Social Psychology

Dissertation study to investigate the emotions involved in self-control, mainly emotions involved in inhibition of appealing behavior and initiations of unappealing behaviors.

The participants must be aged 18 or over, and a citizen of United Kingdom or India.

Are you interested in the effects of media? You are invited to take part in this study, which measures the effect of exposure to media on viewers’ attitudes to religion and current affairs.

Anyone above the age of 18, who is living in the UK can participate.

This research is about helping Syrian refugees. The aim is to explore some factors that influence the decision to help Syrian refugees.

In order to be eligible to participate in this research, you must be a British citizen living in the United Kingdom and must not have a Turkish origin

This study involves completing an online questionnaire, with questions about yourself, about attending art exhibitions, and about your experience of viewing 8 works of art.

The study you are invited to participate in aims to test the effects of imagining different situations. During the experiment, you will be asked to follow various audio or written instructions asking you to imagine different situations. For best results, it is advised that you use headphones and test the sound on your device before you start the study. Participants need to be on their own, in a quiet place and with working audio and headphones on a laptop, tablet or PC. Please note that smartphones are not compatible to take part in this study.

The study is aimed to measure depression in non-depressed British women in relation to self-esteem, sense of purpose and adult peer pressure.

This main interest of this study is how different political attitudes are related to the willngness for participation in political actions. Also, we are interested on how different emotional behaviors are related to high or low levels of political participation, like protests and demostrations. We expect that emotions will regulate the relation between the political attitudes and intentions for political participation

This survey explores stress responses and coping; one aims to find out about how people cope when they confront stressful events in their lives. You will think about how you coped during two scenarios: when you had to take an exam and an occasion where you had an interpersonal conflict.

The study is about helping behaviour and attitude for people with diversed cultural background. All people are welcomed to participate in this survey

What attitudes towards people with mental illness look like (structure) and what leads to them (antecedents, e.g. social dominance orientation); and a comparison of attitudes of mental health professionals and the general population.

Currently, the human rights of Syrian refugees are endangered. Therefore, this research evaluates the effect of short online videos concerning this issue on the audiences’ attitude and behaviour. The aim is to find out whether these videos can motivate people to support Syrian refugees and secure their human rights.

This study intends to investigate the processes and factors involved in estimation.

In our study we are looking at the relationship between different personality traits and attitudes towards sustainable consumption. There will be two parts to the study; the first will involve completing a set of online personality questionnaires. The second part will involve a set of consumer behavior measures.

Research study which aimed at investigating the aspects of your social life  and your eating habits.

The aims of the research are to better understand the effects online social networking sites have on self-esteem.

This study presents questions about pro-social behaviours, followed by a task requiring participants to rate how positive/negative different nonsense words are. Two months after this initial session, participants will be emailed with a link to a short follow up questionnaire, which will ask further questions about pro-social behaviours.

Communication between students can be affected by many factors. In this study we are seeking to understand the aspects of interactions that shape the thoughts and feelings of observers. We are studying how people make judgements of others based on only minimal information about them.

We are interested in how individuals judge the rapport, or liking, felt between people in conversation. In an online questionnaire, you will read transcripts of conversations between two people. You will make judgements about their relationship, such as how much they like each other, and how well they are getting along.

The interest of this research is to look at how different faces are perceived. The task will involve looking at faces and you will be asked to make a simple decision and answer a questionnaire. The images used in this study might be unusual to some participants.