| Description | Press Releases and drafts of press releases from British Psychological Society London Conference held 16-17 December 1997 at Institute of Education includes:
Abstracts, programme, presenter list.
Press releases, drafts, contacts, abstracts and summaries
General press release about the conference
1. Trapped in the Lottery By Fear of Leaving (Pam Briggs) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Trapped in the Lottery: Anticipatory Regret and its Role as a Motivator for Gambling';
2. I'll Name That Face in ...' (Rick Hanley) - press release, contact sheet, abstract paper 'An Investigation of Familiar-Only Experiences During Tests of Voice and Face Recognition';
3. Stress At The Wheel (David Woodhouse) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Driver Behaviour and Stress Coping Strategies for Different Occupational Groups';
4.Why Adults Become Estranged from Their Parents (Robert Bringle) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper;
5. Media Messages Can Influence Children's Attitudes To Alcohol (Tracy Guild, Geoff Lowe) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Immediate Effects of Media Messages on Children's Attitudes to Alcohol';
6. Distorted Thinking Keeps Addicts Hooked (Chris McCusker) press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of papers given at symposium 'Cognitive Biases in the Addicted';
7. Why Can't I have A Wheelchair for Christmas (Annette Hames) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Why Can't I Have a Wheelchair for Christmas? Young Children's Understanding of Disability';
8. HRT and Educational Level (Rona Rubin) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Women's Education Level as an Influence on Being Prescribed Hormone Replacement Therapy';
9. Worry Reduces Dieters' Working Memory (Mike Green) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Working Memory Impairments Associated with Dieting';
10. Giving Women A Better Sense of Their Risk of Cervical Cancer (Rachel Holloway) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Psychological Impact of Cervical Screening - Can Overscreening of Low Risk Women Be Reduced Through Risk Communication?';
11. When The Morning Last 16 Hours (Stuart Anderson) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Neuropsychological Correlates of Alcoholic Hangover';
12. Predicting Emergence from Vegetative State (Helen Gill-Thwaites) press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper;
13. Smokers Are Always ill (Tony Ward) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Smoking As A State of Permanent Illness - the Experience and Role of Symptoms in Health Behaviour';
14. It's How You think, Not How Keen You Are (Philip Adey)- press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Motivation, Self-Efficiency, and Cognitive Acceleration
15. Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder May Make Things Worse (Katharine Mair) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Psychological Treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder: Risks and Benefits';
16. Women Have More Staying Power (Alan Durndell) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Choice and Performance: Students Studying Courses Dominated by One Gender';
17. To Burn or Not to Burn - That is The Question (Nicola Moss) - information release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of paper 'Arson: An Investigation into Motives, Characteristics and Spatial Aspects';
18 Are the Eyes Windows To the Soul? The Perception of Gaze (Martin Doherty and James Anderson) - press release, contact sheet, abstract and summary of papers given at Symposium 'The Perception of Gaze';
19. Can Teaching Psychology Transform Popular Culture (Nicky Hayes) - abstract and summary of paper;
20. Origins of Mind Using the Primate Order to Trace The Early Evolution of Cognition (Richard Byre) - summary of paper;
See also BPS/001/6/01/3/1/1 for conference programme and abstracts.
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