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The effect of before and after instructions on the speed of sequential responding
(The Psychological Record, 2014)Order judgements are slower and less accurate when reversed. That is, when participants see two events in a sequence (e.g., circle …square), they are quicker to report ‘Before’ statements (e.g., “Circle before Square”) ... -
Experiences of school bullying, psychological well-being and stress in Northern Ireland : data from the 2004 Young Life and Times Survey
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2010)Little is known about the levels and psychological consequences of bully/victim behaviours in schools in Northern Ireland. The aim of the present study was to examine the prevalence of self-reported experiences of school ... -
Experiences of school bullying, psychological well-being and stress in Northern Ireland : data from the 2005 Young Life and Times Survey
(Manchester University Press, 2010)Comparatively little is known about the nature, incidence and correlates of bully/victim problems in the Northern Ireland school system. The present study examined the prevalence of self-reported experiences of bully/victim ... -
f2f and cyberbullying among children in Northern Ireland : data from the Kids Life and Times Surveys
(Association for the Advancement of Psychology and Education (AAPE), 2010)Comparatively little is known about the nature, incidence and correlates of bully/victim problems in the Northern Ireland school system. The present study examined the prevalence of self-reported experiences of bully/victim ... -
Feedback and goal-setting interventions to reduce electricity use in the real world
(University of Illinois at Chicago Library, 2014)A field experiment explored the effect of feedback and goal-setting interventions on residential electricity use in households in Northern Ireland. Alternating orders of presentation of feedback and no feedback conditions ... -
The health of academic psychology
(The Irish Psychologist, 2017)For those starting out in academia, it is an arduous climb, often with uncertain perspective; a career ladder moving in the wind, with few rungs, dangling from a helicopter being piloted by non-academic managers. And from ... -
Making sense of surprise : an investigation of the factors influencing surprise judgments
(American Psychological Association, 2011)Surprise is often defined in terms of disconfirmed expectations, whereby the surprisingness of an event is thought to be dependent on the degree to which it contrasts with a more likely, or expected, outcome. The authors ... -
Mutual entailment of temporal relations in younger and older adults: reversing order judgments
(Springer International Publishing, 2016)For temporal relations, mutually entailed relations are different to those directly trained; we learn that A occurred “before” B and derive that B occurred “after” A. Deriving such relations results in lower accuracy and ... -
New bottle : old wine! School bullying among primary school pupils and the emergence of cyberbullying
(Access Research Knowledge (ARK), 2010)Involvement in ‘traditional’ (face-to-face) bully/victim problems at school has been linked to impaired health and well-being, a reduction in educational attainment, long-term relationship and intimacy issues, and potential ... -
The origins of the psychological 'interior' - evidence from imperial roman literacy practices and related issues
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008)The pervasiveness in psychological literature of the assumption that mental events and psychology in general occur within the person – henceforth the psychological interior‘ – is introduced and the received view of its ... -
Prediction of self-monitoring compliance : application of the theory of planned behaviour to chronic illness sufferers
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, and asthma are chronic illnesses that affect a substantial number of people. The continued high cost of clinic and hospital based care provision in these areas could ... -
Report from the external relations panel, The NIBPS & PSI joint careers event, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Saturday, 28 February 2009
(The Irish Psychologist, 2009)Report on a NIBPS and PSI careers event held in the University of Ulster in 2009 -
Sequential responding in accordance with temporal relational cues : a comparison of before and after
(The Psychological Record, 2012)The current study investigated the relative effects of Before and After relational cues on temporal order judgments. In Experiment 1, participants (N = 20) were exposed to a 5-phase temporal relational responding ... -
The stress and trauma of school victimization in Ireland : a retrospective account
(Association for the Advancement of Psychology and Education (AAPE), 2011)As part of an international study examining student victimization (by both peers and educators) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptomatology, 154 Irish university students completed the ‘Student Alienation and ... -
Victimisation in urban disadvantaged primary schools: associations with health-related quality of life, depression and social support
(Wiley, 2017)Background: Although a widespread problem, victimisation research on primary school children is limited, especially in disadvantaged regions. The aim of the current research was to address this absence in the literature ...