Researchers from the University College Cork, the School of Applied Psychology hosted a two-day event to present and discuss in person the new training handbook of ASpida. They invited a group of individuals with chronic pain, members of the Chronic Pain Ireland (CPI) who participated in a series of activities that focused on pilot testing the new protocol.
ASpida is an innovative community-based program that aims to tackle the effects of stigma in chronic pain.
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Quillette piece on our research into the nature and function of female orgasm
Every second of every day, across the face of planet Earth, there are 18,000 ejaculations of sperm, and 4.4 births. The stark reality that sperm (and the men who produce it) are biologically cheap, in comparison to eggs (and the women who bear them) is arithmetically inescapable. It is worth keeping facts like these in mind, to resist the incessant desire that humans have, to pretend that we are not, in Martin Daly’s memorable phrase, “just another critter.” ... Read more
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Mass killings are unusual events but devastating when they occur Although the absolute risk of dying at the hands of such a killer are low, people stubbornly refuse statisticians’ earnest assurances of relative safety This should not surprise us Mass killings are, among many other things, a deliberate attempt to drive a wedge into the existing social order That is why they are public, and why the killer seeks to maximise attention
Steve Sharman, Raegan Murphy, John Turner and Amanda Roberts have published their latest findings on the predictors of suicide attempts in male UK gamblers seeking residential treatment. Click here for more information: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107171
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Shane Galvin and Raegan Murphy recently presented a poster on Shane's PhD work at the New Advances in Online Research Methods: Virtual Summer School Conference at UCD. Shane presented his work on his Rasch Analysis of the Matrix Reasoning Task. Data for the Matrix Reasoning Item Bank fits the dichotomous Rasch model. This may be useful to further internet-based research aiming to include measures of matrix reasoning, and to further the development of psychometric tools for use in internet-based research.
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Neurological reflections on the recent Euro 2020 racism
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Covid-19, especially long covid has been associated with anosmia (loss of smell). Let's hope that this effect is short term because it is, understandably enough, being treated as much less severe than (say) heart problems. However, loss of smell can impact drastically on quality of life and sexual relationships because a lot of sexual desire is mediated through that sensory modality, especially in women.
A reflective summary of the ‘Connecting the DOTS Seminar’
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For her MA thesis in Applied Psychology, Bláthín Power sought to gain a snapshot insight into the first COVID-19 lockdown period of March-May 2020, and how 3rd level students in the Rep of Ireland navigated the various psychological and social adjustments.
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