Contents
Editorial
News from the Hubs
PART I: Synopses from the Wessex Branch Annual Undergraduate/Postgraduate Student Conference 2010
An investigation into how level of connectedness to nature effects the prevalence of depression in rural and suburban raised individuals
James Ricci
Counterfactual reasoning: Investigating the effects of stereotype judgement
Francis Nortley
Health benefits of expressive writing in HIV patients: A qualitative thematic comparison between benefiters and deteriorators
Janey Sahota
Dyslexia in university students: Exploring the association between executive abilities and test anxiety
Elaine Wiltshire
The influence of highlighting and word length on eye movements during reading
Louise-Ann Leyland
The effect of a motor preparation task on subjective and objective sleepiness indices
Rebecca Pocock
The same old story: The effects of repeated storybook reading upon children's novel word acquisition
Kelly Parsons
Summaries of presentations given at the conference
Attitudes and behavioural intentions of typically developing adolescents towards their peers with Asperger's syndrome
Eleni Fleva
Does the sentence always fit the crime; to what extent does physical attractiveness, gender and crime type affect sentence severity?
Charlotte Burton
Investigating secondary school transition as a stressor for increasing social anxiety
Pui Yi Lau
Investigating the relationship between personality traits linked to psychopathy, university course choice and attitudes towards crime - a summary
Samantha McCullough
PART II: Essays on the Wessex Careers Conference 2010
On the neuropsychology talk - What it is and how to get into it: The perspective of a third year psychology student
Lori Oliver
My views on the Wessex Careers Conference
Stacey Ann Lewis
What I learnt to further my plans to become a Forensic Psychologist
Alice Cole
My reflections on a Health Psychology talk
Shaghayegh Akbarpour