Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2023
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, F Ben Brahim, G Vera Cruz, Robert Courtois, Jon May, and Yasser Khazaal
Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making, Tarryn Balsdon, M. Andrea Pisauro, and Marios G. Philiastides
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
Transcranial focused ultrasound-mediated neurochemical and functional connectivity changes in deep cortical regions in humans, Elsa F. Fouragnan, Siti N. Yaakub, Tristan A. White, Jamie Roberts, Eleanor Martin, Lennart Verhagen, Charlotte J. Stagg, and Stephen Hall
Deep-learning predicted PET can be subtracted from the true clinical fluorodeoxyglucose PET co-registered to MRI to identify the epileptogenic zone in focal epilepsy, A Flaus, J Jung, K Ostrowky‐Coste, S Rheims, and et al
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates, N Bault, SN Yaakub, and E Fouragnan
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach, Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Teresa Baggio, Md Faysal, Richard Bakiaj, Peera Wongupparaj, Remo Job, and Alessandro Grecucci
A narrow band of image dimensions is critical for face recognition, Timothy J. Andrews, Daniel Rogers, Mila Mileva, David M. Watson, Ao Wang, and A. Mike Burton
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, Paul Ratnage, Caroline Floccia, and Thierry Nazzi
Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children, Patricia Kanngiesser, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, and Jan K. Woike
Teleporting into walls? The irrelevance of the physical world in embodied perspective taking., S Samuel, S Salo, T Ladvelin, G Cole, and M Eacott
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
Automatic and manual segmentation of the piriform cortex: Method development and validation in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease, D Steinbart, SN Yaakub, M Steinbrenner, LS Guldin, and et al
Exploring expert perceptions about microplastics: from sources to potential solutions, Maja Grünzner, Sabine Pahl, Mathew p. White, and Richard C. Thompson
OXFORD COGNITIVE SCREEN: A CRITICAL REVIEW AND INDEPENDENT PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION, D Murphy, E Cornford, A Higginson, A Norman, R Long, and R Noad
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
Don’t read this paper! Reverse psychology, contrast and position effects in a magician forcing technique, Alice Pailhès and Gustav Kuhn
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
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
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, Sonja Heintz and Jeffrey Dean Webster
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
Children over-imitate adults and peers more than puppets., Roman Stengelin, Rabea Ball, Luke Maurits, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Daniel B.M. Haun
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
Does variability in recognition memory scale with mean memory strength or encoding variability in the UVSD model?, Rory W. Spanton and Christopher J. Berry
Frontal Variant Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Narrative Synthesis, Sarah Salo
Give me space: Sex, attractiveness, and mind perception as potential contributors to different comfort distances for humans and robots, Farid Pazhoohi, Srishti Gojamgunde, and Alan Kingstone
Heterogeneity of Rules in Bayesian Reasoning: A Toolbox Analysis, Jan K. Woike, Ralph Hertwig, and Gerd Gigerenzer
Hydrocephalus: A neuropsychological and theoretical primer, Tara Zaksaite, Alastair D. Smith, Catherine Loveday, Trudi Edginton, and Hugo J. Spiers
Investigating the role of action-contingent expectancy biases in dysphoria-linked activity engagement behavioural choice, Julie L. Ji and Colin MacLeod
Mental imagery of suicide and non-suicidal self-injury: A meta-analysis and systematic review, Hannah R. Lawrence, Emma G. Balkind, Julie L. Ji, Taylor A. Burke, and Richard T. Liu
On the trajectory of discrimination: A meta-analysis and forecasting survey capturing 44 years of field experiments on gender and hiring decisions, Michael Schaerer, GroupDiscrimination, Christilene Du Plessis, My Hoang Bao Nguyen, Robbie C.M.Van Aert, Leo Tiokhin, Daniel Lakens, Elena Giulia Clemente, Thomas Pfeiffer, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Cory J. Clark, Eric Luis Uhlmann, Ajay T. Abraham, Magdalena Adamus, Cinla Akinci, Federica Alberti, Abdelaziz M. Alsharawy, Shilaan Alzahawi, Frederik Anseel, Felix Arndt, Binnur Balkan, Ernest Baskin, Carrie E. Bearden, Eric G. Benotsch, Stefan Bernritter, Sheila R. Black, Wiebke Bleidorn, Andrew P. Boysen, and Justin P. Brienza
