Geoffrey Beattie

{{Short description|British psychologist, author and broadcaster}}

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Geoffrey Beattie {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBPsS|FRSM|FRSA}} is a British psychologist, author and broadcaster. He is Professor of Psychology at Edge Hill University{{Cite web | url=https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/psychology/people/academic-staff/professor-geoff-beattie/ | title=Professor Geoffrey Beattie| date=8 September 2013}} and in 2023 was appointed Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW) {{Cite web | url= https://oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-geoff-beattie| title= Professor Geoff Beattie}} and Wolfson College,{{Cite web | url= https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/person/geoffrey-beattie| title= Geoffrey Beattie | Wolfson College, Oxford}} University of Oxford. He has also been visiting professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara.{{Cite web |url=https://www.bren.ucsb.edu/news/documents/BrenNewsFall12_Final_web_000.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 April 2019 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062424/http://www.bren.ucsb.edu/news/documents/BrenNewsFall12_Final_web_000.pdf |url-status=dead }} He graduated with a First Class Honours degree from the University of Birmingham and a PhD from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Books

He has published twenty-six books on a wide range of topics including the psychology of language and communication,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Talk: Analysis of Speech and Non-verbal Behaviour in Conversation|year=1983|publisher=Open University Press|location=Milton Keynes|isbn=978-0335104147}}{{Cite book|title=The Psychology of Language and Communication|last=Geoffrey|first=Beattie|others=Ellis, Andrew W.|year=2017|isbn=9781138734531|edition=Classic|location=New York, NY|oclc=966633803}} nonverbal communication/body language,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Visible Thought: The New Psychology of Body Language|year=2004|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0415308106}}Beattie, G. (2016) Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Reveal Hidden Thoughts. London: Routledge. {{ISBN|9780415538893}} the psychology of sustainability and climate change,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Why Aren't We Saving The Planet? A Psychologists Perspective|year=2010|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0415561976 }}{{Cite book|title=The Psychology of Climate Change|last=Beattie|first=Geoffrey|others=McGuire, Laura|isbn=978-1138484511|location=London|date=27 September 2018}} implicit ethnic bias, prejudice and conflict,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoffrey|title=Our Racist Heart? An Exploration of Unconscious Prejudice in Everyday Life?|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0415612999}}{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=We Are the People. Journeys Through the Heart of Protestant Ulster|year=1992|publisher=Heinemann|location=London|isbn=0-434-04964-6}}{{Cite book|title=The Conflicted Mind : And Why Psychology Has Failed To Deal With It|last=Geoffrey|first=Beattie|year=2018|isbn=9781138665798|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=1012825348}} applying psychological techniques to everyday life,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Get the Edge. How Simple Changes Will Transform Your Life|year=2011|publisher=Headline|location=London|isbn=9780-7553-6037-6}} the psychology of sport,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Head to Head. Uncovering the Psychology of Sporting Success|year=1998|publisher=Victor Gollancz|location=Great Britain|isbn=0-575-06358-0}} boxing{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=On the Ropes. Boxing as a Way of Life|year=1996|publisher=Indigo|location=London|isbn=0-575-40076-5}}{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=The Shadows of Boxing. Prince Naseem and Those He Left Behind|year=2002|publisher=Orion|location=London|isbn=978-0-75284-979-9}} and running,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoffrey|title=Chasing Lost Times. A Father and Son Reconciled Through Running|year=2012|publisher=Mainstream|location=London|isbn=9781780575209|author2=Ben Beattie}} ethnographic studies of working-class life in the UK{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Survivors of Steel City|year=1986|publisher=Chatto and Windus|location=London|isbn=978-0-7011-3031-2}}{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Making It. The Reality of Today's Entrepreneurs|year=1987|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson|location=London|isbn=0-297-79257-1}}{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=England After Dark|year=1990|publisher=George Weidenfeld and Nicolson Limited|location=London|isbn=0-297-81137-1}}{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Hard Lines. Voices From Deep Within A Reecession|year=1998|publisher=Mandolin|location=Manchester|isbn=1-901341-08-9|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/hardlinesvoicesf00geof}} and a memoir 'Protestant Boy' published by Granta in 2004,{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Protestant Boy|year=2004|publisher=Granta|location=London|isbn=978-1-86207-756-0}} amongst others.

