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On the inside of the rebellion against climate change
Nature & Environment

On the inside of the rebellion against climate change

...psychology could be said to be good for. Following David Attenborough’s screening of Climate change the facts on BBC, a message is becoming ever clearer – humanity and life on earth are in peril from the catastrophic potential of climate change that is caused by human activity on the planet. As David Attenborough highlighted, the biggest risk for humanity and earth...
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Article 10 mins
Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking
Health, Sports & Psychology

Outdoor Therapy: The Benefits of Walking and Talking

...psychological condition. Outdoor therapy brings a different angle. You can draw on the experiences of being in nature to complement the therapy process, such as using the changing weather to mirror experiences of changing times such as grieving or recovery or using sensory aspects to develop skills in breathing exercises and mindfulness. To support people through...
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Article 15 mins
Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...Psychological Therapies (IAPT) which began almost 10 years ago and has delivered treatment to over 900,000 adults with anxiety and depression, both in individual sessions and in group-based format. However, there can be waiting lists for IAPT and for other state-funded forms of therapy. For those with the funds available to pay for treatment, websites like welldoing.org...
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Article 10 mins
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?

...psychological literature establishing that ‘freezing’ or dissociative responses are common in response to a sexual assault. In terms of the delivery of the testimony, the picture was even more concerning. In the psychological literature, body language has been shown to be a very poor indictor of truthfulness. Nonetheless, jurors regularly relied on a witness’s body...
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Article 5 mins
Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies
Money & Business

Decolonising the idea of culture in management studies

...Management Learning & Education, 17(2), pp. 137–54. Maldonado-Torres, N. (2017) 'Frantz Fanon and the decolonial turn in psychology: From modern/colonial methods to the decolonial attitude'. South African Journal of Psychology, 47(4), pp. 432–41. Quijano, A. (2000) 'Coloniality of power and Eurocentrism in Latin America'. International Sociology, 15(2), pp. 215–32....
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Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...forensics and learn how data are stored on and deleted from hard disk and solid-state drives. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University courses TM111 Introduction to computing and information technology 1 and TM112Introduction to computing and information technology 2. Note: The word ‘data’ is plural (‘datum’ refers to an item of data),...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...Forensic Analysis to analyse personal writing style by detecting similarities among written documents submitted by each user TeSLA from TeSLA project EU on Vimeo. In the context of formal education, the OU TeSLA team have completed two studies with almost 1000 OU students and teaching staff. The participants have identified a range of advantages of online authentication,...
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The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation
Health, Sports & Psychology

The lifelong political engagement of the Silent Generation

...Psychology courses and qualifications. Ageing isn’t easy and it is often made more difficult by a society that values its citizens in terms of their economic contribution. Retirement can bring with it a sense of personal loss of the reputation, status and income associated with employment. It may also be accompanied by society’s loss of interest in the opinions of its...
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