Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2024
Large language models have divergent effects on self-perceptions of mind and the attributes considered uniquely human, Oliver L. Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, and Alan Kingstone
“It’s the closest I can get to meditation sometimes”, Karl Potts and Jon May
Incomplete Faces Do but Masked Faces Do Not Affect Mind Perception, Farid Pazhoohi, Keina Aoki, and Alan Kingstone
Gaze Preferences to Male Contrapposto and Non-Contrapposto Postures, Farid Pazhoohi, Oliver Lee Jacobs, and Alan Kingstone
Comparison of the symptom networks of long-COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome: From modularity to connectionism, Michael Hyland, Yuri Antonacci, and Alison Bacon
Game changer: Exploring the role of board games in the lives of autistic people, Gray Atherton, Liam Cross, Francesca Belshaw, and Andrea Piovesan
Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women, Sepide Pazhouhi, Ray Garza, and Farid Pazhoohi
Comparing child word associations to adult associative norms, Nadine Fitzpatrick and Caroline Floccia
Everyday Amnesia, Christopher J. Berry and David R. Shanks
Imagery training for athletes with low imagery abilities, Jonathan Rhodes, Karol Nedza, Jon May, and Lucie Clements
Timing along the cardiac cycle modulates neural signals of reward-based learning, Elsa F. Fouragnan, Billy Hosking, Yin Cheung, Brooke Prakash, Matthew Rushworth, and Alejandra Sel
Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing, Delphine K.L. Nguyen, Nadine Fitzpatrick, and Caroline Floccia
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates, Nadège Bault, Siti N. Yaakub, and Elsa Fouragnan
Facial first impressions following a prison sentence: Negative shift in trait ratings but the same underlying structure, Coral M. Coutts, Christopher A. Longmore, and Mila Mileva
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games, Liam Cross, Linda K. Kaye, Juris Savostijanovs, Neil McLatchie, Matthew Johnston, Liam Whiteman, Robyn Mooney, and Gray Atherton
Impaired updating of working memory representations in individuals with high BMI: evidence for dopaminergic mechanisms, Nadine Herzog, Hendrik Hartmann, Lieneke K. Janssen, Arsene Kanyamibwa, Maria Waltmann, Peter Kovacs, Lorenz Deserno, Sean Fallon, Arno Villringer, and Annette Horstmann
Reward Count(s): Negative Recency in Probabilistic Experience-Based Learning, Andy Wills, René Schlegelmilch, and Bettina von Helversen
The importance of acoustic output measurement and monitoring for the replicability of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation studies, Miriam C. Klein-Flügge, Elsa F. Fouragnan, and Eleanor Martin
Submissions from 2023
Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship, Norbert Meskó, Marta Kowal, András Láng, Ferenc Kocsor, Szabolcs A. Bandi, Adam Putz, Piotr Sorokowski, David A. Frederick, Felipe E. García, Leonardo A. Aguilar, Anna Studzinska, Chee Seng Tan, Biljana Gjoneska, Taciano L. Milfont, Bulut M Topcu, Dmitry Grigoryev, Toivo Aavik, Mahmoud Boussena, Alan D.A. Mattiassi, Reza Afhami, Rizwana Amin, Roberto Baiocco, Hamdaoui Brahim, Ali R. Can, Joao Carneiro, Hakan Çetinkaya, Dimitri Chubinidze, Eliane Deschrijver, Yahya Don, Dmitrii Dubrov, Izzet Duyar, Marija Jovic, Julia A. Kamburidis, Farah Khan, Hareesol Khun-Inkeeree, Maida Koso-Drljevic, David Lacko, Karlijn Massar, Mara Morelli, Jean C. Natividade, Ellen K. Nyhus, Ju Hee Park, Farid Pazhoohi, Ekaterine Pirtskhalava, Koen Ponnet, Pavol Prokop, Dušana Šakan, Singha Tulyakul, Austin H. Wang, Sibele D. Aquino, Derya D. Atamtürk, Nana Burduli, Antonio Chirumbolo, Seda Dural, Edgardo Etchezahar, Moharrampour N Ghahraman, Balazs Aczel, Luca Kozma, Samuel Lins, Efisio Manunta, Tiago Marot, Moises Mebarak, Kirill G. Miroshnik, Katarina Misetic, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Bence Bakos, Fatima Zahra Sahli, Sangeeta Singh, Çağlar Solak, Tatiana Volkodav, Anna Wlodarczyk, Grace Akello, Marios Argyrides, Ogeday Çoker, Katarzyna Galasinska, Yepes T Gómez, Aleksander Kobylarek, Miguel Landa-Blanco, Marlon Mayorga, Barış Özener, Ma Criselda T. Pacquing, Marc Eric S. Reyes, Ayşegül Şahin, William Tamayo-Agudelo, Gulmira Topanova, and N/A Toplu-Demir
