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The Association between Sleep Timing with Diet and Physical Activity Levels in School-Aged Children
Background: Several studies have reported associations between shortened sleep durations and obesity in children, through mechanisms such as increased food intake and decreased physical activity levels. Recently, research ...
Neuromechanisms of bimanual coordination in the autistic brain: A joint behavioural and neuroimaging study
Bimanual coordination requires a delicate interplay of excitation and inhibition between the cerebral hemispheres. At the centre of this interhemispheric communication is the Corpus Callosum (CC), a large band of white ...
Schizophrenia risk, stress, and resilience: a longitudinal investigation into the effects of schizotypy on stress, and the moderation of resilience.
Previous research has shown that individuals with and at risk of schizophrenia display a heightened sensitivity and reactivity to minor, moderate, and major stressors. Although stress sensitivity is well established, there ...
Preparing Children for Cross-Examination: Investigating the Efficacy of a Preparation Intervention
The adversarial legal system allows an opposing party to challenge a witness’s veracity in a process known as cross-examination. Cross-examination-style questions, however, have repeatedly been shown to be detrimental to ...
Exclusion, intergroup discrimination, and belonging.
Previous research investigating the effects of social exclusion has predominantly focused on interpersonal behavior following ostracism. Divergent findings reveal either increased aggression or increased pro-social ...
Nutritional status of lactating New Zealand mothers and their breast milk concentrations of selenium and zinc
Background: Lactating women may be at greater risk of suboptimal selenium and zinc status compared with the general population due to increased requirements from transfer of these nutrients into breast milk. In addition, ...
Evaluating the practicability and utility of the Social Return on Investment tool in public health nutrition: A food redistribution case study
Background: Effectively evaluating the impact of social enterprises is a challenge many public health experts face. Traditional evaluation methods encourage measurement of health-related outcomes, failing to account for ...
Belonging and in-group favouritism: Belonging as a predictor and an outcome of in-group favouritism using negative outcomes.
Belonging is considered to be a crucial human social motive. Most of the work concerned with the motivational ramifications of intergroup behaviour has focused on the role of self-esteem. The research presented in the ...
Phytoplankton responses to seabird guano fertilisation in the Southern Ocean.
Great congregations of seabirds in coastal areas of the Southern Ocean result in delivery of nutrient-rich guano to coastal waters potentially enhancing productivity and supporting biodiversity in the region. The magnitude ...
He maumahara ki nga korero a nga whanau ki Te Waipounamu: Family recollections and social contributions to Maori children's learning in the South Island, New Zealand
I examined the development of school readiness skills in the transition to school for 54 Māori children and their whānau in Te Waipounamu, New Zealand. A second aim of the study was to advance an understanding of how ...