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is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Philosophy of Lyric Voice: The Cognitive Value of Page and Performance Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2023).

For many multilinguals, switching between tongues can lead to shifts in personality, revealing the malleability of the self ...

is a research associate at the University of Waterloo. He is a social scientist interested in human values and social perception, cultural variability, as well as the quantitative methods for ...

helps families, businesses and communities have big conversations. He holds a PhD in conflict resolution from Trinity College Dublin and has lectured at Harvard University, the University of Chicago ...

is a financial psychologist, business coach and writer. His books include Taming the Pound: Making Money Your Servant, Not Your Master (2011) and Finance Is Personal: Making Your Money Work for You in ...

is a psychologist and honorary lecturer at University College London. A former associate editor at Aeon+Psyche, she is the author of Losing Our Minds (2021). She lives in London.