Self-discrepancies in mind perception for actual, ideal, and ought selves and partners, Oliver L. Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, and Alan Kingstone
Transfer of strategic task components across unique tasks that share some common structures, C Longman, F Milton, and A Wills
Anticipatory reward dysfunction in alcohol dependence: An electroencephalography monetary incentive delay task study, Mica Komarnyckyj, Chris Retzler, Robert Whelan, Oliver Young, Elsa Fouragnan, and Anna Murphy
A Sage and a Guru Walk into a Bar: Wisdom and Humor Styles, Jeffrey Dean Webster and Sonja Heintz
Finding Silver Linings in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A 2-Wave Study in the UK, Alison M. Bacon, Jaysan Charlesford, Michael Hyland, Tilla Puskas, and Poppy Hughes
Finding Silver Linings in the Covid-19 Pandemic: a 2-wave study with the UK general public, A Bacon, J Charlesford, T Puskas, P Hughes, and M Hyland
COVID-19 vaccination, acceptance, safety, and side-effects in European patients with severe asthma, Apostolos Bossios, Alison M. Bacon, and Katrien Eger
Social workers and acquired brain injury: A systematic review of the current evidence-base., Mark A. Linden, Mark Holloway, Claire Cooper, Akudo Amadiegwu, Caroline Bald, Andy Mantell, Alyson Norman, and Andrew Bateman
Experiencing the improbable: How does the objective probability of a magic trick occurring influence a spectator’s experience?, Gustav Kuhn, Alice Pailhès, Joshua Jay, and Max Lukian
Inner Development Goals and the Meaning, Awareness and Purpose (MAP) Model for Climate Coaching, J Rhodes, J Blakeley-Glover, A Miller, A Taylor, and I Rochmankowski
Two of a Kind or Distant Relatives?, Willibald Ruch, Valentina Vylobkova, and Sonja Heintz
Potential associations between behavior change techniques and engagement with mobile health apps: a systematic review, Madison Milne-Ives, Sophie R. Homer, Jackie Andrade, and Edward Meinert
Eyelash length attractiveness across ethnicities, Farid Pazhoohi and Alan Kingstone
Strength of Pornography Craving Experience (PCE-S): psychometric properties of a new measure based on the Elaborated Intrusion theory of desire, Brahim F. Ben, Cruz G Vera, Robert Courtois, Jon May, and Yasser Khazaal
Does variability in recognition memory scale with mean memory strength or encoding variability in the UVSD model?, Rory W. Spanton and Christopher J. Berry
Evaluation of a Study Protocol of the Application of Humor Interventions in Palliative Care Through a First Pilot Study, Lisa Linge-Dahl, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Maria Bley, Hirschhausen E von, and Lukas Radbruch
Frontal Variant Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Narrative Synthesis, Sarah Salo
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?, Roman Stengelin, Daniel B.M. Haun, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Transcranial focused ultrasound-mediated neurochemical and functional connectivity changes in deep cortical regions in humans, Siti N. Yaakub, Tristan A. White, Jamie Roberts, Eleanor Martin, Lennart Verhagen, Charlotte J. Stagg, Stephen Hall, and Elsa F. Fouragnan
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates, N Bault, SN Yaakub, and E Fouragnan
Investigating the role of action-contingent expectancy biases in dysphoria-linked activity engagement behavioural choice, Julie L. Ji and Colin MacLeod
Effects of cholinesterase inhibition on attention and working memory in Lewy body dementias, Sean James Fallon, Olivia Plant, Younes A. Tabi, Sanjay G. Manohar, and Masud Husain
