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...de-de-de-de. You know, mentally you need to be able to cope with all that pressure and to kind of execute what you’ve done that makes you so good and do it in the most intense situations. Caroline: Pressure is a big part of being involved in a sport so the pressure of, for example, preparing for an Olympic Games in terms of being selected for Olympic Games is a big...

...class young women. In this context, being anorexic can be a way of achieving popularity and attention: Hayley (15): I always used to look at my friends and think that I wanted to be as good, or as pretty, or as clever as them. So, I decided that not eating was a way that I could maybe achieve that. (Evans et al., 2004, p. 137) Paradoxically, not eating can become a way of...

...De Felice and her colleague Dr Nele Pöldvere (Lund University, Sweden). They analysed 450,000 words of authentic British English conversations from a wide variety of contexts – chats between family and friends, informal workplace exchanges, formal meetings, university settings – to understand all the different ways people give and respond to advice. They found over...