Theses - Psychology
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What is the role of professional helping relationships in altering the trajectories of young people facing severe and multiple disadvantage?
This doctoral thesis is about the possibility that relationships between young people facing severe and multiple disadvantage and professional helpers— employed by not-for-profit organisations— can alter the life trajectories ... -
Stay-at-home Father Families: Family Functioning and Experiences of Non-traditional Gender Roles
(2020-07-18)Social change over the last few decades has resulted in a dramatic increase in mothers in the paid workforce and increased paternal involvement in caregiving. This has led to a rise in families with male primary caregivers, ... -
A comparative investigation of the attribution of desires and preferences
Although it is widely accepted that adult humans possess a ‘theory of mind’, debate has surrounded whether non-human animals may also be capable of attributing mental states such as knowledge, beliefs and desires to others. ... -
Convergent cognitive evolution: what can be learnt from comparisons with corvids and cephalopods?
(2020-05-16)Emery and Clayton (2004) proposed that corvids (e.g. crows, ravens, jays) may have evolved – convergently with apes – flexible and domain general cognitive tool-kits. In a similar vein, others have suggested that coleoid ...
