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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 ... -
Acceptance, Grief and Adaptation amongst Caregivers of Partners with Acquired Brain Injury: An Interpretative Phenomenological Enquiry
(Article)Purpose: Families provide vital support to relatives with brain injury yet shoulder significant stress and anxiety with little help threatening family cohesion and rehabilitative outcomes. This paper analyses the accounts ... -
Access to data and NHS privatisation: reducing public accountability
(Book chapter)Recent decades, shaped by powerful neoliberal forces, have witnessed a significant encroachment on the UK state sector with privatisation advancing over many social and economic sectors. The extension of private sector ... -
Achromatic Vision
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Action Choice and Outcome Congruency Independently Affect Intentional Binding and Feeling of Control Judgments
(Article)Sense of agency (SoA) refers to the subjective experience that one is in control of their actions and the consequences of these actions. The SoA is a complex phenomenon, influenced by a weighted combination of various ... -
Activating semantic knowledge during spoken words and environmental sounds: Evidence from the visual world paradigm
(Article)Two visual world experiments investigated the activation of semantically related concepts during the processing of environmental sounds and spoken words. Participants heard environmental sounds such as barking or spoken ... -
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 ... -
Adolescent Sleep Patterns are Associated with the Selection of Positive and Negative Emotional Situations
(Article)Poor sleep in youth is a risk factor for experiencing increased negative emotions and decreased positive emotions, which can contribute to the development of later emotional disorders. Understanding of specific processes ... -
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 ...