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How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can you tell that you're not experiencing a delusion?

...everyday life, for example, mentally healthy people distort reality to enhance their self-esteem and maintain beliefs about their self-agency. When faced with negative, ambiguous or unsupportive feedback, we often respond with exaggerated perceptions of control and unrealistic optimism. In some life situations – in states of delirium, bereavement, severe lack of sleep...
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Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?
Society, Politics & Law

Stay together: Can LBGTQ+ and older couples show the way to a lasting love?

...everyday practices is greater than heterosexual counterparts who are perhaps more inclined to take things for granted. Of course, same sex couples weren’t the only ones who were happy. The face-to-face interviews revealed that the older heterosexual couples and those who were in a second long-term relationship were often more inclined to reflect on how their...
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Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ordinary dying and the Queen: Reflections on a case study

...everyday use of ‘ordinary’ or ‘normal’ dying can be useful to distinguish between the types of deaths witnessed by clinicians, but as social scientists it is part of our role to urge people to reflect upon how this usage might not be unproblematic. We also hope our reflections allow for further consideration about the difficulties of translating clinical...
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Plastic materials, pollution and recycling
Science, Maths & Technology

Plastic materials, pollution and recycling

...everyday materials in modern society. Plastics are rapidly increasing every year in their uses and applications. Scientific research into plastics and their many applications are ongoing, with many thousands of papers published on the subject each year covering a range of scientific areas including biology, chemistry, environmental science, geology, health, materials...
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An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers
Society, Politics & Law

An uncomfortable truth: How Britain has criminalised rough sleepers

...are restricting homeless people’s freedom, and turning everyday activities into punishable offences. Yet survival defines the daily lives of homeless people, and in the face of oppression they will find new ways to expose the violence and prejudice they encounter in the every day. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem
Society, Politics & Law

I run mock trials to research the legal system. The bias shown in Channel 4’s The Jury: Murder Trial is a very real problem

...everyday lives after all. The problem is, what we do when we discover that sometimes, jurors use problematic beliefs to shape their stories. Research has shown that many different types of biases influence juror decision making, including but not limited to racial biases and rape myths. Rape myths are false beliefs relating to the act of rape, and the accused and...
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The science behind your Christmas dinner
Science, Maths & Technology

The science behind your Christmas dinner

...everyday lives of millions of people, due to their cheap farming and cooking versatility. But not everything in the potato garden is rosy. The potato plant has developed a mechanism to protect itself from predators: it contains toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, which do no harm to the plant itself but, if ingested by us, can cause awful symptoms including headaches...
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Systems thinking: a select glossary
Money & Business

Systems thinking: a select glossary

...everyday use of the word 'system', as in e.g. 'transport system' (used synonymously with 'system of interest'). Measure of performance The criteria against which the system is judged to have achieved its purpose. Data collected according to measures of performance are used to modify the interactions within the system. Mess A mess is a set of conditions that produces...
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