Palgrave Psychology

We're delighted that our new OA book The Psychology Of Economic Inequality by Jim Orford is out now. This book interrogates psychology’s contributions to our understanding of one of the major threats to societies worldwide, and is available for free here: shorturl.at/QouY8

This study establishes how aperiodic activity develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory. @cross_zachariah @NUFeinbergMed @NorthwesternU nature.com/articles/s4156…

'Understanding Laughter and Humor' puts forward a revolutionary and comprehensive theoretical approach to understanding laughter and the humor we use to inspire it. bit.ly/4koFa9C

"An inspiration to aspiring psychologists and will be an asset to trainee cyberpsychologists pursuing research interests in this fascinating field of cyberpsychology" - a new review of @LindaKKaye's book The Psychology of Emoji Processing out in Psychology Teaching Review 👏

We're excited to announce that we'll be attending @BPSCyberPsych in Birmingham this week! If you'd like to speak about publishing with us - particularly in our highly-cited Cyberpsychology series - then do please comment below or drop us a message! #CYBER25✨

Using Positive Psychology Interventions to Promote Well-Being Among Students in Higher-Education Institutions is out now! This book contributes to research into the adoption of holistic perspectives to boost well-being and mental health of students shorturl.at/ZTJiZ

Understanding Laughter & Humor by John Simon and Jennalee Donian is out now! This book details a revolutionary theoretical approach to understanding laughter and humor, applying an evolutionary and biological lens to appreciate these complex behaviors shorturl.at/OgmR3

We're pleased to announce that our new title Buddhism and Psychiatry by Brendan Kelly is out now! This Open Access book explores the emergence of mindfulness from Buddhist tradition and its incorporation into contemporary mental health and social care shorturl.at/hVkz3

Hello #ECP2025👋 We're excited to be attending the 19th European Congress of Psychology 2025 in Cyprus this week! You can find our stand in the Exhibition Foyer for the next 3 days, come by to talk about publishing with us and to collect discounts on some our best new titles📖

'Posthumanism Meets Surveillance Capitalism' demonstrates that two major streams of posthuman thought—namely, accelerationism and Prometheanism—can be interpreted as attempts to liberate our desires from our reason or our rationality from our all-too-human desire.…

FREE BOOK giveaway at the Palgrave booth @EAWOP 2025 from *now* Take any unreserved book and/or pick up your reserved copies with a label in! Thanks so much for having us #EAWOP 2025!

📚 Attending @EAWOP 2024 in Prague? Working on a book idea? Whether you're totally new to publishing or ready for your next project - book a time to talk: 👇 🔗 bit.ly/4k8v8KK 📧 [email protected] #EAWOP2025 #WorkPsych #OrgPsych #CallForAuthors

📘 Just published! Traumatic Neurosis Revisited: Drive-jouissance and the Wounds of Life by Leslie Chapman A bold rethinking of trauma through Freud, Lacan, and Laplanche. Essential reading for psychoanalysis and philosophy scholars. 🔗 bit.ly/4djGSr6 #Lacan

The Global Solution to AI by Robert Samuels is out now! This book suggests how we can counter the worst consequences of AI by understanding the roots of morality and reason, and details misunderstandings around the differences between humans and computers shorturl.at/HjbJl

Building Creative Therapeutic Relationships with Children & Young People by Jim Wilson is out now! This textbook details core systemic ideas, methods and skills useful for building relationships with children and young people in family/systemic therapy shorturl.at/A9T1j

A Brief Excursion Into Human Cognition by Hans Kankam is out! This book explores human cognition, revealing how disciplines such as neuroscience, linguistics, anthropology, the social sciences and behavioral economics shape our understanding of it shorturl.at/jsIv6

We're excited to announce that we'll be back at APS 2025 in Washington next month! Find out more about who'll be in attendance and check out our book selection here: springernature.com/events/apspsyc…

The Machine Penalty: The Consequences of Seeing Artificial Intelligence As Less Than Human by Daniel B Shank is out now! Bringing together diverse research, this book explores the ways in which comparing AI to humans leads to us diminish AI outcomes shorturl.at/nW4OL

We're pleased to announce that the second edition of our highly cited and impactful collection Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology by @BrendanGough7 is out today! shorturl.at/M8bTk