Correction to: ‘Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios’ (2023) by Walter et al., Kathryn V. Walter, Daniel Conroy-Beam, David M. Buss, Kelly Asao, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski, Toivo Aavik, Grace Akello, Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba, Charlotte Alm, Naumana Amjad, Afifa Anjum, Chiemezie S. Atama, DA Duyar, Richard Ayebare, Carlota Batres, Mons Bendixen, Aicha Bensafia, Boris Bizumic, Mahmoud Boussena, Marina Butovskaya, Seda Can, Katarzyna Cantarero, Antonin Carrier, Hakan Cetinkaya, Ilona Croy, Rosa María Cueto, Marcin Czub, Daria Dronova, Seda Dural, I Duyar, Berna Ertugrul, Agustín Espinosa, Ignacio Estevan, Carla Sofia Esteves, Luxi Fang, Tomasz Frackowiak, Jorge Contreras Garduño, Karina Ugalde González, Farida Guemaz, Petra Gyuris, Mária Halamová, Iskra Herak, Marina Horvat, Ivana Hromatko, Chin Ming Hui, Jas Laile Jaafar, Feng Jiang, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Tina Kavčič, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Nicolas Kervyn, Ha TT Khanh, Imran Ahmed Khilji, Nils C. Köbis, Hoang Moc Lan, András Láng, Georgina R. Lennard, Ernesto León, Torun Lindholm, Trinh Thi Linh, Giulia Lopez, Nguyen Van Luot, Alvaro Mailhos, Zoi Manesi, Rocio Martinez, Sarah L. McKerchar, Norbert Meskó, Girishwar Misra, Conal Monaghan, Emanuel C. Mora, Alba Moya-Garófano, Bojan Musil, Jean Carlos Natividade, Agnieszka Niemczyk, George Nizharadze, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Anna Oleszkiewicz, Mohd Sofian Omar-Fauzee, Ike E. Onyishi, Baris Özener, Ariela Francesca Pagani, Vilmante Pakalniskiene, Miriam Parise, Farid Pazhoohi, A Pisanski, K Pisanski, Edna Ponciano, Camelia Popa, Pavol Prokop, and N/A Riz
Do not forget them, Steve Minton
Who is Flexible and Adaptive in Everyday Life?, Valentina Vylobkova and Sonja Heintz
Coaching Imagery to Athletes with Aphantasia, J Rhodes and K Nedza
Vowels and Consonants Matter Equally to British English-Learning 11-Month-Olds’ Familiar Word Form Recognition, Caroline Floccia, Paul Ratnage, and Thierry Nazzi
Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children, Patricia Kanngiesser, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, and Jan K. Woike
Decoding brain basis of laughter and crying in natural scenes, Lauri Nummenmaa, Tuulia Malèn, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Severi Santavirta, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Jussi Hirvonen, Mikko Sams, Sophie Scott, and Vesa Putkinen
Heterogeneity of Rules in Bayesian Reasoning: A Toolbox Analysis, Jan K. Woike, Ralph Hertwig, and Gerd Gigerenzer
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes, Sonja Heintz, Giovannantonio Forabosco, Alberto Dionigi, and Filippo Cioni
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”, Sonja Heintz, Jennifer Hofmann, Tracey Platt, and René T. Proyer
Part 1: Festschrift Commentaries, Sonja Heintz
Stakeholder alliances are essential to reduce the scourge of plastic pollution, RS Lampitt, S Fletcher, M Cole, A Kloker, S Krause, F O’Hara, P Ryde, M Saha, A Voronkova, and A Whyle
Functional organization of social perception networks in the human brain, Severi Santavirta, Tomi Karjalainen, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Matthew Hudson, Vesa Putkinen, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Enrico Glerean, Jussi Hirvonen, Henry K. Karlsson, and Lauri Nummenmaa
Perception of threat and intent to harm from vocal and facial cues, James Tompkinson, Mila Mileva, Dominic Watt, and Burton A Mike
What bothers severe asthma patients most? A paired patient–clinician study across seven European countries, Ben Ainsworth, Eleanor Chatburn, Aruna T. Bansal, Olivia Fulton, Dominique Hamerlijnck, Courtney Coleman, Katrien Eger, Michael Hyland, Joshua Holmes, Liam Heaney, Vratislav Sedlák, Sabina Škrgat, Natalija Edelbaher, Brinke A ten, Celeste Porsbjerg, Mina Gaga, Claudia Loureiro, Ratko Djukanovic, Emmanuelle Berret, and Namhee Kwon
The Secondary Impact of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Family Members, James Gamgee, Jessica Runacres, Alyson Norman, and Priyanka Pradhan
‘It should be more outspoken and not hushed away, not like put in a dark box’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of experiences of menopause voiced by women with learning disabilities, K Langer‐Shapland, SJ Minton, and N Richards
