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What better gift this Christmas than a peace offering? JESHOOTS.COM/Unsplash

December 20, 2018

If someone hurt you this year, forgiving them may improve your health (as long as you’re safe, too)

Alfred Allan, Edith Cowan University and Maria Allan, Edith Cowan University

Forgiveness isn’t about minimising or forgetting the pain we feel. It’s about letting go of our feelings of resentment and revenge.

Young Australians use nightclubs as a place to relax and perhaps meet a new sexual partner. Many regard some phyiscal contact during the mating ritual as off limits – but still put up with it.

November 26, 2018

Groping, grinding, grabbing: new research on nightclubs finds men do it often but know it’s wrong

Alfred Allan, Edith Cowan University; Aimee-Rose Wrightson-Hester, Edith Cowan University, and Maria Allan, Edith Cowan University

Nightclub-goers often regard the sort of sexually aggressive behaviour they witness as unacceptable, but they put up with it because it seems like lots of people – especially men – are doing it.

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