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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 ...
Damon Albarn's 'Everyday Robots'…
... very simply rendered, and often mournfully sung. The music uses samples of voices and sounds, sewn together with a ... that influence how we shop, atmospherics (e.g. lighting, music played in shops), and brand ‘priming’. He writes in ...
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...
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 ...
News
... I tinyurl.com/y6v8y2e The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) has two grant schemes ... advancement or promotion of research in the psychology of music or music education. I Reg and Molly Buck Award: one grant ...
Book reviews
... on Viennese life at the turn of the century, on classical music, psychoanalysis, the origins of Rorschach’s famous ...
Thinking differently: Fashionable, original
... careers, to the detriment of their creative talents in music and art. A lively audience discussion followed the ...
Society
... makes us human, crisis negotiation, and whether or not pop music is bad for young people. In London the topics included ...
The social dimension of emotion
... tournament), or a social or cultural artefact (a piece of music). Of course, we sometimes experience emotions in ...
Eye on Fiction - Where the wild things are
... and ‘dream pictures’ while listening to classical music. His aim was not unlike that of a patient in ... on one page… beginning and ending, if possible, with the music itself.’ He said that some of these were ‘purely ...
Digest: What else can you expect from a Crappo?
... electricity, law, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, music, pathology, philosophy, and physics. But how much of ...
News and media
... from internet dating and subliminal messages in rock music through to Barbie dolls. The media and popular culture, ... targets for the censors – aggressive or antisocial music tends not to have a negative influence on young people. ... interpret or ignore...
Sleep on a Problem... It works like a dream
... other in a manner comparable to the themes and phrases in music (Krippner, 1981). The structure of the chemical benzene ...
Personality and art
... also more likely to invest time and money in others (e.g. music, performing arts, theatre, etc.) (McManus & Furnham, in ...
News, Digest and Media
... proper. The subject this year was the psychology of music and consumer behaviour, wittily titled ‘The tills are ... you by French or German wine by playing the appropriate music, David Hargreaves gave the audience examples of music on his...
The name game
... that involve grinding grain, and those called Melody to music making. This sort of influence can come from first ...
Book reviews
... who is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Keele ...
Rethinking siblings and mental illness
... gatherings, joining a yoga class together or going to a music festival. One sibling in the Sibling Network stated: ...
Asylum 2- Working with refugee children and families
... helpful coping strategies, such as praying, listening to music or asking a family member to tell them a story before ...
The education of children in care
... are less important, such as sport or popular music. Pre-care experiences certainly play a part in ...
Book Reviews
... the negative consequences – scientific discoveries, art, music, but also slavery, war, pollution – calling for a ...
The multisensory perception of flavour
... through to the colour of the lighting and the background music all affect both the foods and drinks we choose to order ... D. (2008). The social and applied psychology of music. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oberfeld, D., Hecht, ...
News, Digest and Media
... He told The Psychologist he was ‘gobsmacked’. Skoog music Edinburgh University psychologist Dr Ben Schögler and ... Skoog allows children with special needs to make their own music and Schögler says they often progress within one ... who now works full-time...
Digest
... explain the popularity of tragic art, be that in drama, music or books. ‘In fictional tragedy, people are given the ...
News and media
... that supports women prisoners during pregnancy and birth. Music therapy More better-quality research is needed to establish whether music therapy can help reduce the symptoms of depression, a ... controlled studies, four of which reported a benefit of ...