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Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...profiler. He has helped police solve some of the country's most shocking crimes. How did he get started?...[Paul Britton] "Unless I help to get it right then someone who is hurting people might very well stay out there, continuing to hurt them." "I had a telephone call from the head of CID in Leicestershire, explaining that they had a murder that they hadn't been able to...
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DNA Profiling
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DNA Profiling

...profiling is, how it works and how it can be used to catch a killer...When a murder has occurred, forensic science can be essential for proving the identity of both victim and killer. Some killers have wrongly assumed that the absence of a complete body, or the removal of distinguishing features such as fingerprints, would prevent the identification of a victim. The...
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Your OpenLearn profile is changing
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Your OpenLearn profile is changing

...profile is changing...What’s happening? From Wednesday 18 March, your learner profile on OpenLearn will no longer have a biography section that you can fill in with information about yourself. This feature is being removed to improve the security of OpenLearn for all our learners. Currently the profile landing page looks like this: [Screenshot of the current OpenLearn...
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What's your personality profile?
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What's your personality profile?

...profiler...This survey has moved - you can find it, along with other surveys and tests associated with Child Of Our Time - on the COOT survey page. Find out more Study children... The Open University offers a number of courses that allow you to study childhood: Understanding Children; Childhood and Child Development among them. ... study people Starting With Psychology,...
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Outside the book: two styles of love
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Outside the book: two styles of love

This video conveys how love expressed in Petrarchan and Libertine poetry says a lot about renaissance patriarchy...Transcript View the other animations in this series Learn more about writing and interpreting poetry
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
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Earth from above, 18th Century style

...profile of ballooning in England: it was always more of a spectacle than a science. In 1785 Tiberius Cavallo, a member of the Royal Society and author of the first English history of ballooning, concluded that: many, if not the greatest number of the aerial voyages, though said to be purposely made for the improvement of science, were performed by persons absolutely...
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Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style
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Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style

The Conservatives have announced plans for their own Trades Union movement, hoping to steal support from a traditionally left-leaning grouping. It has echoes of the late 19th Century...A candidate standing in a Sheffield council ward on a "Tory Trades Unionist" ticket was - according to the Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, of November 2nd, 1893 - a ruse that voters...
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Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?
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Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?

For some observers, Donald Trump's success in the Republican Primaries is a puzzle. Is it down to his charisma and the times?...Over at Politics Outdoors, sociologist and political scientist David Meyer has arguedthat Trump is a charismatic leader. The idea comes from Max Weber, widely seen as a founding father of sociology, who argued that there are three types of...
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