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Taking Stock of Descriptive-Interpretative Qualitative Psychotherapy Research: Issues and Observations from the Front Line. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.
(2019)The paper offers a perspective on some of the methodological issues present in current qualitative psychotherapy research (QPR). The authors are involved in this type of research (for 20 and 40 years, respectively) as ... -
Teaching behaviour change skills to undergraduate medical students
(2013)This study investigates the effects of a three-week student project where students selected a healthbehaviour and implemented a self-management program to increase or decrease that behavior. Behaviours were (1) smoking ... -
Team cohesion and communications in Surgery: Re-designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) to support teamwork, patient safety and Safety 2 practices
(Irish Ergonomics Society, 2016)This paper presents a case for redesigning the existing surgical safety checklist (SSC), to better support team cohesion/communications and safety culture. In so doing, it proposes the following enhancements: The redesign ... -
Temporal and spatial factors affecting the cross-modal integration of object information
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)This thesis is concerned with how temporal and spatial factors influenced the cross-modal integration of object representations across modalities. Specifically tested was whether temporal synchrony and spatial co-location ... -
The temporality effect in counterfactual thinking about what might have been
(Psychonomic Society, 2000)When people think about what might have been, they undo an outcome by changing events in regular ways. Suppose two contestants could win 1,000 Pounds if they picked the same color card; the first picks black, the second ... -
The behavioural neurophysiology of stress : effects on hippocampal formation mechanisms of spatial representation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)In the fast-paced world we live in we encounter stressful situations on a continuous basis. Some stressors may cause chronic stress whereas others act only on a relatively short time basis and are regarded as acute stressors. ... -
The child witness : an investigation into children's understanding of the legal process and the perceived competence of children to act as witnesses in legal proceedings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)Given recent public and professional concern in relation to the levels of child victimisation and recent reforms of the evidentiary rules and legal procedures pertaining to children's evidence, there is an increasing ... -
The cognitive processes of young offenders
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of this thesis was to contnbute to the existing body of knowledge on young offenders by investigating some cognitive processes that to date, have been given little attention in the literature. This thesis comprised ... -
The cognitive psychology of moral reasoning
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)In this thesis, the results of eight experiments are presented investigating he cognitive processes involved in moral reasoning. Two major themes were explored, involving important contemporary debates in moral psychological ... -
The contribution of cognitive biases to the development and maintenance of smoking-related addiction in adolescents and adults
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2013)Anomalies between self-reported smoking intentions and actual smoking behaviour are common, yet few studies investigate both the explicit and implicit measurement of smoking cognitions within the same sample. Nor do many ... -
The contribution of cognitive control and perceptions of risk to problematic driving among young adults
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2013)Every year, millions of drivers throughout the world lose their lives in traffic incidents and young drivers make up a disproportionate number of those killed on the road. There has been no shortage of explanations for ... -
The development of the Trinity Early Screening Test for Dyslexia (TEST-D)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2012)The project to develop the Trinity Early Screening Test for Dyslexia (TEST-D) extends over 3 phases. This thesis describes the processes involved in Phase 1. A large battery of prototypical tests in the phonological, ... -
The effect of audition on the deployment of visuo-spatial attention
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2011)Vision is commonly accepted as being our most dominant sense. However, our everyday experience informs us that the world is not unisensory. Information from other senses can help us in searching for and identifying objects ... -
The effects of crime on Irish victims : psychological and organisational perspectives
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)"The Effects of Crime on Irish Victims: Psychological and Organisational Perspectives" is, as its name suggests, an investigation of the impact of criminal victimisation in Ireland from both a psychological and a victim ... -
The effects of selective amygdalohippocampectomy on episodic memory, spatial representation and discourse production among human neurological patients
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2004)The work described in this thesis is directed at investigating the neuropsychological effects of damage to the medial temporal lobes among a group of patients who have undergone surgery for the relief of medically intractable ... -
The mental representation of "If Only thoughts" : undoing the exceptionality effect
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2009)The aim of this thesis is to investigate the mental representations and cognitive processes that underlie counterfactual 'if only' thoughts. We examine the exceptionality effect, the tendency to undo exceptional antecedents ...