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...social wellbeing.Simply being in the presence of nature can be beneficial, as natural settings have been found to regulate physiological functioning by decreasing stress responses such as heart rate and blood pressure. There is also the potential to deliver effective interventions in outdoor settings. This may include using outdoor settings for activities involving...

...social situations. Psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer were especially interested in the influence of emotion on cognition – do people think and behave differently when emotions are higher? They argued against traditional thinking that emotions lead to irrational behaviour, but instead proposed that understanding your own emotions and those of others may allow us...

...social circumstances and attitudes. Such innovative variation may, therefore, be synchronous or diachronous. [Bandits Eric Hobsbawm book]The outlaw is a common figure in folk music, and there seem to be three archetypal character templates within the tradition: Firstly, the ‘simple criminal’ – someone who refuses to abide by the norms of their own community. Such a...