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Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?

...Psychology of the Perfect Penalty’, I spoke to coaches and athletes from many different sports, including golf, tennis, rugby, handball, gridiron and water-polo. All practice assiduously for any eventuality, and the most important word they used to describe their practise was ‘purposeful’. I was reminded of this word when I saw pictures of England practising for...
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Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in

...on Riley’s pubescent years. The trailer for Pixar’s Inside Out. Transcript To read about whether or not Inside Out accurately depicts how memory works, click here. [The Conversation] Jane Timmons-Mitchell, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Introducing Methods in Motion

...psychological. These discussions aim to address a need to venture beyond knowledge on how to technically use methods and evaluate research findings. Our work will explore what methods do when they are deployed. To this end, we propose ‘methods in motion’ as both a practice and an object of study. Our aim is to understand how society engages with methods and data...
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If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?
History & The Arts

If a pig gives you a new liver, do you give the pig rights?

...psychological capacities, to simply the capacity to suffer or to participate in relationships that could fundamentally transform behaviour. Other suggestions include having the genetic basis for moral agency (would human genes in a human/pig chimera count?) or the fact that one might have been or might become a person. It is unclear how well any of these proposals would...
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After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?
Society, Politics & Law

After the mudslide, what help does Sierra Leone need?

...psychological support and the rest of the wraparound assistance provided by richer countries’ well-financed health economies. Embed from Getty Images Cause no harm So the wider world should give Sierra Leone its aid, but must make sure it is effective. We know that foreign aid can harm, be abused, and lead to dependency. But we also know that the absence of aid can...
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Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?
Languages

Why is Donald Trump a challenge for translators?

...psychological strain as they grapple with their feelings about his claims, ethics and emotionally charged language – which in turn affects the translations they produce. So what is it about Trump that aggravates some translators so much? Beyond the pale It is well known that the president’s infamous tweets are often teeming with assertions that translators know to be...
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‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...psychology Much of this is spadework. But by tying in the notion of emotional recalcitrance with that of cognitive impenetrability, what we gain is the ability to enrich our understanding of emotional recalcitrance through scientific investigation. For example, one of the findings by McRae et. al. was that cognitive re-appraisal in cases where emotions were generated...
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Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?
Education & Development

Interdisciplinary study: disciples of disciplines?

...psychology. The boundaries would appear to be forming and re-forming over time. A second difficulty is that disciplines may also contain ‘factions’ with contradictory ontological stances. In Sociology, for instance, positivists and interpretivists share a field of study and engage in the same specific field of knowledge but have very differing views on what counts as...
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