ABSTRACT
Think back a few years, a few decades perhaps, to when you were a high school or sixth-form student wondering what it must be like to be a psychologist. Did we all wear white lab coats and have grey beards? Did we lurk in dark recesses scribbling notes on eccentric human activity? Did we attempt to analyse strangers at parties immediately after meeting them? Whatever image you had then of psychologists and psychology is highly likely to have been influenced by what you have seen and read about them in the media. How much has that image changed through studying psychology and, in many cases, becoming a psychologist yourself?
