Psychology Masters thesis collection
This collection contains a selection of recent Masters theses from the Psychology department. Please note that only the Title and Abstract will be available for dissertations from the current academic year. All other content from previous years is available on an Open Access basis.
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Recent Submissions
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Morphosyntax of Luwo transitive verbs: tenses and aspects of the Luwo base and derived paradigms
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-25)The Luwo language is part of the Nilotic language family, and is spoken in the region of Wau in South Sudan (Buth, 1981: 119). The phonology of Luwo presents numerous remarkable features, such as two distinctive voice ... -
Changes in psychological state in character disordered and neurotic patients
(University of Edinburgh, 1969)This study was prompted "by the suggestion (Foulds, 1967) that hospitalized female character disorders tend to present with an ’’exaggerated” degree of mental suffering and that they would possibly show a markedly rapid ... -
Measurement of identification between mothers and their adolescent children
(University of Edinburgh, 1969)In this study the identification between adolescent children and their mothers was measured. Following Lazowick (1954) two measures of identification for each mother-child pair were obtained from a Semantic Differential ... -
Social factors in the perception of ambiguous stimuli
(University of Edinburgh, 1961)This investigation started, as an attempt to examine the norms of rejection developed by groups of industrial inspectors. The industrial inspection task is essentially a judging procedure whereby successive components ... -
The Effect of Semantic Constraint on Lexical Access in Bilingual Word Recognition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2017-10-13)The current study investigated how a constraining sentence context affects processing times in second language (L2) word identification. We used eye-tracking to look at whether the cognate facilitation effect, a cue of ... -
On the fallibility of human memory for future actions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Human memory is a system that is inherently fallible and prone to distortion, and our memory for future actions is no exception. Prospective memory is defined either as remembering to carry out a task at a particular moment ... -
Relationship between co-worker satisfaction and personality traits
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The epigenetic clock is associated with white matter changes and cognitive decline in the eighth decade of life
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The effect of increased cognitive load on implicit moral judgement: do we deliberately override our moral intuitions?
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Meta-analysis: Using Event-related Potentials to Identify Recollection and Familiarity
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Can Big Five Predict the Competitive Personality?
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How do the regions of the visual field contribute to visual search in real?world scenes? An eye-tracking study comparing dynamic and static scenes.
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An Investigation of Speech and Language disturbances in Patients with Acute Delirium
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Predictors of Resilience in Older Age: The Lothian Birth Cohorts of 1921 and 1936
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Gratitude uniquely predicts well-being above the big-5 personality traits
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Merging entropy and local boundaries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Personality, social networks, and learning performance in the common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
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Assessing children's online behaviour and their experience of cyberbullying: a secondary analysis of the EU Kids Online II
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016) -
Retrieval Orientation, Cognitive Control and Ageing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2016)
