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The patient-provider relationship in chronic pain (2012)
Journal Article
Vowles, K. E., & Thompson, M. (2012). The patient-provider relationship in chronic pain. Current Pain and Headache Reports, 16(2), 133-138. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11916-012-0244-4

The relationship between patient and provider has long been the subject of study within the psychotherapy literature, with the available data suggesting a modest, but reliable, association between the strength of this relationship and treatment outco... Read More about The patient-provider relationship in chronic pain.

Freedom of expression and hatred of religion (2012)
Journal Article
Thompson, S. (2012). Freedom of expression and hatred of religion. Ethnicities, 12(2), 215-232. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796811431298

The UK's Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 makes it an offence to deliberately stir up hatred against people on religious grounds. For its supporters, the Act offers necessary protection to a range of groups that are vulnerable to the harmful effe... Read More about Freedom of expression and hatred of religion.

Iran’s nuclear ambitions under the shah and ayatollahs (2012)
Journal Article
McGlinchey, S., & Choksy, J. K. (2012). Iran’s nuclear ambitions under the shah and ayatollahs

During the 1970s, under the last shah, Iran’s nuclear program seemed to be gearing up so that nation could gain the option of declaring weapons capability if deemed necessary and at a point when the international community could no longer forestall i... Read More about Iran’s nuclear ambitions under the shah and ayatollahs.

Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism? (2012)
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Upchurch, M., & Mathers, A. (2012). Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?. Critical Sociology, 38(2), 265-280. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920510396384

This article revisits the question of changing forms of trade unionism within the context of neoliberal globalization. While broadly accepting the argument that globalization might encourage the development of more radical forms of unionism as surviv... Read More about Neoliberal Globalization and Trade Unionism: Toward Radical Political Unionism?.

The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang? (2012)
Journal Article
Clegg, P. (2012). The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang?. Social and Economic Studies- Institute of Social and Economic Research University of the West Indies Jamaica, 61(1), 23-47

This paper considers the report of the 2009 UK government-appointed Commission of Inquiry into corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), and draws comparisons with a similar Commission of Inquiry undertaken in 1986. The paper evaluates the ch... Read More about The Turks and Caicos Islands: Why does the cloud still hang?.

Self-esteem and body dissatisfaction in young children: Associations with weight and perceived parenting style (2012)
Journal Article
Taylor, A., Wilson, C., Slater, A., & Mohr, P. (2012). Self-esteem and body dissatisfaction in young children: Associations with weight and perceived parenting style. Clinical Psychologist, 16(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1742-9552.2011.00038.x

Background: Parenting style has been associated with weight-related outcomes in children, but relationships between parenting, weight, and overweight-related psychological outcomes remain largely unstudied. The aim of the present study was to determi... Read More about Self-esteem and body dissatisfaction in young children: Associations with weight and perceived parenting style.

Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise (2012)
Journal Article
Meier, B. P., Weger, U. W., Hooper, N., & Hopthrow, T. (2012). Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise. Consciousness and Cognition, 21(1), 471-475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.011

Individuals who experience stereotype threat - the pressure resulting from social comparisons that are perceived as unfavourable - show performance decrements across a wide range of tasks. One account of this effect is that the cognitive pressure tri... Read More about Mindful maths: Reducing the impact of stereotype threat through a mindfulness exercise.

"I'd be just as happy with a cup of tea": Women's accounts of sex and affection in long-term heterosexual relationships (2012)
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Hayfield, N., & Clarke, V. (2012). "I'd be just as happy with a cup of tea": Women's accounts of sex and affection in long-term heterosexual relationships. Women's Studies International Forum, 35(2), 67-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2012.01.003

This article reports a feminist analysis of interview data with 10 British women, in which they discuss sex and affection in their heterosexual relationships. We explore the popular cultural notion that women lack sexual desire and are more concerned... Read More about "I'd be just as happy with a cup of tea": Women's accounts of sex and affection in long-term heterosexual relationships.

