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How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?
Society, Politics & Law

How Do Jurors Decide When a Witness is Telling the Truth?

...training, and by the use of specialist cognitive techniques, but these measures would be difficult and/or costly to implement in criminal trials. But informing jurors about the factors that research has shown are – and perhaps more importantly are not – associated with truthfulness would be a start and might serve at least to prevent the most glaring misconceptions....
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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

...Australia, 12(4), pp. 2–8. Available at: https://www.nph.net.au/project/embracing-your-demons-an-overview-of-acceptance-and-commitment-therapy/ (Accessed: 15 July 2021). Hayes, S.C. (1987) ‘A contextual approach to therapeutic change’, in Jacobson, N. (ed) Psychotherapists in Clinical Practice: Cognitive and Behavioral Perspectives. New York: Guilford, pp. 327–87....
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...cognitive and learning needs social and environmental needs emotional and affectional needs behavioural presentation. Government guidelines assist social workers considering the needs of children looked after by local authorities across a range of these fields (health, education, identity, family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural...
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The science behind why we drink alcohol
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science behind why we drink alcohol

...cognitive processes such as memory consolidation so reducing the time in which this process occurs has a detrimental effect on memory. Consolidation of emotional memories may be particularly affected. It is also known that alcohol acts on the process of long-term potentiation – the way in which neurons remodel the connections between them after learning. So alterations...
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Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sibling rivalry: An important ingredient in sporting success?

...cognitive and somatic anxiety compared to later born athletes. For example, athletes with higher anxiety levels are often reported as being less able to cope with the demanding pressures of elite sports performance. In contrast to these studies, an investigation of Swedish national skiers found that 94% had one or more siblings. However, it did not appear to matter where...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...cognitive ones. Their re-conceptualisation of reading, first used in the 2019 PISA survey, complements the OECD’s current definition of reader engagement. A person who is literate in reading not only has the skills and knowledge to read well, but also values and uses reading for a variety of purposes. It is therefore a goal of education to cultivate not only...
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What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?
Nature & Environment

What can Chinese students in Southampton teach us about going green?

...cognitive dissonance’ to explain why we often know our behaviour is ‘wrong’ but we do it anyway – because, essentially, when our beliefs and our actions are inconsistent, we invariably adapt our beliefs rather than ouractions, to make us feel better about ourselves. We re-align what we think with what we do, not the other way round. One way out of this depressing...
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Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...cognitive task in which some items were relatively easy to solve and others were quite difficult. We found that the people who performed better on the task were the ones who felt that difficult does not mean impossible and that easy does not mean trivial. How students interpret difficulty matters A growing number of studies show that how students perceive difficulty can...
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