Department of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Academic self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between Scottish index of multiple deprivation and composite attainment score
(Frontiers, 2017)A developing literature continues to testify to the relationship between higher socio-economic status (SES) and better academic attainment. However, the literature is complex in terms of the variety of SES and attainment ... -
Alcohol behaviors across perceived parental security profiles in adolescents
(Journal of Child & Adolescent Behavior, 2016)Background: Previous research has suggested a bivariate or correlational relationship between attachment scores and alcohol use behaviors among adolescents. Methods: The present study is a person-oriented analysis of the ... -
Nutritional knowledge and eating habits of professional rugby league players: does knowledge translate into practice?
(BioMed Central, 2015)Background: Adequate nutrient intake is important to support training and to optimise performance of elite athletes. Nutritional knowledge has been shown to play an important role in adopting optimal nutrition practices. ... -
Searching for moral dumbfounding: identifying measurable indicators of moral dumbfounding
(2017)Moral dumbfounding is defined as maintaining a moral judgement, without supporting reasons. The most cited demonstration of dumbfounding does not identify a specific measure of dumbfounding and has not been published in ... -
The role of self-regulatory individual differences in counterfactual thinking
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)The aim of this research was to investigate the role of self-regulatory individual differences in counterfactual thinking. In particular, we examined individual differences in autonomy, action/state orientation and ... -
How does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?: An investigation of the mechanisms underpinning the intermanual transfer of acquired skilled hand movement as postulated by the Proficiency, Callosal Access and Cross Activation Models.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)This thesis proposes that the data conflicts observed in studies of three models of intermanual transfer (the Proficiency Model (Laszlo, Baguley, & Bairstow, 1970), the Callosal Access Model (Taylor & Heilman, 1980) and ... -
Phenomenology in laboratory-based tasks: exploring methodologies that integrate experiential reports with behavioural measures in psychological research
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)Disparate research traditions in the study of experience have led to contentious arguments over the use of first-person methods in psychological research (Dennett, 2001; Schwitzgebel, 2003). Some believe that researchers ... -
What you see is what you get, but do you get what you see: Higher education students’ evaluation of the credibility of online information.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)Information literacy involves the ability to find, access, evaluate, organise and store information in a variety of media, though there is as yet no consensus on a precise definition. This thesis, set in the context of ... -
Construct, concurrent, and discriminant validity of Type D personality in the general population: Associations with anxiety, depression, stress, and cardiac output
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)The Type D personality, identified by high negative affectivity paired with high social inhibition, has been associated with a number of health-related outcomes in (mainly) cardiac populations. However, despite its ... -
Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social context: Examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)Abstract Previous work on social support and stress tolerance using laboratory-based cardiovascular stress response paradigms has suggested that perceived social support may be effective in building resilience in ... -
Type D personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stress in women
(Elsevier, 2011)Abstract The Type D personality (identified by high levels of both negative affectivity and social inhibition) has been associated with negative health consequences in cardiac patients. However, few studies have explored ... -
Painful decisions: an exploration of pain assessment (from the perspective of others) within a signal detection theory framework
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)Pain perception is individualistic, subjective and difficult to assess and measure accurately. It is vital for the implementation of appropriate treatment strategies, that healthcare providers and receivers arrive at a ... -
The time of our lives: an investigation into the effects of technological advances on temporal experience.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)Previous research (Blatchley et al., 2007) investigating the relationship between timing accuracy and computer use highlighted a potential difference between individuals with high and low levels of computer usage. In order ... -
Thinking counterfactually – how controllability affects the ‘undoing’ of causes and enablers.
(Cognitive Science Society, 2008)Abstract Previous research on counterfactual thoughts about prevention suggests that people tend to focus on enabling rather than causing agents. However, research has also demonstrated that people have a preference ... -
Indicative and Counterfactual 'only if' conditionals'.
(Elsevier, 2009-11)We report three experiments to test the possibilities reasoners think about when they understand a con-ditional of the form ‘A only if B’ compared to ‘if A then B’. The experiments examine conditionals in the indicative ... -
Perceptual modalities: modes of presentation or modes of interaction?
(Imprint Academic, 2010)Perceptual modalities have been traditionally considered the product of dedicated biological systems producing information for higher cognitive processing. Psychological and neuropsychological evidence is offered which ... -
Enactive theorists do it on purpose: on why the enactive approach demands an account of goals and goal-directedness.
(Springer Netherlands, 2007)The enactive approach to cognitive science involves frequent references to “action” without making clear what is intended by the term. In particular, no definition or account is offered of goals which can encompass not ... -
Self-other contingencies: enacting social perception
(Springer Netherlands, 2009)Can we see the expressiveness of other people's gestures, hear the intentions in their voice, see the emotions in their posture? Traditional theories of social cognition still say we cannot, because intentions and emotions ... -
Counterfactual and Prefactual Conditionals
(Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004)We consider reasoning about prefactual possibilities in the future, for example, “if I were to win the lottery next year I would buy a yacht” and counterfactual possibilities, for example, “if I had won the lottery last ...