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Fear of Social Isolation: Testing an Assumption from the Spiral of Silence
(Irish Communications Review, 2000)
An untested assumption of the Spiral of Silence has been whether people’s fear of social isolation affects their willingness to voice their opinions in public, especially if their opinions are in the minority. It has also ...
Counterfactual and Prefactual Conditionals
(Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2004)
We consider reasoning about prefactual possibilities
in the future, for example, “if I were to win the lottery
next year I would buy a yacht” and counterfactual possibilities,
for example, “if I had won the lottery last ...
Deconstructing Media Reports of Sexual Abuse: An Analysis of Framing in Irish Print Media Coverage of Sexual Abuse 1993-2002.(Pre-Published Version)
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2007)
From the 'Other' Island to the One with 'No West Side':
(Irish Studies Review, 2007)
Through the Looking Glass: How the mass media represent, reflect and refract sexual crime in Ireland
(Irish Communications Review, 2004)
Sexual crimes, against adults and children, represent significant social problem in Ireland as indicated in the SAVI report (McGee et al., 2002). This paper examines the framing, representation and construction of sexual ...
Early Childhood Discourse: Problematising some Conceptual issues in Statutory Frameworks.
(Irish Educational Studies: Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2002)