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Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...psychology that his basic sense of what the individual is, is a series of impressions formed by experience basically upon an empty of blank beginning. There is no fundamental predisposition towards good or evil, this is the crucial Owenite point. The notion that man does not form his own character, but it is formed by his environment. Ian Donnochie When he arrived at New...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...psychological boost to the local population. Allowing it to be damaged could cause disruption, anxiety and, in the worst cases, an increase in violence among communities. For instance, in 2006, the bombing of the Al-Askari Mosque in Iraq led to a significant increase in aggressive reprisals and deaths (Figure 11). Protecting heritage could also benefit the relationship...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...psychologically is it creates an equation. Time is scarce, so what do we do? Well -- well, we speed up, don't we? We try and do more and more with less and less time. We turn every moment of every day into a race to the finish line -- a finish line, incidentally, that we never reach, but a finish line nonetheless. And I guess that the question is, is it possible to break...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...psychology and even bits of sociology. For the purposes of this course, the most useful way of distinguishing the differences in this approach involves considering different levels of explanation. Constructions that stress the ‘social’ conditions and causes of social issues might begin with the level of the individual, looking at character, personality, aptitudes,...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...psychology degree. Chose Biology, brain and behaviour as the course title sounds good and the description appealed to me. Might do science degree. This course relevant to psychology and science degrees. Most students have a mixture of reasons for studying, some more dominant than others. And many students find their motives change over time. It is a good idea to pause...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...psychology of risk - Fear and guilt appeals are often premised on notions of risk: that by communicating the risk involved in specific behaviours, the target audience will engage with the message (Eagle et al., 2020). Exploring this theme in more detail, Vos et al. (2017), in a study of gamblers in Australia, found that fear, in particular, evokes threats such as...
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...psychology of the villain, however. Games are symbolic, rather, of the genre’s consistent determination to reach out to the potential reader and to create a communitarian response that drives mass readership. In short, the reader is invited not just to read the text but to share in the deductive process of identifying clues and solving the puzzle of the crime. The...
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...psychologically defenceless against it, because being cool was being high. (O’Brien, 2012, p. 89)...Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution: 10 Joplin’s lasting reputation - For Joplin – as for many others, both famous and unknown – heroin addiction proved to be fatal. She died of an overdose on 4 October 1970, 16 days after Hendrix who choked to death on his own...