'We are the People' was [https://issuu.com/alumniuom/docs/your_manchester_2005 shortlisted] for the Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize.{{cite web |url=https://www.bestmastersinpsychology.com/30-most-influential-psychologists-working-today/ |accessdate=16 April 2019|title=30 Most Influential Psychologists Working Today – Best Masters in Psychology}} 'On the Ropes' was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.{{cite web |last1=Hill |first1=William |title=William Hill Sports Book of the Year Shortlist | Book awards | LibraryThing |url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/William+Hill+Sports+Book+of+the+Year+Shortlist |accessdate=16 April 2019}} 'Trophy Hunting' was shortlisted for the 2019 Taylor & Francis Outstanding [https://www.routledge.com/go/2019-book-and-digital-product-awards Book and Digital Product Award] in the Outstanding Professional Category. 'The Psychology of Language and Communication' was republished in the Routledge Classic Editions series,{{Cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Psychology-Press--Routledge-Classic-Editions/book-series/PPCLASSICS|title=Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions – Book Series – Routledge & CRC Press}} thirty years after it first appeared. 'Survivors of Steel City' formed the basis for the documentary film 'Tales from a Hard City'{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111355/|title = Tales from a Hard City (1995) – IMDb|website = IMDb}} (director: Kim Flitcroft) which won the Grand Prix at the Marseilles Film Festival{{Cite web | url=http://www.picturepalace.com/ourproductions/talesfromahardcity/ | title=Picture Palace – our productions}} and the Best Regional Film in the Indies Award.{{Cite web | url=http://jbaproduction.com/en/tales-from-a-hard-city/ | title=Tales from a Hard City| date=10 May 2017}} Beattie was credited as story consultant on the film.{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d99334a |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416174122/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7d99334a |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 April 2019 |accessdate=16 April 2019|title=Tales from a Hard City (1994)}}

Beattie has also published two novels—'The Corner Boys' (Victor Gollancz){{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=The Corner Boys|year=1998|publisher=Victor Gollancz|location=Great Britain|isbn=978-0-575-40194-5}} and 'The Body's Little Secrets' (Gibson Square).{{Cite book|title=BODY'S LITTLE SECRETS : a novel.|last=GEOFFREY.|first=BEATTIE|date=2018|publisher=GIBSON SQUARE BOOKS LTD|isbn=9781783341047|location=[S.l.]|oclc=1013594816}} 'The Corner Boys', the story of a teenager growing up in a loyalist working-class neighbourhood of Belfast during the Troubles, was also shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize [https://issuu.com/alumniuom/docs/your_manchester_2005]. 'The Body's Little Secrets' is the story of a social psychologist, Matt, whose research centres on the analysis of body language. The novel situates the action in Sheffield in Thatcher's Britain of the early nineteen-eighties, just after the miners' strike with the mines and the steelworks closing. Self-construction is the nature of the day, trying still to be somebody in desperate times. Matt himself is trying to make a name for himself as an academic in this changing societal landscape but oversteps the mark in his claims about what his body language analyses can reveal from CCTV footage of a murder, to his ultimate cost. In a review in the international journal Semiotica,

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Professor Marcel Danesi, professor of semiotics at the University of Toronto, described the book as a 'truly outstanding work' and wrote that 'With his latest novel, Dr Geoffrey Beattie can now be projected onto the same international platform as the late Umberto Eco, who became famous for integrating semiotic theory with fiction, starting with his bestseller, The Name of the Rose...There is little doubt, in my estimation at least, that Geoffrey Beattie is Eco's successor, displaying an uncanny and ingenious ability to blend his insightful work on nonverbal semiotics with an exceptional sense for narrative in this outstanding roman-à-clef.'

