250 datasets found

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Background to the series The Welsh Health Survey (WHS), which ran from 1995-1998 and then from...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. This is a qualitative data collection. This research project aimed to contribute to critical policy...

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. Global accountancy, architecture and legal professional service firms (PSFs) play a vital role in the...

This project investigates the implications of reasoning strategies used by individuals with dyslexia and how they represent and manipulate problem information differently to...

How well children will learn to read is determined in part by their phonological awareness. Phonological awareness refers to the child’s awareness of the sound structure of...

British speakers are thought to vary their pitch range more (their voice goes more up and down) than German speakers do, but this has never been systematically compared. The...

This research investigates women child molesters' (WCMs) cognition. In Study 1, WCMs are asked to self-report a preliminary picture of their offence-supportive beliefs via...

The research aims to examine reforms that collectively comprise the government's remodelling agenda. In particular, it centres on the effects of the expansion of teaching...

Recent years have seen significant advancement in our understanding of the mental processes involved in reading. However, serious controversies remain. One of the most...

This project will examine ways organisations use contracts or agreements to govern relationships, balance risks and maintain trust. The contract is a key medium through which...

Individuals with Down syndrome have particular difficulties in language acquisition, and also show relatively poor verbal short-term memory skills. These deficits may be...

When a person tries to remember materials such as words, repeated items are remembered better if they are separated by other items, rather than being presented together. This...

As an extension of the ESRC project Contrasting aspect and tense in English and Chinese (RES-000-22-0135), this project will be comparing and contrasting aspect-related...

There is disagreement between memory researchers over whether false memories are caused at encoding or at retrieval. This disagreement is compounded by the fact that different...

Insight problems are impossible to solve until there is a change in how the problem is represented. There are two alternative approaches to explaining insight problem solving....

We propose experimental studies on how the perception of cause-and-effect relations in simple schematic events develops. If square A moves towards square B which moves upon...

Ambient intelligence (AmI) refers to the convergence of communication technologies, computing devices and interfaces that adapt to the user’s needs and preferences. The AmI...

Theories of motivation and drug craving suggest that feelings of desire (for example, cigarette or alcohol craving) can be produced or increased by cognitive processes. For...

The aim of the study is to use photographic participation and elicitation methods with vulnerable children who help to provide informal care for parents with serious mental...

This research sought to: explore the nature of the role of disgust in anxious psychopathology develop a valid and reliable measure of disgust that measures both frequency of...