http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/ The University of Queensland en Fez http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:295530 2013-04-03T08:50:54Z Waterson, Christina. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:223838 2010-12-07T00:00:00Z Nott, G. C. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:223026 No abstract available 2010-11-30T00:00:00Z Higgs, Helen. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222363 2010-11-24T00:00:00Z Zhang, Gong. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222337 2010-11-24T00:00:00Z Huey, Sharon M. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:299465 2013-05-08T09:47:34Z Hateley, Mark Lawrence http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:296491 2013-04-09T11:47:36Z Johansen, Benjamin http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:268619 2012-02-28T00:00:00Z O'Donnell, Joshua Francis http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222866 2010-11-29T00:00:00Z Baidya, Keshaba Nanda. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:276582 Forensic fingerprint evidence is considered irrefutable by fingerprint examiners, and despite a lack of peer-reviewed empirical research confirming the accuracy, validity and reliability of fingerprinting methods, fingerprint evidence has been used in court for more than a century. One of the options that has been proposed to improve the quality of fingerprint testimony is to limit the role of fingerprint experts, and allow jurors to match fingerprints. This study examined whether court charts (i.e., fingerprints with corresponding features highlighted) improve novices' ability to discriminate between matching and non-matching prints, and whether court charts produce a response bias to say “match”. Forty-two undergraduates were presented with pairs of fingerprints and asked to decide whether they matched or not. Half the fingerprints were presented as court charts, and the remaining prints were presented with no markings. We found that court charts do not improve novices' ability to discriminate between matching and non-matching fingerprints, and that they do not produce a response bias to say “match”. Therefore, our results suggest that court charts do not affect jurors' judgements about fingerprint evidence. 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z Alice Towler http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:275929 The present study examined the effects of manipulated ego depletion (being drained of one's willpower) and descriptive referent group norms (what others do in your group) on healthy weight control intentions and behaviours. The role of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (Ajzen, 1985) was also examined, as was the direct and moderating role of group identification. A sample of 154 University students completed tasks designed to have either high or low ego depleting effects and received either relatively positive, negative, or no descriptive norm information. Results revealed that high ego depletion and negative descriptive norms were associated with more unhealthy eating behaviour, however ego depletion and descriptive norms did not interact. High ego depletion was also associated with weaker intentions to engage in healthy weight control. Partial support was found for the Theory of Planned Behaviour model however no moderating effect of group identity on intentions or behaviours was observed. These results support the importance of ego depletion and referent group descriptive norms as unique predictors of unhealthy eating behaviours, but also indicate that depleted self-control actually weakens people's intentions to engage in effortful behaviours such as weight control. Directions for future research and implications for behaviour change interventions targeting obesity are discussed. 2012-06-20T00:00:00Z Amelia Mycock http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:275686 Child witness suggestibility has received much attention over the last several decades, with the credibility of children‟s testimonies heavily scrutinized by those within both the court system and developmental fields alike. Historically, their openness to authority suggestion, inability to decipher fact from fantasy and limited memory capabilities has cast children as inaccurate and unreliable witnesses. However research has neglected ways in which a child‟s memory may be moulded by the innocuous responses of those around them. The current study examined ways in which an authority figure might deemphasise or devalue an event in order to manipulate the content and clarity of a child‟s event recall of a staged theft. Eighteen younger (M = 4.39 years, SD = 1.42 years) and twenty-eight older (M = 7.14 years, SD = 1.43 years) children participated following parental consent. After acknowledging that a target toy was missing, the children‟s teacher responded in one of two ways, either emphasising or de-emphasising the importance of the theft. The following day, the children were individually interviewed using a 10-item memory questionnaire. Four short moral dilemmas were also read to the children to gauge their interpretations of the intentions of others. The interview was readministered 10 days after the event to examine suggestibility. Results found that event recall accuracy, resistance to suggestibility and moral reasoning all significantly increased with age. The recall accuracy across time significantly differed in the younger but not the older group. Authority emphasis too was seen to significantly affect the younger children‟s resistance to misleading information more than the older children‟s resistance. The implications of these results are discussed. 2012-06-13T00:00:00Z Victoria Downs http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218389 2010-10-13T00:00:00Z Muttukumaru, Mark. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222485 2010-11-25T00:00:00Z Waters, Sally. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219714 2010-11-03T00:00:00Z Au, Ngan. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219126 2010-10-26T00:00:00Z Lynn, Alex. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222318 2010-11-24T00:00:00Z Laurenceson, James Stuart. