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Exploring frailty and cognitive functioning trajectories in later life
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-25)Understanding the ageing process in later life is a crucial step in identifying those at highest risk of health decline, and in implementing effective prevention and treatment strategies. However, measuring the ageing ... -
Investigation of the associations between intelligence in youth and a range of physical health, mental health, and health behaviour outcomes in childhood, adolescence, and middle age
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Neuropsychiatric disorders in motor neurone disease kindreds: clinical and subclinical symptoms and their relationship with cognition and behaviour
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-08-27)BACKGROUND: Motor neurone disease (MND), of which amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common, and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) occur on a spectrum, overlapping clinically, pathologically and genetically. Family ... -
Investigating personality differences using nuance-level traits and links with health
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-03-09)Research on personality differences has been well-established on the levels of broad personality domains such as the Big Five and their more specific facets. Over the past decade, a small number of researchers have proposed ... -
Human-dog bond: personality and attachment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-01)To assess variables associated with a mutual human-dog bond, a new scale was developed to measure dog owner’s relationship satisfaction and Ainsworth’s Strange Situation Test (SST) was used to measure the attachment ... -
Power and objectification: the sexual objectification of women in positions of power
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)The aim of this thesis is to examine the relationship between women’s power in a professional setting and their sexual objectification. Across five experiments this thesis provides robust support for the hypothesis that ... -
Effects of affective factors on cognitive control engagement in childhood and adulthood
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)Childhood is a period of protracted gains in cognitive control, with increasingly flexible and efficient engagement of cognitive resources as a function of task demands. In particular, children progressively shift from ... -
Co-occurring mental health problems across childhood and adolescence: within-person developmental relations, mediators and antecedents
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)Approximately 10 to 20% of children and adolescents suffer from a mental health condition. In addition, more than 40% of these children are likely to develop at least one additional mental illness concurrently or later in ... -
Characterising the effect of semantic and perceptual similarity in episodic memory
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)This thesis investigated the contribution of semantic and perceptual similarity to mnemonic discrimination, defined as the ability to recognize previously encountered events and to discriminate them from similar ones to ... -
How we ripple: the interplay of psychological flexibility, wellbeing and relationship quality
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)The beneficial links between positive features of romantic relationships and health and wellbeing have been widely explored at both the individual level and the couple level. Deepening our understanding of how wellbeing ... -
Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioural ALS Screen (ECAS) in the assessment of early onset dementia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)Early onset dementia is the gradual cognitive decline that interferes with independence in everyday activities, when it occurs in people younger than 65 years old (Fadil et al., 2009; American Psychiatric Association, ... -
Prenatal maternal infections and children's psychosocial outcomes: a UK cross-cohort analysis
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)Previous studies have suggested that children prenatally exposed to infections may be more likely than others to develop conditions such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and that this may depend on ... -
Multi-method exploration of physical activity, personality and wellbeing in older adults and university students in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)While the global life expectancy and number of university students have both increased dramatically since the mid-20th century, previous findings suggest that many older adults and students struggle to live a healthy ... -
Mind and matter correlated in a matrix. Replicating a new method
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The thesis explores whether mind can interact directly with matter, i.e., with a physical system, without the use of any known physical interaction. The concept, called psychokinesis, is yet an unexplained phenomenon. The ... -
Effects of pro-social motives and reward on children's prospective memory and inhibitory control
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-03-22)Prospective memory (PM) refers to the ability to remember to perform an intended action in the future whereas inhibitory control (IC) is defined as the capacity to stop a prepotent or automatic response in favour of a more ... -
Pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours: the role of individual differences
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The work within this dissertation primarily focused on what types of people do (not) care or act pro-environmentally and examined potential mechanisms for promoting pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. Chapter 1 ... -
Moral foundations conflict task: measuring intuitive conflict between moral foundations using a novel task
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis represents a body of work to validate the Moral Foundations Conflict Task (MFCT), a novel measure that aims to probe directly at intuitive conflict between moral foundations. Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) ... -
Working memory binding: insights from neuroimaging, behavioural and clinical studies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-09-28)Working memory binding (WMB) entails the integration of multiple sources of information to form and temporarily store coherent object representations (or conjunctions). To date, cognitive research on binding has mostly ... -
Immersive virtual reality methods in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology: the Virtual Reality Everyday Assessment Lab (VR-EAL).an immersive neuropsychological test battery of everyday cognitive functions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-12)In cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, the collection of cognitive and behavioural data is predominantly achieved by implementing paper-and-pencil and computerized (i.e., 2D and 3D applications) assessments. ... -
Numerical distinct attributes in Spinoza's Substance Monism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)[No Deposit Agreement]
