A non-mental experiment

Migration and mental health: Evidence from a natural experiment.

People migrate to improve their well-being. Yet a large literature suggests that migration can be a stressful process, with potentially negative impacts on mental health. However, to truly understand the effect of migration one must compare the mental health of migrants to what their mental health would be had they stayed in their home country. The existing literature is not able to do this. Ne...

A Cognitive Map Experiment : Mental Representations and the Encoding Process

Researchers have long debated the mental representation of knowledge. The theories initially spawned by this debate were propositional theory, imagery theory, and dual-coding theory. Related research further suggests that knowledge encoding processes such as landmark-based and path-based learning may also affect these representations. Such theories form a basis from which cartographers can begi...

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Family Participation in Mental Health Care - the Vellore Experiment

This paper describes the experiment of family participation practised in Mental Health Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore. An attitude study was conducted on a group of 94 relatives of patients .All the subjects showed a marked degree of change in their knowledge and attitudes on various aspects of mental health and illness.

Non-Conscious vs. Deliberate Dynamic Decision-Making - A Pilot Experiment

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of non-conscious vs. deliberate ways of making decisions in a dynamic decision-making task. An experimental setting is used to study this question; three experimental groups are distinguished: immediate decision-making (only very limited time for deliberate cognitive processing), considerate decision-making (relatively long time for deliberate...