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Do the visual search strategies for one task, influence subsequent eye movements in an unrelated task? Simplistic experiments show that top-down processes used to complete one...

Street children are often positioned as deviant and contrasting to powerful moral constructions of family, home and childhood. Here they are viewed as a product the...

None specified We conducted three experiments to test between these two accounts of interhemispheric communication. In each of these experiments, we controlled where the...

Catha edulis, commonly known as khat, is a shrub or tree that grows wild across highland areas of much of Africa. In some areas khat leaves or twigs are chewed for their...

There are great similarities between the actions of our self and others, not only in terms of movement characteristics, but also in the way those movements are processed in the...

This research synthesises and disseminates the 'T-MEDIA' (Teacher Mediation of Subject Learning with ICT: a Multimedia Approach) project and prior work. It aims to consolidate...

This research will examine everyday conceptions of nostalgia. Nostalgia serves important psychological functions: it elevates positive affect, boosts self-regard, provides a...

Prejudice against social groups remains a problem within society. Prejudice is associated with strong emotions, but the majority of psychological research has used cognitive...

Research in social sciences has increasingly highlighted the importance of envy and related social preferences (such as fairness, reciprocity and inequality aversion) in...

Study aims: To improve understanding of the relationship between women's employment and risk of intimate partner violence in urban and rural Tanzania, and explore the policy and...

This research will take place in Zanzibar, where children are expected to show how well they have learned school subjects through formal examinations in English. In Zanzibar, on...

How do we think about things we have never encountered before? Embodied theories of cognition hold that conceptual thought is composed of partial recordings of the neural...

Comparative political economy has been dominated in recent years by the issue of globalisation. Within that literature, the Nordic economies are routinely presented as special...

A major characteristic of our ability to remember things over short periods (ie seconds) is to remember sequences of information; that is, remember the order of events or items....

Anthropological accounts of warfare in many indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. Such practices have sometimes been...

An ability to successfully add numerical digits is a key goal of early mathematics education. But the mechanisms by which adults and children develop the skills to perform such...

To date, most studies of individual differences in face preferences have focused on the role of biological factors, such as the judge's health and hormonal condition. By...

Every week thousands of parents in the UK join BabySign classes in the belief that it will help their infant's development. Our research team has been conducting the first...

Bureaucracy is a crucial resource to a politician who wishes to see his or her policies implemented effectively. The organisation of skills, expertise and administrative...

Exceptions to generalisations are easy and obvious to spot when they clearly violate the general rule, ie a human with one arm. This is also known as a positive exception, where...