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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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Migration 2018: What's currently happening?
Society, Politics & Law

Migration 2018: What's currently happening?

...children, reports IOM Madrid’s Ana Dodevska. Spanish arrivals in June are now nearly 4,000, by far the heaviest volume of the year so far (see charts below). [Graphic supporting the text] Dodevska reported the following developments between Friday and Monday (15-19 June): 15 June: 682 people rescued on the Western Mediteranean Route. 16 June: 304 people rescued on...
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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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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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Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?
History & The Arts

Who is in the wrong in the Ashley Madison hack?

...researchers, Edward Bernays and Ernst Dichter first uncovered the importance of the subconscious – including sexual desire – in the purchasing of products in the 1930s, sex has been important to marketing. Bernays and Dichter showed how marketplace decisions are driven by emotions and subconscious whims and fears. Doubtless Ashley Madison’s reminder that life is...
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