His book 'Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class', published by Routledge, which is a memoir reflecting on identity, social class and education, attracted excellent international reviews—'a powerful mix of psychological research, intellectual rigour and personal insight' (Binna Kandola), 'a unique book....We come away understanding what psychology should be....required reading by anyone interested in understanding what consciousness is' (Marcel Danesi, University of Toronto), 'has the potential to contribute to relevant fields of inquiry in the same way Oliver Sacks' books did to neurology and the history of science' (Hongbing Yu, Ryerson University).{{cite web | url=https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/psychology/2021/07/09/international-recognition-for-geoff-beatties-new-book-selfless-a-psychologists-journey-through-identity-and-social-class/ | title=International recognition for Geoff Beattie's new book 'Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class' | date=9 July 2021 | access-date=8 March 2022 | archive-date=8 March 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220308121837/https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/psychology/2021/07/09/international-recognition-for-geoff-beatties-new-book-selfless-a-psychologists-journey-through-identity-and-social-class/ | url-status=dead }} A review in the Psychologist read 'We need more books like this—where the author is authentically written into the work, and psychology is opened up, inviting people to explore it in relation to their own lives.'{{cite web | url=https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-34/september-2021/resisting-psychologys-boxes | title=Resisting psychology's boxes | the Psychologist }}

His most recent book 'Doubt: A Psychological Exploration' was described by Professor Brian Butterworth from UCL as 'Beattie brilliantly illustrates the science of doubt with fascinating case studies from doubters like Kafka, to non-doubters like Picasso.' Professor Richard Bentall from the University of Sheffield wrote 'Geoff Beattie has written a brilliantly entertaining book about the little considered phenomenon of doubt, focusing mainly but not exclusively on self-doubt.' Professor Marcel Danesi from the University of Toronto wrote 'This is one of the most brilliant books I have ever come across.'{{cite web |url= https://www.routledge.com/Doubt-A-Psychological-Exploration/Beattie/p/book/9781032252049|title= Doubt: A Psychological Exploration}}

His books have been translated into various languages including Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish{{cite web | url=https://www.finlandiakirja.fi/en/geoffrey-beattie-belfastin-pojat-0325408 | title=Geoffrey Beattie : Belfastin pojat }} and German.{{cite web | url=https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/geoffrey-beattie/corner-boys.html | title=Geoffrey Beattie: Corner Boys. Roman - Perlentaucher }} He has also published over one hundred academic articles in journals including Nature, Nature Climate Change and Semiotica.{{cite web | url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=Gb46VggAAAAJ&hl=en | title=Geoff Beattie }}

His book 'On the Ropes: Boxing as a Way of Life' (Victor Gollancz) has been optioned by a major Hollywood studio to be made into a film.{{cite web | url=https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/people/book-about-sheffields-boxing-scene-set-for-bright-lights-of-hollywood-3417979 | title=Book about Sheffield's boxing scene set for bright lights of Hollywood | date=13 October 2021 }} The book focuses on Brendan Ingle's famous gym in Wincobank in Sheffield and explores boxing in precarious economic times after the pit closures and the decline of the steel industry. The Daily Telegraph's review of the book read "Beattie can write about the low life of boxing like no-one else…[He] has got the smell of the gym in his lungs. He breathes resin, sweat and soiled towels. He even goes three rounds himself with Mick Mills. He writes for adults, and quite beautifully. Not since I first went ringside with the late Ring Lardner have I so enjoyed a book on boxing".{{cite book |isbn=978-0575400764|title=On the Ropes: Boxing as a Way of Life |last1=Beattie |first1=G. |year=1997 |publisher=Orion Publishing Group, Limited }} Hollywood studio, AGC, have picked up the film rights to the book; Rowan Athale has written the screenplay and is set to direct the film.

Research

Beattie's research falls within the broad areas of embodied cognition/multi-modal communication and applied social psychology particularly in the areas of sustainability and race where he researches the relationship between explicit and implicit processes,{{Cite journal |doi = 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.10.032|pmid = 18995826|title = Implicit and Explicit Processes in Social Cognition|journal = Neuron|volume = 60|issue = 3|pages = 503–510|year = 2008|last1 = Frith|first1 = Chris D.|last2 = Frith|first2 = Uta|s2cid = 6591189|url = https://pure.au.dk/ws/files/48560282/F_FNeuronImpl.pdf}} and the societal implications of any possible 'dissociation' here.{{cite book |last1=Kandola |first1=Binna |title=Racism at Work |date=2018 |publisher=Ashford Colour Press |location=Great Britain |isbn=9780956231888 |url=https://racismatwork.pearnkandola.com/images/Look_inside_book.pdf}}

