Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Identifying Context Specific Risk Among Trauma-exposed PSNI Personnel
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Background: The risks associated with police work can have a significant impact on the mental health of police officers and staff. The extant literature primarily highlights the impacts of organisational and operational ... -
Illusory phantom experiences and neural plasticity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2005)Body schema plasticity demonstrates the extent of the malleabihty of sensory maps in the adult brain. Alterations of body schema in clinical populations such as the appearance of phantom limbs after amputation and ... -
The Impact of Natural Aging on Perceptual Decision Making
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)The transformation of incoming sensory information into an appropriate motor response is known as perceptual decision making, and constitutes a key computation within the human brain. Mathematical models have proved extremely ... -
Impaired awareness of deficits and neuropsychological functioning following traumatic brain injury, frontotemporal dementia, corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2006)This dissertation consists of an investigation into the phenomenon of impaired selfawareness of deficits following brain damage. Despite a large interest in the area in the neuropsychological literature, there is a distinct ... -
Implementing internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for depression and anxiety in routine care: an exploratory study of implementation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy interventions (iCBT) for depression and anxiety have proven their clinical utility through a number of controlled trials, but few studies have been conducted in routine care ... -
Improving the Robustness and Reproducibility of Functional Connectomics-based Biomarkers in Neurodevelopmental and Psychiatric Conditions
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)-based functional connectivity offers remarkable potential to non-invasively map individual differences in brain functional organisation to individual differences in behavioural ... -
Increasing emotional intelligence
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)The aim of this thesis was to evaluate a programme to develop emotional intelligence in work teams. The thesis is presented in two studies. Study 1 describes the design, application and evaluation of a training programme ... -
Individual differences in value-based decision-making as predictors of substance dependence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2021)Substance dependence is a leading global health concern. Alcohol use is the primary risk-factor for deaths and disability-adjusted life years among those between the ages of 15-49 (Griswold et al., 2018). Opioid dependence ... -
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 ... -
Investigating accuracy of trade-off and its neural correlates, how well can we trade apples for oranges?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)As humans, we perform trade-off of incommensurable concepts on daily basis. For example, many of purchase decisions, especially those involving complex products with multiple incommensurable attributes, require us to trade ... -
Investigating an interplay between respiration and attention via the locus coeruleus - noradrenaline system
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)The intricate interplay between respiration and attention, a cornerstone of yogic practices for millennia, is now gaining recognition in contemporary cognitive neuroscience. Recent research is shedding light on how respiration ... -
Investigating Polyvictimisation in Child Abuse Cases: A multi-method study within a Danish Child Protection Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)Background: Child maltreatment is a universal problem with serious impacts on mental and physical health. The extant literature suggests that different forms of childhood harms tend to co-occur and that exposure to multiple ... -
Investigating recognition and preferences for self-voice on speech generating devices in autism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2014)A substantial number of children with autism cannot communicate by voice (Eigsti, de Marchena, Schuh, & Kelley, 2011; Kjelgaard & Tager-Flusberg, 2001). Voice enabled Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices, ... -
Investigating the IFN-alpha-induced neurobehavioural syndrome in Hepatitis C patients : a qualitative and quantitative comparative study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2010)The aim of this thesis was to characterise the neurobehavioural change that accompanies treatment with the pro-inflammatory cytokine Interferon-alpha (IFN-a) in Hepatitis C patients (HCV) by using both qualitative and ... -
Investigating the merit of Social Story TM interventions for children on the Autistic Spectrum
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2012)The increasing prevalence of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) creates a need to establish effective educational practices. Social skills training is a key feature of interventions for children with ASD (Crooke, Hendrix, & ... -
Investigating the Shared and Distinct Mechanisms Underpinning Perceptual Decision-Making and Metacognition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2020)In order to successfully adjust to changes and learn in the sensory environment, humans must be able to detect whether or not decisions are based on reliable sources of information. Because we cannot always depend on the ... -
An investigation of the effects of coordinatio training on cognitive function in older adults
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2018)The world?s population is ageing. It is well known that the ageing process causes progressive loss of various cognitive functions and physical capacities. Modern neuroimaging techniques have shown that these changes are ... -
Joint attention and echoic eavesdropping in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2008)The aims of this thesis were twofold: 1) to determine if wild Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) engage in behaviors predicted to follow directly from the 'echoic eavesdropping' hypothesis in a natural ... -
A Light from Within: Aesthetic Judgments and Emotional Responses to Viewing Religious Stained-Glass Windows
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)Aesthetic psychology is the study of aesthetic objects and scenes in our world and how different factors of our experiences - be they personal to the individual observer or facets of the aesthetic object or scene itself - ... -
Maintaining wellness in fibromyalgia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2017)Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain condition characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue and multiple tender points. It is a common, multidimensional disorder that is associated with complex symptomatology and ...