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Academic and Career Expectations of Ethnic Minority Youth in Hong Kong
(Article)Based on social-cognitive career theory (SCCT), we explore how ethnic identity, parental occupation, efficacy in learning Chinese, and learning experience relate to ethnic minority adolescents’ academic and career expectations. ... -
Academic Hit Lists and Victimisation: Scoping a research agenda on victimisation and cyberbullying in academia and science
(Presentation)One of the most unexplored areas in emotions and criminal justice falls under the issues of well-being, cyberbullying and academia. Drawing on both personal experiences and anecdotes from others, this presentation scopes ... -
Achromatic Vision
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Actuarialism and early intervention
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Adolescent Egocentrism and the Illusion of Transparency: Are Adolescents as Egocentric as we Might Think?
(Article)The illusion of transparency, or people’s tendency to believe their thoughts and feelings as more apparent to others than they actually are, was used to investigate adolescent egocentrism. Contrary to previous research ... -
Affective attributions for psychological well-being: Pre-existing biases predict attributions of control, responsibility and credit.
(Conference)Objectives: Previous research has identified a hierarchy of attributions for negative but preventable health outcomes (e.g. HIV/AIDS), from control, through responsibility, to blame, which becomes increasingly reliant upon ... -
Against a normative view of folk psychology
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Aggressive encounters between patients and general hospital staff: Staff perceptions of the context and assailants' levels of cognitive processing.
(Article)A considerable body of research has accumulated regarding aggression toward health care staff, yet little is known about the contextual factors involved. The present study examined the context within which aggressive ... -
The Alienated Academic: the Struggle for Autonomy Inside the University
(Book)Higher education is increasingly unable to engage usefully with global emergencies, as its functions are repurposed for value. Discourses of entrepreneurship, impact and excellence, realised through competition and the ...