painfully stretched metaphors, can sink us.
Dr Jon Sutton
Managing Editor
Contents
Self-control - the moral muscle
Roy Baumeister on willpower and ego depletion
Evolving an identifiable face of a criminal
Charlie Frowd, Faye C. Skelton, Chris Atherton and Peter J.B. Hancock
A new kind of language
Paul Ibbotson discusses an emerging radical view of language acquisition
Great expectations
Jo Green talks to Jon Sutton about birth and more
Methods: Can we be confident in our statistics?
Thom Baguley on the difference between statistically significant and non-significant effects
Letters
A-level; e-professionalism; test copyright; horror; obituaries; and more
News and digest
New year honours; neuroscience and the law; dementia audit; polygraph trial; and nuggets from the Society's free Research Digest service
Media
The Leveson enquiry with Mark Sergeant, plus the best of the web in our expanded section
Book reviews
Understanding madness; music cognition; social development; marriage and family therapy; and more
Society
President's column; Lifetime Achievement Award; POSTnote; media training; Leveson Inquiry; out now in BPS journals; and more
Careers and psychologist appointments
We meet counselling psychologist Michael Sinclair and educational psychologist Julia Busch Hansen; featured job; latest vacancies, in print and online
New voices
The neurological and anecdotal evidence to suggest we really can feel others' pain, from Claire Allely in the latest in our series for budding writers
Looking back
The history of the idiographic/nomothetic debate, with Oliver Robinson
One on one
...with Barbara Wilson
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