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It’s good to talk!
(2017)
Talking is an essential human skill in order to communicate our wants, needs, hopes, dreams and to make social connections with others. While infants can make their needs known it takes some time for children to achieve ...
Searching for moral dumbfounding: identifying measurable indicators of moral dumbfounding
(2017)
Moral dumbfounding is defined as maintaining a moral judgement, without supporting reasons. The most cited demonstration of dumbfounding does not identify a specific measure of dumbfounding and has not been published in ...
Relationships between mental toughness, barriers to exercise, and exercise behaviour in undergraduate students
(University of Wollongong, Australia, 2017)
The present study explored relationships between mental toughness (MT), barriers to exercise, and self reported exercise behaviour in university students. Perceived barriers to exercise are important since previous work ...
Academic self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between Scottish index of multiple deprivation and composite attainment score
(Frontiers, 2017)
A developing literature continues to testify to the relationship between higher socio-economic status (SES) and better academic attainment. However, the literature is complex in terms of the variety of SES and attainment ...
Functional connectivity anomalies in adolescents with psychotic symptoms
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
Background
Previous magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) research suggests that, prior to the onset of psychosis, high risk youths already exhibit brain abnormalities similar to those present in patients with schizophrenia. ...
Loud crisis, quiet crisis: Varela’s proposal resonates in contemporary psychological science
(Constructivist Foundations, 2017)
Open peer commentary on the article “Varela’s Radical Proposal: How to Embody and Open Up Cognitive Science” by Kristian Moltke Martiny. Upshot: Varela’s proposal that science should be open to the phenomena of experience ...
An examination of adolescent mental and physical well-being in Scottish school children: A cross-sectional study
(Open Access Text (OAT), 2017)
Recent research has suggested that Scottish girls are more at risk of higher levels of psychosomatic symptomatology and lower levels of mental well-being that their male peers. We report the results of a cross-sectional ...
Adolescents consider the future differently depending on the domain in question: Results of an exploratory study in the United Kingdom (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)
The study of Consideration of Future Consequences (CFC) construct has increased substantively in recent years. Underlying these developments is the presumption that consideration of the future is uniform across all domains, ...
Predicting cooperation in competitive conditions: The role of sportspersonship, moral competence, and emotional intelligence (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2017)
Objectives: The purpose of the present study was to examine the predictive capabilities of sportspersonship, moral competence, and emotional intelligence on cooperation in varying competitive conditions.Design: An experimental ...