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Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Remaking experimental philosophy

...research participants respond is often at odds with the claims of philosophers. (Note: the empirical status of philosophical claims about folk intuitions is a current topic of hot debate, but this issue is beyond the scope of the present discussion). Furthermore, supposedly philosophically-irrelevant factors, such as culture and gender, also affect lay peoples' intuitive...
Humans better at rapid change than we think
Nature & Environment

Humans better at rapid change than we think

...Research Council. It details 14 stories of the sort of change it believes we need now. The choice is necessarily highly selective – “just a glimpse of where we might look”, as the authors put it. One story describes the New Deal in 1930s America, which, the study says, “invested an amount similar to that thought needed for low carbon transition today to public...
Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...research is both slow (it takes time to be trusted) and small scale (we may know how particular groups in particular places might think – but not the society as a whole). Still, such studies might get closer to how people feel than many of the big claims currently going around in journalism (and some social science writing) about politics. They might also help with the...
Why limited-time offers make shoppers say 'bye now', not 'buy now'
Money & Business

Why limited-time offers make shoppers say 'bye now', not 'buy now'

...research shows that certain properties of consumers’ psychology, particularly aversion to small-scale risk, make time-limited offers particularly attractive, and that this attraction is stronger when consumers are not subject to high time pressure. There is growing concern that by using cookies to track the identities of website visitors, internet sellers may remove...
How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at The Open University, believes specialised text analysis software can help us develop new insights into classic literature...When Mary Shelley published her iconic Gothic novel two hundred years ago in 1818, she probably did not imagine it would continue to be read and reprinted into the twenty-first century. Like many other works...
Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dying: what’s wellbeing got to do with it?

...researched by the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, wellbeing is about ‘how we are doing’ as individuals and communities. If considering wellbeing prompts a consideration of how someone is doing, this matters even if they have a terminal diagnosis or are dying. That is because the end of life is often a period of time which can extend from days to even over a year for...
'Hate the poor!': the new politics of loathing in vitriolic Britain
Society, Politics & Law

'Hate the poor!': the new politics of loathing in vitriolic Britain

...Research, has been widely celebrated in the conservative broadsheets as an indication of a seismic shift in values. Janet Daley in the Daily Telegraph highlights that only 35 per cent now support a redistribution of wealth and 54 per cent consider unemployment benefits too generous. At a time when many households have been affected by higher taxes and frozen pay, the...
Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...research with mobile messaging users, I’ve explored how this happens in practice. For example, on a Monday morning shortly before Christmas 2021, project participant Hannah receives a message at 7:29am while she is still sleeping from her old friend Hazel. [whatsapp message, saying lovely to see you last night, mentions a gift wrapped partcel from Selfridges on its...