We are seeking teenagers (aged 11 to 13) to participate in a online study about how teenagers feel satisfied with their body. Participation in the study involves the teenager answering online questions about how satisfied they feel with their body, their well-being and their relationships with friends and family.
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BiPS Body and Emotions Study
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Reflections on Health Psychology and Social Entrepreneurship Orna Murray
29 Oct 2020Orna Murray completed her BA in Applied Psychology before completing a MA Health Psychology at NUIG. Orna is a Social Entrepreneur and founded Your Health Psychology in January 2020. Orna is on Twitter @orna_murray
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Non-human animal rescue workers experience significant amounts of psychological distress. A recent paper by Dr Raegan Murphy and Shaunagh Daly highlights these important issues.
23 Oct 2020To better understand the psychological effects on humans of working with distressed non-human animals, we set out to understand the professional quality of life experienced by this group of workers.
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Let’s talk about statistics anxiety!
15 Sep 2020By Cleidi Hearn
Cleidi commenced her BA Applied Psychology in 2018, and with the support of UCC and the Student Inc. programme has created Sunny Numbers which is an EdTech startup specialised in gamified statistics apps, and expecting to launch the first app in November 2020.
Put your hands up if you love statistics. I'm going to take a wild guess that most of you do. If that is not the case, then keep reading because this is for you.
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Cardi B. and the fact that for interesting reasons, people keep having to say the same things over and over again.
31 Aug 2020 -
Vasilis Vasiliou is the winner of the 2nd Brain, Mind and Pain Grant (BMP Grant)
01 Jul 2020The Jury of the 2019-2020 BMP Grant had the task of judging the projects submitted. This task was made difficult by the overall high quality of the proposals, which all focused on the interests of patients. Three projects promised the most benefits for individual patients and were, in the view of our experienced jury members, the most patient-driven, patient-centered and scientifically robust projects. Vasilis S. Vasiliou, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Applied Psychology, UCC won one of the three grants, awarded in collaboration with Chronic Pain Ireland (CPI).
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Signalling Virtue
22 Apr 2020How to make sense of sudden political and moral U-turns in the face of the Covid-19 threat
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hive-mind/202004/signalling-virtue
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Who is the King of the Castle?
26 Mar 2020"Humans have different ways of framing co-ordination problems and they can get in one another's way. With the current crisis, confusion will be fatal"
Rob King talks about the current crisis climate in his latest post on the Hive Mind blog on Psychology today:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/hive-mind/202003/who-is-the-king-the-castle
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Congratulations to our most recent PhD Graduates!
21 Feb 2020Congratulations to Dr Lisa Murphy, Dr Sarah Foley and Dr Sarah Robinson who graduated with PhDs in Applied Psychology on the 21st of February! Well done to you and your proud supervisors!
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"OK, boomer!" - Rob King of Applied Psychology on criticizing the youth of today
22 Nov 2019A bunch of lazy and apathetic snowflakes, while being, simultaneously, overworked, preachy, and pushy. Millennials, eh? Criticizing the youth of today never gets old…
…and it’s fun. It’s been fun for centuries.
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