Theses - Psychology
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The Long-Term Effectiveness of Inoculation Against Misinformation: An Integrated Theory of Memory, Threat, and Motivation
For over 60 years, inoculation theory has been a key framework to understand resistance to persuasion, yet many critical questions have remained unanswered. This dissertation aims to provide a theoretical and empirical ... -
Behavioural, immunological, and neurobiological effects of early life stress in rats
Early life stress (ELS), primarily encompassing childhood neglect and abuse, is associated with many adverse psychiatric and physical health outcomes in later life. What remains unclear, however, is precisely how these ... -
Accuracy and Social Motivations Shape Judgements of (Mis)Information
Why do people believe in and share misinformation? Some theories focus on social identity and politically motivated reasoning, arguing that people are motivated to believe and share identity-congruent news. Other theories ... -
Investigating reinforcement learning processes in depression and substance use disorder: translational, computational and neuroimaging approaches.
Reinforcement learning (RL) is the process by which an animal utilises its previous experience to improve outcomes of future choices by maximising reward and minimising punishment. This thesis investigates how RL processes ...
