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2024

Bramwell, Chloe

Emotional intelligence, neuroticism, stress, and healthy/unhealthy music engagement.

2024

Brown, Alyce

Exploring The Relationship Between Alexithymia and Social Media Disorder.

2024

Cox, Amber

Exploring the Relationship Between the Dark Triad, Disordered Eating, Compulsive Exercise and Body Satisfaction.

2024

Ferreira-Alturas, Izzy

The relationship between Dark Triad Traits and Internalised Sexism in Women.

2024

Jones, Tori

Accessing self-concepts through autobiographical retrieval: a replication and extension.

2024

Leggett, Eme

Understanding Our Bonds: The Effect of Parental Divorce/Separation on the Development of Attachment .

2024

Masclet, Charlotte

The Impact of Bilingualism on Executive Functions: Exploring Memory, Selective Attention and Mental Imagery Development in Preschool-Aged Children.

2024

Munday, Chloe

Adverse childhood experiences and insomnia among adults: the potential moderating role of psychological resilience.

2024

Neville, Orlaith

Investigating the effects of study focus on meta-comprehension.

2024

Robinson, Alice

Mental Health Literacy and Substance Use in UK University Students: Exploring the Relationship between Mental Health Literacy, Wellbeing and Substance Use.

2024

Smith, Molly

Exploring tolerance and trust in the spiritual-but-not-religious.

2024

Thewlis-Smith, Ciara

The Influence of Spelling Errors in Handwritten Extracts on Marker Perceptions of the Quality of Writing.

2024

Wade, Callum

Investigating brain responses in individuals with TikTok addiction, using Electroencephalogram (EEG).

2024

Wheeler, Rosie

Trust in Religious and Secular Institutions: A Study of Religious, Spiritual but Not Religious, and Non-religious Individuals.

2023

Bartlett, Charlie

The influence of loneliness on home alcohol consumption in 30-60-year-olds regarding the Theory of Planned Behaviour.

2023

Chadwick, Neil

Exploring the relationships between children’s perceptions of their motor skill abilities, play preferences and self-esteem.

2023

Cheesmar, Apollonya

Do Age and Gender Affect the Level of Alcohol Related Stigma?

2023

Cooper, Anna

Do Specific Learning Disorders Affect the Quality of Friendships in University Students?

2023

Dellow, Beth

Willingness to help- How the nature of the language used to describe obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) affects willingness to help individuals with OCD.

2023

Edwards, Georgie

Investigating stigma and mental health literacy in social anxiety disorder.

2023

English, Charlotte

Factors contributing to poor sleep quality in undergraduate students.

2023

Garraway, Zoe

What is the Relation Between the Dark Triad of Personality and Internet and Social Media Addiction?

2023

Griffin, Liberty

Applying the Prototype Willingness Model to predict binge-drinking and investigate the influence of gain, loss, and combined message-framing.

2023

Harris, Sophie

An Exploration of Factors Affecting Academic Performance in Higher Education.

2023

Hodges, Lottie

The Motivations for Participating in parkrun.

2023

Jamil, Humnah

Effects of the Emotional Content of Words in Different Tasks.

2023

Jensen, Maria

Is music still important to today’s youth and better at fulfilling mood regulation than other media types? (A uses and gratification approach)

2023

John, Poppy

Is amateur dance participation uniquely good for wellbeing? – evaluating factors that may affect wellbeing in dancers.

2023

Knight, Ollie

The therapeutic potential of awe.

2023

Langard, Alice

Attempting to Validate a Climate-Threat Implicit Associations Test Using a Better Understood Threat Stimulus (Spiders).

2023

Litso, Eva

Are there differences in the emotional expression of Spanish-English bilinguals in the UK and Spanish monolinguals?

2023

Matthews, Shannon

The effect of handedness on speed and accuracy when bimanually typing on a mobile keyboard.

2023

Moskalyova, Katya

‘‘Even the small jobs give positive fulfilment’’: What can we learn from relief workers who experience growth and resilience from their jobs?

2023

Price, Lucy

Screen time as beyond a unitary activity: exploring associations between characteristics of early screen time and young children’s vocabulary development in the UK.

2023

Raithby, Leila

Does self-esteem add to the prediction of alcohol consumption in university students aged 18-25 over and above the prototype willingness model?

2023

Ricketts, Hannah

Does Information about the Fast Fashion Industry Influence Apparel Purchasing Behaviour? Exploring the Relationship Between Information, Attitudes, and Purchasing.

2023

Sarreti, Isabella

Investigating whether peer prototypes contribute to the prediction of alcohol consumption within the Prototype Willingness Model.

2023

Scavuzzo-Ramsey, Jo

The Bloody Truth; neurodivergent women’s experiences of transition to peri menopause and menopause. -- Michael Argyle Prize

2022

Bailey, Heather

The effect of motion capture on word visibility in anorthscopic Perception.

2022

Bimson, Emily

Screen Use and Early Language Development: Friend or Foe? How Caregivers’ and Children’s Screen Use Affects Early Vocabulary Development in 8–36-month-olds.

2022

Campbell, Skyla

Exploring how stigmatising language influences university students’ attitudes towards individuals with anxiety disorders.

2022

Eldergill, Reece

Is the relationship between Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and alcohol related harms mediated by a drive to meet social needs? -- Michael Argyle Prize

2022

Fox, Steph

Exploring the Relationship Between Spirituality and Well-being.

2022

Gray, Philippa

The Voice of Carers: An exploration of factors affecting the wellbeing of carers working in a professional setting.

2022

Gurung, Angel

Exploring UK Nepalese Peoples’ Experience of Using Social Media in English: Identity, Challenges, Intralingual Interference and Strategies.

2022

Kazi, Anysha

Exploring the Relationship between Religious Worldviews and Pro-environmentalism.