It's not just about the profits: Privatisation, social enterprise and the 'John Lewis' prison: J M Moore and David Scott argue that the proposed Transitions prison represents 'old wine in new bottles' (2012)
Journal Article
Moore, J. M., & Scott, D. (2012). It's not just about the profits: Privatisation, social enterprise and the 'John Lewis' prison: J M Moore and David Scott argue that the proposed Transitions prison represents 'old wine in new bottles'. Criminal Justice Matters, 87(1), 42-43. https://doi.org/10.1080/09627251.2012.671021

Prisons in contemporary Britain are highly problematic institutions. From the outside we can see they are struggling to cope with rapidly increasing prison populations largely made up of the most social excluded members of our society, who on their r... Read More about It's not just about the profits: Privatisation, social enterprise and the 'John Lewis' prison: J M Moore and David Scott argue that the proposed Transitions prison represents 'old wine in new bottles'.

Counsellors' experiences of working with male victims of female-perpetrated domestic abuse (2012)
Journal Article
Dodd, L. J., Hegarty, J. R., Hogan, K. F., & Ward, T. (2012). Counsellors' experiences of working with male victims of female-perpetrated domestic abuse. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 12(1), 44-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2011.630479

Aim: To provide an understanding of counsellors' experiences of working with male victims of female-perpetrated domestic abuse. This topic has been virtually unexplored within counselling literature. Method: A qualitative design was adopted to addres... Read More about Counsellors' experiences of working with male victims of female-perpetrated domestic abuse.

Keeping the peace: Social identity, procedural justice and the policing of football crowds (2012)
Journal Article
Stott, C., Hoggett, J., & Pearson, G. (2012). Keeping the peace: Social identity, procedural justice and the policing of football crowds. British Journal of Criminology, 52(2), 381-399. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azr076

This paper explores the relevance of the Elaborated Social Identity Model of Crowd Behaviour and Procedural Justice Theory to an understanding of both the presence and absence of collective conflict during football (soccer) crowd events. It provides... Read More about Keeping the peace: Social identity, procedural justice and the policing of football crowds.

Making people appy (2012)
Journal Article
Topham, P. (2012). Making people appy

This article reflects on the use of mobile phones to support self-help for anxiety. It draws on the experience of developing a prototype phone app for social anxiety in learning situations. Psychological and therapeutic factors are considered in rel... Read More about Making people appy.

Building a client state: American arms policies towards Iran, 1950-1963 (2012)
Journal Article
McGlinchey, S. (2012). Building a client state: American arms policies towards Iran, 1950-1963

Precious little has been written in academic scholarship about the US arms relationship with Iran. Much of the scholarly focus has been drained into an orbital vortex caused by twin crises in Iranian history: the 1953 British and American sponsored c... Read More about Building a client state: American arms policies towards Iran, 1950-1963.

Reality check: An experimental investigation of the addition of warning labels to fashion magazine images on women's mood and body dissatisfaction (2012)
Journal Article
Tiggeman, M., Slater, A., Firth, B., & Hawkins, K. (2012). Reality check: An experimental investigation of the addition of warning labels to fashion magazine images on women's mood and body dissatisfaction. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 31(2), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2012.31.2.105

Policy makers across a number of Western countries have suggested that warning labels be placed on idealized media images to inform viewers that the images have been digitally altered or enhanced, as a means of ameliorating the negative psychological... Read More about Reality check: An experimental investigation of the addition of warning labels to fashion magazine images on women's mood and body dissatisfaction.

Beyond 'political economism': New identities for unions in Western Europe? (2012)
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Taylor, G., Mathers, A., & Upchurch, M. (2012). Beyond 'political economism': New identities for unions in Western Europe?. Capital and Class, 36(1), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309816811428664

This article engages critically with Richard Hyman's work on union identity and European integration. It includes a sympathetic review of Hyman's contribution to the debate on these topics over the past two decades, alongside a critique of Hyman's ap... Read More about Beyond 'political economism': New identities for unions in Western Europe?.