How do learners of Chinese as a second language acquire characters? When and how do initial L2 Chinese learners build the phonological, semantic and orthographic representations of the graphics? My research investigated the very earliest stages of learning Chinese and the effect…
"780" Result
Sort By:
Financial capability is a multifaceted concept that describes the skills and knowledge of managing one's financial resources. This area has seen recent interest in identifying the underlying factors due to the increasing responsibility placed upon consumers. Policy makers typica…
Sibling violence has been reported as the most frequent form of interpersonal violence. Still, sibling aggression remains an underresearched topic of developmental psychology and continues to be normalized by most parents and health professionals. There is emerging evidence sugg…
A computational valuation model is developed to predict discrepancies between choices and valuations in economic experiments. The model is based on Boundedly Rational Expected Utility Theory (Navarro-Martinez et al., 2017) and predicts average certainty equivalents for monetary …
Over the past decade, interest in geographical approaches to psychology has flourished and a large literature has accumulated. The emerging perspective of geographical psychology is an interdisciplinary approach to human activity that focuses on the spatial organization of psych…
This thesis examines how behavioural science can be used in communication to promote cooperation in social and intrapersonal dilemmas. Specifically, it presents three research projects, one aimed at improving health choices and two aimed at encouraging people to act pro-environm…
While relational networks have been an important part of much research into human interaction since at least the 1980s, there has been little research into network creation and decay, with much research simply creating a snapshot of an established network. Additionally, only a s…
The focus of this study is to gain a deeper insight into the subjective and salient belief systems that are held by those individuals who have previously been detained or arrested under the counter terrorism legislation in the UK. Embedded in the theoretical work of Personal Con…
Following the social and political turmoil in many countries after the recent economic crisis, many Albanian migrants regarded a return to their ‘homeland’ as the best solution during a time of uncertainty. Adding to the literature on return migration, this research investigates…
This thesis examines the theme of women’s madness in the 1960s and 1970s through the works of four English and French writers and film-makers: Chantal Akerman, Emma Santos, Jane Arden and Mary Barnes. It examines how these four writers and film-makers inscribe madness into their…
The increasing incidence of obesity around the world has become a major problem with health and economic implications for most countries, and one which currently available methods of weight management including diet, exercise and lifestyle advice all seem incapable of controllin…
Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASCs) are part of the life course of some individuals and as such there are significant implications in relation to matters of identity and the need to ensure educational and professional practices are considered from an ethical perspective as related…
The use of memory strategies can promote independence in people who have an acquired brain injury but people often do not take readily to using such strategies. Certain demographic variables have been associated with the use of memory strategies these variables cannot be changed…
The overarching aim of this thesis was to better understand the behavioural, cognitive, and neural corollaries of blunted cardiovascular and/or cortisol reactions to acute psychological stress. As such, it was also concerned to further test the proposition that blunted cardiovas…
This study is concerned with a group of schools involved in a Targeted and Mental Health in Schools (TaMHS) project in a Midlands Local Authority. The schools reported that they felt the term ‘mental health’ hindered parental engagement with the project. The study therefore exam…
Background: Self-injury is reported to be common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, there are limited robust data detailing the prevalence, persistence, associated person characteristics and operant function of self-injury in ASD. Method: Three large scale survey studie…
The other-race effect refers to the impoverished individuation and recognition of other-race faces relative to own-race faces. The aim of this thesis was to investigate non-racial ingroup/outgroup categorisation, inter-/intra-racial context, and encoding conditions as signalling…
This thesis investigates the underlying assumptions of Offender Profiling and the ability to infer offender characteristics from crime scene characteristics of sexual offences, taking into consideration the potential mediating effects of the contextual factors surrounding the of…
This research evolved as a result of work undertaken by the author with staff in a residential school for pupils with social, emotional and behaviour needs. This work focused on pupil progress in the development of social, emotional and behavioural skills. A survey of pupil hist…