Browsing Psychology (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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'I have not witnessed it personally myself, but...': epistemics in managing talk on racism against immigrants in Ireland
(2018)Social psychologists who study racism or prejudice argue that various versions of these are constructed in ways to suppress or minimise their relevance. However, researchers have not particularly examined how knowledge‐claims ... -
'If only counterfactuals and the exceptionality effect'
(Erlbaum, 2009)People create counterfactual `if only? alternatives that change exceptional actions to be normal (e.g., `if only he had placed his usual small bet he would have lost less money?). Two experiments show that this effect ... -
The Impact of Cognitive Training and Mental Stimulation on Cognitive and Everyday Functioning of Healthy Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
(2014)This systematic review and meta-analysis investigates the impact of cognitive training and general mental stimulation on the cognitive and everyday functioning of older adults without known cognitive impairment. We examine ... -
Impact of COVID 19 Pandemic on Aviation Workers & The Aviation System
(Centre for Innovative Human System (CIHS), 2021)Worker wellness and mental health is hugely important in safety critical systems such as aviation. Aviation workers need to be fit for duty and aware of all risks that compromise their health and wellbeing. Work has the ... -
The Impact of Self Help Groups on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Female Members in Ethiopia
(2021)Tearfund self-help groups are a variety of self-help group (SHG) aimed at poverty alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite a number of positive evaluations of SHGs, there have been no direct studies of impact on psychosocial ... -
Impact of speed change on estimated journey time: Failure of drivers to appreciate relevance of initial speed
(Elsevier, 2009)Higher speeds are associated with increases in the probability of crashing and the severity of the outcome. Logically drivers speed to save time, and research evidence supports this assertion. It is therefore important to ... -
The Impact of the COVID 19 Pandemic on Aviation Workers & The Aviation System.
(2021)Worker wellness and mental health is hugely important in safety critical systems such as aviation. Aviation workers need to be fit for duty and aware of all risks that compromise their health and wellbeing. ... -
Impaired capacity for autonoetic reliving during autobiographical event recall in mild Alzheimer's disease
(2011)The capacity to mentally travel back in time and relive past events via autonoetic consciousness has been shown to be compromised even in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease (AD). To further understand the unravelling ... -
Impaired temporal resolution of visual attention and DBH genotype in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
(2006)Background Dopamine beta hydroxylase (D?H) catalyzes the conversion of dopamine to noradrenaline. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been associated with the A2 allele of a Taq I polymorphism of the DBH ... -
Incomplete Hippocampal Inversion: A Comprehensive MRI Study of Over 2000 Subjects.
(2015)The incomplete-hippocampal-inversion (IHI), also known as malrotation, is an atypical anatomical pattern of the hippocampus, which has been reported in healthy subjects in different studies. However, extensive characterization ... -
Increased ventral striatal BOLD activity during non-drug reward anticipation in cannabis users
(2010)Despite an increased understanding of the pharmacology and long-term cognitive effects of cannabis in humans, there has been no research to date examining its chronic effects upon reward processing in the brain. Motivational ... -
Individual differences in context-dependent effects reveal common mechanisms underlying the direction aftereffect and direction repulsion
(2016)Both spatial and temporal context influence our perception of visual stimuli. For instance, both nearby moving stimuli and recently viewed motion can lead to biases in the perceived direction of a moving stimulus. Due to ... -
Individual differences in error processing: A review and reanalysis of three event-related fMRI studies using the GO/NOGO task
(Oxford University Press, 2004)Three previous studies using the GO/NOGO task were examined to characterize the pattern of functional activation seen during error-related processing. The large sample size (n = 44) also allowed investigation of the influence ... -
Individual differences in the neuroanatomy of inhibitory control
(Elsevier, 2006)We combined the data of five event-related fMRI studies of response inhibition. The re-analysis (n = 71) revealed response inhibition to be accomplished by a largely right hemisphere network of prefrontal, parietal, ... -
Integration of a smartwatch within an internet-delivered intervention for depression: Protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial on acceptance
(2021)Background: Mood tracking is commonly employed within a range of mental health interventions. Physical activity and sleep are also important for contextualizing mood data but can be difficult to track manually and rely on ... -
Intelligent Work: Person Centered Operations, Worker Wellness and the Triple Bottom Line
(Springer, 2021)Work has an important role in terms of promoting wellbeing. However, it can also have negative effects on our physical and mental wellbeing leading to stress, fatigue, poor teamwork and engagement, and burnout. Many companies ...
