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What is testosterone?
Nature & Environment

What is testosterone?

...psychological characteristics as well, and these include, greater aggression, more dominant behaviour, but also really interesting behaviour known as risk-taking. -End of video- In childhood, testosterone levels are low, with production increasing rapidly at puberty. Secreted from the cells of Leydig in the testes, it controls the development of secondary sexual...
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From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old
History & The Arts

From the Sumerians to Shakespeare to Twain: why fart jokes never get old

...psychological shift.” If we apply this theory to flatulence, it becomes clear why farts are universally funny. It’s because they are capable of producing this effect in all of the ways identified by the three theories of humor. And events that satisfy the criteria for all three forms of humor tend to be especially funny. For example, a few years ago, a YouTube post...
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Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will players be fit to perform or ready to burnout at Euro 2020?

...psychologically and symptoms include chronic fatigue, a weakened immune system and impaired concentration and attention. All of these symptoms can affect performance, but losing focus could lead to making mistakes with devastating consequences to a team. The tap drips – drip, drip, drip [dripping limescale tap] It may be difficult to understand how footballers with huge...
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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...18(7), pp. 412–415. Jowett, S. (2007) ‘Interdependence analysis and the 3 + 1 Cs in the coach–athlete relationship’ in S. Jowett, and D. Lavallee. (eds) Social Psychology in Sport. Leeds: Human Kinetics, pp. 15–28. Jowett, S. (2017) ‘Coaching effectiveness: the coach–athlete relationship at its heart’, Current Opinion in Psychology, 16, pp. 154–158....
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Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Political grief: understanding an emerging phenomenon

...psychological phenomenon affecting millions of people worldwide. Political grief is not like other forms of loss. You haven’t lost a loved one to death. Instead, you’ve experienced the shattering of something fundamental to how you understand the world and your place in it. Harris (2022) describes this as the breakdown of our ‘assumptive world’ – the beliefs and...
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Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning to swim in murky seas: Exploitation of the Electorate via Social Media

...psychological self-defence and start resisting the dark arts of political communication, in Volker Patent’s second article on Brexit and the General Election...[five young people in vibrant clothes look at tablets and phones together in front of a blue background. ] Bias does not just affect decision-makers - it is at the root of many electoral behaviours. More to the...
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Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs
Society, Politics & Law

Fit for office - the dark triad and selection of MPs

...psychological research on the personalities of political elites highlights a tendency for certain personality traits to be more common among politicians. Politicians are generally low in traits that imply trust and trustworthiness (such as agreeableness), and high in those that facilitate politicking, and operating clandestinely (Carparra et al., 2010; Silvester et al.,...
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Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...psychological or physical state of being. It is not a management activity, where something is ‘done’ to employees to ‘make’ them engaged (although management is a factor that influences engagement), nor is it job satisfaction (which may contribute to or result from engagement, but is distinct). Employee engagement is much more about a two-way commitment and...
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