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Time and interventions in children's causal structure learning
Imagine that you encounter three events A, B and C that tend to occur together. What are the relationships between A, B, and C? One possibility is that A causes B and B causes... -
Fluent reading and the brain: Co-registration and statistical decomposition o...
The proposed research will implement a new approach to study reading by functionally synchronising state-of-the-art eyetracking and electrophysiological (EEG) apparatus. The... -
Making working memory really work: From the research laboratory to schools an...
The term "working memory" describes our ability to hold information in mind and manipulate if necessary for brief periods of time in the course of ongoing everyday activities.... -
Social identity theory extended: A SITE map for understanding intergroup rela...
This project extends work on the social identity approach to intergroup relations within a new integrative framework: social identity theory extended (SITE). Social identity... -
Ages and stages: The place of theatre in representations and recollections of...
Working from within a critical gerontology perspective, this interdisciplinary research project aims to develop a sophisticated understanding of changing artistic and social... -
A local bias in attention.
The principal objective is to examine alternatives for the origin of the adult Himba local bias. The Himba are a semi-nomadic population of animal herders whose territory is... -
Promotion of dental care using visual perspectives in mental imagery: A cultu...
Despite a long history of research on determinants of future behaviour in social and health psychology, promotion and maintenance of positive future behaviours still proves to... -
The Putin Succession
Previous work by the present applicant and his Russian collaborator has established that the relatively small group that takes Russia's key decisions is increasingly composed of... -
Shipping, mariners and port communities in fourteenth-century England
The aim of this project is to bring greater clarity and precision to academic and public understanding of the English merchant fleet in the fourteenth century. It will... -
French capital: A study of French highly-skilled migrants in London's financi...
The French constitute a significant and growing migrant population in the UK, and in particular, London. With a notable concentration employed in highly-skilled occupations,... -
The commodity chain of the household: from survey design to policy planning
Household surveys are essential for the production of data for policy design and interventions in developing countries. Little attention is paid by commissioners, producers and... -
Encoding and interference effects on visual working memory binding in young a...
This research will provide insight into the effects of ageing on visual short-term (working) memory and, more specifically, the ability to encode and maintain associations... -
The transformation project: Transferring knowledge to transform project manag...
The transformation project's remit is to transfer existing academic knowledge to transform project management practice. The research team have published articles related to... -
Business, taxation and welfare
This project aims to undertake and disseminate multi- and inter-disciplinary research which will inform government policies in the field of business taxation. The research will... -
Justice motive effects in self-punishment
Researchers interested in the psychology of justice have demonstrated that people need to maintain the belief that the world is basically a just, orderly, and non-random place... -
Youth offending and youth transitions: The influence of capital on desistance...
Crime tends to be a temporary, age-limited phenomenon, with the so-called 'age-crime curve' demonstrating that youthful offending starts in the mid-teens, peaks at 18 for both... -
The development of migrant villages under China's rapid Urbanization: implica...
With rising social inequality in China, housing insecurity in informal migrant settlements known as chengzhongcun (urban villages) became a significant issue. In the suburbs of... -
Global uncertainties and support for Islamic militancy - female madrasas in P...
This research programme will advance theoretical understanding of how religious beliefs get radicalised and whether state law enforcements agencies can counter these processes... -
The development of mental imagery
Adults use mental imagery ubiquitously in everyday life, for example: for visualising how a room would look with rearranged furniture or how to fit a car into a parking space.... -
Abundance and biomass latitudinal distribution of pelagic Decapoda, Lophogast...
In this dataset, we included the abundance and biomass distribution of pelagic shrimps from off the Brazil coast (15ºS) to the Canary Islands (25ºN). Sampling was conducted in...