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Hate Daylight Saving Time? You May Have a Point, Researchers Say

12-03-2017 15:22 via feeds.socialpsychology.org

Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesDaylight saving time is the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour during summer months so that daylight lasts longer into evening. In December, a psychology journal published results showing that federal judges handed out sentences that were on average 5 percent longer the day after daylight saving time began than those given out one week before or after. Disruptions, even minor ones, to human beings' sleep patterns can have outsized...

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Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving – review

12-03-2017 08:00

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel’s case studies provide vital and compelling insights into bereavement
“Death, like the sun, cannot can be looked at steadily,” La Rochefoucauld wrote in 1678 – a line that sounds modern because what it describes is as true as ever. This is a book to make time for precisely because it faces a subject most of us shy away from. Julia Samuel is a grief psychotherapist who has spent 25 years working in the NHS at St Mary’s hospital, Paddingto

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Paula Principle: why women work below their abilities | Tom Schullere

12-03-2017 07:00

This persistent injustice is also a waste of talent – and men as well as women need to see why before we can change it, says Tom Schuller
Sociologists, economists and many others have analysed exhaustively why women don’t get certain types of job or progress beyond certain levels, and why gender pay gaps exist.That the competence gap between women and men is increasing, in almost every developed country, gives added salience to the question: how and why is women’s competence no

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Do you complain? – personality quiz | Ben Ambridge

12-03-2017 07:00

Answer our questions to see what the link is between whether you issue complaints to official bodies and the political party you supportRightwingers love the stereotype of the ‘whining liberal’. Have they got a point? Or is it self-entitled conservatives who are more likely to complain? Find out by answering the following:How likely are you to complain to an official body (eg Ofcom) if you are unfairly treated by your bank or broadband provider? Continue reading...

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