Edinburgh Research Archive

• Health literacy, cognitive ability and health 

  Fawns-Ritchie, Chloe Anne (The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-13)

  Poorer health literacy—the ability to acquire, understand and use health information to make better health decisions—has been associated with worse health outcomes. Poorer cognitive ability has also been found to predict ...

• Investigating the development of executive functions and their relationship with educational attainment during adolescence: a study of inhibition, shifting and working memory 

  Theodoraki, Thaleia Elisavet (The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)

  Background Research regarding the development of executive functions (EFs) and their association with educational attainment has disproportionately focused on younger ages, mainly pre-schoolers and primary school aged ...

• Beyond words: non-linguistic signals and the recovery of meaning 

  King, Josiah Patrick James (The University of Edinburgh, 2019-10)

  Beyond the words a speaker produces, meaning can be recovered from the many ways in which the words are delivered. During everyday discourse, the way in which a speaker produces an utterance - both in their spoken delivery ...

• The effect of sentence complexity on processing depth: a text change detection study using garden paths 

  Reid, Megan (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• A connectionist approach to causal learning 

  Tan, Anthony (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• The effects of late non-proficient bilingualism and a year abroad on executive functioning 

  De andres brunete, Maria (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Investigating the role of social media addiction in the relationship between impulsivity and disordered eating 

  Glennie, Rebecca (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• The effect of healthy adult ageing and cognitive reserve on specific theory of mind abilities 

  Amour, Katherine (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Investigating the effects of social exclusion on a child's tendency to imitate grammatical syntax 

  Murphy-clark, Caitlyn (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Developing empathy in the digital age: the relationship between social media usage and empathic accuracy scores in young adolescents 

  Puech, Cecilia (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Can we learn to be more conscientious? A behavioural intervention study using goal setting theory as motivation 

  Jones, Susie (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Real ghost stories: how do psychics construct their personal experiences as genuine? 

  Manclark, Roslyn (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Stepping into the shoes of another: how attachment security and parental mind-mindedness impacts the development of adolescent empathic accuracy 

  Conboy, Elizabeth (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Miraculous cures: how do individuals justify their beliefs in the authenticity and miraculous quality of faith healing cures? 

  McGrath, Aoife (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• The brief acceptance measure: developing & testing a brief measure of psychological flexibility suitable for daily use 

  Pasi, Haydn jessica (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Do garden path sentences affect the depth of semantic processing? A change detection study 

  Duckett, Tanya (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Collaboration and emotional self-management in MOBA gamers 

  Marshall, Lewis (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• The effect of exercise on cognitive functioning in static and strategic sport 

  Lee, Deborah (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Investigating human scale judgement 

  Laking, Sara (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

• Impulsivity in Cognitive Estimation Formation and the Influence of Age 

  Banks-jongman, Aisha (The University of Edinburgh, 2018)

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