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Leonie Miller

University of Wollongong
Verified email at uow.edu.au
Cited by 835

Personality Change Predicts Self‐Reported Mental and Physical H ealth

CA Magee, PCL Heaven, LM Miller - Journal of Personality, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Personality dimensions are known to predict mortality and other health outcomes,
but almost no research has assessed the effects of changes in personality traits on physical …

Hope for the future: Identifying the individual difference characteristics of people who are interested in and intend to foster-care

J Ciarrochi, M Randle, L Miller… - British Journal of Social …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
High-quality foster placements can help a foster-child to thrive and can counter some of the
risk factors normally associated with being a foster-child. Unfortunately, demand for foster-…

[HTML][HTML] A web-based adolescent positive psychology program in schools: randomized controlled trial

…, V Manicavasagar, PJ Batterham, LM Miller… - Journal of Medical …, 2015 - jmir.org
Background: Adolescent mental health is characterized by relatively high rates of psychiatric
disorders and low levels of help-seeking behaviors. Existing mental health programs aimed …

Personality trait change and life satisfaction in adults: The roles of age and hedonic balance

CA Magee, LM Miller, PCL Heaven - Personality and individual differences, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper examines whether changes in personality traits influenced life satisfaction (LS).
This involved investigating whether these associations were moderated by age and mediated …

The interaction of word frequency and concreteness in immediate serial recall

LM Miller, S Roodenrys - Memory & cognition, 2009 - Springer
Word frequency and word concreteness are language attributes that have been shown to
independently influence the recall of items in verbal short-term memory (STM). It has been …

What can agencies do to increase foster carer satisfaction?

M Randle, L Miller, S Dolnicar - Child & Family Social Work, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Stable, long‐term foster care homes are critical to ensuring a safe and nurturing childhood
for many children worldwide. Greater foster carer satisfaction is associated with increased …

Framing advertisements to elicit positive emotions and attract foster carers: An investigation into the effects of advertising on high-cognitive-elaboration donations

M Randle, L Miller, J Stirling… - Journal of …, 2016 - journalofadvertisingresearch.com
Advertisements that elicit negative emotions (eg, guilt) have been found effective in prompting
socially desirable behaviors, such as making monetary donations to charity. This study …

A constrained Rasch model of trace redintegration in serial recall

S Roodenrys, LM Miller - Memory & Cognition, 2008 - Springer
The notion that verbal short-term memory tasks, such as serial recall, make use of information
in long-term as well as in short-term memory is instantiated in many models of these tasks. …

Mind wandering and task difficulty: The determinants of working memory, intentionality, motivation, and subjective difficulty.

M Barrington, L Miller - Psychology of Consciousness: Theory …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The direction of the task-unrelated thought (TUT)–task difficulty relationship varies depending
on the type of task used, which can be challenging for extant theories to explain. Individual …

The orthographic/phonological neighbourhood size effect and set size

D Guitard, LM Miller, I Neath… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing number of studies have shown that on serial recall tests, words with more
orthographic/phonological neighbours are better recalled than otherwise comparable words with …