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How Team GB cyclists peaked at the Olympics and owned the velodrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

How Team GB cyclists peaked at the Olympics and owned the velodrome

...motivated them, but also potentially has intimidated their rivals. This notion was echoed by Max Whitlock, when he reflectedon the huge success that Team GB gymnasts had experienced: “I’m a big believer in success breeding success. The results we’ve had have pushed us to get more, it’s made us all believe that it’s possible”. Transcript British Cycling head...
Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?
Society, Politics & Law

Could your brain activity be used in evidence against you?

...motive or opportunity weighed more heavily in the hypothetical jurors’ minds. This is not surprising, as our case-based research demonstrates the importance of the context in which neuroscientific evidence is introduced in court. It could help support a case, but the success is dependent on the strength of all the evidence combined. In no case was the use of...
Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties
History & The Arts

Methods in Motion: Clashing loyalties

...motivations, beliefs and commitments. The latter enables researchers to build pictures of lives we could not otherwise visualise, although it’s important to keep in mind different historical contexts. The dual loyalties of a communist such as James Klugmann – the subject of my book The Shadow Man – working for SOE in 1942-44 and advising closer links to Marshal Tito...
The psychology of World Cup fans
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of World Cup fans

...motivated to be positive about their country and its team. They are also more likely to be negative about other teams. 2. Why do people cheer and yell during a match in a way they never normally would? The presence of others around you can lead to “deindividuation”. This is where you blend into a crowd and become anonymous, something particularly likely to happen if...
Radical alternatives to prison
Society, Politics & Law

Radical alternatives to prison

...motivational interviewing, for example, community members can become involved in delivering safety and building new social bonds. New relationships could be developed that could build solidarity and trust rather than deploying the penal law which undermines them. We could also draw more extensively on the civil law and the concept of tort where compensation rather than...
The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"
Society, Politics & Law

The Orlando killings were "a queerphobic attack"

...motivation behind the mass killings in Orlando, says João Florêncio - but that doesn't mean stigmatising people with mental health issues, either...In the immediate aftermath of the worst mass-shooting in US history, debates in the media are already focusing on what to call the tragic event. Was it a queerphobic attack, yet another instance of Islamist terrorism...
Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics
Society, Politics & Law

Growing plants, growing communities: Climate Camp, Veggie Gardens and Local Politics

...motives for the County Council's apparent silence. Is the site to be sold to developers? Will Lewes lose another green space, one that hosts large, well-established deciduous trees, extensive undergrowth, bats and hedgehogs? Global meets local The political activism that sparks Climate Camps may be different from the political activism of a local constituency who...
The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...motivation to keep updating, improving, co-facilitating and delivering these talks and reaching to as many people as possible. This does matter because learning should be accessible to everyone and as the Ageing Well Public Talk Series grow, we are, with all people involved in the co-production of the AWPT Series, in a position to widen the reach and impact of the...