Project Library: Psychology 2010/2011

Investigating the relationship between social identity and self esteem in adolescents

Gender differences on well-being with social network site-use and the effect of internet communication on health

''Why the sad face?' Using an adapted value instrument to measure environmental values in children

The impacts of taking a gap year on social and personal identity

Oculomotor Stroop task: The effects of ageing on Stroop performance

Does the presentation time of display stimulus impact the role of attention in binding visual features in working memory?

Non-conscious motivation and goal orientated behaviour

Qualitative exploration of the development of fear of falls among older people

The age of rhythm and blues: the relationship of age and Circadian rhythms on sleep and mood problems in students

An investigation into the effect of attractiveness on response times when presented in a modified Stroop task

If the lucky cap fits: the idiosyncratic superstitions of sports-people and their relationship with paranormal beliefs and general self efficacy

Framing and communicating nuclear power: The effects of outcome frames, distance frames and temporal distance frames of acceptability

The contribution of audition to the restorative effects of natural environments

An investigation into the effects of emotional expression and emotional feelings in face recognition: anger vs disgust

Defendant presentation in a criminal trial: The effect of the order of defendant presentation on defendant likeability, the perceived importance of themes during deliberation and verdict decisions

Does sexual orientation and attachment type affect body image and diet?

Motivation to exercise and drive for muscularity in male university level sports players: An investigation

The influence of emotional traits, body appreciation and message format on a sun-care health message

Does nature affect one's way of thinking of a television advertisement?

Differences in children's knowledge of stereotypical gender information depending on their age and gender

An investigation into the effects of self esteem on sexual health behaviour

An investigation into the relationship between vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension and listening comprehension ability

Salience and location binding: Does experimentally induced chocolate craving lead to increased binding to location for chocolate related images?

The effects of induced mood and affective information - processing strategies on predictions of future task duration

The effects of unique and non-unique objects in route learning

The effect of criminal and neutral auditory messages on the encoding and recall of neutral faces

The influence of emotion and attention on binding in working memory

Does the life events of students in university affect how stressed they are?

Exploring gender differences in deception in online communication: Instant messaging versus e-mail

The effects of attractiveness in advertising

An investigation into anxiety, efficiency and goal maintenance in the Stroop task

Examining how matches and mismatches of texts and pictures affects adults reading comprehension

Does caffeine influence the effect of cognitive load on prospective time estimation and task performance?

Health promotion: The extent to which message framing effects dietary intention

Are there differences in emotional intelligence and emotion recognition between musicians and non-musicians?

Factors contributing to the experience of jealousy, in the context of Facebook

Young rebellious vs old and stubborn: A series of experiments investigating age differences and willingness to conform in social contexts

Healthy Behaviours of university students and their parents, when living at or away from the home

The effect of positive and negative affect and task familiarity on counterfactual thinking

The impact of social categorisation upon the other-race effect

How social anxiety, planned behaviour and the media affect exercise motivation

Depressed mood in students: relationships with sleep quality, university stressors, exercise and gender

Does personality type affect consumer trust in the online retail context: Exploring factors of trust, personality and website usability

An investigation into the external validity of the attraction-leniency effect using strong and week defence statements

Body art - marginalisation or normalisation?

Different intersections and their impact on structural encoding of route learning

The role of memory in the planning fallacy

Every little helps: The effects of injunctive social norms and personal norms in discouraging the use of plastic bags in a supermarket

Affect, arousal and risk decision-making

'An investigation into the effect of emotion on face recognition in healthy individuals and those with developmental prosopagnosia'

Framing future goals to learn from past experiences: Can framing increase the generation of upward counterfactual thoughts?

Book versus the cover: in judging physical attraction with the use of physical and non physical factors

Cross-cultural differences in emotional processing and social problem-solving

Going the distance - Can distance effects in feature retrieval be induced using the Ponzo Illusion?

Come and play: An investigation into individual differences and the usage of video games

Perceptions of different types of pollution

Criminal Facial Sterotypes

Is verbal-spatial binding in working memory affected by a concurrent memory load if processing of the concurrent load only continues up to the retrieval of the primary task?

The effects of anxiety level and available attention resources on the recognition of emotional faces

Do positive and negative emotions displayed through facial expressions facilitate or inhibit face recognition and does this have more of an effect at encoding or retrieval?

Investigating mentalizing as a precursor to stereotyping

Social and emotional dimensions of decision making using facial expressions and the ultimatum task: An investigation

Does implicit 'letter-location' binding require attentional resources?

The relationship between personality types, coping strategies, perceived stress levels and psychological well-being in university students

Response inhibition and integration

Attractiveness is more than just a preference: The effects of distinctiveness and attractiveness upon the memorability of faces.

The role of attention in involuntary verbal-colour binding in working memory: Influences of concurrent load and valence

Individual difference in working memory capacity on Stroop performance

Student quality of life and perceived sleep satisfaction

An exploration in student relationship perception with regards to personality traits, anxiety traits and mood perception

Affecting sustained attention using natural and urban silhouettes: Does it pay off to pay attention to nature?

Web page interfaces and preferences on image appeal in different orthographies

A qualitative study concerning the emotional impact of experiences of complex visual hallucinations in older people with visual impairments

For crying out load! An investigation into the effect of age and gender on adult crying behaviours and an in depth look at crying intensity and empathy

Considering gender differences in precision teaching: The effects on phonological awareness and reading ability in the classroom

Exploring children's motivation to read: a focus on intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy in reading

Performing healthy behaviours: the influence of gender on anticipatory regret and levels of behavioural intention

Fast food consumption and romantic relationships

Free hugs? The influence of the Normative and Gain Goal Frame in the compliance of social requests

Colour and spatial grouping cues in novelty icon arrays

Lesson types and the learning styles of young children

Socio-economic factors of learned helplessness in students

Anxiety and the Stroop task: non-emotional stimuli, slow and fast paced RSI conditions

Does mood affect the recognition of faces with positive or negative emotional expressions?

The perfect fit: Examining the effects of musical congruency, genre, gender and household income on overall product purchasability ratings of print advertisements

Can personality traits have an effect upon signal detection theory

The effect goal framing has on intentions to undertake strength and balance training in older people

How does the Bruce and Young (1986) model account for the face processing abilities of developmental prosopagnosics?

Task switching and the effects of priming on switching costs using the Stroop task

Is our visual memory important when learning to read? A correlation study to show the age difference in the predictors of children's reading

Generation Consumers: An exploration into brand personality and branded product meanings

The relationship between students Facebook use with depression and well being, including gender differences

The influence generation differences and morphology have on processing Roman-alphabeted Greek

How do we get around? The effect of sequencing and landmark type on route learning

A delve into the skill of comprehension: Is role change accuracy and reading time affected by comprehension ability.

Attitudes toward theft: the influence of environmental setting, state of environment and item cost

Lesbian sexual identity and ageing: A butch-female perspective

Are gardens restorative? (Includes a bound Appendices)

Does emotional expression and group bias influence levels of face recognition?

Facial emotion recognition in Autism: inversion face effect and the confusion between fear and surprise

Gain, Hedonic and Normative aspects of environmental policies

The impact of anxiety and stress on coping strategies and academic performance of undergraduate students