Foster, Joshua James(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
The threat-capture hypothesis posits a threat-detection system that automatically directs visual attention to threat-related stimuli (e.g., angry facial expressions) in the environment. Importantly, this system is theorised ...
Higgs, Wendy Lilian(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
Prior research evaluating the effect of Human Figure Diagrams (HFDs) on the nature
of children’s recall of touch related information has yield mixed findings. We
examined the nature of information elicited by 9-11 year ...
Lovegrove, Amy Michelle(Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
Extensive literature has documented the negative impacts of being overweight in childhood,
and the difficulty in getting parents to acknowledge and act on their children’s overweight
status. This study aims to investigate ...
Scheib, Emma Louise(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
Research on psychopathy in adolescence has increased substantially over the last two decades. The majority of this research has focussed on the developmental trajectory of psychopathy and the predictive reliability for ...
Murphy, Rewa Therese(Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
This thesis is about the recent emergence of ‘love your body’ messages and discourse in mainstream women’s magazines available to New Zealand audiences. It is situated culturally and historically, in a time when media ...