2022

King, Matthew

Exploring young elite footballers’ aspirations for achieving their hoped-for future selves.

2022

Lopatin, Ivan

Aphantasia, Visualisation and Reasoning.

2022

Low, Nicole

Judging A Book By Its Cover: How Different Face Coverings Affect the Perception of Attractiveness in Two Cultural Groups.

2022

Moldovan, Daria

Examining the relationship between memory and the self; measuring autobiographical fluency.

2022

Morgan, Olivia

The Effects of Mental Health Literacy and Stigmatising Attitudes towards Alcohol Misuse on Alcohol Consumption.

2022

Oswell, Meg

An exploration of the relationship between an individual’s masculine bias and the depressive symptoms they experience.

2022

Pazos Shilling, Dulcie

How does anxiety alter perceptual judgements of affordances for the self and others?

2022

Swords, Tara

What are the challenges faced by Third Culture Kids repatriating to attend UK universities?

2022

Vincent, Ana

Evaluation of the Psychometric Properties of a new Motor Skills Questionnaire.

2021

Barclay, Roise

Investigating the Influence of Emotional Valence, Importance Instructions and an Ongoing Task on Prospective Memory.

2021

Cartwright, Lisa

Exploring the relationships between exposure to language mixing and vocabulary development in bilingual infants.

2021

Cook, Danielle

Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour Model and Psychological Mindedness to Explore Individual’s Willingness to Seek Psychological Help.

2021

Crane, Louis

Can the Dark Triad be adaptive? Exploring the relationship between Dark Triad traits and Resilience.

2021

Fairless, Freya

How Does Gender Influence The ‘Giving’ Of Empathy?

2021

Finnegan, Ciara

An investigation into the effects of mood on word production in university students.

2021

Fuller, Annabelle

An investigation into the effect of exposure to disruptive protests and political orientation on explicit and implicit sense of personal threat towards climate change.

2021

Gooddy, Benjamin

How do surgical masks impair identity recognition in familiar and unfamiliar faces?

2021

Grant, Katie

The COVID-19 Arms: How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted alcohol consumption at home through the lockdown.

2021

Gyde, Molly

Exploring Homosexual Identity Formation Among Lesbian Adults: Is Cass’s Model Still Relevant?

2021

Harrison, Calvin

Self-Construal as a Predictor of Self- and Other-Directed Psychological Mindedness.

2021

Hunter Rowe, Lucy

How do British-South-Asian women describe their experiences of the impact of the British Education System on their cultural identity?

2021

Matevosova, Sasha

Can exposure to disruptive environmental protest affect people’s implicit and explicit attitudes towards climate change?

2021

Mohoric, Karla

An Exploration into Underlying Cognitive Biases in Depression and the Influence of Gender on Emotion Context Insensivity.

2021

Urban, Fruzsina

The Effects of Second Language Immersion on First Language Writing Ability in Hungarian-English Bilinguals. -- Michael Argyle Prize

2021

Vilca Lloclla, Kim

Reading the cards: Do beliefs in tarot help satisfy the need for meaning?

2020

Burns, Emma

Exploring the effect of stigmatising language on attitudes to mental health conditions.

2020

Davidson, Courtney

Exploring Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response in Children: How ASMR Videos and Tingles Impact Mood and Relaxation.

2020

Dural, Sofi

Age of Acquisition Ratings of English Words in Bilingual People.

2020

Farrell, Grace

Executive Function Assessment and the Relationship between Executive Function and Motor Control.

2020

McIntyre, Ross

Reasoned or reaction: Investigating negative experiences whilst drinking in young adults and the variables that predict them.

2020

O’Neill, Olivia

Investigating the relationship between the Prototype Willingness Model (PWM) constructs, Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and Drink Refusal Self-Efficacy (DRSE) in explaining university student drinking in social environments.

2020

Rina, Blerta

Understanding Cultural Identity among Albanian adults residing in the United Kingdom: a Dialogical Self Perspective.

2020

Russell, Eleanor

Childhood Imaginary Companion Status and Adulthood Friend-Related Mind-Mindedness, Theory of Mind and Imagination Ability.

2020

Smullen, Jessica

Psychometric Properties of the Executive Function component of the IDS-2.

2020

Stoyanova, Lyubi

The effect of message framing and Prototype Willingness Model components on pro-environmental behaviour. -- Michael Argyle Prize

2020

Winckles, Luke

How do same-sex hook-up applications impact users’ construction of self and sexual identity?

2019

Andrews, Angela

An extended replication of Griskevicius et al. (2010) "Going Green to be Seen": investigating the effect of status-motivation on pro-sociality.

2019

Ellis, Charity

"I’m scared of missing out on the best years of my life": Exploring the role of the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) on students drinking behaviour.

2019

Gartside, Ellena

Negotiating Identity: Does being educated in the UK impact First or Second Generation Turkish-Cypriot immigrants’ cultural identity?

2019

Horsey, Rebecca

Factors Associated with Learning to Ride a Bike: Parent Perceptions

2019

Hughes, Sadie

Exploring the relationship between psychological mindedness, self-consciousness and social anxiety.

2019

Hudspith, Hollie

Using the Model of Text Production to Investigate the Relationship Between Children’s Creativity and Their Writing Skill.

2019

Matthews, Laura

Predictors of Subjective Sleep Quality in Midlife Women. -- Runner-up for PsyPAG Undergraduate Prize 2019

2019

McGuinness, Felix

The Character of Dimension-Based and Spatial Selective Attention in VSTM. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2019

2019

Morter, Lucy

An Investigation into the Impact of Induced Mood on Prospective Memory when using Emotional Auditory Prospective Memory Cues.

2019

Pattison, Olivia

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I give up reading" - Perception of Risk and Experiences of Negative Alcohol Outcomes Do Not Inhibit Motivations to Drink at Hazardous Levels.