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?, Roman Stengelin, Daniel B.M. Haun, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Three-layer model with absorption for conservative estimation of the maximum acoustic transmission coefficient through the human skull for transcranial ultrasound stimulation, Jean Francois Aubry, 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, and Kim Butts Pauly
Two of a Kind or Distant Relatives?, Willibald Ruch, Valentina Vylobkova, and Sonja Heintz
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
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
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, Andrea 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, Reg Morris and Misbah Gladwyn-Khan
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
Sticky me: Self-relevance slows reinforcement learning, M Golubickis and CN Macrae
Forecasting postoperative delirium in older adult patients with Fast-and-Frugal decision trees, Odette Wegwarth, Maria Heinrich, Jan K. Woike, and Claudia D. Spies
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
It’s not you, it’s me: A review of individual differences in visuo-spatial perspective taking., S Samuel, G Cole, and M Eacott
Predictors of emotional distress in uveal melanoma survivors: a systematic review, C Davies, SL Brown, P Fisher, L Hope-Stone, and et al
The developmental trajectories of children’s reorientation to global and local properties of environmental geometry, Matthew G. Buckley, Luke J. Holden, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Building lexical networks: Preschoolers extract different types of information in cross-situational learning, C-H Chen and C Yu
Examining the generalizability of research findings from archival data, Andrew Delios, Eric Luis Uhlmann, Elena Giulia Clemente, Tao Wu, Hongbin Tan, Yong Wang, Michael Gordon, Domenico Viganola, Z Chen, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Al-Aziz AM Abd, Ajay T. Abraham, Jais Trojan, Matus Adamkovic, Elena Agadullina, Jungsoo Ahn, Cinla Akinci, Handan Akkas, David Albrecht, Shilaan Alzahawi, Marcio Amaral-Baptista, Rahul Anand, Kevin Francis U. Ang, Frederik Anseel, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Mujeeba Ashraf, Bradley J. Baker, and Xueqi Bao
Building bridges between natural and social science disciplines: a standardized methodology to combine data on ecosystem quality trends, I. Richter, B. R. Roberts, S. F. Sailley, E. Sullivan, V. V. Cheung, J. Eales, M. Fortnam, J. B. Jontila, C. Maharja, T. Ha Nguyen, S. Pahl, R. A. Praptiwi, J. Sugardjito, J. D.C. Sumeldan, W. M. Syazwan, A. Y. Then, and M. C. Austen
A return of mental imagery: The pictorial theory of visual perspective-taking., GG Cole, S Samuel, and MJ Eacott
Hidden disability: a study of the psychosocial impact of living with pituitary conditions, Alyson Norman, Sue Jackson, Hannah Ferrario, and Pat McBride
Too perfect to be good? An investigation of magicians’ Too Perfect Theory, Alice Pailhès, Kole Lee, and Gustav Kuhn
A Multi-Perspective Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of a mother with a learning disability’s experience of second chance parenting., Alison M. MacLeod, Cordet A. Smart, Pete Keohane, Rudi Dallos, and Kathy J. Cox
Putting theory into peaceful practice: insights and reflections on the process of co-producing a school-based intergroup relations intervention with teachers, Shelley McKeown, Thia Sagherian-Dickey, Jasmine Kwong, and Jaysan J. Charlesford
One size doesn’t fit all: towards optimising the therapeutic potential of endogenous pain modulatory systems, K Bannister and S Hughes
The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on severe asthma care in Europe - will care change for good?, Alison Bacon
Assessing reactive violence using Immersive Virtual Reality, Sylvia Terbeck, Alison Bacon, and I Howard
Whose outcome is it anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management, Alyson Norman, Jessica Lowry, Thomas Wakeham, Jackie Dean, Mark Holloway, Ben Needham-Holmes, Jo Clark-Wilson, and Philippa Feltham-White
‘I Don't Like Uncertainty, I Like to Know’: How and why uveal melanoma patients consent to life expectancy prognostication, SL Brown, PL Fisher, A Morgan, C Davies, and et al
