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You probably think that you are a rational human being, or at least most of the time. That you make decisions based on a sensible weighing up of the pros and cons of the situation. That is what you’ve been practicing and improving all your working life isn’t it? But...
There is much discussion these days about whether it is best to live in the moment, whether reminiscing is a good thing, or whether we should always have an eye to the future. However, in reality, we spend much of the day flicking between these different temporal...
Can you trust what you know? It might seem like a strange question, but what I mean is, do you think you have a clear insight into what you know and what you don’t know? Alternatively, are you being tricked by your brain into thinking that you know something well when...
Attention and Priority Mapping: Noticing what’s important to you. The modern world is filled to the brim with information for you to pay attention to, perhaps too much information for your brain to deal with. So what can you do about this? Well, one thing you can do...
Regret. A strategy for change? If you look back over your life, do you have any regrets? Although many people try to leave their regrets behind, they often have a tendency to linger on. Maybe a decision you made which caused your life to temporarily take a turn for...
Seeing the world as patterns. Many people call it the forgotten sense. Others say it is the one that they would most “like” to lose (if they really had to choose). But whatever you think about it, your sense of smell is there, continually sampling your environment...
Synchronize Your Thinking. There is something quite magical about seeing a team of swimmers in a pool synchronise their body movements to music. Or a group of dancers, flawlessly move on stage as if they were one person, rather than many (just think of Riverdance)....
Work-based safety is one of the main strands of focus in the team of which I am part at the Wales Centre for Behaviour Change (WCBC). This area perhaps lends itself most obviously to collaboration between research psychology and industry. Although studied...
Do you believe you have free will? Do you believe you control your mind, your actions, your fate? In a series of controversial experiments (the results were controversial, not the methods) some startling discoveries came to light. Bear in mind as we look at these they...
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