A5029678975- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Music Therapy and Health
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Flow Experience in Various Fields
- Mind wandering and attention
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Biofield Effects and Biophysics
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
- Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
- Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Jungian Analytical Psychology
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Peace and Human Rights Education
University of the West of England
2010-2024
Middlesex University
2023
University of Northampton
2005
Background Details findings from a project on the potential for arts activities and art therapy to support mental health wellbeing of children living in Kashmir.Methods The intervention engaged 30 school over course one year who produced various forms artwork performances. In this paper, we report impacts, drawing some our qualitative measures including observations interviews.Results Our research details impacts improvements areas emotional expression, belonging, agency. We also found an...
A considerable amount of research suggests that positive schizotypy (cognitive and perceptual aberrations, such as pseudo-hallucinations) is associated with creativity in the arts. In order to better understand how might be expressed creative process, experience sampling method was used explore experiential correlates a sample artists. Artists (N = 41) were sampled over week-long period, answering questions at random intervals related mood, cognition, state consciousness behaviour, resulting...
To measure the immediate impact of participating in arts-on-prescription workshops on multiple dimensions mood and to evaluate whether improvement is a mechanism for change, predicting improvements global wellbeing before after participation programmes.The evaluation drew upon experience sampling method, asking participants complete six-item questionnaire at beginning end each workshop 12-week-long programme. Participants also completed programme.Multilevel modelling was used test hypotheses...
Improving the mental health of young people is a global public priority. In Latin America, living in deprived urban areas face various risk factors for distress. However, most either do not develop distress form depression and anxiety, or recover within year without treatment from services. This research programme seeks to identify personal social resources that help prevent distress.A cross-sectional study will compare used by 1020 (aged 15-16 20-24 years) with symptoms and/or anxiety...
Aims: To measure the immediate impact of art-making in everyday life on diverse indices wellbeing (‘in moment’ and longer term) order to improve understanding psychological mechanisms by which art may mental health. Methods: Using experience-sampling method, 41 artists were prompted (with a ‘beep’ handheld computer) at random intervals (10 times day, for one week) answer short questionnaire. The questionnaire tracked enquired about mood, cognition state consciousness. This resulted 2,495...
This paper focuses on art productions by children participating in an art-based wellbeing intervention project Kashmir. Drawing feminist security studies, we conducted narrative analysis to explore how represent in/security. The locations of in/security were the environment, body, and socio-political realm. Children articulated nuanced complex representations natural social world, influenced local global forces, created their own meanings practices
Purpose: To assess the impact of art workshops delivered remotely, during coronavirus pandemic, on wellbeing participants. measure participating in immediate experience (mood, attention and loneliness). extend understanding mechanisms for change.
This research sought to replicate and extend work suggesting that coloring can reduce anxiety, asking whether improve cognitive performance. In 2 experiments, undergraduates (N = 47, N 52) colored participated in a control condition. Subjective performance measures of mood mindfulness were included: an implicit test (Experiment 1) selective attention task 2) along with divergent thinking test. both significantly reduced anxiety increased compared baseline scores. Following coloring,...
In this article we examine periods of silence during introspective reports produced an experimental laboratory procedure. Drawing from conversation analytic research and Sacks’s observations on silences, argue that silences are a significant resource by which accounts may be designed for the institutional requirements setting. We identify normative features silence, sketch some pragmatic or performative functions facilitated silence. conclude considering our findings more general use data in...
This article examines poetic phenomena—rhymes, alliteration, puns—that appear in the introspective reports of people who have taken part a psychology experiment. We argue that these phenomena are form discourse poetics identified conversational data by Sacks and subsequently discussed Jefferson, among others. extend earlier research, first, to identify how organization narratives facilitates range rhetorical forms more commonly associated with study classical literary religious texts;...
Parapsychology is the scientific study of claims anomalous communication, or cognition, and it a predominantly experimental laboratory-based discipline. In this article we examine transcripts recordings from extra sensory perception (ESP) experiments as part which participants were required to make introspective reports on their inner mental experiences. The data are “ganzfeld” ESP conducted at Koestler Unit University Edinburgh. Drawing conversation analysis discursive psychology, seek...