Browsing Psychology (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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What is psychosis? Exploring the Nature and Correlates of Psychotic Symptoms in the General Population and Former Residents of Institutional Care Facilities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2022)Background: The extant literature indicates that the distinction between affective and non-affective psychotic symptoms is arbitrary. Emerging evidence indicates that psychosis may be best represented as a multidimensional ... -
Who does iCBT work for and why: predicting and understanding treatment outcomes in depression
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2024)At any given moment, depression directly affects 5% of the population, and indirectly impacts many more others. Effectively tackling this condition has remained at the forefront of psychiatry research. In the challenging ... -
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 ...