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Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...psychological experiments have shown that humans suffer from a confirmation bias. What that means is that people – including you and me – tend to be biased in favour of our own thoughts and beliefs. Repeated psychological experiments have shown that humans suffer from a confirmation bias. What that means is that people – including you and me – tend to be biased in...
Children’s wellbeing and creativity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Children’s wellbeing and creativity

...psychology, sociology and anthropology. The psychologist Ed Diener (1984) proposed a model of subjective wellbeing which described how individuals think about and evaluate their life satisfaction based on positive and negative life experiences. His work reminds us that although genetics may play a role people’s subjective wellbeing can also be influenced by the...
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...psychological distress, the percentage who had self-harmed and the percentage who had attempted suicide. The results suggested that rates were similar across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for the three outcomes considered (Patalay and Fitzsimons, 2020). Other key findings in terms of the mental health of young people in the UK included: The heightened...
Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...psychological and social skills. For example, his decision making, concentration and attitude have all developed. Similarly, his confidence, and general maturity when talking to coaches and referees have carried forward into every aspect of his life. Despite this at the back of my mind is the knowledge that as he gets older and tackling becomes part of the game (from U9...
Why does behavioural economics point to a hard Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Why does behavioural economics point to a hard Brexit?

...psychological tendency to gamble rather than accept certain losses, may boost public support for a giant leap away from the EU – despite the fact that most experts are advising a cautious small step. Parliamentary rebels have tempered their demands for a vote on the final Brexit deal and abandoned an earlier House of Lords attempt to keep the UK in the European Economic...
Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
Society, Politics & Law

Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people

...psychologically and emotionally damaged every year. Young people aged 18–24 accounted for more than a quarter (28%) of all self-harm incidents in 2017. According to data from INQUEST 80 people under 21 took their own lives in child prisons between 2007-2018 (with two deaths of young people awaiting classification) and in total 312 young people under the age of 21 have...
European Championships 2020: Can one of the home nations end 55 years of hurt ?
Health, Sports & Psychology

European Championships 2020: Can one of the home nations end 55 years of hurt ?

...Psychological frailty and poor team dynamics have often been seen as Belgium’s downfall, but this golden generation has a real chance to finally win something. Familiar faces are looking strong [Fernandes playing for Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics] Bruno Fernandes playing for Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. The bookmaker’s only see holders Portugal as...
Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...psychological distress at a level that could adversely affect their lives. However, only 101 of these people would have their condition recognised by a doctor Furthermore, only 23 people would be referred on to specialist mental health services. More recent studies have shown that the picture has not changed much since the time of that study and that only about a third of...