=Sustainability=

He has also explored the psychological barriers that prevent consumers adopting more sustainable lifestyles in the light of the threat posed by climate change. He has challenged the established orthodoxy in this field. DEFRA, and others, have argued that the promotion of more sustainable behaviour is essentially just an 'informational' issue because the public already have the right underlying attitudes to environmental issues like carbon footprint (measured using various self-report instruments). For this reason, carbon labels were introduced. Beattie's experimental research, using eye tracking, showed that there was minimal visual attention to carbon labels and that explicit self-reported attitudes to carbon footprint did not actually predict visual attention to climate change images. Measures of implicit attitude, where such attitudes are largely unconscious and measured through speed of association, were, however, better predictors of both attentional focus and behavioural choice under certain conditions. Dispositional optimism also seems to affect visual attention to climate change images and this links to optimism bias (He presented this research at the British Academy Summer Showcase in 2018 where the best research funded by the B.A. is highlighted).{{cite news |author1=Geoffrey Beattie |author1-link=Optimism bias and climate change |title=British Academy Review |url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/994/BritishAcademyReview33-Summer2018.pdf |access-date=24 June 2024 |issue=33 |date=2016 |pages=12–15}} He has explored new segmentation analyses of consumer markets based upon the intersection of explicit and implicit attitudes and researching how to change both types of attitude, necessary to produce the radical shift in consumer behaviour required to combat climate change.

Beattie presented this research on sustainability at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change at UNESCO headquarters in Paris in July 2015,{{Cite web| url=https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2015/06/academics-present-climate-change-research-at-paris-unesco-headquarters/| title=Academics present climate change research at Paris UNESCO headquarters| date=12 June 2015| access-date=16 April 2019| archive-date=16 April 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416160346/https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/news/2015/06/academics-present-climate-change-research-at-paris-unesco-headquarters/| url-status=dead}} and with Laura McGuire contributed a chapter to the United Nations International Commission on Education for Sustainable-Development-Practice Report{{Cite web|url = https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/psychology/2018/10/15/edge-hill-academics-inform-un-report-on-sustainable-development/|title = Edge Hill academics inform UN report on sustainable development|date = 15 October 2018|access-date = 16 April 2019|archive-date = 16 April 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190416160343/https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/psychology/2018/10/15/edge-hill-academics-inform-un-report-on-sustainable-development/|url-status = dead}} (a report issued every ten years by the U.N. to define priorities in education internationally for the next decade), to be published in 2019.

=Implicit racial bias=

Another strand of his current research is into implicit racial bias and its effects on everyday life. He has explored how implicit racial attitudes impact on shortlisting decisions. He has shown how gaze fixations, as we consider CVs, are influenced by our implicit attitudes, and he has investigated how these impact on the representations that we build up of the various candidates under consideration, thereby influencing our final 'rational' decision about the relative suitability of the candidates. He has researched how people justify and rationalise their everyday decisions that often result from processes that are more implicit. Using the terminology of the Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, he has explored how System 1 and System 2 interact in everyday life and the implications of this interaction for both behaviour and talk. He has given a number of significant keynote addresses on this theme at a variety of applied conferences, including the Annual Conference of the Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service, the [http://afsa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Final-Delegate-Pack-AFSA-National-Conference-2014.pdf Asian Fire Service Association National Conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416175127/http://afsa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Final-Delegate-Pack-AFSA-National-Conference-2014.pdf |date=16 April 2019 }}, the [https://www.ecu.ac.uk/get-involved/conference-2018/ Equality Challenge Unit Biennial Conference], the Respect Difference Conference, Police Service of Northern Ireland etc.

The overarching focus of his research has been on how human beings communicate and make decisions in their everyday social worlds, with emphasis on the more unconscious and implicit aspects of these everyday processes. He has been interested, throughout his career, in the real-world relevance of his research.

