Tag Archives: psychology
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Susilo Wibisono, Kiara Minto, Gi K. Chonu, Winnifred Louis
If change is necessary and beneficial, why is it sometimes so slow, and fiercely resisted? When and how do people, groups, and movements bring about system change? These are the ideas we explore in our recent book from Cambridge University Press, The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change. Change is actively created and […]
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Sarah Awad
We use images to immortalize precious moments, to document how we see the world and how others should see it, and to construct imaginations of how the world ought to be. In the book Seeing Matters, I examine the psychological influence of public images in shaping our thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions, and why it […]
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Asya M. Pereltsvaig
We all use language every day: not only to communicate thoughts and ideas to other people, but also for our internal monologue and, some might argue, for organizing thought. But what are the inner workings of human language and what makes it different from animal communication? Professional linguists study these questions in their finest detail, […]
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Professor Andreas Maercker
What will become of those currently experiencing the wars we see in the media? Take the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel and Sudan, for example. Will the children be permanently scarred into adulthood, and will the communities be too? My book Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing collects evidence from psychology and the social sciences […]
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Rob Poole
Catherine Robinson, Murad Khan and I have edited a new book on suicide prevention. Does the world need it when there already loads of books on suicide? We think so. Many academics in mental health are aware of the ‘basic facts’ of suicide prevention. Reducing access to means of harming oneself works. Male suicide fluctuates […]
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Yuval Feldman
Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]
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Owen Bowden-Jones
After nearly thirty years working as an addiction psychiatrist with people with drug related problems, I have met many young people experiencing often severe challenges including dependence and associated mental health issues. Some are desperate for support to stop using substances, while others want to continue using drugs but reduce their risk of further harm. […]
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Stephen C. Levinson
Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]
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Susilo Wibisono, Kiara Minto, Gi K. Chonu, Winnifred Louis
If change is necessary and beneficial, why is it sometimes so slow, and fiercely resisted? When and how do people, groups, and movements bring about system change? These are the ideas we explore in our recent book from Cambridge University Press, The Psychology of System Change and Resistance to Change. Change is actively created and […]
Read More
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Sarah Awad
We use images to immortalize precious moments, to document how we see the world and how others should see it, and to construct imaginations of how the world ought to be. In the book Seeing Matters, I examine the psychological influence of public images in shaping our thoughts, emotions, memories, and actions, and why it […]
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Asya M. Pereltsvaig
We all use language every day: not only to communicate thoughts and ideas to other people, but also for our internal monologue and, some might argue, for organizing thought. But what are the inner workings of human language and what makes it different from animal communication? Professional linguists study these questions in their finest detail, […]
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Professor Andreas Maercker
What will become of those currently experiencing the wars we see in the media? Take the wars in Ukraine, Gaza/Israel and Sudan, for example. Will the children be permanently scarred into adulthood, and will the communities be too? My book Historical Trauma: Psychological Processes, Contexts, and Healing collects evidence from psychology and the social sciences […]
Read More
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Rob Poole
Catherine Robinson, Murad Khan and I have edited a new book on suicide prevention. Does the world need it when there already loads of books on suicide? We think so. Many academics in mental health are aware of the ‘basic facts’ of suicide prevention. Reducing access to means of harming oneself works. Male suicide fluctuates […]
Read More
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Yuval Feldman
Every policymaker knows the dilemma: should governments trust people to do the right thing, or make sure they do it? The safer option has usually been enforcement. Write the rules, monitor behavior, punish violations. Citizens obey because they have to. Yet most regulators also know something they rarely act on: people tend to follow rules […]
Read More
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Owen Bowden-Jones
After nearly thirty years working as an addiction psychiatrist with people with drug related problems, I have met many young people experiencing often severe challenges including dependence and associated mental health issues. Some are desperate for support to stop using substances, while others want to continue using drugs but reduce their risk of further harm. […]
Read More
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Stephen C. Levinson
Nebulae are those star nurseries familiar through the fabulous Hubble images like the one above. Languages are also born – indeed every language is reborn, quite literally in the nursery. In my new book The Interaction Engine, just like the astronomers I turn the focus not onto language itself but onto the systems that gave […]
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