by Prof Pete Harris and Ian Hadden, from the Self-Affirmation Research Group. Have you ever been reluctant to face up to something you’d rather ignore? Maybe your fondness for something bad for you that you eat too often or your…
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Are your clients being defensive? If so, self-affirmation may help.
Tagged with: Kindness, motivation, Self-affirmation, Social Psychology, Therapy
Posted in Faculty research, PhD research
Posted in Faculty research, PhD research
Psychology in the Media: June 2019
The month of June started with an article about Ian Hadden’s research on the Times Education Supplement: “Positive writing “boosts poorer pupils’ maths scores”. Ian and his PhD supervisor Dr Matt Easterbrook investigated whether self-affirmation writing exercises could improve the…
Tagged with: Child Anxiety, Child development, SARIC, Self-affirmation
Posted in Psychology in the Media
Posted in Psychology in the Media
Breaking down the psychological barriers to success at school
Looking into how carefully-targeted low-cost interventions can reduce the psychological barriers to success of some groups of school students and help them prepare for a happy and productive life. by Ian Hadden It only takes a quick glance at GCSE…
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