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The downsides of positivity
... grade on the exam in the final moments before facing the music felt better than students who overshot in their ...
‘Making the jigsaw pieces as you go along’
... ‘mind-to-muscle’ techniques using images, humour, music or mindfulness or ‘muscle-to-mind’ approaches ...
Kinship and loss
... she was going to become. She moved when I played certain music or watched certain movies. So I felt already that I ...
Increasing happiness in lasting ways
... to higher pleasures like those afforded by great art, music or natural beauty. And although pleasure is an ...
Burnout and remote working
... the things that make working from home enjoyable. Play the music you like, have a nap if you want and focus on the ...
Surviving in the present, thriving in the future?
... Likewise, in Italy, online activities, such as dance, music and video-making workshops offered to refugee and ...
The Rocky Horror Pixel Show
... pseudoscience. The second neuroimaging paradigm uses music – jazz improv mostly. Here a melodic string is ...
Letters
... fashion, film and video, interactive leisure software, music, the performing arts, publishing, software and computer ... for him, to establish himself as performer and creator of music – and, then, agreeing with the ‘social’ gurus, to ...
Behind the masks
... thinking a lot about David Bowie recently, and what his music meant to me. If I were to write a Bowie ...
Building resilience
... only this, but much more . Through funded sport, art and music classes, teenagers were given alternative ways to feel ...
'Every stitch and row is a small win'
... one: Comparing the effects of amateur knitting and amateur music participation on happiness and wellbeing. Applied ...
Can we think ourselves well?
... whether this ritual – the drink, the pill, the music – has the power to shape his body’s response to his ...
Forgiveness
... off in traffic by a harried mother toting several kids to music lessons to being intentionally run off the road by a ...
Meaning in randomness
... idea that hidden messages can be revealed in pop and rock music when it is reversed. However, this ‘backward ...
Psychologists and the media – opportunities and challenges
... one occasion a TV programme I was on said, ‘OK, when the music comes on I want you to do a funky dance’: I had to be ...
Spearman and the Importance of Archives
... ability to mentally recall a piece of instrumental music while ‘No movements of his voice-muscles accompany ...
Creativity and the chaos rainbow
... poetry, had a gallery showing, recorded their own music – are seven times more likely to have low rather than ...
Coach your cortex
... been shown to be more generalised – action video games, music and athletics. Action video games were shown to be ...
Neuroscience for the soul
... who sensed a presence during seizures must have come as music to the ears of one Canadian neuroscientist in ...
School’s out…
... outside, playing computer games, chatting, drawing, making music, constructing things with cardboard boxes, making mud ...
Who makes a good companion?
... • Musical intelligence – having the ability to make music. There is very limited evidence of musical intelligence ...
Toilet psychology
... preference for faecal foods (e.g. sausage), flatulent music (i.e. wind and brass) and toilet humour. His analysis ...
The psychology of sustainable transport
... all mode users (Gatersleben & Uzzell, 2007). In addition, music is an important source of positive experiences for ...
Arts-based research – radical or conventional?
... The form of the film – combining first person narrative, music, and diverse imagery – adds not only to its potential ...
The psychology of scientific thought and behaviour
... out those with mental health problems in a way that art, music and poetry do not. In other words, aspiring scientists ...