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According to Needs and Abilities, Universal Basic Income Requires Universal Basic Infrastructure
Kornbrot, Diana; Badrudin, Nazreen (2023-06-21)This paper considers Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a method for establishing a good society that fulfils the needs of all its members without coercion. It starts with a brief description of UBI and of the good society ... -
Adherence to prophylaxis in adolescents and young adults with severe haemophilia: A quantitative study with patients
Van Os, Sandra; Troop, Nicholas; Sullivan, Keith; Hart, Daniel (2017-01-19)Introduction: haemophilia is an inherited bleeding disorder caused by a deficiency in one of the blood coagulation factors. For people affected by severe haemophilia, the deficiency can cause spontaneous internal bleeding. ... -
And Now for Something Completely Different: Inattentional Blindness during a Monty Python's Flying Circus Sketch
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline (2015-02-01)Perceptual science has frequently benefited from studying illusions created outside of academia. Here, we describe a striking, but little-known, example of inattentional blindness from the British comedy series “Monty ... -
Apophenia, Synchronicity, and the Postmodern in Sport Psychology
Pack, Stephen (2009)Wednesday 17th November 2004: “It’s meditative by the river, where I displace the unwelcome chatter worming into my head. Today two men were leaning on a fence; both had long tangled grey hair, and skin so weather-beaten ... -
Applied Sport Psychology Consultants’ Reflections on the Role of Humor in Consultancy: “It's Like Having another Skill in Your Arsenal”
Pack, Stephen; Arvinen-Barrow, Monna; Winter, Stacy; Hemmings, Brian (2020-03)Previousresearch demonstrates that sport psychology consultants use humor to facilitatethe working alliance, reinforce client knowledge, and create healthy learningenvironments. The current study sought to gain further ... -
The association between the sense of control and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Msetfi, Rachel M.; Kornbrot, Diana E.; Halbrook, Yemaya J. (2024)Introduction: High levels of depression and low sense of control have been reported during the COVID-19 pandemic. The removal of typical freedoms through public health restrictions may have played an important role. The ... -
BeeZee Bodies Embedded Ethnography Evaluation Project
Newman, Han; Brady, Louca-Mai; Almack, Kathryn; Mathie, Elspeth; Wills, Wendy (University of Hertfordshire, 2023-02-07)The Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care, University of Hertfordshire (UH) were commissioned by BeeZee Bodies (BZB) to bring academic insights and support BZB’s development of future services. This work ... -
BeeZee Bodies Evaluation: Summary Report
Newman, Han; Brady, Louca-Mai; Almack, Kathryn; Mathie, Elspeth; Wills, Wendy (University of Hertfordshire, 2023-02-07) -
Believe it or not : Exploring dogmatism and different belief structures across non-religious groups
Gurney, Daniel; McKeown, Shelley; Churchyard, Jamie; Howlett, Neil (2013-11)Personality and dogmatic thinking within religious individuals have been examined by previous research, but neglected for non-religious individuals. In this experiment, we distinguish between two types of non-religious ... -
Bonsai: “a life in balance”. The therapeutic benefits of growing bonsai trees
Pack, Stephen (2023-12-12)Horticultural therapy is increasingly being used in clinical contexts and a growing number of studies over the past two decades have demonstrated its efficacy in improving physical, psychological, and social health. Bonsai ... -
Can False Memories Prime Problem Solutions for Healthy Older Adults and Those With Alzheimer’s Disease?
Akhtar, Shazia; Howe, Mark; Hoepstine, Kedron (2018-06-05)ObjectiveRecent research has shown that false memories can have a positive consequence on human cognition in both children and young adults. The present experiment investigated whether false memories could have similar ... -
Can misleading hand gestures influence eyewitness testimony?
Gurney, Daniel; Pine, Karen (2011-05)A wealth of research has highlighted the susceptibility of eyewitnesses to misleading verbal questions. However, the role of nonverbal influence when questioning witnesses has been overlooked, even though substantive ... -
Cancer and exercise: a narrative analysis to understand the recovery journey undertaken for female dragon boat competitors.
Peter Marriott; Pack, Stephen (2016-03-22)Background: A cancer diagnosis, and the subsequent period, is a largely unexplored phenomenon regarding short and long term effects exercise has on mental well-being. With an increasing number of people surviving cancer, ... -
Challenges Accessing Physical Activity from a Transgender Perspective: A Systematic Review
Pattinson, Emily; Newman, Han; Kiemle-Gabbay, Laura (2022-09-01)The gender-diverse community faces numerous barriers that make physical activity difficult to access, meaning they are less physically active than their cisgender counterparts, compounding the existing health and wellbeing ... -
Changes to Physical Activity, Sitting Time, Eating Behaviours and Barriers to Exercise during the First COVID-19 ‘Lockdown’ in an English Cohort
Kass, Lindsy; Desai, Terun; Sullivan, Keith; Muniz, Daniel; Wells, Amy (2021-09-24)This study aimed to determine the effect of the first English national COVID-19 lockdown on physical activity (PA), sitting time, eating behaviours and body mass in an adult cohort. This was further examined to determine ... -
A Comparison of the Epidemiological Characteristics Between Influenza and COVID-19 Patients: A Retrospective, Observational Cohort Study.
Naji, Omar; Darwish, Iman; Bessame, Khaoula; Vaghela, Tejal; Hawkins, Anja; Elsakka, Mohamed; Merai, Hema; Lowe, Jeremy; Schechter, Miriam; Moses, Samuel; Busby, Amanda; Sullivan, Keith; Wellsted, David; Zamir, Muhammad; Kandil, Hala (2023-11-23)Background and objective It is crucial to make early differentiation between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and seasonal influenza infections at the time of a patient's presentation to the emergency department (ED). ... -
Data Insight: The outcomes of serious and organised crime cases appearing before the criminal courts in England and Wales. Swindon: ADR UK.
McSweeney, Tim (Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK), 2023-03-08) -
Development and Validation of the Body Compassion Questionnaire
Beadle, Emily; Cain, Alison; Akhtar, Shazia; Lennox, Joyce; McGuire, Lauren; Troop, Nicholas (2021-11-21)Background: The associations between compassion, self-compassion, and body image are well established. However, there is not yet a compassion-informed measure of body compassion that can be applied to any aspect of one’s ... -
Development of the Paranormal and Supernatural Beliefs Scale using classical and modern test theory
Dean, Charlotte E; Akhtar, Shazia; Gale, Tim M; Irvine, Karen; Wiseman, Richard; Laws, Keith R (2021-06-23)Background: This study describes the construction and validation of a new scale for measuring belief in paranormal phenomena. The work aims to address psychometric and conceptual shortcomings associated with existing ... -
Dressing up posture: The interactive effects of posture and clothing on competency judgements
Gurney, Daniel; Howlett, Neil; Pine, Karen; Tracey, Megan; Moggridge, Rachel (2017-05-01)Individuals often receive judgements from others based on their clothing and their posture. While both of these factors have been found to influence judgements of competency independently, their relative importance in ...