Browsing by Author "Megreya, Ahmed"
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A visual processing advantage for young-adolescent deaf observers: Evidence from face and object matching tasks
Megreya, Ahmed M.; Bindemann, Markus ( Nature Publishing Group , 2017 , Article)It is unresolved whether the permanent auditory deprivation that deaf people experience leads to the enhanced visual processing of faces. The current study explored this question with a matching task in which observers ... -
Criminal thinking in a Middle Eastern prison sample of thieves, drug dealers, and murderers
Megreya, Ahmed M.; Bindemann, Markus; Brown, Anna ( Wiley , 2015 , Article)The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) has been applied extensively to the study of criminal behaviour and cognition. This study aimed to explore the psychometric characteristics (factorial structure, ... -
Editorial: Face Recognition Difficulties in Children: Hits and/or Correct Rejections?
Megreya, Ahmed M ( OMICS International , 2015 , Article)Face recognition difficulties during childhood are well-documented. However, mixed results were obtained regarding the precise nature of these difficulties using different experimental tasks. Using recognition memory ... -
Editorial: Individual Differences in Face Identification: A Causal Relationship with Anxiety?
Megreya, Ahmed M ( OMICS International , 2016 , Article)Face identification has become one of the most popular topics in psychology, encompassing the cognitive, forensic, neuroscience, developmental, and social divisions. Most of this research, however, treats face identification ... -
Face And Object Perceptual Deficits In Schizophrenia
Megreya, Ahmed ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)Clinical studies in the face perception literature report that schizophrenics have a deficit in face identification. However, it is not clear whether this deficit is a part of a general cognitive impairment or is specific ... -
Face perception in schizophrenia: A specific deficit
Megreya, Ahmed M. ( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Introduction. Patients with schizophrenia have a large-scaled and severe cognitive impairment. This study examines whether a well-established deficit in face recognition in schizophrenia is a part of this general cognitive ... -
Mathematics anxiety and cognition: An integrated neural network model
Moustafa, Ahmed A.; Porter, Angela; Megreya, Ahmed M. ( De Gruyter , 2019 , Article)Many students suffer from anxiety when performing numerical calculations. Mathematics anxiety is a condition that has a negative effect on educational outcomes and future employment prospects. While there are a multitude ... -
Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: a cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
Latzman, Robert D.; Megreya, Ahmed M.; Hecht, Lisa K.; Miller, Joshua D.; Winiarski, D. Anne; Lilienfeld, Scott O.... more authors ... less authors ( BioMed Central , 2015 , Article)Background The construct of psychopathy is sparsely researched in the non-Western world, particularly in the Middle East. As such, the extent to which the psychopathy construct can be generalized to other cultures, including ... -
The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) across three Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern countries
Al-Attiyah, Asma A.; Megreya, Ahmed M.; Alrashidi, Mousa; Dominguez-Lara, Sergio Alexis; Al-Sheerawi, Amani ( Routledge , 2017 , Article)The nature and extent of the influence of culture on psychopathology have long been studied, with a central emphasis on whether abnormal behavior is etic (universalized) or emic (cultural based). This study aimed to examine ... -
The Robustness of the Nine-Factor Structure of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire across Four Arabic-Speaking Middle Eastern Countries
Megreya, Ahmed M.; Latzman, Robert D.; Al-Attiyah, Asma A.; Alrashidi, Mousa ( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2016 , Article)The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) focuses on the “pure” cognitive components of emotion regulation thought to help people to manage and control their emotions during or after the experience of a stressful ...