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Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...perceptions, knowledge, intentions and so on. Discussion Perhaps you came up with some anecdotal examples, such as your pet dog or cat seeming to understand when you are angry or upset. You may have thought of instances, e.g. from watching wildlife television programmes, where animals seem to deliberately try to deceive another animal, to give it a ‘false belief’, for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...N. (2018). Juror’s perceptions of forensic science expert witnesses. Forensic Science International. Doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.07.030. Willmott, D., Boduszek, D., & Booth, N. (2017). The English jury on trial. Willmott, Dominic, Daniel Boduszek, and Nigel Booth. 2017. “The English Jury on Trial”. Loughborough University. https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19626309.v1....
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What is trauma?
Society, Politics & Law

What is trauma?

...perceptions of what a ‘normal’ victim response to RASSO should look like. Officers might expect victims to appear visibly distressed and unable to continue with their everyday lives, or to be fearful of sexual encounters rather than perhaps continuing or increasing their sexual contact with others. This can result in a judgement as to whether people have ‘really’...
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What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?
Society, Politics & Law

What does it mean to be trauma informed in practice?

...perceptions towards Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)’, The Scottish Institute for Policing Research. SAMHSA (2014) ‘Concept of Trauma and Guidance for a Trauma-Informed Approach’. Available at: www.samsha.gov Trauma Informed Plymouth Network (no date) ‘Envisioning Plymouth as a Trauma Informed City’. Available at:
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Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...perceptions to focus on large scale forests as the only solution to climate change. In fact, climate change and its problems start locally, so a local solution is needed. It is time to introduce the hero of this article: the local tree. [Figure 1: Selection of news headlines from November 2021 regarding COP26 deforestation pledge] The benefits of local trees Importantly,...
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Article 10 mins
Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...Intelligence’ in Salovey, P. and Sluyter, D. J. (eds.) Emotional development and emotional intelligence, New York, Basic Books, pp. 3-31. Stavrou Theodotou, S. (2020) Perceptions of the way leaders’ emotional intelligence influences teamworking and shared vision. EdD thesis The Open University. Available at: https://oro.open.ac.uk/70465/ (Accessed: 10 July 2024)....
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Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment
Education & Development

Diversity in Education: Challenging the Norm in Academic Recruitment

...perceptions about what the ‘normal’ profile of an OU Associate Lecturer is and consider instead who it could be. This would then allow us to benefit from the pool of incredible talent that exists across the HE sector and in professional practice. This research has also uncovered the need for institutional-wide change to structural and cultural ingrained practices and...
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Article 15 mins
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...perception, in order to get a deep understanding of perception and emotion, instead of just doing all these measurements and then running statistics packages, which is what happens now. So our educational practices will be greatly improved by doing A.I. It’s possible that our brains are too complicated to be understood by something as simple as our brains." [A microchip...
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