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Ben Ambridge

Ben Ambridge is Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester and the ESRC International Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LuCiD). He is the author of three popular-psychology books, Psy-Q: You Know Your IQ – Now Test Your Psychological Intelligence, Are You Smarter Than a Chimpanzee? and The Stories of Your Life: The Eight Masterplots that Explain Human Behaviour. To find out more about Ben’s writing and research, please visit www.benambridge.com or follow him on Bluesky: @ambridge.bsky.social.

Fear of Ebola

Psy-Q: The Psychology Behind Our Fear of Ebola

Welcome to the first of a new weekly column, Psy-Q, which delves into the JSTOR archives to give ...