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Ashleigh Briggs

 * UC User Name: u3160677
 * Motivation and emotion unit 7124
 * Semester 2 2019

About me



 * I was born and have grown up in Canberra
 * I am 21 years old and the youngest of 2 in my family.
 * My heritage is Italian and i have been overseas to visit 3 times in my life.
 * Ive also travelled to many other places overseas such as, England, France and Malaysia.
 * I have 2 dogs both of which are Poodles, The oldest is 5, he is a Miniature poodle named Louis. The youngest is 2 and she is a Toy named Yves.

My book chapter
The book chapter i will be writing focuses on relative deprivation and emotion. Follow the link to read about it, and feel free to provide constructive feedback on my chapter.

Social contributions

 * 1) 14:35: 31st August 2019 contributed to Sense of Coherence book chapter, where i suggested mentioning how SOC can be a predictor of of poor pain management.
 * 2) 14:49: 20th October 2019 contributed to Autonomy support and educational motivation in primary school chapter and suggested that a blended learning environment is a key factor to providing autonomy
 * 3) 15:03: 20th October 2019 contributed to Bulimia nervosa and extrinsic motivation and advised that under the body image section - those who suffer from Bulimia Nervosa tend to see themselves as bigger due to distorted perceptions, and i linked to a useful journal article that tested this.
 * 4) 15:21: 20th October 2019 contributed to Female killer motivation and suggested that they look into an article i linked which found that most female serial killers are white, married and have children and less than half have mental health issues.
 * 5) 15:31: 20th October 2019 contributed to Hate crime motivation and saw they had not mentioned ways to prevent hate crimes, after finding that APA had published info on prevention and intervention policies and programs i linked it and suggested it to be helpful
 * 6) 15:54: 20th October 2019 contributed to Risky shift motivation chapter and noticed there wasn't any mention of theories, i linked and suggested a website that could give them ideas on theories related to the phenomena.
 * 7) 16:10: 20th October 2019 contributed to Body image flexibility as i had seen they had't mentioned specific eating disorders which is a main component of body image flexibility, i linked a helpful journal article for reference.
 * 8) 16:21: 20th October 2019 contributed to Cocaine and emotion and advised that adding the psychological effects of cocaine would be vital to understanding why people are drawn to the drug and i linked a useful website.
 * 9) 16:57: 20th October 2019 contributed to Empty nest syndrome chapter and saw that they had not mentioned single parents only two parent homes, i linked a website that could be a good start to research on single parent empty nest syndrome.
 * 10) 17:20 20th October 2019 contributed to Near-death experiences and emotion and noticed that they had not mentioned how different cultures can effect the types of NDE and types of things that you see - linked a website to help start their research.
 * 11) 20:01 20th October 2019 contributed to Ayahuasca and emotion and mentioned that it would be worthwhile adding the history of Ayahuasca to give some insight into the history and popularisation of the tea/vine - linked a website to start their research