Theses - Psychology
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What do I do with my hair? Identity, performance and social representations of Black hair in women of colour in England and Germany
(2019-05-25)The Natural Hair Movement is changing how women of colour make sense of their hair and what they do with their hair. By encouraging women of colour to embrace the natural – afro, kinky or curly – texture of their hair, the ... -
Modelling the Neuropsychopharmacology of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Common Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
(2019-03-30)This thesis extends the understanding of the neural and neurochemical contributions to two forms of behavioural adaptation, reversal learning and contingency degradation, in which stimulus/action–reward contingencies are ... -
The central role of stress relief in video gaming motivations and preferences
Video games are played by more than 1.8 billion people and are a pervasive force in society, but despite decades of research there has been little consensus on their effects. Before we are able to model complex outcomes ... -
Using Computational Psychology to Profile Unhappy and Happy People
(2019-01-09)Social psychology has a long tradition of studying the personality traits associated with subjective well-being (SWB). However, research often depends on a priori but unempirical assumptions about how to (a) measure the ...
