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“It’s your turn to step into their shoes”: The role of empathy in adolescents experiencing maternal cancer
(Emerald, 2019-01-04)
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the role of empathy in adolescents coping with maternal cancer to identify passive and active empathy forms and the role of these in adolescent coping at a challenging ...
Selective sharing: The impact of patterns of communication in young people experiencing maternal cancer
(Wiley, 2018-10-09)
Background
Adolescents that experience parental cancer can have significant difficulties and may be at a greater risk of emotional and behavioural problems; however, some studies have found that this experience can also ...
Augmenting home exercise programmes in multiple sclerosis with 'exercise buddies' : A pilot study
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2017-02-21)
Background: Non-ambulatory people with multiple sclerosis comprise 25% of the multiple sclerosis population. Literature reviews show insufficient evidence exists regarding physiotherapy for this population. A qualitative ...
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 ...
Collective intelligence design and a new politics of system change
(Liguori Editore, 2017)
While internet technologies may support an emergent wisdom of the crowd and new enhanced forms of political engagement, iterative design of technology is needed to better support our collective intelligence and collective ...
Does mindfulness enhance critical thinking? Evidence for the mediating effects of executive functioning in the relationship between mindfulness and critical thinking
(Frontiers Media, 2016-01-19)
Mindfulness originated in the Buddhist tradition as a way of cultivating clarity of thought. Despite the fact that this behavior is best captured using critical thinking (CT) assessments, no studies have examined the effects ...
The effects of subthreshold synchrony on the perception of simultaneity
(Springer, 2007)
We aimed to examine the effects of subthreshold synchrony and asynchrony on the perception of simultaneity. We rendered simultaneous or asynchronous luminance changes below detection thresholds by embedding them in a ...
Oscillatory priming and form complexity
(Psychonomic Society, 2007-02)
Detection of a target grouping is expedited when the target display is preceded by presentation of an oscillating premask that includes priming elements presented intraphasically and below detection threshold at the display ...
Visual field and task influence illusory figure responses
(Wiley, 2008-11)
In normal viewing conditions, many objects are often hidden or occluded by others, therefore restricting the information that enters the eye. One ability that the human visual system has developed to compensate for this ...
Low time resolution in schizophrenia: Lengthened windows of simultaneity for visual, auditory and bimodal stimuli
(Elsevier, 2007-12)
The guarantee of perceptual coherence for events through everyday life situations depends upon the capacity to correctly integrate series of multi-sensory experiences. Patients with schizophrenia have been shown to reveal ...