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The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change. (2010)
Journal Article
WOODS, R., FERNÁNDEZ, A. and COEN, S. 2012. The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change. Public understanding of science [online], 21(3), pages 323-339. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662510385061

British newspapers have denigrated anthropogenic climate change by misrepresenting scientific consensus and/or framing climate change within unsympathetic discourses. One aspect of the latter that has not been studied is the use of metaphor to dispar... Read More about The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change..

A critique of the concept of accuracy in social information processing models of children’s peer relations. (2010)
Journal Article
WOODS, R. 2010. A critique of the concept of accuracy in social information processing models of children’s peer relations. Theory and psychology [online], 20(1), pages 5-27. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959354309350243

According to Kenneth Dodge’s social information processing model, children who behave aggressively do so because they interpret others’ behaviour, and evaluate aggressive acts, inaccurately. The concept of accuracy is inappropriate here because membe... Read More about A critique of the concept of accuracy in social information processing models of children’s peer relations..