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What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide
Money & Business

What is the Hawthorne Effect? The one-minute guide

...research on how people behave, it's important to consider the Hawthorne Effect. But why? A really, really quick introduction...[Black background with a halogen light strip positioned diagonally from top left corner to right-hand corner in the middle. Text saying "In the 1920s, workers at the Hawthorne Works in Chicago were observed to be more productive in better-lit...
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Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...Children need to learn the names of different colours, and research has suggested that learning the correct terms for different colours is quite a difficult task (Maule, Skelton and Franklin, 2023). The ability to match simple colour terms to the ‘correct’ colour (e.g. matching the word ‘blue’ to the colour blue) isn’t something that children master until around...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context
Society, Politics & Law

Section 2: Red Clydeside and Glasgow 1919: Setting the Context

...centres in the entire UK and, thus, no exception...[clydeside map] Encompassing the years from just before the outbreak of conflict in World War One in 1914, until the period of the great depression that ravaged Clydeside and many other industrial cities and regions across the UK in the inter-war years, the period widely referred to as ‘Red Clydeside’ was one of the...
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The biology of loving our pets
Science, Maths & Technology

The biology of loving our pets

...children, we release a hormone called oxytocin? Because of this, oxytocin is often referred to as the ‘love hormone’. But scientific research has shown that we also release oxytocin, the love hormone, when we see, play or stroke our pets. A study published in Science found that looking into the eyes of pet dogs can increase our oxytocin levels by almost 300% (Nagasawa...
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The Trojan Defence
Science, Maths & Technology

The Trojan Defence

...research forms the basis for this programme uncovers some of the artefacts examined and techniques to support or refute claims of innocence. Somehow losing your privacy doesn't seem so bad at all... The Trojan Defence How feasible is 'The Trojan Defence', or is it just an convenient excuse for someone trying to dodge guilt The Enemy Within Ian Kennedy takes us further...
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Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies
History & The Arts

Under the covers: The emerging critical sleep studies

...research has moved beyond the sleep laboratory, generating a certain fascination with sleep among novelists as well as researchers in the humanities. To do this, Greaney formulates two suggestions: the first focuses on the “ongoing territorial dispute between art and science over the nature of sleep”. This debate revolves around questions such as how to study sleep...
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Decolonising computing?
Digital & Computing

Decolonising computing?

...centring politic, less concerned with a replication of its own ‘centres’” (p. 3). However, I remain somewhat undecided about the need to commit to decentring per se, being more concerned with decentring Eurocentrism cum West-centrism cum core-centrism. On my reading of ‘pluriversality’ as an alternative to Eurocentric universality, for example, it might be that...
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Video 15 mins
Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...centre of the diagram, there’s a kind of research method involved in the creation of the self-help materials themselves: perhaps more akin to the research conducted by people in the humanities, particularly in creative writing. I’m constantly engaged in a dialogue with people about what they’d find most useful, and what formats would be most accessible to diverse...
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