2019

Payne, Georgia

Constraints and facilitators associated with learning a motor skill: Parent Perceptions. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2019

2019

Preece, Lauren

The Psychological Factors Involved in Becoming a Professional Dancer.

2019

Rachwal, Francesca

How elderly people maintain a sense of purpose and personal identity when moving to a retirement community. -- Michael Argyle Prize

2019

Rokeberg, Cathinka

A qualitative exploration of how English young adult smokers respond to tobacco warning labels. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2019

2019

Steyn, Megan

Predicting tobacco and cannabis smoking among young adults: Prototype Willingness Model versus Theory of Planned Behaviour.

2018 

Alderson, Maisie Frances 

The Influence of Instagram, Gender, Personality and the Theory of Planned Behaviour Components on Exercise Behaviour 

 

2018 

Chadwick, Jessica 

The relationship between siblings and earliest autobiographical memories. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2018 

 

2018 

Champion, Madeleine 

Investigating the Body-Specificity Hypothesis and Motor Imagery Accuracy Between the Dominant and Non-Dominant Hand on Different Tasks 

 

2018 

Cooke, Molly 

Exploring the links between chronotype and eating behaviour 

 

2018 

Di Genova, Valentina 

Adults Learning A Second Language: Do Word Characteristics Facilitate Learning? 

 

2018 

Gronmark, Ella 

Identifying Perceived Barriers to Exercise Behaviour Change Associated with Transition through the Stages of Change Model 

 

2018 

Haines, Rachel Catherine 

Smartphone use, anxiety and sleep quality: A cross-sectional study into young adults. 

 

2018 

Hindle, Lucy 

How do drinking motivations, anxiety sensitivity and depression influence hazardous alcohol consumption in students? -- Poster at BPS Conference 2018

 

2018 

Houston, Ella Maude 

A cross-sectional survey of the relationships between rumination, dissociative experiences and sleep quality.  -- Poster at BPS Conference 2018

 

2018 

Kanetsuka, Naomi 

Mind-minded mothers: Exploring the relationships between maternal mind-mindedness, reflective functioning, child's attachment security and emotion regulation. 

 

2018 

Mikhaiel, Chantal 

The influence of the Von Restorff effect on visual short-term memory comparisons 

 

2018 

Payne, Lauren 

Does an induced emotional state affect how we resolve lexical ambiguity? -- Michael Argyle Prize -- Poster at BPS Conference 2018

 

2018 

Sohail, Rabeeah 

When do actively controlled visual events guide our attention?  -- Poster at BPS Conference 2018

 

2018 

Weller, Roxanne 

Interoceptive awareness and depersonalisation: the disconnect between body and mind 

 

2017 

Alloway, Dominique 

Transitions of a soldier: How soldiers commit to different future selves and adapt to life transitions when entering and leaving the forces. 

 

2017 

Bea, Syria 

Does prevalence affect visual search for changes? 

 

2017 

Boulter, Isabel 

An investigation into the relationships between the Dark Triad, Emotional Intelligence and loneliness in university students. 

 

2017 

Butler, Emma  

Attention to Emotional Bodies; The Twist of Depression and Anxiety 

 

2017 

Clarke, Samuel 

Becoming and Being: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of priest's experiences in relation to the self 

 

2017 

Coombes, Lauren 

How do mood and congruency affect accuracy and reaction times when attending to emotional faces and bodies? 

 

2017 

Day, Evie 

An investigation into the psychological benefits of choral singing 

 

2017 

Georgieva, Milena 

A unique synchrony status can guide attention in search 

 

2017 

Grivska, Ksenija 

Sleep hygiene knowledge and practice, sleep quality and relapse likelihood in recovering alcoholics 

 

2017 

Gruen, Anna 

The Influences of Mobile Communication on Formal and Informal Writing in Younger vs Older Adults. 

 

2017 

Lamb, Max  

Why are Swear words offensive? A neurophysiological study into the effects of processing swearing due to individual's understandings. 

 

2017 

Lyall, Alice 

Intentions and willingness to use pharmacological cognitive enhancement: An application of the prototype willingness model. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2017 

Manning, Rachael  

Understanding Exercise Behaviour using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, the Prototype Willingness Model and Body Esteem. 

 

2016 

Austen, Sally 

Aggression and Attraction: Investigating Moral and Social Evaluation in Preschoolers 

 

2016 

Brockett, Lauren 

Are men more judgmental? Gender differences in the attitudes and opinions towards individuals with mental health problems.  

 

2016 

Byrom, Jessica 

Exploring Bad with an Emphasis on Narcissism and Mental Well-Being 

 

2016 

Cohen, Beatrice 

How Couples in Successful Long-Term Romantic Relationships Adapt to Children Leaving Home: Significant Life Transitions and the Dynamics of Love 

 

2016 

Davies, Emma 

Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour, Nutritional Knowledge, Past Dietary Behaviour, and the Stage of Change Model to Understand Dietary Behaviour among Adults 

 

2016 

Dixon, Molly 

"I love you" and "Will you marry me?": A phenomenological investigation into the key moments of communicating love in a relationship.  

 

2016 

Eaton, Susanna 

Different tasks, different pathways: Does this affect the amount and types of spelling errors in children with dyslexia? 

 

2016 

Faulkner, Holly 

How do the components of the Theory of Planned Behaviour predict excessive alcohol consumption? 

 

2016 

Hart, Molly 

The Complete Writing Process: Development of a questionnaire to identify students in Higher Education with writing difficulties 

 

2016 

Hodgson-King, Hope 

Early Walker' or 'Early Talker'? The Effects of Infant Locomotor Status on Infant Language Acquisition -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2016 

Hoque, Nazifa 

The importance of colour in visual image recognition  

 

2016 

Hyland, Alice 

Exploring the Dark Triad with emphasis on Machiavellianism and Happiness. 

