Emotional intelligence among nursing students: Findings from a cross-sectional study
Journal Article
Štiglic, G., Cilar, L., Novak, Ž., Vrbnjak, D., Stenhouse, R., Snowden, A., & Pajnkihar, M. (2018)
Emotional intelligence among nursing students: Findings from a cross-sectional study. Nurse Education Today, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.03.028
Background
Emotional intelligence in nursing is of global interest. International studies identify that emotional intelligence influences nurses' work and relationships with p...
Emotion Recognition in Children With Down Syndrome: Influence of Emotion Label and Expression Intensity
Journal Article
Cebula, K. R., Wishart, J. G., Willis, D. S., & Pitcairn, T. K. (2017)
Emotion Recognition in Children With Down Syndrome: Influence of Emotion Label and Expression Intensity. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 122(2), 138-155. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-122.2.138
Some children with Down syndrome may experience difficulties in recognising facial emotions, particularly fear, but it is not clear why, nor how such skills can best be facili...
Holistic face processing can inhibit recognition of forensic facial composites.
Journal Article
Hancock, P. J. B., Frowd, C. D., Langton, S. R. H., & McIntyre, A. H. (2016)
Holistic face processing can inhibit recognition of forensic facial composites. Law and Human Behavior, 40(2), 128-135. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000160
Facial composite systems help eyewitnesses to show the appearance of criminals. However, likenesses created by unfamiliar witnesses will not be completely accurate, and peopl...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Function Impairment: An Overview.
Journal Article
Carruthers, L. (2016)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Function Impairment: An Overview. the Quarterly, 98,
As with any cognitive ability, attention is vulnerable to dysfunction. The most common attentional problem is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This brief overv...
Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities.
Journal Article
Wishart, J. G., Willis, D., Cebula, K. R. & Pitcairn, T. K. (2007)
Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities. American journal of mental retardation : AJMR. 112, 361-374. doi:10.1352/0895-8017(2007)112[0361:CLCOOF]2.0.CO;2). ISSN 0895-8017
Collaborative learning is widely used in mainstream education but rarely utilized with children who have intellectual disabilities, possibly on the assumption that the metacog...
Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology.
Journal Article
Wishart, J. G., Cebula, K. R., Willis, D., & Pitcairn, T. K. (2007)
Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00947.x
Background Interpreting emotional expressions is a socio-cognitive skill central to interpersonal interaction. Poor emotion recognition has been reported in autism but is les...
Designing with blends: Conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction and software engineering methods.
Book
Imaz, M., & Benyon, D. (2007)
Designing with blends: Conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction and software engineering methods. MIT Press
This work talks about how recent research in cognitive science offers new ways to understand the interaction of people and computers and develops a new literacy for well-infor...