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A Theory of Relation Learning and Cross-domain Generalisation

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Celebrating bilingual artists in Edinburgh: The story behind the award-winning “Arts in Tongues” project

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Collective action: What makes people actively support protests?

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Psychology can’t help us understand people like you and me

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Babies language skills are more advanced than you think

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