 

2016 

Law, Cara 

An investigation into the presentation and experience of living with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) as a young adult. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2016 

 

2016 

Lewis, Thomas 

How do hetero-sexual females experience Valentine's Day and the gift giving and receiving associated with it? An interpretive phenomenological analysis 

 

2016 

Martin, Jasmine 

The Relationship Between Sleep Disturbances and Bullying in 8-10 Year Old Children 

 

2016 

Martindale, Katrina 

Exploring Infants' Ability to Understand Abstract Words 

 

2016 

Rayner, Jessamine 

Cultivating Good Health In the Present Moment: An Investigation Into Mindfulness, Health Behaviours and Stress -- Poster at BPS Conference 2017 

 

2016 

Smejka, Tom 

An investigation into the effects of ASMR videos on relaxation and mood. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2016 

 

2016 

Taylor, Finlay 

Time and future selves of young elite footballers  

 

2016 

Underwood, Rebecca 

How do working mothers who are teachers or work in other sectors teach their children about monetary concepts? 

 

2016 

Whitefield, Emily 

Alcohol consumption in UK 18-30 year olds 

 

2016 

Wicks, Matthew 

Negotiating Identities between Diverse Home and School Cultures 

 

2015 

Bridges, Rebecca 

Do decoding skills affect text comprehension in oral and silent reading? 

 

2015 

del Campo, Aloe 

Psychological mindedness and social perspective taking in young people. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2016 

 

2015 

Egloff, Rachel 

Assessment of Motor Competence in Young Adults: Development of a Self-Report Questionnaire. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2015 

 

2015 

Groves, Lorraine 

Predictors of irregular word reading and spelling in children. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2015 

 

2015 

Hannam, Katie 

Aspects of Mentalzing: Performance on Adult Theory of Mind Tasks and Mind-Mindedness. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2015 

 

2015 

Hawkins, Lily 

The role of body dissatisfaction and self-esteem in predicting weight control behaviours. 

 

2015 

Hevesi, Rowan 

The relative contribution of sleep hygiene and dysfunctional beliefs about sleep to predicting insomnia in university students  

 

2015 

Khanna, Soraya 

To What Extent Do Gender Identity and Empathy Influence the Expression of Sexism in Men and Women? -- Poster at BPS West Midlands Conference 2015 

 

2015 

Lancaster, Tasha 

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger': The Reformation of the Self Following Romantic Break-up to Recovery 

 

2015 

MacHardy, Christopher 

Autonomous Vehicles Acceptance as Influenced by Driving Competence, Autonomy, Surveillance and Gender Differences. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2015 

Nazarova, Ksenija 

Keyword method and equal-interval testing for foreign language vocabulary learning 

 

2015 

Philp, Georgia  

Empirical examination of the impact of dual task interference on lecture content recall caused by texting in class  

 

2015 

Pullen, Catherine 

Attitudes to blood donation amongst young non-donors  

 

2015 

Sellers, Emma 

How does pre-sleep media use have an effect on adolescents' sleep quality, efficiency and pre-sleep alertness? Assessing device, activity, duration, experience and engagement. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2015 

 

2015 

Sparks, Francesca 

The Effect of Gender and Empathy on Moral Judgment 

 

2014 

Bowyer, Kimberley  

Sleep disturbance and insomnia in children: The relationships between children's sleeping habits, pre-sleep arousal and sleep-related attentional bias 

 

2014 

Brooks, Emma 

Influence of Altruism on the Perceived Likelihood of Donating Blood amongst Donors and Non-donors in Relation to Incentives 

 

2014 

Butler, Gemma 

An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of Male and Female Differences in Love Experiences 

 

2014 

Connolly, Aoife  

Examining attitudes toward organ donation among the white population in England and Zimbabwe 

 

2014 

Galang, Marianne 

Workplace Bullying and Job Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Social Identity 

 

2014 

Glover, Francesca 

Music preferences and substance use: the mediating roles of peers and susceptibility to peer influence. 

 

2014 

Hook, Jessica 

The Effect of Explicit and Implicit Priming on Adolescents' Evaluation of Rock and Hip-Hop Lyrics. 

 

2014 

Jennings, Olivia 

The effect of emotional valence on the retrieval of focal and non-focal prospective memory cues 

 

2014 

Kilham, Clare 

Age Differences in Donors' and Non-Donors' Motivations to Donate Blood  

 

2014 

Mander, Frances 

The Effects of Self, Social & Directive Autobiographical Memories on Psychological Well-Being and Affect. 

 

2014 

Meynell, Freya 

Contextual Diversity: Does The Diversity Of Semantic Contexts Affect Word Acquisition In Developing Readers? 

 

2014 

Page, Marianne 

Retirement from elite sport: The retention and creation of personal identity in former equestrian competitors.  

 

2014 

Rossi, Marianna 

Migration and Cultural identity: Investigating the experience of Japanese Immigrants in the UK  

 

2014 

Schlanz, Lea 

What is the Relationship between Mindfulness and the 'Dark Triad'? 

 

2014 

Sheen Harker, Lucy 

The Transition Experiences of Elite Athletes through Competitive Sport to Retirement: Self Identity and Physical Self.  

 

2014 

Volkmann, Konstantin  

Seeing is Hearing: The Implicit McGurk Illusion - a Cognitive or Perceptual Phenomenon? -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2014 

Wray, Rebecca 

Doing two things at once: Lexical automation in older age when combined with a motor task 

 

2014 

Wright, Abigail 

Integrating spelling and writing research: Using pausing as an indicator of spelling difficulty.  

 

2013 

Gottardo, Jessica 

Can Grit be Learnt Socially? 

 

2013 

Haggqvist, Chloe 

Sex differences in empathising and systemising, as measured by 2D:4D digit ratio. 

