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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

...account the extent to which children are embedded in systems like family and school, where parents and teachers play a huge role in teaching children Riley’s age how to mediate their feelings. Most 11-year-olds can tell you that they have feelings – and can name a few (though most would not name Disgust) – but more often than not, these feelings can overwhelm them....
Penalty Pressure Potential at Euro 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

Penalty Pressure Potential at Euro 2016

...accountability of individual players is probably higher than in any other situation in football, where normally responsibility is collectively shared. No-one wants to be the player responsible for their team exiting a major tournament, and history shows that unsuccessful penalty takers are often ‘scapegoated’ and ostracised by their national media. Interestingly it...
The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...account for late-in-the-day wobbles. Those who play in the betting markets, on the other hand, do their best to factor in the current state of the race, and the potential for upsets, and make a best estimate of the likely final outcome. In a recent paper I co-authored with Dr. James Reade of the University of Reading, we employed huge data sets to compare the performance...
What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?
Money & Business

What would happen to the economy if we all stopped drinking?

...causes immense harm to individuals and families up and down the country, and taxes should rise to account for this damage. Yet even on narrowly economic grounds, cuts to duty represent a false economy. Read the full IAS report on which this article is based This article was originally published by the LSE British Politics & Policy blog under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence...
Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe
Nature & Environment

Offshore wind powers ahead in Europe

...account for up to 40 per cent of the running cost of an offshore installation – has been reduced. The industry now uses larger 6MW turbines, which it says need less servicing, and in future it’s likely a move will be made to 8MW models. New methods have been adopted for laying foundations for pylons at sea. The industry says that as projects have grown in size,...
Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Hope for UK nationals living abroad after Brexit

...for the person concerned need to be taken into account. This is where those who have been living abroad in Europe for years, who have retired there, who have raised their families there, should feel more at ease. The court will not easily allow their European Union citizenship rights to be withdrawn. Originally published in The Conversation; read the original article ​...
Methods in Motion: The things we don't know
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The things we don't know

...accounts they produce, while seeking to avoid total cultural relativism or total pessimism about the possibility of understanding diverse perspectives. But it does, perhaps, require much imagination, thoughtfulness, respect and an ability to stay with uncomfortable feelings when researching ways of life that may be different from our own. So, what are some of the...
‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability
History & The Arts

‘Irrational emotions’ and their cognitive impenetrability

...account of fear responses, and there is evidence to suggest that other emotions can also be aroused by distinct pathways, some more cognitively penetrable than others. Without committing to his theory of emotions wholesale, we should, then, vouch for the effectiveness of Griffiths’s model of emotion generation. What he got wrong, for our purposes, is the explanatory...