Psychological diversity

Graduate entry to medicine: widening psychological diversity

BACKGROUND At Nottingham University more than 95% of entrants to the traditional 5-year medical course are school leavers. Since 2003 we have admitted graduate entrants (GEM) to a shortened (4-year) course to 'widen access to students from more disadvantaged backgrounds'. We have recently shown that the GEM course widens academic and socio-demographic diversity of the medical student population...

Political diversity will improve social psychological science.

Psychologists have demonstrated the value of diversity--particularly diversity of viewpoints--for enhancing creativity, discovery, and problem solving. But one key type of viewpoint diversity is lacking in academic psychology in general and social psychology in particular: political diversity. This article reviews the available evidence and finds support for four claims: (1) Academic psychology...

Nine ON THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF MORAL INSENSITIVITY

When we learn of atrocities committed by psychopaths and by suicide terrorists, we are shocked by the evident lack of normal feeling for their fellow human beings. (By suicide terrorists, I mean to include not just the people who have carried out suicide missions, but also the people who plan and organize such attacks.) How could anyone be so callous to the suffering of others? We recognize two...

Recognizing Psychological Diversity in People with End-Stage Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Collection and Analysis of Emotional Speech Focused on the Psychological and Acoustical Diversity

How to effectively collect diverse data of spontaneous speech and to upgrade various speech processing techniques is a serious issue. In this paper, we introduce our proposed method “SEN method”, which aims to collect psychologically and acoustically diverse acted speech effectively with naturalness. We created detailed directions, on the basis of various real-life scenarios, consulting with a ...