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...psychological casualties have been treated in more recent conflicts, right up to the present day by exploring the connection between shell shock and our modern understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder. To conclude the week, you’ll get a chance to test your understanding of what you have learned with the end-of-course test and discover how you can learn more about...

...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...

...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...