Lindsay Lenton-Maughan
Psychology
Plymouth University
School of Psychology
October 2018
Adolescent Anti-Social Behaviour. An Active Choice?
Adolescent Anti-Social behaviour is viewed as a normative part of the developmental process. That said, the outcomes of such behaviour on a young person’s future, although varying in severity, are often negative. The many factors which lead to a young person taking part in anti-social behaviour differ between individuals and groups. This project, through collaboration with local services, aims to investigate the decision to take part, the factors which are involved in this decision both for individual adolescents and groups and whether this decision can be altered using an intervention designed to impact upon an individual’s uniqueness.
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Benjamin Woolf
Psychology
University of Bristol
Department of Psychological Science
September 2018
Understanding Genomes in Social Contexts
My PhD thesis seeks to examine if there is a direct causal association between our friends genes and our own risk for psychiatric outcomes like depression, independent of our own genetic makeup. I will also examine if this mechanism is involved in building resilience, and if it generalises to on-line social networks as well as off-line social networks.
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Emily Hammond
Psychology
University of Exeter
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
September 2013
Mind and matter: How mindfulness shapes phenomenological and embodied dimensions of emotion
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Asha Ladwa
Psychology
University of Exeter
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
March 2017
Examining how, why and for whom psychological treatments for depression work
Currently there are effective psychological treatments for depression available, but we still do not know how and why these treatments work. Consequently, I will be using secondary data to investigate the processes that are related to patterns of depression symptom change within Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Behavioural Activation.
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Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS) and the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies (BABCP)
Lucy Porter
Psychology
University of Exeter
Psychology, College of Life and Environmental Studies
September 2015
Inhibitory Control Training to Improve Child Diet Quality
My research looks at whether a simple computer game can help children to make healthier decisions when choosing what to eat. Inhibitory control training (ICT) involves making quick motor responses (keyboard presses) to pictures of food unless a “stop” signal is presented at the same time. When these signals are presented consistently with images of unhealthy snacks (chocolate, sweets, biscuits), training can lead to automatic food-stop associations that reduce selection and intake of these foods. This project aims to determine the conditions under which ICT is most effective on improving child food choices.