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Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study (2024)
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Background: Reducing anxiety and depression of adolescents is a global health priority. Personal and social resources (e.g., hobbies, socializing) may reduce distress. Yet, there is insufficient understanding of how adolescents use such resources to... Read More about Which personal and social resources help adolescents to recover from negative affect in daily life? An experience sampling study.

In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir (2024)
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This paper focuses on art productions by children participating in an art-based wellbeing intervention project in Kashmir. Drawing on feminist security studies, we conducted narrative analysis to explore how children represent in/security. The locati... Read More about In/secure childhoods: Children and conflict in Kashmir.

The impact of remote arts on prescription: Changes in mood, attention and loneliness during art workshops as mechanisms for wellbeing change (2023)
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Purpose: To assess the impact of art workshops delivered remotely, during the coronavirus pandemic, on the wellbeing of participants. To measure the impact of participating in art workshops on immediate experience (mood, attention and loneliness). To... Read More about The impact of remote arts on prescription: Changes in mood, attention and loneliness during art workshops as mechanisms for wellbeing change.

Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas (2023)
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Background: This paper details findings from an arts intervention project that explored the role and potential for arts activities and art therapy to support the mental health and wellbeing of children living in Kashmir, an area of long-term confli... Read More about Creating a difference – a role for the arts in addressing child wellbeing in conflict-affected areas.

Which resources help young people to prevent and overcome mental distress in deprived urban areas in Latin America? A protocol for a prospective cohort study (2021)
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Introduction Improving the mental health of young people is a global public health priority. In Latin America, young people living in deprived urban areas face various risk factors for mental distress. However, most either do not develop mental distr... Read More about Which resources help young people to prevent and overcome mental distress in deprived urban areas in Latin America? A protocol for a prospective cohort study.

Does latent inhibition underpin creativity, positive schizotypy and anomalous cognition? (2020)
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This paper presents two experiments in which an experimental paradigm developed to examine the efficacy of filtering mechanisms of attention, Latent Inhibition (LI), was adapted to include a psi component. LI assesses the processing of irrelevant sti... Read More about Does latent inhibition underpin creativity, positive schizotypy and anomalous cognition?.

Tracking momentary experience in the evaluation of arts-on-prescription services: Using mood changes during art workshops to predict global wellbeing change (2020)
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Aims: To measure the immediate impact of participating in arts-on-prescription workshops on multiple dimensions of mood and to evaluate whether improvement in mood is a mechanism for change, predicting improvements in global wellbeing before and afte... Read More about Tracking momentary experience in the evaluation of arts-on-prescription services: Using mood changes during art workshops to predict global wellbeing change.

Cognitive and affective benefits of coloring: Two randomized controlled crossover studies (2019)
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This research sought to replicate and extend work suggesting that coloring can reduce anxiety, asking whether coloring can improve cognitive performance. In two experiments undergraduates (N = 47; N = 52) colored and participated in a control conditi... Read More about Cognitive and affective benefits of coloring: Two randomized controlled crossover studies.

The expression of schizotypy in the daily lives of artists (2018)
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A considerable amount of research suggests that positive schizotypy (cognitive and perceptual aberrations, such as pseudohallucinations) is associated with creativity in the arts. In order to better understand how positive schizotypy might be express... Read More about The expression of schizotypy in the daily lives of artists.

Comparing artists with controls on a free-response experience-sampling task: Creativity and anomalous cognition (2013)
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Introspective discourse and the poetics of subjective experience (2011)
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This article examines poetic phenomena-rhymes, alliteration, puns-that appear in the introspective reports of people who have taken part in a psychology experiment. We argue that these phenomena are a form of discourse poetics identified in conversat... Read More about Introspective discourse and the poetics of subjective experience.

Silence and its organization in the pragmatics of introspection (2010)
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In this article we examine periods of silence during introspective reports produced during an experimental laboratory procedure. Drawing from conversation analytic research and Sacks's observations on silences, we argue that silences are a significan... Read More about Silence and its organization in the pragmatics of introspection.

Introspection as institutional practice: Reflections on the attempt to capture conscious experience in a parapsychology experiment (2010)
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Parapsychology is the scientific study of claims of anomalous communication, or anomalous cognition, and it is a predominantly experimental and laboratory-based discipline. In this article we examine transcripts of recordings from extra sensory perce... Read More about Introspection as institutional practice: Reflections on the attempt to capture conscious experience in a parapsychology experiment.

Trait, state and psi: an exploration of the interaction between individual differences, state preference and psi performance in the ganzfeld and a waking ESP control (2007)
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Assessing the role of the sender as a PK agent in ESP studies: the effects of strategy (‘willing’ versus ‘absorption’) and feedback (immediate versus delayed) on psi performance (2006)
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The sender as a PK agent in ESP studies: the effects of agent and target system lability upon performance at a novel PK task (2006)
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Testing for ‘precognitive boredom’ with a population of visual artists: a pilot study (2006)
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A further consideration of the sender as a PK agent in ganzfeld ESP studies (2005)
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Interpersonal psi: exploring the role of the experimenter and the experimental climate in a ganzfeld telepathy task (2005)
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Interpersonal psi: exploring the role of the sender in ganzfeld GESP tasks (2004)
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