Browse Projects (45 total)

Academic resilience can refer to a student’s response when they are faced with academic hinderances, such as lower than expected grades. Those with a high ability to bounce back from hinderances have previously been shown to perform well during…

Over recent decades, climate change has caused the world to get warmer and this trend is set to continue into the future. Relationships between increased temperature and changes in human behaviour, such as increased aggression, have been identified…

Figurative language is used quite frequently in both speech and writing, as to express our creative and abstract thoughts. Traditionally, it was thought that metaphors are ornamental in nature, as well as they are used rarely compared to literal…

Research shows that emotional states are involved in moral reasoning and may affect
people’s decision-making processes (Achar, So, Agrawal, & Duhachek, 2016).
However, in recent research emotional states were shown to be easily influenced…

Resilience is a process whereby individuals bounce back or beat the odds despite the significant threat that can jeopardise their development. Academic resilience pertains to student´s success after educational adversity and their coping behaviour…

Research consistently shows that accents are powerful social cues used in our
everyday interactions as well as in advertisements; they can change how we perceive
others and potentially also associated products or brands. Recent studies…

Challenging behaviour (CB) displayed by individuals with an intellectual disability (ID) is consistently identified as a stressor on the relationship that they have with their typically developing (TD) sibling. Given the potentially damaging effects…

This study aimed to explore in depth about the cortex hyperexcitability. In order to do so, the study will use the pattern glare task and three questionnaires. These three questionnaires include the Cortex Hyperexcitability Index II, Cardiff…

Successful listening comprehension involves making accurate inferences to interpret the meaning of a story. We assessed inference making in listening comprehension of children in special education in years 4, 5, and 6 (n=12). Children listened to…

Objectives: This study investigated the relationship between retrospective reports of bullying (primary school, secondary school and general experiences of bullying) with social anxiety (SAD), generalised anxiety (GAD) and grit (perseverance).…