Self-reported intake of high-fat and high-sugar diet is not associated with cognitive stability and flexibility in healthy men, Hendrik Hartmann, Lieneke K. Janssen, Nadine Herzog, Filip Morys, Daniel Fängström, Sean J. Fallon, and Annette Horstmann
With a Little Help from my Friends: Acculturation and Mental Health in Arabic-speaking Refugee Youth Living with their Families, Caroline Meyer, Lina Alhaddad, Nadine Stammel, Frederick Sixtus, Jenny Sarah Wesche, Rudolf Kerschreiter, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Christine Knaevelsrud
How are secure attachment relationships fostered through talk between teachers and students who have been adopted? A conversation analysis, R Phillips, R Dallos, S Minton, and P Keohane
Promises on the go: A field study on keeping one's word, P Kanngiesser, D Serko, and JK Woike
Analysis of Fibroblast Growth Factor 14 (FGF14) structural variants reveals the genetic basis of the early onset nystagmus locus NYS4 and variable ataxia, F Ceroni, D Osborne, S Clokie, DA Bax, EJ Cassidy, MJ Dunn, CM Harris, JE Self, and NK Ragge
Children over-imitate adults and peers more than puppets., Roman Stengelin, Rabea Ball, Luke Maurits, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Daniel B.M. Haun
Hydrocephalus: A neuropsychological and theoretical primer, Tara Zaksaite, Catherine Loveday, Trudi Edginton, Hugo J. Spiers, and Alastair D. Smith
The Effect of Pre-Event Instructions on Eyewitness Identification, Mario J. Baldassari, Kara N. Moore, Ira E. Hyman, IE Jr, Lorraine Hope, Eric Y. Mah, D. Stephen Lindsay, Jamal Mansour, Renan Saraiva, Ruth Horry, Hannah Rath, Lauren Kelly, Rosie Jones, Shannan Vale, Bethany Lawson, Josh Pedretti, Tomás A. Palma, Francisco Cruz, Joana Quarenta, der Cruyssen I Van, Mila Mileva, Jessica Allen, Brittany Jeye, and Sara Wiechert
Neural responses to biological motion distinguish autistic and schizotypal traits, Matthew Hudson, Severi Santavirta, Vesa Putkinen, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, and Lauri Nummenmaa
Action Slips in Food Choices: A Measure of Habits and Goal-Directed Control, Katie M.J. Wood, Tina Seabrooke, and Chris J. Mitchell
Humour interventions for patients in palliative care—a randomized controlled trial, Lisa Linge-Dahl, Rainer Kreuz, Mieke Stoffelen, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Hirschhausen E von, and Lukas Radbruch
Pattern recognition reveals sex‐dependent neural substrates of sexual perception, Vesa Putkinen, S Nazari‐Farsani, Tomi Karjalainen, Severi Santavirta, Matthew Hudson, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, and Lauri Nummenmaa
A systematic review of interventions targeting physical activity and/or healthy eating behaviours in adolescents: practice and training, Hannah Allcott-Watson, Angel Chater, Nick Troop, and Neil Howlett
UK Men’s experience of the Gender-Role Journey and Implications for Clinicians and Mental Health Services, Laurie Grandi, Steve Minton, Katie Tipton, and Jon May
Trait impressions from voices are formed rapidly within 400ms of exposure, Mila Mileva and Nadine Lavan
Pre-schoolers’ images, intergroup attitudes, and liking of refugee peers in Germany, Iris Würbel and Patricia Kanngiesser
Pseudo-CTs from T1-weighted MRI for planning of low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation: An open-source tool, Siti N. Yaakub, Tristan A. White, Eric Kerfoot, Lennart Verhagen, Alexander Hammers, and Elsa F. Fouragnan
Mechanisms underlying corruption of working memory in Parkinson's disease, Sean James Fallon, Rhee C van, Annika Kienast, Sanjay G. Manohar, and Masud Husain
Bottle with a message: The role of story writing as an engagement tool to explore children's perceptions of marine plastic litter, Estelle Praet, Jostein Baeza-Álvarez, Veer D De, Geraldine Holtmann-Ahumada, Jen S. Jones, Sarah Langford, Jessica Michel Dearte, John Schofield, Martin Thiel, and Kayleigh J. Wyles