 

2013 

McCormick, Tom 

The phenomenology of falling in love 

 

2013 

Moore, Lucy 

The immediate effect of recalling 'Proud' and 'Neutral' Identity-associated Autobiographical Memories on Self-Esteem and Mood. 

 

2013 

O'Keefe, Sophie 

The Role of Psychological Reactance in Views towards Next-of-Kin and the Opt-Out System of Organ Donation 

 

2013 

Peter, Julia 

Ambivalence towards Donation: The role of Empathy, Death Anxiety and Superstiitions in Commitment to Organ Donation 

 

2013 

Peuker, Katrin 

Differential ongoing task interference, as caused by focal and nonfocal prospective memory cues, similar in two divided attention conditions  

 

2013 

Pratley, Susan  

Do Preschoolers Show A Preference for Perception over Testimony 

 

2013 

Preece, Jessica 

The Group Reference Effect: Investigating the effects of a group priming manipulation 

 

2013 

Sparks, Rosanna 

Word-Effect Variables in Speeded-Naming-Task. Lexical and sub-lexical effects on reaction time and response duration in single-word-reading in an opaque orthography. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2013 

Stevens, Claire 

Applying a Single Category Implicit Association Test Methodology to Organ Donation Attitudes - Assessing the gap between implicit and explicit beliefs. 

 

2013 

White, Samuel 

The effect of static and digital roadside advertising on driving performance 

 

2012 

Amodia-Bidakowska, Annabel 

What you say and how you say it; the influence of sex on moral reasoning and language use 

 

2012 

Bennett, Peter 

Looking Beyond the Stigmas II: Emotional Facial Expression Recognition in People with Body Modifications. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2012 

Cannons, Helen 

Exploring mothers' mathematical identities and how they influence their children's mathematical learning 

 

2012 

Chandler, Rebecca 

Can grit be learnt? 

 

2012 

Grazier, Marina 

The motivation for initiating and continuing MBCT mindfulness practices 

 

2012 

Lindars, Matilda 

The relationship between working memory capacity and written language bursts in children with and without reading difficulties aged 11 to 13 

 

2011 

Adam, Justin 

What do we know about what we "see"? The effect of expectation on visual awareness of object locations and object features 

 

2011 

Amisten, Hernika 

The Impact of Ruminative and Mindful Modes of Self-Focus on Prospective Memory. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2011 

Baxter, Rebecca 

Reading ability across the lifespan: has change happened by middle age and does reading experience influence reading ability?  

 

2011 

Birchenough, Julia 

What is being masked in the Standing Wave Illusion 

 

2011 

Conway, Jane Rebecca 

"You're in the world together" A Phenomenological Exploration of Love Through the Experiences of Individuals Engaged to be Married" 

 

2011 

Ellis, Rebecca 

'Brow orientation' and 'mouth orientation' modulating the gaze cuing effect in schematic faces. 

 

2011 

Hallett, Natalie 

Evaluation of a commercially available sleep-promoting DVD for children: clinical effectiveness and acceptability to families. 

 

2011 

Harris, Kirsty 

"You're Kind of Brought into Question" An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Students with 'Hidden' Disabilities in Higher Education 

 

2011 

Hayes, Joely  

Is there a relationship between maternal mind-mindedness, children's emotional understanding and attachment patterns; a cross sectional study between 4 and 5 year olds. 

 

2011 

King, Naomi  

Prospective Memory: Evidence of Inability to Inhibit Spontaneous Retrieval in an Ongoing Task 

 

2011 

Lahde, Irene 

A Descriptive Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Change as Lived by Individuals Overcoming Social Anxiety 

 

2011 

Lee, Shirley 

Writing Pattern Analysis: Use of pauses and bursts in L1 and L2 writing in native and non-native English speakers. 

 

2010 

Adrian-Vallance, John 

Is There an Own-Age Bias in Facial Emotion Recognition for Children and Adults? 

 

2010 

Apel, Sarah 

Sex Differences in Empathy: A Comparison of Self-report, Behavioural and Physiological Measures in Response to Video Stimuli  

 

2010 

Boyles, Rowan Hirst 

An investigation of the effect of writing task difficulty on pauses in handwriting for participants with and without dyslexia 

 

2010 

Breeden, Benjamin 

Thoughts Vs Feelings: The Roles of Cognition and Affect in Decisions to Become a Potential Organ Donor 

 

2010 

Cordey, Julia Helen 

The relationship between paternal mental state talk and child mental state talk in children aged 4 to 5 years 

 

2010 

Elsdon, Ruth 

construction, confusion and celebration: representations of cultural identity among second-generation chinese in britain 

 

2010 

Hart, Katherine Grace 

English Picture Naming in Children and Adults: An Investigation into Developmental Differences in Processing of Pictorial Stimuli 

 

2010 

Ho, Sabrina Sean-Yee 

Levels of phonological awareness in English and Chinese: Does reading experience affect childhood predisposition to grain-size unit strategies in English and Chinese readers? 

 

2010 

Johnson, Sarah Alexandra 

Attentional Cueing and Object Feature Encoding in a Change-Detection Paradigm 

 

2010 

Kogan, Polina 

Thematic versus Taxonomic Relations: an Eye-tracking study on Cross-Cultural Differences in Categorisation between East Asians and Europeans. 

 

2010 

Latham, John Samuel 

'"Stop Fighting You're upsetting the dog!": Teenagers mental state attributions about their pet and a best friend.  

 

2010 

Macleod, Hannah Rose 

The Pen is Mightier than the Keyboard? Is Writing Words by Hand a More Effective Way of Learning Spellings than Typing?  

 

2010 

Rowbottom, Simon Edward 

"What's Wrong With Him Then?" An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experience of Becoming a Stay-at-Home Father. 

 

2010 

Smart, Louise Ruth 

Does the valance of focal Prospective Memory target words effect prospective memory performance? 

