"Racial tension, sexual harassment, masturbation with a bottle - this year's Big Brother has plunged to new depths in reality television. From self-loathing gay hairdresser Craig groping drunken geordie Anthony, to wannabe footballer's wife Saskia telling Zimbabwean nurse Makosi her Afro hairdo looked like "a fucking wig". All of which prompts the question: just what are the programme's psychologists doing?"
They're making a bit of money and getting their mugs on TV, that's what they're doing.
And with so many programmes on TV that involve psychologists there is more opportunity than ever before for professionals to engage with a huge audience. This article in The Guardian questions whether psychologists should be involved at all. 
The Guardian
How to Be Creative
If we can all be creative, why is it so hard to come up with truly original ideas?
It's because creativity is mysterious. Just ask any scientist, artist, writer or other highly creative person to explain how they come up with brilliant ideas and, if they're honest, they don't really know.
But over the decades psychologists have given ordinary participants countless tests, forms and tasks and conducted hundreds of hours of interviews. From these emerge the psychological conditions of creativity.
Not what you should do, but how you should be...
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