School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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The role of context in counterfactual thinking
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2002)The aim of this thesis is to examine the mental representations and cognitive processes involved in counterfactual thinking, that is, in imagining how past events might have happened differently. In chapter 1, we review ... -
Stage fright and an intervention for performers : a study of the phenomenology of stage fright in actors, musicians and other performers, followed by the design and evaluation of intervention for actors in training
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)This dissertation on stage fright in performers (actors, musicians, dancers and presenters) describes three studies. The first study (n=175) is a semi-structured in-depth interview with performers in the Netherlands and ... -
Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying signal transduction in the Hippocampal formation : the role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2002)We investigated the possibility that BDNF might play a role in the modulation of synaptic function in the hippocampal formation. Our experiments have focused on the regulation of endogenous BDNF systems in spatial learning ... -
Neural mechanisms underlying visuomotor learning : interacting cortical systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)Introduction: We are the products of our experiences. Every sight, sound and smell, every event, encounter and exchange, all leave their indelible mark on the way we act, think and feel. The things we learn from our ... -
Sustained attention and associated memory and other cognitive failures in the young and able elderly
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2004)The main aim of this thesis was to study how people pay attention over time and how this capacity changes with age. The populations under study were therefore the young and the able elderly and samples from these populations ... -
The cognitive processes of young offenders
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of this thesis was to contnbute to the existing body of knowledge on young offenders by investigating some cognitive processes that to date, have been given little attention in the literature. This thesis comprised ... -
Why it happened and how it could have been different : a comparison of causal and counterfactual thinking
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of this thesis was to compare two pervasive forms of human thinking : causal thinking about why an outcome happened (e.g., "I failed because I didn’t try") and counterfactual thinking about how an outcome could ... -
Thinking about what might have been : cognitive processes in counterfactual and semifactual thinking about controllable events
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)In this thesis we present the results of ten experiments, involving approximately 2000 participants in total, designed to examine how people think about what might have been. We had two main aims. The first aim was to ... -
The child witness : an investigation into children's understanding of the legal process and the perceived competence of children to act as witnesses in legal proceedings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)Given recent public and professional concern in relation to the levels of child victimisation and recent reforms of the evidentiary rules and legal procedures pertaining to children's evidence, there is an increasing ... -
Models of neurodegeneration in the hippocampus : molecular and behavioural factors promoting neuroprotection and neuropathology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)We investigated the consequences of brain insult after ischemia and kainic acid using different behavioural tasks, because both ischemia or KA model induce a similar neurodegenerative process to that resulting from traumatic ... -
A cross-linguistic and cross-cultural investigation of Irish and Czech children's accounts of socially-constructed emotions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)The application of a discursive approach to the subject of this study can be seen as an attempt to create a link between psychology and linguistics, where grammatical structures and language itself constitute the basis for ... -
Comparison of cardiac rehabilitation outcome measures
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2000)The aim of the present study was to investigate the responsiveness of psychosocial instruments to cardiac rehabilitation intervention. Responsiveness refers to the ability of an instrument to detect change over time and ... -
Internal State Language and Emotion Understanding in Children Attending Mental Health Services
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Thesis Title: Internal State Language and Emotion Understanding in Children Attending Mental Health Services. Parental use of internal state (mental state) language (ISL) has been linked with children s understanding of ... -
An Electrophysiological Investigation into Temporal Factors in Human Perceptual Decision-Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)At any given moment, the human brain receives a barrage of noisy sensory signals that convey important information about events taking place in the surrounding world. In order to function optimally in our environment we ... -
The Emerging Safety Mindfulness Model: from Concept Definition into Requirements Collection
(2017-06-22)Advanced by Weick and Sutcliffe at the end of the 90ies, ‘collective mindfulness’ enables an organisation to cope with unpleasant surprises by having the collective mindset necessary to detect, understand and recover them ... -
Development of the RISKRES: Screening for risk factors and resilience contributing towards suicidality in adolescents and young people
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2019)Youth suicide is a societal issue which warrants attention. The purpose of this study was to develop a psychometrically sound method to measure both risk factors and resilience as potential predictors of suicidality for ... -
Adolescents' patterns of physical activity and psychosocial factors associated with maintenance, drop out and uptake of physical activity over twelve months
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2016)This thesis sought to quantitatively explore patterns of physical activity among adolescents and the psychosocial factors associated with physical activity maintenance and behaviour change over twelve months. The research ... -
Comparative analysis of safety management systems and safety culture in aircraft maintenance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2003)The overall objective of the thesis was on developing a deeper understanding of the organisational processes of safety management systems and how they are embedded in the culture of aircraft maintenance organisations. The ... -
Single unit activity in the subiculum of freely-moving rats : spatial and non-spatial correlates
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2001)Compared with the research effort directed at the hippocampus the subiculum has received little experimental attention despite being one synapse downstream of area CAI and in a position to influence many cortical areas ... -
Emotion-Focused therapy: A Transdiagnostic formulation.
(2019)Recent years have seen the emergence of transdiagnostic psychotherapeutic treatments, typically targeting depression, anxiety and related disorders. The rationale for developing transdiagnostic protocols is based on a ...
