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Dimensionality and reliability assessment of the Pain Patient Profile questionnaire
(2008-02)
Objective: To factor analyze the Pain Patient Profile questionnaire (P3; Tollison & Langley, 1995), a self-report measure of emotional distress in respondents with chronic pain. Method: An unweighted least squares factor ...
Against didacticism
(2006-10)
Quality thinking and quality teaching are desirable but difficult to achieve. Although lectures are necessary to teach information, one cannot rely on them to promote critical and constructive thinking skills. Nevertheless, ...
Consciousness of brain
(Psychological Society of Ireland, 2006)
Evolved consciousness makes possible a rich variety of experience, transmissible from mind to mind via poetical and logical symbolism. Scientific experience involves mapping the energy of the system onto a correspondent ...
Grappling with gene-culture co-evolution
(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 ...
Work-life integration
(The Irish Psychologist, 2007-05)
Work is an integral part of life. Human adaptation implies acquisition of the means to sustain life. But there is more to life than work: there is personal life, family life, and life within one's social network and culture ...
Divided attention in older but not younger adults is impaired by anxiety
(Taylor and Francis, 2003)
It has been hypothesized that the disruptive effects of negative emotional states, such as anxiety and depression, may contribute to poorer performance in older age. Some studies have reported that higher levels of anxiety ...