Psychology topic list of research papers
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Patient reported outcome measures of quality of end-of-life care: A systematic review
Abstract End-of-life (EoL) care 1 1 The term EoL care has evolved as an umbrella term that encompasses all aspects of care related to ...
2016 / Tara Kearns, Nicola Cornally, William Molloy -
The importance of social identities in the management of and recovery from ‘Diabulimia’: A qualitative exploration
Abstract Introduction A significant barrier to recovery for individuals with co-morbid eating disorders and type 1 diabetes is the way in which group members self-categorise. Nonetheless, identity issues are neglected during the...
2016 / Amy Hastings, Niamh McNamara, Jacqueline Allan, Mike Marriott -
Using fNIRS to examine occipital and temporal responses to stimulus repetition in young infants: Evidence of selective frontal cortex involvement
Abstract How does the developing brain respond to recent experience? Repetition suppression (RS) is a robust and well-characterized response of to recent experience found, predominantly, in the perceptual cortices of the adult brain. We use...
2016 / Lauren L. Emberson, Grace Cannon, Holly Palmeri, John E. Richards, Richard N. Aslin -
Beyond Mindfulness2016 / Thomas G. Plante
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Emotional support during times of stress: Can text messaging compete with in-person interactions?
Abstract There has been a recent and dramatic surge in the popularity of text messaging as a means of connecting with our social networks. The current research represents the first randomized controlled studies to directly compare both the social...
2017 / Susan Holtzman, Drew DeClerck, Kara Turcotte, Diana Lisi, Michael Woodworth -
Self-disclosure on SNS: Do disclosure intimacy and narrativity influence interpersonal closeness and social attraction?
Abstract On social media, users can easily share their feelings, thoughts, and experiences with the public, including people who they have no previous interaction with. Such information, though often embedded in a stream of others’ news, may...
2017 / Ruoyun Lin, Sonja Utz -
The impact of digital technology on psychological treatments and their dissemination
Abstract The psychological treatment of mental health problems is beginning to undergo a sea-change driven by the widespread availability of digital technology. In this paper we provide an overview of the developments to date and those in the...
2017 / Christopher G. Fairburn, Vikram Patel -
Measuring work engagement among community health workers in Sierra Leone: Validating the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale
Abstract This study examines the concept of volunteer work engagement in a sample of 334 community health workers in Bonthe District, Sierra Leone. Structural equation modelling was used to validate both the 9-item and the 17-item Utrecht Work...
2017 / Frédérique Vallières, Eilish McAuliffe, Philip Hyland, Marie Galligan, Annette Ghee -
How action selection influences the sense of agency: An ERP study
Abstract Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the feeling that we are in control of our actions and, through them, of events in the outside world. One influential view claims that the SoA depends on retrospectively matching the expected and actual...
2017 / Nura Sidarus, Matti Vuorre, Patrick Haggard -
A Preliminary Case Analysis of the Post- Activation Potentiation Effects of Plyometrics on Sprint Performance in Women2017 / Robert G. Lockie, DeShaun L. Davis, Dominic V. Giuliano, Fabrice G. Risso, Ashley J. Orjalo, et al.
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Online visual search attentional bias modification for adolescents with heightened anxiety and depressive symptoms: A randomized controlled trial
Abstract Anxiety and depression, which are highly prevalent in adolescence, are both characterized by a negative attentional bias. As Attentional Bias Modification (ABM) can reduce such a bias, and might also affect emotional reactivity, it could be ...
2017 / E.L. De Voogd, R.W. Wiers, E. Salemink -
Direct and indirect influences of executive functions on mathematics achievement
Abstract Achievement in mathematics is predicted by an individual’s domain-specific factual knowledge, procedural skill and conceptual understanding as well as domain-general executive function skills. In this study we investigated the extent to...
2017 / Lucy Cragg, Sarah Keeble, Sophie Richardson, Hannah E. Roome, Camilla Gilmore -
Combined transcranial and trans-spinal direct current stimulation in chronic headache: A feasibility and safety trial for a novel intervention
Abstract Background Chronic primary headache disorders are associated with frequent, severe pain and significant functional impairment, with treatment remaining challenging. ...
2017 / Ghufran Alhassani, Julia Treleaven, Siobhan S.M. Schabrun -
Do social relations buffer the effect of neighborhood deprivation on health-related quality of life? Results from the LifeLines Cohort Study
Abstract We investigated whether social relations buffer the effect of neighborhood deprivation on mental and physical health-related quality of life. Baseline data from the LifeLines Cohort Study (N=68,111) and a neighborhood deprivation index were ...
2017 / Bart Klijs, Carlos F. Mendes de Leon, Eva U.B. Kibele, Nynke Smidt -
Registered Replication Report2017 / S. Bouwmeester, P. P. J. L. Verkoeijen, B. Aczel, F. Barbosa, L. Bègue, et al.
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Musical friends and foes: The social cognition of affiliation and control in improvised interactions
Abstract A recently emerging view in music cognition holds that music is not only social and participatory in its production, but also in its perception, i.e. that music is in fact perceived as the sonic trace of social relations between a group of...
2017 / Jean-Julien Aucouturier, Clément Canonne -
Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations2017 / Ranjay Krishna, Yuke Zhu, Oliver Groth, Justin Johnson, Kenji Hata, et al.
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Effect of household size on mental problems in children: results from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort study2016 / Bjørn Grinde, Kristian Tambs
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Early Psychosocial Stress Predicts Extra-Pair Copulations2015 / N. Koehler, J. S. Chisholm
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Uncharted features and dynamics of reading: Voices, characters, and crossing of experiences
Abstract Readers often describe vivid experiences of voices and characters in a manner that has been likened to hallucination. Little is known, however, of how common such experiences are, nor the individual differences they may reflect. Here we...
2017 / Ben Alderson-Day, Marco Bernini, Charles Fernyhough