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Coordinating utterances during conversational dialogue: the role of content and timing predictions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)During conversation, we take turns at talk and switch between listening to a speaker and producing an appropriate and timely response. In fact, we often do so with relatively little gap or overlap between our own and our ... -
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 ... -
Authoritarianism in parents and the upbringing of children
(The University of Edinburgh, 1958)Several lines of enquiry which would have been of special interest were closed for lack of greater numbers of subjects. For example, although one of the five lower middle-class schools was Roman Catholic, the question ... -
Rheumatism
(The University of Edinburgh, 1911)Obviously it is beyond the scope of this essay to enter into a full and critical account of all the above various conditions to which the term rheumatism has been in one sense or other applied. Such being,then, both ... -
Discovering infant logic
(The University of Edinburgh, 1986)Adults have characterised infants as incompetent in action and cognition. An- alternative interpretation which characterises infants as different rather than deficient is asserted. This alternative explanation is derived ... -
An examination of the influence of behaviour topography and level of severity of learning disability on staff attributions and emotional responses towards challenging behaviour shown by adults with learning disabilities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2003)It has been long acknowledged that staff responses to challenging behaviour shown by people with learning disabilities often contributes to the long-term maintenance of the challenging behaviour. In recent years, in an ... -
Anger in women with developmental disabilities: cognitive behavioural therapy - a case series
(The University of Edinburgh, 2007)Whilst there is good evidence for the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural anger treatment in populations of men, there is very little literature on the nature of anger in clinical populations of women, and little by ... -
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 ... -
Theories of pleasure - unpleasure and its relation to action
(The University of Edinburgh, 1926)PART I. THE PLACE OF PLEASURE - UNPLEASURE IN CONSCIOUS PROCESS OR IN PSYCHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION. -
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 ... -
Survey of perseveration and perseveration tests
(The University of Edinburgh, 1936)The following conclusions may be regarded as proved: -
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 ...
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