Outreach

Beattie was president of the Psychology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005–2006 and has given many keynote addresses to a range of audience, including public lectures at [https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/professor-geoffrey-beattie/ Gresham College], the [http://www.psych-me.com/speakers/ International Psychology Conference in Dubai] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416165519/http://www.psych-me.com/speakers/ |date=16 April 2019 }}, the [https://www.tutor2u.net/events/psychology-teacher-national-conference Psychology Teacher National Conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416165525/https://www.tutor2u.net/events/psychology-teacher-national-conference |date=16 April 2019 }}, the [https://ecp.iafor.org/ecp2017/ European Conference on Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences], [http://students.iitk.ac.in/ss/home/wp-content/uploads/Pre-Conduction-Report-2.pdf Techkriti, the Annual Technical and Entrepreneurial Festival Kanpur, India], both Houses of Parliament through the [https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conferences/westminster-food-and-nutrition-forum Westminster Food and Nutrition Forum], the [https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/events/star-lectures/ Star lecture at the University of Manchester] etc. He has also spoken at various music and book festivals including '[http://guerillascience.org/contributor/geoff-beattie/ The Secret Garden Party]', '[http://guerillascience.org/event/shambala-2018/ Shambala]', Latitude and the [https://www.theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2012/08/five-things-you-need-to-know-today-361/ Edinburgh], [https://www.pelerinages.de/events/literaturfest-munchen/?ri=2 Munich] and [https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/ Cheltenham Book Festivals]. Beattie was an external consultant on the [https://issuu.com/xynteo/docs/leadership_vanguard_yearbook_1_s/13 Leadership Vanguard] (LV) with Paul Polman, then CEO of Unilever, and others. This organisation was designed to help shape the sustainability policy of Unilever and other leading multinationals.

He is also well known for bringing analyses of behaviour, and particularly nonverbal communication, to a more general audience by appearing as the on-screen psychologist on eleven series of Big Brother{{cite web|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Big Brother|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGa-LWbMi-M|publisher=Channel 4}} in the UK and for explaining how psychology can be used by people in their everyday lives. His work in psychology has been extensively covered in the national and international media.

[http://europe.newsweek.com/donald-trump-body-language-bully-510534 Geoff Beattie on the body language of Donald Trump during the Presidential debate (Newsweek, 17 October 2016)]
[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/general-election/features/2010/04/23/leaders-debate-body-language-expert-prof-geoff-beattie-on-round-two-115875-22206027/ Geoff Beattie on the Live Election Debates 2010 (The Mirror, 23 April 2010)]
[https://archive.today/20130627222949/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/17/2956405.htm Geoff Beattie on The Perfect Handshake (ABC News)]

In addition, he has carried out media work on behalf of a range of organizations, including ITV, Universal Pictures, Department for Work and Pensions, NHS, Nivea, Royal Mail, Disney and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Academic appointments

2013- Professor of Psychology, Edge Hill University.

2013- Masters Supervisor, Sustainability Leadership Programme, University of Cambridge.

2012-2013- Visiting Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara.

2004-2011- Head of School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Manchester.

2004-2012- Research Group Leader, Language and Communication Research Group, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

2008-2012- Professorial Research Fellow, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester.

2004-2011- Member of the Senior Management Board for the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester.

2000-2004- Member of the Senior Executive, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Manchester.

2000-2004- Head of department of psychology, University of Manchester.

1994-2012- Professor of Psychology at the University of Manchester. His departure in 2012 led to Employment Tribunal proceedings. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-28869604 The Employment Tribunal found in favour of Professor Beattie]. The university made a financial settlement to Professor Beattie in respect of Employment Tribunal case number 2401282/2013.

1991-1994- Reader in Social Psychology, University of Sheffield

1988-1991- Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Sheffield

1981-1984- Visiting lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

1977-1988- Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Sheffield

Media

= Television =

Resident on-screen psychologist [Big Brother] ([Channel 4]) 2000-2010 focussing mainly on nonverbal communication and patterns of social interaction

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGa-LWbMi-M Big Brother 2007]

Co-presenter, Life's Too Short (BBC1)

This series applied psychological insights (including detailed behavioural analyses) to a range of people having trouble in their relationships.

[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112504/http://www.locatetv.com/tv/lifes-too-short/1886753/episode-guide BBC1: Life's Too Short episode guide]

Presenter, Family SOS (BBC1 Northern Ireland)

A detailed look at families currently experiencing a wide range of important but unidentified psychological issues. The analytic focus was again on the behaviour of the family members and how they interacted with each other. The goal was to work out what specifically needed to change to improve the situation.

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/11_november/14/family_sos.shtml BBC Northern Ireland]

Presenter, Dump Your Mates in Four Days (Channel 4)

A series aimed at teenagers which allowed teenagers to 'try out' different sets of friends in order to teach them something about themselves and their social networks and how things can change.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHE-_uFysU Dump Your Mates in Four Days (Channel 4)]

Co-presenter and psychologist, The Farm of Fussy Eaters (UKTV Style)

A series focusing on individuals with oddly constrained and unhealthy food choices. His role was to understand where the various attitudes to food came from and how they could be modified.

