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The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse

...forensic investigation conclude had happened to make the bridge fall? Well, eyebar 330 was defective because it had particularly high levels of residual stress left after its manufacture. The design of the eyebar assembly meant that water could pool at the bottom of the eye-hole, and the combination of the tensile residual stress and a corrosive environment had caused a...
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Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments
Health, Sports & Psychology

Keep me walking: People living with dementia and outdoor environments

...psychological therapies in managing grief experienced by bereaved spouses or partners of adults who had received palliative care in the UK. (Under review with Prospero) Vseteckova J, Jones K, Methley A, Boyle G, Garcia R (2020) A systematic review of the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) compared with other psychological therapies in managing grief...
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Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...psychological ‘modality’ - at this stage the child is dependent on others for survival and satisfaction.) The anal stage comes next where the core conflict relates to the requirement of the child to control his/her own body functions to the requests of others. According to Freud, this may lay the foundation for many different kinds of personality characteristics from...
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Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...psychological factors and heart disease, particularly in women. The faster a heart attack is treated after it occurs, the less heart muscle is lost and the lower the risk of death and disability as a result. For both men and women the most common symptom of a heart attack is chest pain. But women can experience less typical symptoms such as shortness of breath, weakness,...
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A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture
Health, Sports & Psychology

A brief history of the ever-changing definition of culture

...pp. 127–150). New York: Psychology Press. Sen, A. (2008) ‘Violence, identity and poverty’, Journal of Peace Research, 45(1), pp. 5–15. Wan, C. and Chiu, C. Y. (2009) An intersubjective consensus approach to culture in Wyer, R., Chiu, C.-Y., Hong, Y. (eds), Understanding culture: Theory, research and application (pp. 79–91). New York: Psychology Press....
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Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...psychological approach focuses on examining what makes some individuals, but not others, behave badly. The sociological approach looks at why some individuals and some behaviours, but not others, are defined as disorderly...This free course, Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency, will introduce two approaches to understanding juvenile delinquency. The...
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The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...psychological rather than a physical condition. It’s not something that can be “lost” or “taken”. Yet while not every woman has a hymen, and it’s rarely some tough barrier, the concept of technical virginity still focuses on whether there has been vaginal penetration by a penis. And surgical reconstructions are still performed, for example in Iran, to create a...
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Virtual murder: Just a game?
History & The Arts

Virtual murder: Just a game?

...Psychological Association released the findings of a study of hundreds of research papers published between 2005 and 2013. They concluded that ‘The research demonstrates a consistent relation between violent video game use and increases in aggressive behaviour, aggressive cognitions and aggressive affect, and decreases in pro-social behaviour, empathy and sensitivity to...
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