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Impact of player injuries on teams’ mental states, and subsequent performances, at the Rugby World Cup 2015
(Frontiers, 2016)
Injuries are considered an inevitable by-product of participation in elite sport (Hurley et al., 2007), and over the past 30 years, psychologists have proposed a number of models to explain athletes' psychological reactions ...
Formal and informal learning and first-year psychology students’ development of scientific thinking: a two-wave panel study
(Frontiers, 2017)
Scientific thinking is a predicate for scientific inquiry, and thus important to develop early in psychology students as potential future researchers. The present research is aimed at fathoming the contributions of formal ...
Development of a brief multicultural version of the test of mobile phone dependence (TMDbrief) questionnaire
(Frontiers, 2016)
The Test of Mobile Phone Dependence (TMD) questionnaire (Chóliz, 2012) evaluates the main features of mobile phone dependence: tolerance, abstinence syndrome, impaired impulse control, associated problems, excessive use, ...
Talk the talk, walk the walk. Challenging the perception of the value of verbal tools within design education environments
(The Design Journal, 2019)
The scholars enrolling in design schools today are a whole new ‘breed’ of
student fixated with a desire for achievement. Yet, success is not so easily attainable
without great effort, application and exploiting all of ...
Book review: self and social identity in educational contexts
(Frontiers, 2017)
Books that are insightful, thoughtful provoking, and written in a way that is accessible to multiple reader types are hard to come by; this, we believe, is one of them. Mavor, Platow, and Bizumic (2017) have provided us ...
Sport & Health Cyberpsychology
(Routledge, 2016)
This chapter introduces readers to the potential impact of technology on the sporting lives and health behaviours of individuals. The first part of the chapter presents information related to athletes’ use of technology ...
The dynamics of groups online
(Routledge, 2016)
This chapter outlines how online groups form and regulate themselves. It examines the dynamics of online groups compared to their offline counterparts, focusing on why online group membership is an attractive option for ...
Electoral quotas and women’s rights
(Springer, 2018-09)
Electoral gender quotas, which aim to increase either the proportion of women candidates or political representatives, are currently used in over a hundred countries around the world. In most cases quota measures have been ...
Valuing the other: Exposing undergraduates to the art of business and the business of arts
(Routledge, 2018)
This chapter is co-authored by Dr. Andrew Power, head of the largest art school in Ireland, the Institute of Art, Design, and Technology (IADT) and Dr. Michael MacDonnell, the former dean of Quinn Business School, the ...
Social Networking; the People's Politics
(2012-04)
Social networking gives a public voice to individuals and allows them to engage with society in ways not previously possible. Shirky (2010) argues that a driver for building civic engagement is the group working which is ...