 

2010 

Tully, Benjamin 

Open and Closed Systems; Developing a Quantitative Measure of the Theory 

 

2010 

Wallace-Hadrill, Sophie 

The effect of age of acquisition and imageability on reading words aloud. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2010 

Wilkinson, Lisa 

Does children's fantasy-reality knowledge influence their trust in testimony?  

 

2010 

Wilson, Teresa Michelle 

Internet usage and it's relation to Author Recognition Test scores, reported levels of offline reading and attitudes. 

 

2009 

Alden, Nicola Melanie 

The contribution of spelling and vocabulary to the written performance of children with a specific language impairment 

 

2009 

Clinkard, Bryony Anne 

'Kinds of Minds and Kinds of Music': is there a relationship between cognitive style and music preference? 

 

2009 

De Toledo, Zoe Michaela 

Empathising Ability and Physical Manifestations of Empathy in Response to Visual Stimuli 

 

2009 

Farrell, Aisling 

The Importance of Colour Information in Recognition Memory for Natural and Non-Natural Images 

 

2009 

Findlay, Emma 

An Investigation of Individual Differences in Reading in English 

 

2009 

Hennelly, Sarah Elizabeth 

Intrinsic And Extrinsic Motivations For Meditation Practise: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. 

 

2009 

Longstreet, Katherine 

Preschooler's Night-Time Fear Coping Strategies and Fantasy-Reality Understanding 

 

2009 

Mayer, Stephanie 

Is there a relationship between parents' levels of mind-mindedness and their proclivity to employ authoritative parenting strategies? 

 

2009 

O'dowd, Grainne 

Investigating the Multiprocess Theory of Prospective Memory: Focal vs. Nonfocal cues over tasks with varied levels of demands. 

 

2009 

Peppiatt, Anneka Jane 

Reading Experience Influences How We Read: Orthography-to-Semantics Mappings, Imageability Effects in Oral Reading and the Importance of Embedded Words. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2009 

Phelan, Claire 

Individual differences in the development of reading in younger and older children: What makes words hard or easy to read? 

 

2009 

Pye, Stephen 

A love of the game: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Flow and intrinsic motivation in football 

 

2009 

Sanders, Rebecca 

The relationship between maternal and paternal mind-mindedness and 5 to 7 year-olds emotional understanding 

 

2009 

Streams, Natalie Louise 

The assessment of writing composition skill: how useful is the DASH? 

 

2009 

Tinker, Jaime John 

Sound Symbolism and Object Categorisation 

 

2009 

Walter, Kirsty Louise 

The effect of spell-check on the essay quality of year five and six children, accounting for fluency and spelling ability. 

 

2009 

Wilkes, Caroline 

Children's nighttime fear coping strategies and fantasy-reality understanding. 

 

2008 

Castano, Maria Fernanda  

Differences in past tense verb inflection, a factor of regualr vs. irregular or hard vs. easy verbs? : Inducing errors in normal participants.  

 

2008 

Corbett, Fleur Phaedra  

Dorsal and Ventral Stream Sensitivity in Developmental Coordination Disorder: An Examination of the "Dorsal Stream Vulnerability Hypothesis" 

 

2008 

Fortnum, Rebecca Louise 

Validity of the Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test as a Measure of Intelligence 

 

2008 

Hammond, Paull 

Work-Flow: The enjoyment experience of work in relation to flow, Autotelic Personality, Psychic Entropy, and Relatedness.  

 

2008 

Harlock, Marianne Louise 

A comparison of keyboarded and handwritten fluency and their impact on the quality of composition of 13-18 year old students. 

 

2008 

Jamieson, Jessie Magee 

Sleep hygiene knowledge and practise in relation to sleep quality: a comparison between day and night shift workers 

 

2008 

Jay, Emma Louise  

Activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in high and low scorers on the Cambridge Depersonalisation Scale following hypnotic-induced suggestibility and stressful stroop tasks 

 

2008 

Lyon, Anna Harriet  

A comparison of handwriting and typing: fluency and composition quality in thirteen to eighteen year olds 

 

2008 

Markowski, Julia Barbara Lia  

The roles of reactance, attitudes to organ donation and civil liberties in intentions towards an opt out system. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2008 

Newby, Michelle Rebecca 

The Effect of Emotion on Young Children's Understanding of the Fantasy-Reality Distinction. 

 

2008 

Rowles, Catherine Miranda  

Object complexity and capacity of Visual Short Term Memory does not affect ability to detect change without attention 

 

2008 

Shaw, Dominic James  

Performing musicians and optimal experience: an interpretative phenomenological analysis 

 

2008 

Shone, Lynne Julia  

Gender differences and the influence of facial expression on face recognition. 

 

2008 

Sparrowhawk, Masako 

Validity of the Movement ABC-2 test for 3-5 year old children 

 

2008 

Stansfield, John 

The impact of extraversion-introversion on performance in event-based and time-based prospective memory tasks. 

2008 

Sullivan, Jade 

Reactions to the Proposed Opt-Out System of Organ Procurement; The Mediating Effects of Government Intervention and Psychological Reactance.  

 

2008 

Taylor, Elizabeth Carol 

Effects of Attention and Visual Motor Integration Capabilities on Handwriting Fluency amongst Adult Dyslexics and Slow Writers 

 

2008 

Thompson, Jessy 

Prospective Memory Impairments in Depression: A Comprehensive Investigation into Time-Based, Event-Based and Self-Reports of Prospective Memory Failures  

 

2008 

Walker, Bryony 

Internal' and 'External' influences on intrinsic motivation and the importance of 'group interaction' for jazz musicians: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. 

 

2008 

Whittaker, Sarah Anne 

English teachers' cultural identity and accounts of multiculturalism 

 

2007 

Boyce, Danielle May 

Sleep attitudes and preactices in U.K. undergraduate students: A mixed methods study. 