Three-layer model with absorption for conservative estimation of the maximum acoustic transmission coefficient through the human skull for transcranial ultrasound stimulation, David Attali, Thomas Tiennot, Mark Schafer, Elsa Fouragnan, Jérôme Sallet, Charles F. Caskey, Robert Chen, Ghazaleh Darmani, Ellen J. Bubrick, Christopher Butler, Charlotte J. Stagg, Miriam Klein-Flügge, Lennart Verhagen, Seung Schik Yoo, Kim Butts Pauly, and Jean Francois Aubry
Submissions from 2022
Moving towards patient-centred outcomes: the Severe Asthma Questionnaire, Drew Davies, Michael E. Hyland, Joseph W. Lanario, Rupert C. Jones, and Matthew Masoli
The association between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Self-Silencing behaviours and symptoms in women with Fibromyalgia., Alison M. Bacon and Leah White
Pre-testing Effects Are Target-Specific and Are Not Driven by a Generalised State of Curiosity, Timothy J. Hollins, Tina Seabrooke, Angus Inkster, Andy Wills, and Chris J. Mitchell
Teleporting into walls? The irrelevance of the physical world in embodied perspective-taking, Sarah Salo
Eye Closure Interacts with Music to Influence Vividness and Content of Directed Imagery, Steffen A. Herff, Sophie McConnell, Julie L. Ji, and Jon B. Prince
Regulations governing psychologists: An international survey., Hee Sun Kim, Seowon Yoon, Gaeun Son, Euntaek Hong, Amanda Clinton, Catherine L. Grus, David Murphy, Alex M. Siegel, Eleni Karayianni, Michael O. Ezenwa, Georgia Zara, Germán Gutiérrez, Daniel Balva, Jeanyung Chey, and Kee Hong Choi
Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future, Aldert Vrij, Pär Anders Granhag, Tzachi Ashkenazi, Giorgio Ganis, Sharon Leal, and Ronald P. Fisher
Promoting early language development in the Arab world and sustainable development goals 3, 4, 10 and 17, Ghada Khattab, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah Abdelwahab, Khalid Al-Shdifat, Zakiyah Alsiddiqi, Caroline Floccia, Hreich E Kouba, Cristina McKean, Camille Moitel Messarra, Thair Odeh, and Anastasia Trebacz
The hidden cost of a smartphone: The effects of smartphone notifications on cognitive control from a behavioral and electrophysiological perspective, Joshua D. Upshaw, Carl E. Stevens, Giorgio Ganis, and Darya L. Zabelina
Neural implementation of computational mechanisms underlying the continuous trade-off between cooperation and competition, M. A. Pisauro, E. F. Fouragnan, D. H. Arabadzhiyska, M. A.J. Apps, and M. G. Philiastides
A common neural account for social and non-social decisions, Elsa Fouragnan, Desislava H. Arabadzhiyska, Oliver G.B. Garrod, G S Philippe, and G. P Marios
The efficacy of therapist-supported acceptance and commitment therapy-based bibliotherapy for psychological distress after stroke: a single-case multiple-baseline study, Misbah Gladwyn-Khan and Reg Morris
Social worker decision-making in court, Dale Abbotts and Alyson Norman
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Breastfeeding and Mental Health, Jennifer Scarborough, Alyson Norman, and Leanne Cooper
Emotional and Behavioural responses to Covid-19: Explanations from Three Key Models of Personality, Alison M. Bacon, Dino Krupić, Nese Caki, and Philip J. Corr
Forecasting postoperative delirium in older adult patients with Fast-and-Frugal decision trees, Maria Heinrich, Jan K. Woike, Claudia D. Spies, and Odette Wegwarth
Assessing the Usability and Acceptability of FaceIT@home: an online CBT Intervention for People with Visible Differences, Alyson Norman, Joanne Veale, and Heidi Williamson
Outcome evaluation of Active Herts: A community-based physical activity programme for inactive adults at risk of cardiovascular disease and/or low mental wellbeing, Angel M. Chater, Joerg Schulz, Andy Jones, Amanda Burke, Shelby Carr, Dora Kukucska, Nick Troop, Daksha Trivedi, and Neil Howlett
Tell me all about it: narrated memories are less emotional than imagined memories, Jackie Andrade, Tom IJdema, N Vadazs, and Jon May
Tracking the associative boost in infancy, Kim Plunkett, Luche C Delle, Thomas Hills, and Caroline Floccia
Citizen science in marine litter research: A review, L. A. Kawabe, N. P. Ghilardi-Lopes, A. Turra, and K. J. Wyles
