283 datasets found

Social power refers to the amount of control that an individual feels he/she has over another. A key attribute that sets apart powerful and powerless people in social settings...

Human communities particularly ethnic-religious and national ones see themselves as having temporal persistence, as entities that move through time. What is it that makes groups...

Our research starts from the question: what does it mean to participate in research as a volunteer? What does it mean to the volunteer? to the researcher? and for the progress...

Humans not only learn from others, but can also build on that knowledge. Cultural change therefore accumulates over generations, and we make use of many behaviours that we could...

Environmental problems cross national boundaries. Answers to these problems often lie outside the politics of nation-states. To be successful in addressing these problems often...

This research looks at the application of the Egan Review in Northern Ireland and the extent to which the region offers a distinctive learning opportunity for the rest of the...

Memory for events may be influenced by other witnesses. If co-witnesses discuss an event, or are exposed to each other's reports of that event, their memories are likely to...

This qualitative research project sets out to examine the real nature of digital literacies for today's undergraduates. These students are often referred to as 'digital...

Coarticulation, one of the central issues in experimental phonetic research, refers to the articulatory overlap of neighbouring sounds, resulting in acoustic and perceptual...

Perceptions of procedural fairness refers to the extent to which procedures used in organisational decision-making are seen as fair. These perceptions influence not only how...

The representation and processing of simple perceptual magnitudes such as the pitch of a sound, or the distance between two dots, is commonly investigated by the 'absolute...

This project aims to understand how the entrepreneur's socio-cultural background influences a firm's entrepreneurial orientation which in turn influences firm growth with...

Advance preparation of motor actions is important if accurate responses to external events are to be made with minimal delay. Such preparation requires selection of appropriate...

Previous research has demonstrated that positive attitudes towards other social groups can be encouraged by instructing people to adopt the perspective of individual members of...

Our social life consists mostly of coordination problems, where we must converge on choices and strategies that will benefit all parties involved. When a solution becomes widely...

The training of childcare practitioners is a key part of the Government's plans for improving and extending childcare for young children (with a particular focus here on the...

Recent research in human causal learning indicates that the amount of "processing power" devoted to learning about a stimulus can be influenced by prior experience of a...

When children first begin learning to read, they use their knowledge of letter sounds to 'sound out' words. This provides children with a means to assign a pronunciation to...

This research involves an inter-regional comparative study of work-life balance (WLB) provision and its impacts on the socio-economic competiveness of firms within the IT sector...

The aim of this project is to examine the development of competition in domestic electricity supply in the UK following the opening to supply competition in May 1999. This will...