 

2007 

Bulman, Louise Barbara Abigail 

The optimal experience of performing musicians: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. 

 

2007 

Davies, Kathryn Mary 

An investigation into depression + theory of mind: Gender differences in mental state decoding abilities. 

 

2007 

Dempster, Jennie Louise 

Mother, teacher, peer, Bob the Builder: Young children's differential trust in the testimony of others. -- Michael Argyle Prize 

 

2007 

Jones, Lawrence Daniel 

Organ donation and principles of autonomy. 

 

2007 

Moore, Kathryn Louise 

Why do we dream what we dream?' The role of personality traits on dream content. 

 

2007 

Priest, Marcus Edward 

The inflection of the English past tense by primary school children. 

 

2007 

Wong, Wingtak Teresa 

A comparison of the sleep patterns in Hong Kong and British university students: The role of cultural origin and sleep quality in sleep-related practices, difficulties, cognitions and anxiety. 

 

MSc 

Year

Author

Title

PDF

2023

Cormier, Olivia

Alcohol-related stigma in the UK veterinary profession.

2023

Cresswell, Doug

Remember Mii? Autobiographical memories, gaming and Gamer identity.

2023

Pearce, Ellie

Loneliness, alcohol, and the menopause: A cross-sectional study exploring risk of alcohol dependence in mid-life women.

2023

Rowland, Annelies

When two become one: a phenomenological inquiry into the surviving parent’s sense of personal transformation following the loss of a co-parent.

2023

Smith, Sophie

Exploring the relationship between children’s print exposure, reading frequency, reading enjoyment and reading comprehension, with consideration of gender differences.

2023

Wilkin, Jack

Exploring transgender and non-binary people’s experiences of physical education at secondary school in the UK.

2023

Wilmot, Nicole

Understanding emotion: The relation between maternal depression and Theory of Mind capabilities.

2022

Blayney, Rob

A Phenomenological Foundation for Understanding and Working With Retroactive Jealousy.

2022

Creery, Angela

Drinking and mental health in middle adulthood: exploring the impact of wellbeing, mental health literacy, and drinking motives on drinking risk level.

2022

Cumberbatch, Trey

The psychological foundations of religious and spiritual (dis)belief.

2022

Dytczak Midworth, Lydia

Body image; ‘a central thing that other things rest upon’. Exploring the influence of body image on women’s wellbeing.

2021

Beckerman, Bea

Darkness, Delusions & Control: How do the Dark Triad traits relate to delusional ideation and locus of control?

2021

Dooher, Dawn

Work–Life Balance: Enforced Homeworking in the COVID Era.

2021

Gurney, Karen

Handwriting-Evaluation and Typing Practices in Secondary Schools: Are Parents, Educators and Occupational Therapists Aligned in their Views?

2021

Lewin, Joel

Investigating the impact of dark nudges in alcohol industry funded responsible drinking campaigns.

2021

Myhill, Emily

How Much Do the Protection Motivation Theory and Perceived Social Norms Predict People's Behaviours During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

2021

Norris, Charlotte

Time for bed! Parents’ influence, children’s technology use in the pre-sleep period and children’s bedtime: a cross-sectional study.

2021

Pataki, Nikolett

Life Worth Living - The Role of Temporal Experience within the Process of Positive Ageing.

2021

Sandoe, Ella

‘The COVID Bump.’ An Exploration of the Material and Psychological Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its influence on Autobiographical Memory Recall.

2021

Wypyska-Kieran, Sylwia

From a sense of wonderment to the wish it didn’t exist; a qualitative investigation of young women’s engagement with pornography as a culturally embedded phenomenon.

2020

Barrett, Pauric

How Does Mindfulness Relate to Dietary Type? Comparing Omnivorous, Vegetarian, Vegan and Non-Specified Restricted Diets.

2020

Bennett, Julie

Sleep-related problems and beliefs, attitudes and concerns about sleep in children with and without autism spectrum conditions.

2020

Gilchrist, Helena

Effects of Unique Dynamic Characters on Attentional Guidance within Dynamic Displays.

2020

Hartley, Eve

Perceptions of testimonial, text-only and pictorial cannabis health information labels, a UK study.

2020

Hubbersgilt, Julian

How do Palliative Care Professionals Build Resilience to Workplace Stressors?

2020

Kang, Yeawon

The Dialogical Self of South Korean immigrant wives in the UK.

2020

McCann, Verity

Non-binary Identity as a Visible Challenge to Gender Expectations at Weddings.

2020

Schilling, Stefan

You know there’s the support for you - The role of social support and collective appraisal during shared military experiences.

2020

Rebekah Smith

Maternal Mind-mindedness, Reflective Function and Sleep Problems in Infancy.

2020

Vanags, Paul

The importance of moral framing in pro-environmental behaviour – a field study.

2020

Wilkins, Nathalie

The Impact of Others on Minorities’ Cultural Identity Positions: An Intersection between Race and Cultural Identity.

2020

Winkler, Nóra

Early Vocabulary Development in Bilingual Infants.

2019

Carmano, Nicola

Emotionality in bilinguals’ written narratives: Is there a difference in the transmission of emotion in bilinguals’ first and second languages?

2019

Chatfield, Charlotte

Religious Identity in Italian Evangelicals Constructing Religious Identity using Hermans’ Dialogical Self Theory.

2019

Copson, Andrew

Dark Traits and the work-place.

2019

Crawford, Elizabeth

Singing in a staff choir: The impact on workplace well-being An exploratory, mixed-method study using the PERMA model of well-being.

2019

Harris, Sophie

To Step or To Spring: The Influence of State Anxiety on Perceptual Judgments and Executed Action.

2019

Katito, Godi

Physical activity participation barriers and acculturation among the black and ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom.

2019

Pearson, Alicia

Are the Implicit Decisions of Career Women and the Timing of those Decisions Undermining the Uptake of Shared Parental Leave?

