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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Behavioural Psychology"”.
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Pain, childhood, and the emotions: a cultural history c. 1870-1950
… including physiology, paediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis. Successive chapters focus on: Depictions of pain by medical authors before the period covered in depth by the thesis; how different types of medical professional interpreted children’s pain between 1870 and 1900, …
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MyRoom: A user-centred model of affective responsive architecture
… borne out by research in environmental and behavioural psychology, and in the more recent discipline of Evidence-Based Design. Research outcomes are beginning to converge with findings in neuroscience and neurophysiology, as we discover more about how the human brain and body functions, and …
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Playing with agency: how player agency affects game retention
… systems is compared to known phenomena from behavioural psychology. However, games are both complex interactive systems and usable products, and not truly scientific in their analyses; while data can verify the outcome of a change or ‘a/b’ test, it’s more difficult to prove causation than in …
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‘On Your Marks, Get Set, Go!’ The Development of the Sport and Physical Activity Value (S&PAVAL) Model for use in the Leisure Industry
… and models from the fields of leisure studies, behavioural psychology and consumer behaviour identified a significant gap in the extant literature which related to expectancy-value process underpinning the concept of exchange and the importance of value of outcomes to the adoption of a healthy …
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Disruptive Futuring: A new design approach to addressing climate change
… class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%">Psychology plays a significant role in understanding and promoting human behavioural change and how we prioritise particular decisions or actions. However, until recently it has carried less weight in a design approach to solving behavioural …
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An Investigation into Establishing (Motivating) Operations
… Operations (MOs) are a fundamental concept in behavioural psychology. Despite this, empirical research into MOs is lacking. The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to the experimental literature base for MOs. Experiment 2.1 used an already published video analysis methodology to assess …
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A critical evaluation of the impact coaching and mentoring has on the walking spinal community's behavioural change and motivations to being physically active.
… have on the Walking Spinal Community's (WSC) behavioural change and motivations to being physically active. A sub-set of the spinal community, this specific population is partly overlooked due to the less likelihood of visible disability, yet sustaining such an injury can be debilitating and …