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What a Two-Week Sport Camp Revealed About Autism and Participation
A two-week multidisciplinary sports camp studied by Cei and colleagues through parents’ reports of children's experiences.
Human Performance, Decision Making and Leadership.
Evidence-led analysis of Human Performance, Decision Making, Leadership and the forces that shape how people perform under pressure.
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Training Attention in Elite Football: Alberto Cei’s Early Applied Model
Revisiting Alberto Cei’s 1994 approach to attention assessment and match analysis in elite football.
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Leadership
What Is Leadership?
Leadership is not a title or a universal personality type. It is the practice of creating direction, conditions for coordinated action and accountability under real constraints.
Human Performance
Why Skilled People Sometimes Fail When the Stakes Rise
Pressure does not erase expertise. It can redirect attention, increase self-monitoring or fill limited mental capacity with consequences that compete with the task.
Politics
A Political Consultant Is Not Paid to Tell the Candidate They Are Right
A serious political consultant is not paid to protect the candidate from contradiction. The job is to improve decision quality and keep inconvenient information alive long enough to matter.
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Psychology
Why Announcing Your Goals Can Sometimes Backfire
Does sharing a goal make it easier or harder to achieve? Older and newer research point to different outcomes, depending on the situation.
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Why Feedback Sometimes Makes People Perform Worse
Why can accurate, well-intentioned feedback sometimes undermine performance? An evidence-led examination of criticism, attention and workplace learning.
Learning
How to Remember More of What You Read
A week after reading, students who practised recalling a text remembered 61 per cent of it; rereaders remembered 40. The Closed-Book Rule turns that into a routine.
Psychology
Why Does Everyone Else Seem to Have Their Life Together?
Students in Stanford studies underestimated their peers' negative experiences by an average of 17 per cent. Misery has more company than we think.
Psychology
Why Do We Sometimes Prefer Bad News to Uncertainty?
In a UCL experiment, a 50 per cent chance of a shock was more stressful than a certain one. Why an unwelcome answer can bring relief.
Social Comparison
How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
Frequent social media use is linked to lower self-esteem, largely through comparing upwards. Three steps, and a Private Scoreboard, to measure your own progress instead.
Psychology
Why Does Waiting For a Text Feel So Uncomfortable?
A silence with almost no information in it can fill an entire afternoon. Research on waiting suggests the cure is not reassurance but absorption.
Psychology
Why Does Time Seem to Pass Faster as We Get Older?
Ask older and younger adults how fast the last week went and their answers are surprisingly similar. The difference appears when they look back over a decade.
Psychology
Why Do Embarrassing Memories Come Back Years Later?
People in an embarrassing T-shirt thought half the room noticed. About a quarter did. Why old cringes keep returning, and the Reporter Test that quiets them.
Human Performance
Why Some Motivation Lasts: Understanding Self-Determination Theory
Why do people persist willingly in some pursuits yet feel trapped in others? Self-determination theory examines autonomy, competence and connection.
Human Performance
Tired but Wired: Why Your Mind Won’t Switch Off
Exhausted but unable to settle? Research on rumination, stress and recovery helps explain why fatigue and restlessness can sometimes coexist.
Human Performance
Can You Really Get Into a Flow State on Demand?
Time disappears, attention narrows and the task seems effortless. What does research actually tell us about flow—and how much control we have over it?
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Human PerformancePressure, expertise, adaptation and recovery
Decision MakingJudgement, risk, uncertainty and cognitive bias
LeadershipResponsibility, power, communication and institutions
PsychologyBehaviour, cognition and emotion
CommunicationClarity, persuasion, listening and trust
SocietyCulture, institutions, education and public life
SportPerformance, coaching and athlete development
Politics & Public LifeLeadership, scrutiny, communication and civic life