Our sense of wellbeing has been in decline for years – here’s how to turn it...
Written by Paul Anand, Professor of Economics at The Open University. People’s sense of wellbeing took a dive in the first year of the pandemic, according to new data published by the UK’s Office for...
View ArticleDrivers and hand-held mobile phones: extending the ban won’t solve the...
Written by Dr Gemma Briggs, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Open University and Helen Wells, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Keele Univeristy. The laws around mobile phone use while driving are...
View ArticleLooks really can be deceiving, OU research finds
A new hairstyle can make all the difference they say, and newly published psychology research shows that our hair could make even more of an impact than we realise. A study among nearly 400 people in...
View Article“Please continue”– did this simple phrase lead normal people to “torture”...
David Kaposi, Psychotherapist and Senior Lecturer in Psychology The Open University Would you electrocute an innocent stranger if you were told to do so by someone in a position of authority? This is...
View ArticleJuries are subject to all kinds of biases when it comes to deciding on a trial
By Dr Lee John Curley, The Open University; Itiel Dror, UCL, and Dr James Munro, The Open University From CSI to Law and Order, Line of Duty and Midsomer Murders, there is huge public fascination with...
View ArticleBoard games: how playing them online can bring grandparents and grandchildren...
Professor Rose Capdevila, Associate Dean (Research, Scholarship and Enterprise) and Dr Lisa Lazard, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, both from The Open University, write for The Conversation about how...
View ArticleMusic and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments...
Rosemary Golding is a senior lecturer in music at The Open University who reveals here her fascinating research in how music was used to help patients in Victorian asylums with their mental health....
View ArticleNew analysis suggests Trump’s January 6th speech did “enable violence” at...
New academic research led by The Open University and the University of St Andrews suggests Donald Trump’s January 6th speech served as a ‘warrant’ for the violence that occurred afterwards when crowds...
View ArticleNew research says Britons more likely to help refugees from Ukraine rather...
An Open University academic’s report suggests Ukrainians are considered less of a threat That Somalis and Syrians are seen as ‘culturally distant’ And that the results could also be due to skin colour...
View Article£2.72m EU research funding hopes to manage extremist views
An international team of academics led by The Open University has won £2.72m research funding, (€3.16m) to help people manage the development of extremist views at home and abroad in the run up to...
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