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“It’s wrong but I can’t explain why!” Moral dumbfounding and moral judgement: how failure to justify moral judgements can inform our understanding of how they are made
(2024-10-17)Moral dumbfounding occurs when people fail to justify a strongly held moral judgement with supporting reasons. The discovery of moral dumbfounding coincided with a growth in intuitionist and dual-process theories of moral ... -
Exploring the influence of early screen use in the home on psychological development from an ecological perspective
(2023-10-23)The present research focuses on the influence that early screen use in the home has on young children’s psychological development. While a large body of research has been conducted on the influence that screens have on ... -
The role of self-regulatory individual differences in counterfactual thinking
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)The aim of this research was to investigate the role of self-regulatory individual differences in counterfactual thinking. In particular, we examined individual differences in autonomy, action/state orientation and ... -
How does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?: An investigation of the mechanisms underpinning the intermanual transfer of acquired skilled hand movement as postulated by the Proficiency, Callosal Access and Cross Activation Models.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)This thesis proposes that the data conflicts observed in studies of three models of intermanual transfer (the Proficiency Model (Laszlo, Baguley, & Bairstow, 1970), the Callosal Access Model (Taylor & Heilman, 1980) and ... -
Phenomenology in laboratory-based tasks: exploring methodologies that integrate experiential reports with behavioural measures in psychological research
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)Disparate research traditions in the study of experience have led to contentious arguments over the use of first-person methods in psychological research (Dennett, 2001; Schwitzgebel, 2003). Some believe that researchers ... -
What you see is what you get, but do you get what you see: Higher education students’ evaluation of the credibility of online information.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)Information literacy involves the ability to find, access, evaluate, organise and store information in a variety of media, though there is as yet no consensus on a precise definition. This thesis, set in the context of ... -
Painful decisions: an exploration of pain assessment (from the perspective of others) within a signal detection theory framework
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)Pain perception is individualistic, subjective and difficult to assess and measure accurately. It is vital for the implementation of appropriate treatment strategies, that healthcare providers and receivers arrive at a ... -
The time of our lives: an investigation into the effects of technological advances on temporal experience.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)Previous research (Blatchley et al., 2007) investigating the relationship between timing accuracy and computer use highlighted a potential difference between individuals with high and low levels of computer usage. In order ...