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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...
Messy narratives of childhood
... gratuitous slow motion. The baby lies forgotten as dance music pounds, bottles smash, powder flies, and grimaces of ...
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...
Book reviews
... who is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Keele ...
Book reviews, September 2016
... easier and less risky. Today, apps that support art, music and photography are readily available – but, ...
Looking back: Rewriting the rest cure in The Secret Garden
... a cheerful band of beggars and thieves, including a former music hall dancer with a redemptive creed. She explains to ...
Mapping Fatherland
... Poem' on homelessness at Unfear on Oldham Street. Original music from the show, by Karl Hyde and Matthew Herbert, is ...
Book Reviews
... the negative consequences – scientific discoveries, art, music, but also slavery, war, pollution – calling for a ...
Psychedelics – A tool for therapy?
... setting is less clear but the researchers have explored music, lighting, and support from therapist during treatment. ...
Drawn to the nectars of negativity
... to a breadth of darker interests. These may comprise music resembling ‘nothingness’ (e.g. death / doom metal), ...
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 ...
‘We cannot afford to lose even one child’
... He forwent studies he had commenced in art, music, botany and biology. He was not studying as much Talmud ... have liked and had reluctantly stopped attending classical music concerts. Feuerstein died in April 2014 at the age of ...
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 ...
News and Media
... aspects of human nature, such as language, morality and music. Martin Seligman (University of Pennsylvania) no longer ...
Empowering bold discussions on anxiety
... talking therapies and pioneer Dizzy Gillespie ’s jazz music. Drawing upon the subjective experience of ...
'Be the grit in the oyster'
... stories and experiences improvised through movement and music by a small group of performers. Leader of the group ...
‘It has become my nightmare’
... ‘incredibly colourful… Different colours, different music, everything is so colourful… but what are they trying ...
Event
... in his talk, is the deafening noise of prayers, chants and music – around 80–85 decibels, with only some respite at ...
Society
... on collaborative working in creative areas such as music making. She is particularly interested in processes of ...
From the Research Digest
... pain of loud noises or teeth brushing. When he hears loud music, one little boy said: ‘It feels like my heart is ...
Getting involved, with a creative spirit
... universal communion could be facilitated through dance and music. Many presentations were made during this session to ...
Looking Back: Finding the senses
... neural areas to process speech, faces, time, emotion, music, circadian rhythms, echolocation and space/navigation ...
Hallucinating in the deep waters of consciousness…
... give the audience the experience of synaesthesia, by using music in place of words, or colours and music together. But this is disappointing in its ...