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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...psychology behind them...This free course, Understanding depression and anxiety, explores the causes of these mental health issues, with a particular focus on stress. You will consider some risk and causal factors for some depression and anxiety disorders, and learn about the biology and psychology behind them....Understanding depression and anxiety: Introduction - You...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...psychological take If Trump has upset Chinese investors, what are the Chinese more broadly making of the campaign - and in particular, a female candidate for President? David Dollar and Wei Wang of The Brookings Institution have researched the Chinese reaction to Hillary Clinton: A reader comment on a Peng Pai News report on the investigation into Clinton’s use of...
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Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?
Society, Politics & Law

Is it possible to have respect for the poor and homeless?

...psychological need for respect. What he has in mind is what Stephen Darwall has called recognition respect. That is the recognition by our peers that we are a person with interests and a life worth living. It also affects the ability of people to take part in the reciprocal nature of mutual respect. Not because people in poverty are incapable of respecting others, but...
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Brexit and the Irish border
OpenLearn Ireland

Brexit and the Irish border

...psychological significance of the border. If the continent of Europe, which witnessed horrific world wars in the 20th century came come closer together to cooperate, this placed the Irish-British conflict – symbolised by the border and partition - into a new context. Then the peace process began with the 1994 IRA ceasefire and the signing of the Good Friday (Belfast)...
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The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...psychological, social and historical contexts in which it had been embedded in the 18th century, transforming it into an abstract “science”. This new “science” continued to be increasingly abstracted, refined and complexified throughout the 19th and 20th century, with many economists all the while maintaining the cult of Smith as its original “inventor”....
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Writing your research proposal
Education & Development

Writing your research proposal

...psychology Succeeding in postgraduate study - OpenLearn - Open University Are you ready for postgraduate study? - OpenLearn - Open University Postgraduate fees and funding | Open University Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth - OpenLearn - Open University We want you to do more than just read this series of articles. Our purpose is to help...
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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...psychological aspects of child development – and how we can have rather limited views on what constitutes ‘normal’ or healthy emotional and social development. For instance, in terms of gender role expectations, does it really matter if a girl dresses and acts in a way that is masculine? and maybe it can be okay that your child doesn’t want to go to any parties,...
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Data analysis and interpretation
Education & Development

Data analysis and interpretation

...Ethical Considerations for Multi/plurilingual Research. Video recording of discussion led by Prof Britta Viebrock, ENROPE Intensive Study Week#2, Paris. Yardley, L. (2017) ‘Demonstrating the validity of qualitative research’, The Journal of Positive Psychology, 12(3), pp. 295–6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2016.1262624 (Accessed: 23 April 2025)....
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