Attitudes and Values (Maio, Haddock, Manstead)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Garin Hughes

Associates: Dr. Nicholas Souchon Students: Colin Foad, Paul Hanel, Eleni Lemonaki, Carey Wallace The study of attitudes is at the core of social psychology. Attitudes refer to our evaluations of issues, people, groups and other types of objects in our social world. For example, a person might like the Welsh national rugby team and dislike liver.  Research on
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Cognitive Aspects of Value Instantiations (Hahn, Maio)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Garin Hughes

Associates: Dr Laurel Evans and Dr Lorraine Whitmarsh Students: Colin Foad, Paul Hanel There are a number of important ways in which instantiations of values may vary.  For instance, many English phrases show how the value of freedom can be instantiated as serving exploratory motives (e.g., “free speech,” “free will”), self-interest motives (“free enterprise,” “free market”), or
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Emotional Aspects of Value Instantiation (Manstead, Maio, von Hecker)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Garin Hughes

Associates: Dr. Wing-yee Cheung Students: Lukas Wolf, Paul Hanel, Carey Wallace A variety of evidence and argument points to emotion as being crucial for understanding values and their application.  Examples include Adam Smith’s (1759) theory of moral sentiments, recent arguments that moral emotions commit people to prosocial, cooperative behaviour (Bowles & Gintis, 2003; Frank, 1988), and the position
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Neuropsychological Effects of Value Instantiations (Linden, Maio)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Garin Hughes

Associates: Dr. Niklas Ihlssen, Dr. Emilia Leszkowicz Students: George Zacharopolous Like any sets of beliefs and preferences, values are implemented in the architecture and function of our brains, and value change operates through changes in neural structure and function. Nonetheless, the neuroscience of value orientation is still uncharted territory. This project addresses this issue using an innovative
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Virtue Ethics and Value Instantiation (Webber, Robertson, Hahn, Maio)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Garin Hughes

Drawing on psychological research, philosophers have recently argued for a variety of theories of the nature of character that aim to provide an empirical framework for virtue ethics (Kamtekar, 2004; Merritt, 2009; Russell, 2009; Snow, 2010; Webber, 2006) . The idea of valuing is involved in different ways in these different accounts, but none of these accounts draws explicitly
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Values and Health (Tapper, Haddock, Maio, Jiga-Boy)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Garin Hughes

This project explores the potential utility of a new intervention approach designed to target motivation for health behaviour change. The project is comprised of three experimental studies that explore cognitive processes associated with health values as well as predictors of health behaviours, to determine whether we can motivate health behaviour change by providing individuals with
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Mindfulness, Attitudes, and Values (Haddock)

Posted on 17 December 2014 by Garin Hughes

The concept of mindfulness has received considerable interest within the clinical and health sciences. At its core, mindfulness reflects a conscious awareness of what is occurring in the present, with less attention devoted to rumination about the past or anxieties about the future. From a clinical perspective, numerous streams of research, using different methodologies, have
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