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:297745 2013-04-15T16:32:12Z Chen, Rick. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:258789 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z Stent, David L. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:276035 Despite the majority of people in Western countries believing in human-caused climate change, persuading people to take action on these beliefs is notoriously difficult. Climate change messages tend to focus on geographical effects like sea-level rise, but evidence shows that people are most concerned about the consequences for society and future generations. Furthermore, research shows that people’s conception of society in the future, and specifically how action on climate change will lead to a more interpersonally warm and moral society, is related to their motivation to act on climate change. The present research examines and extends this finding, to determine experimentally if communication that climate change action can affect the warmth and morality of society is related to motivation to act, and if the effectiveness of this communication depends on how it is framed. Participants (n = 103) read fictional articles describing the effects of acting on climate change framed in (i) the near or distant future, (ii) where society had acted or failed to act on climate change (iii) resulting in either positive or negative changes in the warmth and morality of society. Results showed that behavioural intentions to act environmentally were highest when messages focussed on the near future and the negative consequences of failing to act on climate change. However this negative frame was not as effective when considering the implications for the distant future. This is notable because the norm for climate change communication is to emphasise the long-term negative consequences of failing to act, but these findings indicate that this may not be the best way to motivate people to act on climate change. Rather, focussing on the more proximal consequences on society of failing to act may be more effective in motivating pro-environmental behaviour. 2012-06-22T00:00:00Z Nicolson, Genesta http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218770 2010-10-20T00:00:00Z Iselin, Stephen S. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222272 2010-11-24T00:00:00Z Fynes-Clinton, Emma. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:223398 2010-12-03T00:00:00Z Warrier, V. B. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:300146 2013-05-15T10:05:51Z Yu, Paul Poyang http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:239713 Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has become increasingly popular in experimental psychology. However for most the fMRI environment is an unnatural and unfamiliar setting. The detrimental effect of fMRI-related environmental factors; posture constraints, claustrophobic settings and subsequent anxiety may impair cognitive performance. Additionally, the amplified prevalence of acoustic scanner background noise may also moderate cognitive functioning within the fMRI procedure. We investigated whether the fMRI environmental setting and acoustic scanner noise moderates functioning on a range of performance based cognitive tasks; N-Back test, Raven's Progressive Matrices, Sustained Attention to Response Task and Attention Network Test. Thirty participants completed cognitive performance tests within a mock fMRI scanner in silence, in the scanner under the presence of simulated scanner noise, and while seated at a computer in an optimal experimental condition. Cognitive performance (as a function of percentage errors committed) was seen to decline on all measures. It addition to this, behavioural performance (as a function of participant response reaction time) reflected fMRI in deduced impairment for the majority of tasks; Raven's Progressive Matrices, Sustained Attention to Response Task and Attention Network Test. The role of acoustic scanner noise was seen to vary as a function of task type, only attention related abilities showed performance differentiation with the addition of acoustic scanner noise. It was generally concluded that, for some cognitive abilities, performance with the fMRI is not equivalent to actual optimal performance. Repercussions for analyses of neural activation data and performance attributes within fMRI experimentation are discussed. Future study opportunities exist to clarify these effects. 2011-04-04T00:00:00Z Grant, Adam http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218384 2010-10-13T00:00:00Z Kalyango, David L. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:239780 Synaesthesia is a condition wherein ordinary stimuli elicit extraordinary experiences. For colourgrapheme synaesthetes, reading black numbers, letters or words can elicit coloured experiences. The current study examined unresolved issues concerning how these coloured experiences are generated. Experiment 1 assessed the precision by which synaesthetic colours were matched using visual induced graphemes versus matched using aurally induced graphemes. No precision differences were evident suggesting that synaesthetic colours do not require visual input and are therefore unlike real seen colours, behaving more like memorised experiences. Experiment 2 was conducted to verify that Experiment 1 results were due to synaesthetic colours behaving like recalled colours in the auditory condition, and were not resultant from the apparatus' inability to detect slight precision differences. Using the same testing apparatus, it was found that both synaesthetes and age, sex and education matched controls were more precise when matching physical seen colours as opposed to colours that had to be recalled. This substantiated the results of Experiment 1, by establishing the adequacy of the testing apparatus. Intriguingly, Experiment 2 found synaesthetes were more precise at matching both seen and recalled colours comparative to controls. Experiment 3 examined the possibility that this enhanced precision reflected a generic advantage for synaesthetes when making judgments associated with colour. Synaesthetes were better at learning verbal stimuli (capable of triggering their synaesthetic colour) compared to controls. However they were no better at learning spatial stimuli (incapable of triggering their synaesthetic colour) compared to controls. Thus, the findings overall suggest that synaesthetic colours are driven by high-level cognitive operations, rather than the low-level sensory processes, and are subsequently not mediated by visual input. 