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Type D personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stress in women
(Elsevier, 2011)
Abstract
The Type D personality (identified by high levels of both negative affectivity and social
inhibition) has been associated with negative health consequences in cardiac patients.
However, few studies have explored ...
Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social context: Examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
Abstract
Previous work on social support and stress tolerance using laboratory-based cardiovascular
stress response paradigms has suggested that perceived social support may be effective in
building resilience in ...
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 ...
Perceptual modalities: modes of presentation or modes of interaction?
(Imprint Academic, 2010)
Perceptual modalities have been traditionally considered
the product of dedicated biological systems producing information for
higher cognitive processing. Psychological and neuropsychological
evidence is offered which ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Does time spent watching television in early childhood affect socio-emotional development?
(ESRI [Economic and Social Research Institute], 2014)
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 ...