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Do animals have sex for fun?
Nature & Environment

Do animals have sex for fun?

...motivator. The hypothesis that all sexually reproducing species experience sexual pleasure is, in itself, quite reasonable – as would be the hypothesis that animals find eating pleasurable. Peak performance This hypothesis about sex has been tested. Since the word “pleasure” is quite vague, scientists have tended to focus on orgasms. As a particularly intense form...
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Why Study Philosophers?
History & The Arts

Why Study Philosophers?

...can debate the kinds of concerns that interested our six philosophers. It might be that you would not end up studying exactly our six (at The Open University you would read Wittgenstein, Marx and Rousseau, but not Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Arendt). However, the concerns are recognisably the same, and the motive to reflect on what we find important has not changed much....
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When do children develop a sense of gender?
Education & Development

When do children develop a sense of gender?

...motivated to relate to other members of their group and seek out gender-related information, often becoming very strict about adhering to gender stereotypes. For example, children between the ages of three and five prefer to play with members of their own gender. And they also prefer to engage with gender-stereotyped toys and activities. It isn’t until a few years later...
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How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?
Education & Development

How is a University obsession with teenagers hurting part-time students?

...motivations for studying part-time emerged from the research – improving employment prospects, followed closely by those who identified themselves as grabbing a second chance, having missed out at age 18. Individual students were desperate for greater flexibility to enable them to cope with their studies. Over a third reported missing a formal element of their course...
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Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Riding the carousel or partners for life: what makes an effective coach–athlete relationship in tennis?

...motivations and willingness of the athlete and coach to maintain close ties over time. Complementarity – capturing the roles in the relationship and co-operation in the dyad, that is being open and comfortable in each other’s presence. Co-orientation – the degree to which there is shared knowledge and understanding between the coach and athlete (e.g., shared...
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Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?
Society, Politics & Law

Telling Tales: what is happening on police Facebook sites?

...motivated ‘crew’ in the form of the local community members. Firstly, the stories told on these sites show that the police make choices about what to “tell” but they are not the only scriptwriters. When the police post a story or part of a story, they normally post a short and fairly neutral snippet that informs the community about what has happened. These posts...
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Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...motivates and constrains the reproduction or transformation of social values, and the realisation of people’s creative potential. Creativity can be understood both as the generation of new ideas and as the idea-transforming component of innovation. There are two strands of thought on this. One is interest at government level in the overall process of how ideas are...
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The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers to modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers to modern slavery

...motivations for why people migrate, some do it in search of employment or cultural enrichment, but many migrate out of necessity to escape conflicts or in response to climate change. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), by the end of 2022, 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced as refugees, asylum seekers or internally displaced people (IDPs). Not only does...
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