2019

Wallace, Martha

Word Comprehension of 6-13-Month Olds, and the Influence of a Familiar or Live Voice.

2018

Bennett, Vanessa S.

Effects of systematic manipulation of cognitive loads, anxiety and stress on event-based prospective memory in mid-late adolescence. -- Poster at BPS Cognitive and Developmental Joint Section Conference 2019

2018

Carbognani Mackintosh, Lorenza

Factor structure and internal reliability of the Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) in the context of the workplace.

2018

Carver, Gavin P.

Autobiographical Memory Recall and Storytelling Style in Older and Younger Adults.

2018

Collins, Toni J.

The Prototype Willingness Model: Predicting drinking behaviour in working-age adults.

2018

Gregor, Claire

Is psychoeducation effective as an intervention for improving sleep in a university population?

2018

Lawson, Ann

Feature Access and Recall in Visual Short-term Memory.

2018

Matthews, Nila

Effects of rapidly seen everyday objects on the visuomotor system: do they unconsciously stall our actions?

2018

McIvor, Lucy S.

An exploration into the self-referential evaluation of emotional stimuli in individuals with depression: an ERP study.

2017 

Alexander, Iona 

Is school bad for you? 

 

2017 

Langlands, Fiona 

Transmission of emotion from rider to horse: does how riders think affect this and what part does rider experience play? 

 

2017 

McKeever, Kelly 

Language Brokering by young people: a small scale study 

 

2016 

Adams, Kate 

The Relationships between Maternal Mind-mindedness, Scaffolding and Child Mind-mindedness 

 

2016 

Bond, Samuel 

Constraints on Statistical Learning in Adults 

 

2016 

Bourke, Kenna 

I'm just who I am': self-continuity and the Dialogical Self in a study of migrants 

 

2016 

Fredman Stein, Kim 

The effects of rumination on prospective memory 

 

2016 

Hamirani, Maryam 

The Electrophysiological Mechanism of Attentional Control and Capture in Emotion Induced Blindness 

 

2016 

Lami, Tamara 

An Exploratory Study Into Infant Feeding Practices in the UK 

 

2016 

Matley, Fiona 

Thinking about drinking: The role of self-efficacy in compensatory health beliefs and behaviours, and how these influence alcohol consumption. 

 

2016 

Partridge, Laura 

Introducing Complementary Food to Infants. A Pilot Study on Maternal and Paternal Feeding Practices. -- Poster at BPS Conference 2017 

 

2016 

Pedersen, Vivian K. 

The Wedding as a Ritual Performance: Guest Experiences and Appraisals 

 

2016 

Petit, Ariane 

The Experience of Performance Poetry and the Self. The Art of Performing Honestly 

 

2016 

Scheske, Maxie 

Children's Sleep Cognitions: An Exploratory Study of Sleep-related Cognitions in Mid-Childhood 

 

2016 

Tennant-Eyles, Tamsin 

Moving beyond 'breast is best'. An exploration of breastfeeding motivation and challenges 

 

2015 

Brophy, Megan P. 

Phonological recoding of visual images in older typically developing teenagers. Establishing baseline performance. -- Poster at BPS West Midlands Conference 2015 

 

2015 

Carey, Louise 

Cognitive bias modification and gaze behaviour in socially anxious individuals. Can a novel CBM-A training paradigm reduce eye contact avoidance and self-reported anxiety? 

 

2015 

Clarke, Jeremy 

Knowing Me, knowing how: Comparisons of autobiographical memory specificity for different facets of self-concept in young and old adults. 

 

2015 

Harris, Charlotte 

Adolescent Sleep in a Family Context. The Associations Between Parental and Adolescent Sleep, Cognitions about Sleep and Stress. 

 

2015 

Kelly, Shannon M. 

How much crowding lies beneath a mask? Further exploration into the supposed phenomenon of 'supercrowding'. 

 

2015 

Norris, Helen 

As the shafts of light played around the room the golden embroidery on his frink glittered, reflecting back sprinklings of light on the earthen walls of his room.' Do stories rich in vivid imagery support incidental vocabulary learning? 

 

2015 

Phillips, Rita H. 

Weddings in Charismatic Communities: A Social-Psychological Investigation of the Wedding Preparations of Roman Catholic Couples. 

 

2015 

Veatriki, Emmanouil 

Investigation of the neural correlates of Attentional Bias Modification. A randomised controlled trial using EEG. 

 

2015 

Wenham, Angela 

Depth Accessibility Difficulties (DAD): Developing a measure of open and closed system thinking. 

 

2015 

Young, Christine 

Adolescent Sleep and Parental Involvement 

 

2014 

Cosgrave, Chris 

Musical preference and I-sharing: Does perceived similarity in musical preferences significantly affect our evaluation of out-group members? 

 

2014 

Coxall, Grace 

Gender Differences in Creativity. Are there patterns of gender difference across domains of creativity and do they reflect cognitive and behavioural gender differences? 

 

2014 

Law, Casey K.L. 

What effects do distinctive positive and negative emotional states have on temporal attention? 

 

2014 

Macey, Jake 

Timing in time-based prospective memory: The roles of tempo, attention and memory 

 

2014 

Parsons, Sam 

Investigating the pattern of motor activation and inhibition resulting from action-affordance relations between prime and target: Behavioural and Electrophysiological evidence 

 

2014 

Rivera Pollarolo, Marisabel 

Rising From the Ashes: The Evolution of the Self from Breakup to Recovery 

 

2014 

Stuart-Battle, Cerys 

Understanding childhood insomnia: A mixed-methods approach to exploring cognitions about sleep and nighttime thoughts in children aged 8-11 years 

 

2014 

Wheatley, Catherine 

Word Learning in Context. Does expert knowledge support vocabulary acquisition when children read familiar stories?