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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...research has been conducted on this topic. In fact, it is only since the 1990s that social psychologists have turned their attention to the conspiracy theory phenomenon and scrutinised its psychological roots in a systematic way. Investigating the conspiracy theorist Much psychology research has focused on identifying factors which predispose certain individuals to...
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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...Research in this area has grown over the last two decades with Professor Sophia Jowett, the leading researcher in this field, investigating the content and nature of coach–athlete relationships since the early 2000s. How we define this relationship has changed over time, but in the main it considers a social situation for the coach and athlete that is continually shaped...
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Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?
Digital & Computing

Hands-free phone tech is dangerous - so why do car firms still promote it?

...research shows talking on a hands-free phone while driving is just as dangerous as using a handset. In fact, drivers remain dangerously distracted even after they’ve hung up. Thankfully, this message is starting to get through, as the ASA’s decision shows. But the fact that the advert was made in the first place, that in-car, hands-free technology is readily available...
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Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Blue Monday: An OpenLearn reading list

...research will tell you that unfortunately neither human emotions nor behaviour can be predicted by neat equations. But that doesn’t mean we lack any information about seasonal variations, mood swings and its deleterious effects. Research on suicide does reveal seasonal fluctuations, though it is not the cold, bleak months of winter that presage the despair associated...
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Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...research into decision-making in the legal context that people make mistakes and they are sometimes subject to influences that we find objectionable. One way to identify such shortcomings is to do empirical research where we manipulate the counterfactuals (eg, by having one scenario with the item of interest and one without) and to repeat the research a number of times...
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World-Changing Women: Caroline Norton
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Caroline Norton

...children and attempted to take her earnings from writing. Caroline Norton campaigned for legislative change to make women equal to men in the eyes of the law. She lobbied influential individuals and wrote a series of pamphlets, including Observations on the Natural Claim of a Mother to the Custody of her Children as affected by the Common Law Right of the Father (1837)...
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Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...children’s channels, so CBBC and CBeebies. For a time I was the Creative Head of CBeebies for the BBC, well, it’s actually for Red Bee Media, so at that point our department at the BBC had been sold, gone private and became Red Bee Media, but essentially we were doing the same work. So I was overseeing all promos and branding and things that came out of the Red Bee...
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Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others
Education & Development

Turning the pain of racial discrimination into protection for others

...children, compared to other children, are probably illegal, and this has been clarified by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). As a family, they have been networking and collaborating to find different ways they can add their voices towards ending Afro hair discrimination in all UK schools. The problem of institutional racism in our education system feels...
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