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Brown, Francesca http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:295464 2013-04-02T08:45:15Z Wong, Brian. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222509 2010-11-25T00:00:00Z Lee, Mindee. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:223579 2010-12-06T00:00:00Z Dow, Theodore. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:223562 2010-12-06T00:00:00Z Sbeghen, Elizabeth. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:279331 2012-08-27T00:00:00Z Zulkifly, Hanis H. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217982 2010-10-07T00:00:00Z Mills,Tanya http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222508 2010-11-25T00:00:00Z Weier, Annette Maree. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:223090 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z Hewton, Gavin. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219100 2010-10-26T00:00:00Z Tronc, K. E. (Keith Ernest) http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217328 2010-09-28T00:00:00Z Halliwell, Leslie Marsden. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:239719 Individuals with intellectual disability and those with serious mental illness are now living longer than previously and it is predicted that most will outlive their parents who are typically their primary caregiver. It seems likely that siblings will face pressure to assume the role of the caregiver to their adult brother or sister with a disability when parents are no longer able to fulfil this role. Community expectations of siblings may influence service provision, but currently there is no information about community expectations of adult siblings. A possible influence on expectations of siblings is attitudes towards those with a disability. Thus, it was hypothesised that those who had more negative attitudes would expect siblings to take more responsibility. Research has illustrated previous contact, age, gender, and education influence attitudes towards individuals with a disability, thus were examined with respect to community members attitudes. Members of the community were asked to complete a survey on their expectations of the responsibility of the siblings to provide care and attitudes towards those with intellectual disability and those with serious mental illness. Results found there were more stigmatising attitudes towards individuals with intellectual disability, with previous contact influencing attitudes towards both disabilities. Gender only influenced attitudes towards individuals with serious mental illness, while age and education had no effect on either. Unexpectedly, expectations of siblings to provide care and attitudes towards those with a disability were not related. A number of implications are explained. 2011-04-04T00:00:00Z Infantino, Alyssa http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:220110 2010-11-10T00:00:00Z Gordon, Liam. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:258417 2011-10-21T00:00:00Z Harris, Roger D. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:225101 2010-12-17T00:00:00Z Dodd, Peter R. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:217631 2010-10-01T00:00:00Z Beames, Alexander. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219821 2010-11-06T00:00:00Z Rynne, Brendan J. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:219127 2010-10-26T00:00:00Z So, Yuk Fai. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:275236 2012-06-04T00:00:00Z Eliza Kruger http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:218486 2010-10-15T00:00:00Z Cawte, Katie-Jane. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:277643 This thesis examines the market impact of initial public offerings (hereafter IPOs) on industry competitors as observed by their abnormal return behaviour around the event date. Prior literature commonly refers to this phenomenon as information transfer which is said to occur when a corporate event has wider implications for the competitors of the announcing firm. This thesis focuses on the pricing effects which Australian IPOs have on rival firms, with the primary research questions being whether or not a price reaction is evident, and if so, to what extent can this be explained. While previous studies address this issue by examining rival firm and industry factors, I extend on the literature by testing the effects of characteristics relating to the IPO firm itself. Specifically, the effects of the IPO firm’s corporate governance profile and the intended use of offer proceeds are examined to assess whether and to what extent they hold relevance in the process of information transfer. Using a sample of 106 IPOs between 1999 and 2009, initial results indicate that rival firms react negatively to the completion of an IPO on days leading up to and including the event date. Multivariate analysis shows that in relation to corporate governance factors, both board size and CEO share ownership exhibit negative relationships with rival firm abnormal returns. Moreover, IPOs which disclose either investment, or both debt reduction and investment as the intended use of proceeds result in a greater negative price impact upon rival firms. Finally, the results demonstrate that while IPO disclosure regarding investment has a greater negative impact upon rival firms, there is no ‘intensity’ dimension to this relationship i.e. it does not hold when a continuous variable is used which measures the dollar amount of intended investment. 2012-07-17T00:00:00Z McGilvery, Andrew http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:222902 2010-11-29T00:00:00Z Campbell, Janet. http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:291656 2013-02-18T11:46:17Z Mohammad Salahuddin http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:221574 2010-11-18T00:00:00Z Clark, Joseph.