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...care givers who know how to navigate through the multiple ‘use me, try me’ blinking web of ‘free’ resources and of course mediating learning is a tricky business. Most parents and care-givers know that teachers do a good job. Never more than this Christmas will that box of chocolates, hand-made card or bottle of wine be so firmly affirming of the genuine thank you...

...adults. Even though we might all like to know the key to happiness, there is actually relatively little psychological research on this topic. In the past psychologists have tended to focus on how disorders involving negative mood can be prevented rather than how happiness can be achieved. However, more recently psychologists, notably Professor Martin Seligman, have...

...adults, many things that we do, we do automatically, almost without thinking. We look in the correct direction before crossing the road; we travel to work without consciously making decisions about the route. Being able to do these things automatically frees up our brain to work on other, more important issues. However, on some occasions, being able to prevent ourselves...