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‘Wear red, get noticed’ – and other subtle psychological ways colour affects us
Geoff Beattie, Edge Hill University I notice that my office is mainly colourless, or perhaps more accurately insipid in colour, a dull brown, the colour of old tea – the desk, the shelves, the table. A once bright red bromeliad now dead or dying on the window sill has turned a dull autumn brown. Beyond…
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The psychology behind Trump’s awkward handshake … and how to beat him at his own game
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T84se4fc4KU?wmode=transparent&start=0] Geoff Beattie, Edge Hill University Handshakes are meant to be relatively simple affairs, at least in terms of their signalling function. “Shake hands on it,” we are told. “Shake and make up.” They have been used as a civilised greeting for at least 2,500 years. But Donald Trump is now in the process…
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Why I wish I’d listened more to mum
I miss her terribly; she told me that I would. I can’t say that she didn’t warn me. “Your mother should be number one. You’ll regret not taking me out more,” she used to say. Then the emotion and the tears would come. “I’m way down the list; I think that you care more about…
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The televised political debate: Body language under the microsope
In 1960 politics changed forever. It was the first televised political debate in the U.S. between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The significance of the power of television in politics is demonstrated by the fact that those who listened to the debate on the radio thought that Nixon had won, whereas those who watched…
