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Emotional eating: feeding and fearing feelings - what psychologists need to know
Fox, Susan; Egan, Jonathan (The Psychological Society of Ireland, 2017-06)This article reviews the psychological theories of emotional eating and introduces to a little known model, Affect Phobia, which combines both learning and psychodynamic theory -
Enlightened happiness and pragmatic systems science & positive psychology meets Colin Feltham's anthropathology thesis
Hogan, Michael. J. (The Irish Psychologist, 2009)Consider two books: Sonja Lyubomirsky positive psychology book, The How of Happiness [1], and Colin Feltham's negative psychology book, What's Wrong with Us?: The Anthropathology Thesis [2]. Sonja Lyubomirsky and Colin ... -
An evaluation of argument mapping as a method of enhancing critical thinking performance in e-learning environments.
Dwyer, Christopher P.; Hogan, Michael J.; Stewart, Ian (2012)The current research examined the effects of a critical thinking (CT) e-learning course taught through argument mapping (AM) on measures of CT ability. Seventy-four undergraduate psychology students were allocated to either ... -
An examination of the effects of argument mapping on students' memory and comprehension performance
Dwyer, Christopher P.; Hogan, Michael J.; Stewart, Ian (Elsevier, 2013-04)Argument mapping (AM) is a method of visually diagramming arguments to allow for easy comprehension of core statements and relations. A series of three experiments compared argument map reading and construction with ... -
Fostering students' personal development through designing a Personal Tutorship Programme in e-learning environments.
Hogan, Michael J. (2013-02)This paper addresses the importance of Personal Development of students in virtual learning environments and designs a specific approach for fostering their personal capabilities facilitated by a Personal Tutorship Programme ... -
Grappling with gene-culture co-evolution
Hogan, Michael J. (The Irish Psychologist, 2006-06)Human beings strive to understand. Understanding helps us to survive, adapt, and flourish. A central theme in the history of philosophical and religious thought has been the call to "know thyself" and to "understand thy ... -
Improving medication management in multimorbidity: development of the MultimorbiditY COllaborative Medication Review And DEcision Making (MY COMRADE) intervention using the Behaviour Change Wheel
Sinnott, Carol; Mercer, Stewart W.; Payne, Rupert A.; Duerden, Martin; Bradley, Colin P.; Byrne, Molly (2015-09-24)Background: Multimorbidity, the presence of two or more chronic conditions, affects over 60 % of patients in primary care. Due to its association with polypharmacy, the development of interventions to optimise medication ... -
Increased perceptual resolution: temporal event structure coding in autism spectrum disorders
Elliott, Mark (Public Library of Science, 2012-03-21)Cognitive functions that rely on accurate sequencing of events, such as action planning and execution, verbal and nonverbal communication, and social interaction rely on well-tuned coding of temporal event-structure. Visual ... -
The interactive effects of physical fitness and acute aerobic exercise on electrophysiological coherence and cognitive performance in adolescents.
Hogan, M.J.; Kiefer, M.; Kubesch, S.; Collins, P.; Brosnan, M. (Springer, 2013)The current study examined the effects of physical fitness and aerobic exercise on cognitive functioning and coherence of the electroencephalogram in 30 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 14 years. Participants were ... -
An mHealth intervention using a smartphone app to increase walking behavior in young adults: a pilot study.
Corbett, Teresa; Hogan, Michael; Duggan, Jim; McNamara, Abra; Walsh, Jane C. (JMIR Publications, 2016-09-22)Physical inactivity is a growing concern for society and is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, obesity, and other chronic diseases. This study aimed to determine the efficacy of the Accupedo-Pro Pedometer mobile ... -
Mindful health and the power of possibility
Hogan, M.J. (Wiley Blackwell, 2013)[no abstract available] -
Modest systems psychology: A neutral complement of positive psychological thinking.
Hogan, M. J (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)The positive psychology movement has recently reconfigured the thinking of psychologists by bringing to the forefront of enquiry a scientific focus on positive emotions, character strengths, and human virtue, the ultimate ... -
Mutual entailment of temporal relations in younger and older adults: reversing order judgments
McGreal, Catherine; Hyland, John; O'Hora, Denis; Hogan, Michael (Springer Verlag, 2016-05-12)For temporal relations, mutually entailed relations are different to those directly trained; we learn that A occurred before B and derive that B occurred after A. Deriving such relations results in lower accuracy and ... -
A new measure of multimorbid illness and treatment representations: the example of diabetes and depression
McSharry, Jennifer (Elsevier ScienceDirect, 2015-03-15)Background: Depression is two to three times more common in people with diabetes than in the general population. Although multimorbid diabetes and depression is associated with poor health outcome, existing research has ... -
On spirituality and education: keynote paper.
Hogan, M. J. (2009)It is a mistake to ignore the scientific study of spirituality. Research examining the structure and function of concepts such as 'spirit' and 'spirituality' is likely to reveal new insights into the relationship between ... -
Overcoming barriers to well-being in Ireland.
Hogan, Michael. J. (The Irish Psychologist, 2012) -
Patients' views and experiences of technology based self-management tools for the treatment of hypertension in the community: A qualitative study
Walsh, Jane C.; Glynn, Liam; Casey, Monica; Hayes, Patrick S.; Harte, Richard P; Heaney, David (BioMed Central, 2015)Abstract Background: Patients with hypertension in the community frequently fail to meet treatment goals. The optimal way to organize and deliver care to hypertensive patients has not been clearly identified. The powerful ... -
The Politics of Housing; Social Change and Collective Action in Derry in the 1960s
Ó Dochartaigh, Niall (Geography Publications, 1999) -
Prescription contraception use: a cross-sectional population study of psychosocial determinants
Molloy, Gerard J; Sweeney, Leigh-Ann; Byrne, Molly; Hughes, Carmel M; Murphy, Andrew W. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015-08-12)Objective: Many forms of contraception are available on prescription only for example, the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) and long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). In this analysis we aim to identify key determinants ... -
Prioritising target behaviours for research in diabetes: Using the nominal group technique to achieve consensus from key stakeholders
McSharry, Jennifer; Hynes, Lisa; Byrne, Molly (BioMed Central, 2016-04-06)The behaviour of people with diabetes (e.g. taking medication) and the behaviour of doctors and other healthcare professionals (e.g. checking patients' blood sugar) are important. Our research group wanted to select one ...