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Mashup Score: 1Optimism and health | BPS - 1 month(s) ago
An extract from ‘The Science of Happiness: Seven Lessons for Living Well’, by Bruce Hood, with thanks to Simon & Schuster.
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Mashup Score: 5Hot Topics, Challenges & Opportunities in Cancer & Palliative Care Psychology | BPS - 1 month(s) ago
Drop in to a day of bize-size 20 minute update sessions on a range of topics across cancer and palliative care psychology.
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Mashup Score: 1
Laura McHale asks whether the inability to ‘manage ambiguity’ is a personal failing or an excuse for bad management.
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Mashup Score: 2The Dunning-Kruger effect and its discontents | BPS - 5 month(s) ago
Cognition and perception, Personality and self David Dunning responds to our March cover feature. The Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that unknowledgeable people lack the very expertise they need to recognise their lack of expertise. They thus overrate their knowledge and performance. Put more technically, deficient cognition (i.e., expertise) leads to faulty metacognition (i.e., self-evaluation of expertise). In contrast, highly expert people underrate their skills socially because they overestimate the
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Mashup Score: 1Children's decisions to punish others vary according to their parents' political views - The British Psychological Society - 1 year(s) ago
When a child witnesses another doing something wrong, they may well opt to punish the perpetrator, even when this wrongdoing hasn’t harmed them personally, but the punishment will. This is called ‘costly punishment’, but exactly what motivates it isn’t clear. One idea is that it springs from a desire to maintain group norms (that stealing is wrong, for example), and so would be most likely to be…
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Mashup Score: 2The Person-Centred Approach in Health Psychology: Implications for Practice - The British Psychological Society - 2 year(s) ago
About This event will explore the nature of the person centred approach and its implications for practice in health psychology. The event will consist of two key elements, firstly, a brief exploration of some of the theoretical, ethical and practical dimensions of a person centred approach rooted in the philosophical and historical traditions of humanistic/existential psychology. Some key…
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Mashup Score: 12
Description Programme Pricing Contact This webinar is an…
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Mashup Score: 27Impact of Covid-19 on the Wellbeing of Psychologists | BPS - 4 year(s) ago
Coronavirus Resources 10 November 2020 In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic the media have repeatedly described the past six months as unprecedented. From a professional perspective, there has been much focus on the impact Covid-19 has had on different occupational groups. Many…
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Mashup Score: 8Supporting each other through loss and bereavement | BPS - 4 year(s) ago
BPS News 04 May 2020 The British Psychological Society’s Covid-19 bereavement task force has produced a document on helping one another to cope with death and grief, at a time when many people are experiencing the loss of a friend or family member due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It has also released two videos, offering advice on using…
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