Browsing Psychology Undergraduate thesis collection by Title
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19th Century Spiritualism: How proponents deploy particular arguments in order to maintain belief despite negative evidence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013-03-13)In order to extend our understanding of the communicative practices involved in belief maintenance, the current paper examines how proponents of 19th century Spiritualism defended their beliefs despite apparent negative ... -
A cross-cultural investigation: within-individual personality states and perceived situation characteristics
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A discursive psychological analysis of post-Brexit discussions: the role of moral conviction
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017) -
A linguistic and thematic comparison of an adolescent female's diaries as she progressed towards suicide
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017) -
A replication and analysis of the study; 'cognitive load selectively interferes with utilitarian moral judgment'
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017) -
A systematic review of the association between rape myth acceptance and male-on-female sexual violence
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Accent Prestige and Perceived Solidarity Explain the Allocation of Visual Attention in a Social Setting
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The Accessibility of patient information leaflets concerning cervical cancer - the effect of high leaflet readability level and the reader's level of education
(2006)Research suggests that many Patient Information Leaflets are written at too high a level for the population to understand. This study took 2 leaflets on Cervical Cancer, with their readability measured using 3 different ... -
Accessing Clients' Perpectives of their Counselling using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(2009-07-03)Recent psychotherapeutic research has begun to highlight the importance of considering clients’ experiences of the process of counselling, in a meaningful and detailed way through the use of qualitative methodologies. The ... -
Achievement goals and the big five personality traits in university students
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Acquisition of the noun category: Exploring syntactic priming of noun phrase structure in young children and adults using novel and familiar noun prime stimuli.
(2008-06-27)Objectives. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the nature of young children’s syntactic representations. More specifically, this study was interested in examining syntactic priming for noun phrase ... -
Acquisition of the noun category: syntactic priming of noun phrase structure in adults and young children using novel and familiar noun prime stimuli
(2008-06-27)How do children come to be able to discriminate between nouns, adjectives and other grammatical categories? The present study investigated children’s acquisition of the noun category using a syntactic priming method. In ... -
An Action Oriented Account of Dimensional Concepts
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"Actually thats so studenty, its so brideshead revisited!": A discursive approach to the 'student identity'
(2009-07-05)Much discursive research into identity has used students as participants but thus far none have focused exclusively on the ‘student identity’ itself. This study takes a discursive psychology approach to investigating this ... -
Adaptation in Architecture: Explaining Architectural Beauty Using the Handicap Principle
(2008-06-27)The origins of art and architecture are not properly understood. Research in to the evolution of art has been concerned with function with respect to survival. Art appears to have no survival function, in that creating ... -
Adolescents' Construction of National Identity in the Context of the Scottish Independence Referendum: A Discursive Analysis
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Adult Age Differences in the Forgetting of Verbal Material Over Extended Time Intervals
(2009-07-03)It is widely accepted that older participants do not perform as well as their younger counterparts on tasks of memory. Yet while the research on forgetting is extensive, the literature is inconclusive with regards to ... -
Age differences in conceptual and perceptual comparisons of visual stimuli.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2013)Investigations of age-related increases in false recognition have highlighted the tendencies of older adults to designate new conceptually similar visual stimuli as having been seen before. Studies have shown that older ... -
Age effects on the implicit recognition of facial expressions.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2010-06)Backgrounds: A large amount of research has been put into the investigation of the discernable decline in older adults’ abilities to explicitly label the six basic emotion facial expressions. However, very little ...
