This community contains the ePrints and eTheses produced by the Faculty's staff and students. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2670 2026-10-06T19:21:06Z 2026-10-06T19:21:06Z Neves, Margarida Borella, Julia Butler, Christopher R Argyropoulos, Georgios P D http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38356 2026-10-06T14:23:30Z 2026-07-07T00:00:00Z

Title: Dissociating Source from Item Memory in the Medial Temporal Lobe: Evidence from a Source Monitoring Paradigm Author(s): Neves, Margarida; Borella, Julia; Butler, Christopher R; Argyropoulos, Georgios P D

2026-07-07T00:00:00Z Cui, Zhaoxi http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38355 2026-10-05T10:23:19Z 2025-11-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Network structures and the dynamics of takeover rumours: agent-based simulations of pre-announcement stock price drift Author(s): Cui, Zhaoxi Abstract: Takeover targets often see their stock prices rise sharply before merger or acquisition announcements, mainly because information leaks and related rumours circulate among investors. Although this pattern is well-documented, the underlying process driving such pre-bid increases is still not fully understood. This thesis rebuilds the mechanism from the bottom up: an agent-based market in which an Ignorant–Spreader–Stifler rumour process propagates over a range of networks while heterogeneous value investors and trend followers trade on perceived mispricing and recent returns. Through Monte Carlo simulations, we find a strong link between the magnitude of the run-up and the efficiency of the network topology.

2025-11-01T00:00:00Z Peters, Kim Jeftić, Alma Ballard, Timothy Zhou, Steven Steffens, Niklas K Inceoglu, Ilke Ryan, Michelle K Bongiorno, Renata Eagly, Alice Arriaga, Patrícia Espinosa, Agustin Aczel, Balazs Adetula, Adeyemi Aglioti, Salvatore M Roberts, S. Craig http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38354 2026-10-01T00:00:42Z 2026-12-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Think political leader — think he or she? A multi-country test of a gender-fair language intervention to reduce gendered leadership stereotypes Author(s): Peters, Kim; Jeftić, Alma; Ballard, Timothy; Zhou, Steven; Steffens, Niklas K; Inceoglu, Ilke; Ryan, Michelle K; Bongiorno, Renata; Eagly, Alice; Arriaga, Patrícia; Espinosa, Agustin; Aczel, Balazs; Adetula, Adeyemi; Aglioti, Salvatore M; Roberts, S. Craig Abstract: Women are greatly underrepresented in positions of political leadership around the world. In seeking to explain this underrepresentation, some researchers have pointed to people's tendencies to stereotype leaders as more similar to men than women as these tendencies can support the belief that women are unsuited to leadership. This project aimed to test whether a subtle linguistic intervention was able to ameliorate this gender bias in political leadership stereotypes across different languages and national contexts (country/region N = 42, language N = 30, sample N = 22,996). Specifically, this project examined whether gender-fair language (e.g., the use of paired pronouns ‘he or she’) can reduce the tendency for people to stereotype political leaders as more similar to men than women. To increase the rigor with which these stereotypes were measured, this project complemented the dominant ‘cheap talk’ measure of personal stereotype content with an incentivised community measure of this content. As expected, participants stereotyped political leaders as more similar to men than women; this pattern was stronger on the incentivised measure of community stereotypes. Unexpectedly, there was no evidence that paired pronouns reduced this bias (there was weak exploratory evidence that paired nouns increased participants' tendencies to stereotype political leaders as more similar to women). This project suggests that the ability of gender-fair language interventions to ameliorate gender bias in the political leadership domain may be limited.

2026-12-01T00:00:00Z Brando, Sabrina Buchanan-Smith, Hannah M Planellas, Sonia Rey Caes, Line http://hdl.handle.net/1893/38350 2026-09-28T10:24:43Z 2026-07-09T00:00:00Z

Title: Raising the bar: a systems approach to promoting good wellbeing and self-efficacy in zoo and aquarium professionals Author(s): Brando, Sabrina; Buchanan-Smith, Hannah M; Planellas, Sonia Rey; Caes, Line Abstract: This research examines life satisfaction, individual and organisational job satisfaction , and self-efficacy in zoo and aquarium (ZOAQ) professionals, investigating how organisational structures, processes, provisions, and team engagement contribute to these outcomes. We applied a novel integration of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory, the Rhinelands Way, and the One Welfare framework to guide a mixed-methods study comprising a cross-sectional mixed-methods survey (n = 442) and follow-up interviews (n = 39) across 23 accredited organisations. Descriptive statistics, correlations, mediation and moderation analyses addressed five pre-specified hypotheses, with thematic analysis of interview data contextualising the quantitative findings. Most participants reported satisfactory individual job satisfaction (71%), and work perceptions and organisational appreciation were more strongly associated with job satisfaction than access to tangible provisions. However, findings revealed significant role-based disparities in provision access, a weak relationship between formal wellbeing processes and job satisfaction, and patterns of manager-observed behaviour and self-efficacy suppression consistent with learned helplessness. These results provide an empirical basis for developing people-centred organisational cultures character-ised by equitable provisions, supportive leadership, meaningful communication, and structures that promote help-seeking and collective goals including animal wellbeing and conservation. Limitations include the cross-sectional design, English-language sampling, and the inferential rather than direct measurement of learned helplessness.

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