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Extinction and its effects on over-selected stimuli in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
(Dublin Business School, 2009)As recently as a few decades ago, autism was still regarded as a medical curiosity to some degree, conjuring up visions of a child who walks on tip-toe, stares vacantly into space, or rocks back and forth repetitively, ... -
ID speech universals: can English speakers recognise intentions behind infant directed speech spoken in Yoruba?
(Dublin Business School, 2009)This study investigated whether English speakers could identify through prosody alone whether speech in Yoruba was infant directed (ID) or adult directed (AD), and also whether the affective intention of the speaker could ... -
An investigation into the relationship between music, personality, mood and emotion
(Dublin Business School, 2012)The aim of this study was to compare the effects of music and lyrics on personality, mood and emotion. This study also sought to investigate relationships between personality traits and preferences of music genres. Ninety ... -
Memory for colours, shapes, analogous numbers and words differ spatially in recall
(Dublin Business School, 2007)Using a laptop computer to display arrangements of visually presented stimuli. Participants, drawn from an opportunity group, recalled the positions of the stimulitimuli after completing a distraction task. In a within ... -
Post-traumatic growth in Irish breast cancer survivors: an investigation of optimism, coping and other factors
(Dublin Business School, 2008)The aim of the current study was to investigate posttraumatic growth in Irish breast cancer survivors and the effects of optimism, coping, marital status and children. A cross-sectional between groups design was used. A ... -
A study of gender and age differences concerning the cyberbullying experiences of adolescents in Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The purpose of this study was to investigate gender and age differences relating to the cyberbullying experiences of secondary school students in Ireland. This study was a between-subjects design. Convenience sampling was ... -
A study of perceived stress, job satisfaction and work-life conflict among early years educators
(Dublin Business School, 2012)The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between perceived stress, job satisfaction, work-life and life-work conflict among early years educators. 70 participants from a number of early years education services ... -
A study of the effects of participation in an after-school homework club
(Dublin Business School, 2012)This study investigated the effects of a homework club on academic self-concept, psychological sense of school belonging, future aspirations and academic performance. 122 (n=122) participants were involved in this study, ... -
Will they stay? Will they go? Individual characteristics predicting early school leaving in Ireland
(Dublin Business School, 2008)It is estimated that 18% of young people in Ireland leave school before completing the Leaving Certificate (McCoy & Williams, 2006). The aim of this study was to investigate individual characteristics, and attachment style, ...