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Emergence and adaptation of referential conventions in dialogue
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)When speakers in dialogue are faced with the need to repeatedly refer to the same items, they usually use the same references they or their partners had used before. These previously-used references act as precedents, ... -
On the fallibility of human memory for future actions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Human memory is a system that is inherently fallible and prone to distortion, and our memory for future actions is no exception. Prospective memory is defined either as remembering to carry out a task at a particular moment ... -
Neuropsychological functioning across the ALS disease course and its assessment
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-28)Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a rapid and fatal neurodegenerative disease marked by progressive muscle weakness and wasting. Approximately 50% of people with ALS experience changes in cognition and behaviour. Previous ... -
Construct truncation due to suboptimal person and item selection: consequences and potential solutions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016-06-28)Construct truncation can be defined as the failure to capture variation along the entire continuum of a construct reliably. It can occur due to suboptimal person selection or due to suboptimal item selection. In this ... -
Origins and structure of social and political attitudes: insights from personality system theory and behavioural genetics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012)People differ, often strikingly, in their views on desired social structures and processes. For example, while some value ethnic diversity in their society, others believe non -indigenous individuals (whatever that might ... -
Personality
(The University of Edinburgh, 1926)Why should a practising physician write on personality ? Should not this task be undertaken by an erudite psychologist, who is au fait with all the intricacies of mental science. The answer may be, that Personality is ... -
Self consciousness, self identity, and self knowledge
(The University of Edinburgh, 1967)In this thesis I attempt to give an account of the experiential self: the self of inner experience. I put forward the view that the empirical self is the only self there is, and attribute attempts to identify a ... -
Importance of selecting research stimuli: a comparative study of the properties, structure and validity of both standard and novel emotion elicitation techniques
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-28)The principal aim of this doctoral research has been to investigate whether various popular methods of emotion elicitation perform differently in terms of self-reported participant affect - and if so, whether any of them ... -
Edinburgh Social Cognition Test (ESCoT): a new test of theory of mind and social norm understanding
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)Social cognitive abilities are needed to process and understand social information in order to respond appropriately in everyday social interactions. While there are a number of tests that have been developed to measure ... -
Hybrid model: investigating bilingual language production through code-switching
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)Bilingual language production is an area of psycholinguistic research that has received recent attention. Experimental evidence from bilingual word production tasks has shown that both languages share representation at ... -
Psychological wellbeing in relation to morbidity and mortality risk: exploring associations and potential mechanisms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)There is evidence of a prospective association between wellbeing and health outcomes including disease risk and longevity. The aim of this thesis was firstly to further explore whether wellbeing is a risk factor for ... -
Linguistic and non-linguistic factors influencing attentional control performance in bilinguals and monolinguals in Singapore and Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)The suggestion that bilinguals show enhanced cognitive control compared to monolinguals in certain aspects of executive function has received much contention. While this has been explained as a result of the extensive ... -
Exploring the explorers: studying the mood, mental health, cognition and the lived experience of extreme environments in a small isolated team confined to an Arctic research station
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)Background: The human ability to adapt to extreme environments is fascinating. Research into this adaptation has been lacking in Arctic isolated teams because it has concentrated on Antarctic teams. The hazards of ... -
Exploring a possible tonal loop in musicians and non-musicians and the relationship between musical expertise and cognitive ageing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)This thesis explored two main research questions, firstly investigating whether musical expertise offers a performance advantage in working memory for sequences of tones that vary in pitch, and secondly whether any ... -
Belongingness in practice: a discursive psychological analysis of aid workers’ accounts of living and working in the field
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-07-02)The study described in this thesis represents one of the first attempts to explore belongingness as a practice among aid workers, and to contribute to our understanding of how people account for belonging in situ. In ... -
Maternal 'theories' and infant personality development
(The University of Edinburgh, 1984)This "thesis "begins with a detailed theoretical analysis which is used to "build a framework to describe personality and personality development. The framework derives principally from the personality theory of George ... -
The psychology of deprivation in childhood: a review of the literature and discussion of theoretical problems
(The University of Edinburgh, 1954)The publication of the Curtis Report, and the passing into law of the Children Act 1908, were outstanding landmarks in the history of social welfare in Great Britain. The neglect of the educational, social, physical and ... -
Persuasion in the context of a psychic reading
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996)This thesis considers the claim that although there is little reason on the basis of experimental evidence to believe that psychic readers have paranormal access to information about their clients, nevertheless individuals ... -
Cognitive style: the reliability and validity of verbal-imagery and wholistic-analytic cognitive style
(The University of Edinburgh, 2002)Cognitive styles are defined as an individual's preferred or habitual way of processing information. In this thesis, existing measures of cognitive style are reviewed and the development of a new more reliable and valid ... -
The experience of the psychiatric interview following self-harm: factors which influence this experience and the potential impact of it
(The University of Edinburgh, 2000)A proportion of individuals who are seen at accident and emergency following deliberate self-harm (DSH) are admitted to the medical wards where they are psychiatrically assessed. This exploratory study investigated the ...
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