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Explore articles and advice by expert psychologists; and extracts from ebooks written and published by ACS Distance Education.
Research in the UK has shown increase levels of reported distress.
 

You may have heard the term busywork buzzing around recently.   You may have worked all day and got to the end of the day and wondered what you have achieved. It is likely you have been engaged in busywork. What exactly is busywork?

 

The link between play and the environment is an important one.
Understand more about the aesthetic criteria involved in playground design.

 
We also think of cats as aloof and only wanting us when they want something.  But new research suggests that this is not the case.
 

How we perceive the world around us has been one of the greatest mysteries of the human world. How we see, how we hear, how we smell.

We still did not understand how our nervous system senses and interprets information from our environment in how temperature and mechanical stimuli (For example, if something brushes against us, such as a hair or something else) are converted to electrical impulses in our nervous system. 

Joint Nobel prize winners Julius and Patapoutian further advanced our understanding of the sense of touch.