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Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...Psychology courses Maeve Higgins once set herself a task. The Irish-born comedian wanted to see what life would be like if she stopped laughing at things that weren’t funny. Turns out it wasn’t as easy as she thought. “It was so effing hard,” she says. “Laughter is a lubricant and is expected, and it’s really hard not to do it.” It’s coming up for 11pm on...
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...Psychological Society and Routledge. Stanton, A. (1992) 'Learning from experience of collective teamwork', in Paton R., Cornforth C, and Batsleer, J. (eds) Issues in Voluntary and Non-profit Management, pp. 95–103, Addison-Wesley in association with the Open University...Groups and teamwork: 3.1 Belonging to a group - Because work groups are of central significance in...
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Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...Psychology from Loughborough University, discusses the benefits of physical activity to mental health. Listen to Audio 1 and note down the key benefits of physical activity to mental health. Reflect on how these are of particular importance to carers, given the mental health implications from the caring role discussed in Session 1. DR NICHOLA KENTZER: We often hear about...
Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education
Health, Sports & Psychology

Compassion and care: staff experiences of death, the role of bereavement policies in higher education

...psychologically beneficial (DWP, 2006). However, work can also impact upon us negatively; work related stressors or reconciling the time demands of personal responsibilities among professional demands are among just some of the things that can lead to poor mental health. A protective feature for workers can be to have a good working relationship with their employees. The...
Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list
History & The Arts

Jorge Luis Borges: A short reading list

...psychological and allegorical) is the investigation of a man’s inner self, through the works he has wrought, the words he has spoken, the many lives he has ruined. The same technique was used by Joseph Conrad in Chance (1914) and in that beautiful film The Power and the Glory: a rhapsody of miscellaneous scenes without chronological order. Overwhelmingly, endlessly,...
How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

How do voters choose between two unappealing candidates?

...psychology scholar Eldar Shafir has also found that rejection makes people focus on negative attributes. Perhaps the candidates’ campaign managers know this already and that is why the negativity in this election has been so high. But, the point to remember is that this cannot be a shallow negative attribute like sounding bossy or having a spray-tanning habit. People...
Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...psychologically disturbed tend to be associated with violent and aggressive behaviour, a tendency we see in films such as, Play Misty For Me (1971); Fatal Attraction (1987) and Misery (1990). In Homeland, Mathison is the protagonist and one of those in charge of matters pertaining to national security while managing her mental illness. Season one: the uncompromising...
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...Psychology Open, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/2055102917742918 The Life. Death. Whatever: 5 things approach There is more information on the NHS organ donation website in helping you to decide and with making an organ donation decision There is also advice on how to register this decision How to have conversations with your family and or trusted individual about your...