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Unravelling our beginnings
... a preference that is acquired prenatally. Newborns prefer music they have heard prenatally to that which they have ... from prenatal learning is unknown. Newborn preferences for music acquired prenatally disappear by three weeks of age in ...
Choice and control for animals in captivity
... surrounding them, including stimuli like lights, music and temperature. Due to this lack of control, animals ...
A festival of community psychology
... enables people to ‘bounce’ back as active citizens . Music and change Community psychology has been big in Chile ...
Transitions with the Aging Rebels
... and refurbished a guitar and is learning how to read music. Michael Karp, co-leader of Aging Rebels, summed up ... of weathering the crisis reading, cooking or listening to music alone in separate apartments, they offer each other ...
Creative Britain
... fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer ... activities of say, painting, sculpture, classical music, but now encompasses many new activities, as the 2001 ...
How psychology researchers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
... health that we can already be doing, she adds: practising music and arts, for instance, or volunteering and providing ...
Choosing the right tools to find the right people
... produced 40 per cent of the ‘masterworks’ in classical music (Moles, 1958). Although Price’s law was originally ...
Sleeping like a baby: Sleep in the first years of life
... and then blow gently into their eyes, upon hearing the music they would soon come to expect the air and scrunch up ... naps, nappies, books, dummies, co-sleeping, listening to music at bedtime, and so much more. Understanding more about ...
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... to sit back, play tennis and golf and listen to the soul music he loves. But he’s enthusiastic about the future of ...
Character – ‘caught’ or ‘taught’?
... Futures Institute, told the Templeton conference, theatre, music, philosophy, religion (as well as storytelling, of ...
A matter of life and death
... range of non-medical issues, such as preferences in food, music, TV programmes and clothing. Advance Statements must be ... I love my brain. I write, I read, I listen to music constantly… Being able to think, discuss and joke ...
The aftermath of the Hans Asperger exposé
... For example, some people who love Michael Jackson’s music no longer play it because of his likely paedophilia.’ ... to Sibelius and Wagner as being ‘composers whose music we can no longer listen to and separate from their ... in actively supporting anti-...
Big Picture: Poetry as a mental health resource
... Walton, K. (2011). Thoughtwriting – in poetry and music. New Literary History, 42(3), 455–476. Zeman, A., ...
The psychology of stuff and things
... their youth too. Usually this manifests in a taste for music, books, films and other entertainment from yesteryear, ... a creative star dies, with the mass consumption of their music, books or films or other associated items. Consider how ... with our stuff is...
The Psychologist presents… How to talk so people listen
... answer the question in a very deadpan way: “I was at a music workshop”, or he could say “what do you mean, ... People telephone and say “I’ve got this problem with music next door”, noise next door, whatever it might be. ...
Dancing plagues and mass hysteria
... tasteless meals, pillow-less beds and evenings bereft of music and conversation. Hence the arrival of reformist Mother ... London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Rouget, G. (1985). Music and trance: A theory of the relations between music and...
Psychoeducation doesn’t have to be boring
... musical statues, but rather than simply freezing when the music stops children can choose to pause in a running pose, ...
The future of thinking differently
... remember a word. It helps with maths, too.’ Listening to music also helps her. In class, she finds it easier to focus on what the teacher is saying when she has classical music playing in an earbud in one ear. Her mother lobbied for ...
Student Writer Competition winners
... programmes. An organisation called TAPE offers various music and film projects; there is a strong service user group ... behind the curtain, smoking and chatting playfully. Music is played at full blast, people dance and laugh. ‘You ...
Coping with life in isolation and confinement during the Covid-19 pandemic
... similarly tell us they read books, listen to music, play card games, and cook food as good ways of filling ... 8, 162–6. Philpott, C. (2013). The sounds of silence: music in the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, The Polar ...
The man, his passions and motivations
... short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’. Victor wrote the music and Stanley the libretto. After finishing work on the ...
A more fluid approach to drinking
... – evident in the naming of entertainment arenas, live music stadia and festival bars – despite growing ... & Williams, C., (2008), The impact of brand sponsorship of music festivals. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 26 (7), ...
New therapist, new hope
... it. It seems people with aphantasia can’t ‘hear’ music or similar, either. I am fervently curious to know the ...
The social dimension of emotion
... tournament), or a social or cultural artefact (a piece of music). Of course, we sometimes experience emotions in ...
Looking Back: A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry
... and other forms of therapy involving art and music. In 1952 he visited Switzerland where he also met ...