[http://uktv.co.uk/really/item/aid/580705 UKTV The Farm of Fussy Eaters]

On-screen psychologist, Ghosthunting with.... (ITV2 and ITV1)

On-screen psychologist, focusing on the nonverbal behaviour of celebrities in various 'haunted' locations. The celebrities have included Girls Aloud, Coronation Street, Emmerdale, McFly, The Happy Mondays, Paul O'Grady and friends, Boyzone, The Saturdays, Katie Price and friends, TOWIE etc.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7n71sd55nE Ghosthunting With....The Saturdays]

He has also been a frequent guest on the ITV News (with a slot called 'The Body Politic' at one General Election{{cite web|last=Times Higher Education|title=Read their lips and fingertips|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/read-their-lips-and-fingertips/195355.article|publisher=Times Higher Education|accessdate=8 April 2013|date=14 April 2005}} ), Lorraine Kelly, Richard and Judy, The One Show, Tonight with Trevor McDonald (ITV), with other guest appearances on Child of Our Time, Arena, It's Only a Theory,{{cite web|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=It's Only a Theory|date=26 October 2009 |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004wndn|publisher=BBC 4|accessdate=8 April 2013}} Risky Business, Tomorrow's World, The Heart of the Matter, Watchdog, BBC Breakfast,{{cite web|last=BBC Breakfast|title=Tackling the 'Monday blues'|url=http://collettewalsh.com/2012/07/08/bbc-breakfast-tackling-the-monday-blues/|publisher=BBC|accessdate=8 April 2013|date=8 July 2012}} Good Morning America, the Keri-Anne Show (Australia),{{cite web|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Kerri-Anne Show|url=http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/green-fakers/xgk0ipq?cpkey=c3a7373c-9e88-4c8a-a529-185de100edf1%257c%257c%257c%257c|publisher=Channel 9|accessdate=8 April 2013}} {{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} TV4 (Sweden), News Asia, The Mindfield, and various documentaries for Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC4 and Sky.

= Journalism =

He has written extensively for The Guardian,{{cite news|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Tiger Woods' body language|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2010/feb/19/tiger-woods-psychology|work=The Guardian|accessdate=8 April 2013|location=London|date=19 February 2010}} The Observer,{{cite news|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Why Big Brother Keeps us Hooked|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jun/26/bigbrother.broadcasting|publisher=The Observer|accessdate=8 April 2013|location=London|date=26 June 2005}} The Observer Magazine,{{cite news|last=Beat
tie|first=Geoff|title=On the couch with Tracey Emin|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jan/15/art2|publisher=The Observer|accessdate=8 April 2013|location=London|date=15 January 2006}} The Independent{{cite news|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Inside the mind of Tony Blair|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/inside-the-mind-of-tony-blair-2070838.html|work=The Independent|accessdate=8 April 2013|location=London|date=5 September 2010}} and The Independent on Sunday.{{cite news|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Why Greeks Make a Drama out of a Crisi|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/geoffrey-beattie-why-greeks-make-a-drama-out-of-a-crisis-2299703.html|work=The Independent|accessdate=8 April 2013|location=London|date=19 June 2011}}

