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No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation
Health, Sports & Psychology

No Pause for Thought? Brexit, Bias and Political Manipulation

...psychology of Brexit and contemporary politics, in a series of articles by Volker Patent. In this first article, we look at how the language of Brexit encourages the formation of political cliques. ...This article is part of our Brexiting collection: [A table of newspapers from the morning after the Brexit referendum. The central newspaper is the Daily Mirror, with the...
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Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Health, Sports & Psychology

Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need

...Psychology, 2006). Russ Harris (see below) and others have also actively promoted ACT as being valid not only in clinical and therapy settings, but also within the workplace and personal life (Harris, 2006). Although ACT has the word ‘therapy’ in it, within the workplace this is not in the traditional sense of seeing a counsellor or therapist; the tools and...
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Finding the Truth
Society, Politics & Law

Finding the Truth

...psychology, corporate crime and the prison system. ...Step into a world of crime Have you watched enough CSI to know what constitutes as good forensic evidence? Are you a believer of 'don't do the crime if you can't do the time'? How much do you know about workplace accidents? Or perhaps you have other beliefs about the criminal justice system and want to find out more?...
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Penalty Pressure Potential at Euro 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

Penalty Pressure Potential at Euro 2016

...Psychology is certainly a significant factor in the penalty shoot-out. As a sport psychologist I like to watch a player prepare to take a penalty and predict whether they will be successful – there are certain psychological cues that are indicative of the outcome. Researchers have investigated these and have identified various factors that can influence the success of...
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...psychological support is therefore essential in limiting long term negative outcomes for jurors. Supporting the wellbeing of jurors is not only positive at an individual level but is essential is promoting good juror decision making; stress negatively affects information encoding and retrieval. More specifically, traumatic evidence increases the likelihood of guilty...
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Danielle Martin
Education & Development

Danielle Martin

...psychology, which ultimately led to her returning to education with The Open University. As she says, ‘I’ve become a lifelong learner!’...[Danielle Martin]Danielle is studying for a BSc in Psychology at The OU, starting her third module in October 2022, but it all started almost 20 years ago very differently, as she explained to us: ‘I attended a brick university...
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How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...psychology. However, as more and more contact takes place online, PhD student Julian Bond is working to understand whether this changes the effectiveness of intergroup contact and the potential implications for a more harmonious society...This content is associated with The Open University's Psychology courses and qualifications. In 1954, Gordon Allport, a Harvard...
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How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...Psychology Society recently posted an article on how taking a five day break from Facebook can reduce cortisol levels (a physiological marker of stress); and other studies have found a similar positive effect on more psychological measures of wellbeing. 2: Set yourself clear smartphone social usage boundaries [couple eating dinner] Many of us use our phones when we’re...
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