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The Development of Vocational Interests and Abilities in Secondary School Aged Children
(University of Plymouth, 2012)
This body of work has focussed on the measurement, structure and stability of vocational interests and abilities in mainstream, mixed-ability secondary school aged children. This set of studies investigated how a large ...
Mood, Emotive Content, and Reasoning
(University of Plymouth, 2013)
Mood, Emotive Content, and Reasoning - Daniel Zahra
Theories of how individuals reason, and how they experience emotion abound in the psychological literature; yet, despite the common lay-theories of how emotions might ...
Development and evaluation of a new scale to measure motivation
(University of Plymouth, 1991)
This programme of research was undertaken with the
aim of using psychometric techniques to develop and
evaluate a new scale to measure motivation. An initial
hypothesis was stated, proposing that five related
factors ...
Making Heat Visible: Improving household heat efficiency through thermal images.
(University of Plymouth, 2013)
Energy is largely invisible to users. It has been argued that employing technologies to visualise energy will assist people in conserving energy. Energy visibility interventions have largely focussed on appliance use and ...
Individual differences in psychological adjustment to perceived abnormalities of appearance
(University of Plymouth, 1997)
The aim of this programme of research was to investigate the
differences between individuals in their psychological adjustment to
perceived abnormalities of appearance. The first phase of the
research was to refine and ...
One step ahead: Investigating the influence of prior knowledge on the perception of others’ actions
(Plymouth University, 2015)
Historically, a dominant view has been that we understand others by directly matching their actions to our own motor system, emphasising the importance of bottom-up processes during social perception. However, more recent ...
ENHANCING GRIT IN ELITE ATHLETES THROUGH FUNCTIONAL IMAGERY TRAINING
(University of Plymouth, 2020)
Grit has been researched across a wide variety of domains with negative correlations to drop out rates and positive associations to performance. However, there has been little to empirically change character through ...
Social anxiety and paranoia: A mixed-methods investigation
(University of Plymouth, 2019)
Social anxiety is highly prevalent and highly debilitating. It is detrimental to educational and occupational progression as well as quality of life for up to 12% of the population. Current research, treatment, and diagnostic ...
'Consuming children' : a sociological analysis of children's relationship with contempory consumer culture
(University of Plymouth, 2002)
The aim of this thesis is to identify and understand children's relationships with the
world of consumption. Through the children's own narratives a picture emerges of the
mediating properties of consumer goods in their ...
A psychophysical investigation of quantum cognition: An interdisciplinary synthesis
(University of Plymouth, 2019)
Quantum cognition is an interdisciplinary emerging field within the cognitive sciences which applies various axioms of quantum mechanics to cognitive processes. This thesis reports the results of several empirical ...