Books

Beattie, G. (2023) Doubt: A Psychological Exploration. Routledge: London.{{cite book |last1=Beattie |first1=G |title=Doubt: A Psychological Exploration |date=29 November 2022 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-032-25204-9}}
Beattie, G. (2020) Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey through Identity and Social Class. Routledge: London.{{cite book |last1=Beattie |first1=G |title=Selfless: A Psychologist's Journey Through Identity and Social Class |date=30 December 2020 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780367614836}}
Beattie, G. (2019). Trophy Hunting: A Psychological Perspective. London: Routledge{{cite book |last1=Beattie |first1=Geoffrey |title=Trophy Hunting: A Psychological Perspective |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9780367278168}}
Beattie, G. & McGuire, L. (2019). The Psychology of Climate Change. London: Routledge{{cite book |last1=Beattie |first1=Geoffrey |last2=McGuire |first2=Laura |title=The Psychology of Climate Change |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=9781138484528}}
Beattie, G. (2018). The Body's Little Secrets: A Novel. London: Gibson Square{{Cite book|title=Body's Little Secrets : a novel.|last=GEOFFREY.|first=BEATTIE|date=2018|publisher=Gibson Square Books LTD|isbn=9781783341047|location=[S.l.]|oclc=1013594816}}
Beattie, G. (2018). The Conflicted Mind: And Why Psychology Has Failed to Deal With It. London: Routledge{{Cite book|title=The conflicted mind : and why psychology has failed to deal with it|last=Geoffrey|first=Beattie|year=2018|isbn=9781138665798|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=1012825348}}
Beattie, G. & Ellis, A. (2017). The Psychology of Language and Communication: Psychology Press Classic Editions. London: Routledge{{Cite book|title=The psychology of language and communication|last=Geoffrey|first=Beattie|others=Ellis, Andrew W.,, Ellis, Andrew W.|year=2017|isbn=9781138734531|edition=Classic|location=New York, NY|oclc=966633803}}
Beattie, G. (2016). Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Reveal Hidden Thoughts. London: Routledge
Beattie, G. (2013). Our Racist Heart? An Exploration of Unconscious Prejudice in Everyday Life. London: Routledge{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoffrey|title=Our Racist Heart? An Exploration of Unconscious Prejudice in Everyday Life?|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|location=London|isbn=978-0415612999

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Beattie, G and Beattie, B. (2012). Chasing Lost Times. A Father and Son Reconciled Through Running. London: Mainstream Publishing
Beattie, G. (2011). Get The Edge: How Simple Changes Will Transform Your Life. London: Headline Book Publishing.
Beattie, G. (2010). Why Aren't We Saving The Planet? A Psychologist's Perspective. UK: Routledge: London.
Beattie, G. (2004). Protestant Boy. Granta: London.
Beattie, G. (2003). Visible Thought: The New Psychology of Body Language. Routledge: London.
Beattie, G. (2002). The Shadows of Boxing: Prince Naseem and those he left behind. Orion: London.
Beattie, G. (2000). The Corner Boys. Klett-Cotta: Berlin.{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=Corner Boys|year=2000|publisher=Klett-Cotta|location=Berlin|isbn=978-3-608-93464-9}}
Beattie, G. (1999). Belfastin Pojat. Otava: Helsinki.{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=The Corner Boys|year=1999|publisher=Otova|location=Helsinki|isbn=978-951-1-15815-8}}
Beattie, G. (1998). Head-to-Head: Uncovering the Psychology of Sporting Success. Victor Gollancz: London.
Beattie, G. (1998). Hard Lines: Voices from Deep within a Recession. Mandolin: Manchester.
Beattie, G. (1998). The Corner Boys. Victor Gollancz: London. Published in paperback, Indigo: London (1999).{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=The Corner Boys|year=1998|publisher=Indigo|location=Great Britain|isbn=978-0-575-40194-5}}
Beattie, G. (1996). On the Ropes: Boxing as a Way of Life. Victor Gollancz: London. Published in paperback, Indigo: London (1997).
Beattie, G. (1992). We Are the People. Journeys Through the Heart of Protestant Ulster. Heinemann: London. (pp. 246).
Beattie, G. (1990). England After Dark. Weidenfeld & Nicolson:London.
Beattie, G. (1989). All Talk: Why it's important to watch your words and everything else you say. Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London.{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=All Talk. Why It's Important to Watch Your Words and Everything Else You Say|year=1988|publisher=Weidenfeld and Nicolson|location=London|isbn=978-0-297-79495-0}}
Beattie, G. (1988). Beachwatching. Rambletree Press: Hove.{{cite book|last=Beattie|first=Geoff|title=The Canderel Guide to Beach Watching|year=1988|publisher=Rambletree|location=Hove|isbn=0-947894-05-5}}
Beattie, G. (1987). Making It: The Reality of Today's Entrepreneurs. Weidenfeld & Nicolson: London.
Beattie, G. (1986). Survivors of Steel City. Chatto & Windus: London.
Ellis, A. & Beattie, G. (1986). The Psychology of Language and Communication. Psychology Press: London.{{cite book|last=Ellis|first=Andrew|title=The Psychology of Language And Communication|year=1986|publisher=Psychology Press|location=London|isbn=978-0863770517|author2=Geoff Beattie}}
Beattie, G. (1983) Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behaviour in Conversation. Open University Press: Milton Keynes.