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Find your play personality – how did you like to play as a child?
Participating in fantasy sports should be a fun hobby, and for the most part, it is. But when your virtual soccer team takes over your life, it might be time to reassess.
Some of the most innovative people in the world earn Nobel Prizes. Scholars of creativity identify what they have in common and what regular people can learn and emulate from their examples.
The growing leisure gap has a huge impact on women’s ability to engage with the board game hobby.
Research shows hobbies may lower levels of depression.
The COVID-19 pandemic offers small retailers an opportunity to engage customers who are changing their habits.
The coronavirus pandemic has been a stressful and challenging time. But staying busy can help by creating a diversion, helping us to build community and strengthening our sense of self.
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Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, University of Manchester
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Professor of Physiology, Michigan State University
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Professor of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Mental Health, University of Reading
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Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University
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Lecturer, Centre for Positive Psychology and Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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PhD Candidate, Graduate/Research Assistant, Communication and Culture, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Professor of Theater, Michigan State University
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Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science, La Trobe University
