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Creating a positive attitude : a critical analysis of adolescent's attitude towards people with disabilities
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The main aim of this study was to investigate whether providing positive, indirect experiences such as, guided discussions and simulation activities will alter any pre-existing negative attitudes toward disabilities. It ... -
Do friends make you smarter : a comparative study of educational performance across friendship / acquaintance pairings
(Dublin Business School, 2007)Recent literature has acknowledged that children's performance on cognitive tasks can be improved when undertaken jointly among pairs of pupils leading many researchers to claim that friendship groupings should be used ... -
Experiment to establish the effect of subliminal stimuli on answer selection and reaction time
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The aim of the study was to establish the whether the presentation of subliminal stimuli during a multiple choice test would have any effect on (a) the number of correct answers participants achieved and (b) the reaction ... -
An exploration into the factors predicting positive social interactions in primary school
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The aim of this study is to determine if children who attend preschool education will be more socially interactive with their peers in primary school. The study also takes into consideration the child's parental influence, ... -
Gifted children in Irish primary schools : motivated or bored ?
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The aim of the current study was to explore the effects that ability and gender has on children's attitudes towards school. The specific variables of interest were boredom, lack of challenge and motivation. A between-participants ... -
The impact of bullying behaviour on mood, health, and self-esteem among post primary adolescents
(Dublin Business School, 2008)This study investigates bullying incidence among post primary adolescents to ascertain if a correlation exists between bullying, self-esteem, health complaints and mood/affect. It is expected that bully/victims will show ... -
The impact of stress and fatigue on pilots in relation to safety and health
(Dublin Business School, 2009)This study was carried out to determine if there is a lack of self-awareness between commercial pilots and their individual fatigue and stress levels which impact on their health and the safety of the operation. Three ... -
An investigation into the effects of visual arrangements on language comprehension
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The aim of this Final Year Project was to test the reaction time disparity that occurred when different visual references were given to participants who also received an audio referent of equal ease of comprehension. In ... -
An investigation into the relationship between religiosity, locus of control and preventive health behaviour
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The purpose of the current study was to examine the relationship between religiosity, locus of control and preventive health behaviours. Differences among religious denominations were also measured. The Religiosity Scale ... -
An investigatory study to determine whether the live kidney donor experiences benefits from a psychological and physical perspective
(Dublin Business School, 2009)The aim of the current study is to investigate whether live donation has positive or negative psychosocial and physical effects on the live donor. The conditions of the independent variable are live kidney donors (n=20) ... -
Is the effect of age on counterfactual reasoning & emotional ascription different for boys & girls?
(Dublin Business School, 2007)The aim of this study was to examine the effect of age and gender in relation to counterfactual thinking and emotion and social ascriptions. The participants consisted of 60 boys and 60 girls segregated into three groups: ... -
The ‘knowcebo’ effect; an investigation into the relationship between knowledge, anticipation and the placebo effect
(Dublin Business School, 2009)Various theories exist to explain the placebo effect, the most prominent being that of expectation and classical conditioning. The present study tests the notion of the ‘knowcebo’; a placebo effect that is brought about ... -
Materialism: An assessment of possible negative psychological consequences of excessive endorsement of materialistic values
(Dublin Business School, 2009)This study conducted a general analysis of the construct of materialism and assessed possible negative psychological outcomes. Self- administered questionnaires were given to psychology students (n= 91), and a quasi-experiment ... -
Sibling influences in the moral reasoning of adolescents, using the PROM questionnaire
(Dublin Business School, 2008)Based on findings showing that birth order and the presence or absence of siblings influence personality (Adler, 1927; Stewart & Stewart, 1995; Sulloway, 1996), especially when that sibling has a disability (Meyer, 1997; ...