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Cambridge Ideas - ̽»¨Ö±²¥Perfect Crew?

11 Nov 2010

Striving for, and achieving, high performance in teams has become a major business imperative...

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personality test

Personality test to explore rules of attraction

30 Jul 2010

A major new investigation which aims to solve two of the biggest unanswered questions in psychology is being launched by researchers at the...

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parkinsons-neurons

Major new study into brain ageing

25 May 2010

Efforts to understand the effects of ageing on the brain have been given a major boost with the announcement of a new £5m grant from the...

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RSC busts

Royal Society announces new Fellows

21 May 2010

Seven Cambridge researchers are among the 44 new Fellows announced by the Royal Society this week.

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Case de Juntas, Gernika

Cultural heritage after conflict

01 May 2010

A collaborative study led by Cambridge is examining the impact on society of the destruction and reconstruction of cultural heritage.

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Twilight literature

Researchers get serious about kids’ stuff

03 Feb 2010

A new centre for the study of children's literature, which will analyse material ranging from classics such as Alice In Wonderland to Disney films...

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dyslexia

̽»¨Ö±²¥educational neuroscience of dyslexia and dyscalculia

01 Jan 2010

For some children, acquiring the important skills of learning to read or do arithmetic is fraught with difficulty. Educational neuroscience is...

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Headphones

You Are What You Listen To

21 Aug 2009

It may not be possible to judge a book by its cover, but judging someone by the contents of their iTunes library could be a very different story, new...

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Children Playing at Greenwich park 3

Research links testosterone levels to autistic traits

13 Jan 2009

Research at Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥'s Autism Research Centre (ARC) has found that exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb is related to the...

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personality

̽»¨Ö±²¥new geography of personality

01 Jan 2009

Jason Rentfrow explains how analysis of over three-quarters of a million online surveys has been used to build a "map" of the USA.

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Nicola Clayton

Clever crows and dancing duets

01 May 2008

Nicky Clayton, Professor of Comparative Cognition in the Department of Experimental Psychology, has thrown the doors wide open on animal cognition...

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Changing Luck for the Better

̽»¨Ö±²¥psychology of gambling

01 Apr 2007

Gambling is a thriving form of entertainment in the UK, but may also become a form of addiction for some individuals. Just why do people gamble when...

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