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The psychology of conspiracy theories
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of conspiracy theories

...thinking, attributional styles, etc.) to see whether conspiracism is underpinned by some intrinsic perceptual or reasoning deficit which leads people to misunderstand or misinterpret causal relations in the world. Overall, this quest for the psychological profile of conspiracy theorists has yielded modest results. Conspiracy theorists have been shown to be quite similar...
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Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise
Money & Business

Economic incentives for countries to decarbonise

...Think of perfect markets, where supply always matches demand, everything is perfectly priced and all resources (including people) are used optimally, with a perfect foresight of what the future consequences of any decision will be. This makes the modelling easier, but it’s not how the real world works. We don’t have perfect foresight, or complete understanding. We...
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Beaghmore Stone Circle
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Beaghmore Stone Circle

...think dates to about 2000bc. When these people built this tomb, this was viable farmland. And about 800 years later, say about 1200bc, the climate became a little wetter and a little cooler and the peat bog began to grow. And bit by bit the land just became unusable and people had to move away, and all of the remains of the farms and the tombs that had existed in the...
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“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...think about things like militancy, trade unionism, struggle and fightback, we draw on familiar imagery of braziers at shipyard gates and pitheads. We think of charged mass meetings, packed full of angry and determined … well, men. It is perhaps hard for us to contemplate, then, that early in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a two-and-a-half-year dispute...
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The Psychology of Decision Making
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Psychology of Decision Making

...thinking is inherently biased? There could be some surprises in the psychology of decision making...[How do we make decisions in a maze of choices?] A psychological perspective does not start from the assumption that people are fundamentally irrational. Rather, it emphasises a different logic: a logic that meets the challenges we have evolved to face. For much of our...
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Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...think about when we study the experiences of ethnic minority communities? Embodied differences Let’s start with embodied or embodiment. To embody is to represent an idea or quality exactly, and in relation to the body, whereas embodiment is the process or state of living in a body. Our bodies are uniquely connected to our sense of self, but also how we relate to or...
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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...Think about articulating the aims of your work as a clear statement that speaks to how you see your research contributing to the existing literature or knowledge about practice, and the objectives as how you will achieve these aims. Craft your research questions so that you can (once the research is underway) provide answers through the findings. The Literature Review:...
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Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...think about operational carbon this doesn’t seem like an entirely foolish idea. Add embodied carbon to the mix however and the picture changes dramatically. Studies have shown that energy efficiency improvements to existing buildings are at least 4% and in some cases nearly 60% better in lifecycle terms than demolish and replace. Looks like we should keep those old...
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