A new article was published in The Chronicle about me running Sci-Hub, a project dedicated to providing free access to academic journals all over the world. Their goal is to present Sci-Hub and its author Alexandra Elbakyan as some kind of malign project.
Emotions are a part of personality and essential to all human relationships, but how well do we understand what they really are? What are the processes by which they occuer and influence us? How do they affect the way we perceive and interact with the world? In The Psychology of Emotions, author
Eva K Halleröd, huvudskyddsombud och ordförande för Vision i Göteborgs kulturförvaltning, vill också se fler åtgärder, som att det ska finnas fler larm – både bärbara och vid diskarna – på alla bibliotek i staden och att det ska göras riskbedömningar innan förändringar införs.
– De som jobbar ute i biblioteksrummet är otroligt utsatta och har dessutom långa pass. Säkerheten måste bli ett naturligt inslag i vardagen, säger hon och påpekar att besökarna ställer allt högre krav på vad folkbiblioteken ska erbjuda i dag. En bibliotekarie är inte bara en bibliotekarie utan även bankman, socialsekreterare, fritidsledare och datorlärare.
"Arbetsmiljöproblemen på landets bibliotek har varit så pass stora att var femte funderat på att byta jobb de senaste två åren på grund av ordningsproblem, visar Tidningen Visions enkät. En majoritet, 63 procent, skulle också vilja porta vissa besökare
Tom Sauer (2020) Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Case of the European Union, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 3:1, 41-59, DOI: 10.1080/25751654.2020.1764260
As the political philosopher Hannah Arendt once stated: “The danger is that these [deterrence] theories are not only plausible because they take their evidence from actually discernable present trends, but that, because of their inner consistency, they have a hypnotic effect; they put to sleep our common sense, which is nothing else but our mental organ for perceiving, understanding, and dealing with reality and factuality” (quoted in Harrington 2016, 105–106)
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DDN Nov 11, 2020. Glenn Greenwald on Tactics of the Left, Mistakes of Sanders and Corbyn.
Millennials see catastrophic war as a real likelihood in their lifetime. In fact, most millennials surveyed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) believe it is more likely than not that a nuclear attack will occur in the next decade.
The first time I met what I have come to not-so-affectionately know as a “doomer dude” was in 2007. I was volunteering with a New York City-based lefty newspaper and still trying to fit my voice…
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, shares insights from his work as a renowned...
Forum: Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research is a multilingual online journal. Its main aim is to promote discussion and cooperation between qualitative researchers from different countries and disciplines.
The overkill backfire effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to reject arguments that they think are too complex, in favor of arguments that are easy for them to understand. Often, this means that past a certain point, presenting additional evidence in support of your argument can actually make people less likely to accept it.
In the following article, you will learn why people are susceptible to this effect, and how you can reduce the risk of them being influenced by it when you present an argument.
Often, when people encounter evidence that should cause them to doubt their beliefs, they reject this evidence, and strengthen their support for their original stance. This occurs due to a cognitive bias known as the backfire effect, and the following article will show you when and why this bias influences people, and how understanding it can benefit you.
We are a diverse group of social psychology researchers who share an intense curiosity about social life and want to make the world a more peaceful, inclusive, generous, and sustainable place.
The government is promoting cognitive behavioural therapy as a cost-effective, no-nonsense remedy for our psychological ills. It's the triumph of a market-driven view of the human psyche, says Darian Leader
Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy. The out-of-body experience - which is surprisingly easy to induce - will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a sense of physical self. The research may also lead to practical applications such as more intuitive remote control of robots, treatments for phantom limb pain in amputee patients and possible treatments for anorexia.
Women who have an elective legal abortion do not experience depression or long term psychological distress afterward, according to researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland (Contraception 2008;78:436-50, (doi:10:1016/j.contraception.2008.07.005). They reviewed the best 21 studies published in the past 20 years, involving thousands of women.
Welcome to Jacinta Tan's research website. Jacinta works in the area of ‘empirical psychiatric ethics', researching some areas in the ethics of psychiatry using methods that examine the issue through research amongst people who work and live with the dilemmas. Jacinta Tan has a dual background of medicine as well as philosophy and psychology. She is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist who is also an empirical medical ethics researcher. Her research interests are treatment decision-making in anorexia nervosa, the ethics and law of capacity, the development of autonomy, treatment decision-making models and the ethics of research. What is Medical Ethics? What is Psychiatric Ethics? What is Empirical Ethics Research?
"Sie streben nach Perfektion - und scheitern an der Realität: Die Diagnose Burnout trifft vor allem ehrgeizige Leistungsträger. Wenn sie ausfallen, kostet das die Wirtschaft Milliarden. Dabei können simple Verbesserungen im Job den Trend stoppen. [...] Denn für Burnout machen Experten schlechte Arbeitsbedingungen verantwortlich: Leistungsbereite Leute sehen sich mit knappen Ressourcen, unfähigen Vorgesetzten sowie wenig Wertschätzung und Lob konfrontiert. [...] Eine Studie mit Beschäftigten in der IT- und Medienbranche ergab, dass die Befragten weder lange Arbeitszeiten noch ständige Erreichbarkeit oder das parallele Arbeiten an mehreren Projekten automatisch als überfordernd sahen. Vielmehr monierten sie schlechte Organisation und Arbeitsbedingungen, die am Ende zermürbend sein können. Wenn dauerhaft eine Lücke zwischen eigenem Anspruch und Wirklichkeit klafft, kommt die Erschöpfung. Die Begeisterung ist weg, selbst ein hohes Gehalt kann dies nicht auffangen."
R. Janoff-Bulman, and N. Carnes. Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc, (March 2013)
W. Nährer, and M. Amelang. Lehr- und Forschungstexte Psychologie Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, eBook edition, (2013)Speed and quality as dimensions of cognitive performance.
T. Baguley. British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953), 100 (Pt 3):
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A. Laenen, T. Vangeneugden, H. Geys, and G. Molenberghs. The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology, 59 (Pt 1):
113-31(May 2006)Mesures de concordància; Online; ICC; Psiquiatria.
H. Baier, W. Lenhard, J. Hoffmann, and W. Schneider. Apprentissage, mémoire, analyse sémantique latente LSA, volume 8.1 of Studia Informatica Universalis, Hermann éditeurs, Paris, (2010)