Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2023
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
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
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
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, 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
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
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 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
Anhedonia reduction correlates with increased ventral caudate connectivity with superior frontal gyrus in depression., Xinhua Yang, Jia Huang, Matthew E. Roser, and X Guangrong
Development and Validation of the Short Version of the Sense of Humor Scale (SHS-S), Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Chloe Lau, Donald H. Saklofske, and Paul McGhee
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
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
Assessing reactive violence using Immersive Virtual Reality, Sylvia Terbeck, Alison Bacon, and I Howard
At‐risk alcohol users have disrupted valence discrimination during reward anticipation, Mica Komarnyckyj, Chris Retzler, Zhipeng Cao, Giorgio Ganis, Anna Murphy, Robert Whelan, and Elsa Florence Fouragnan
Whose outcome is it anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management, Jessica Lowry, Thomas Wakeham, Alyson Norman, Jackie Dean, Mark Holloway, Ben Needham-Holmes, Jo Clark-Wilson, and Philippa Feltham-White
Effect of a context shift on the inverse base rate effect, A Inkster, C Mitchell, R Schlegelmilch, and A Wills
Disruption of Positional Encoding at Small Separations in the Amblyopic Periphery, Zahra Hussain and Paul V. McGraw
A roadmap to doing culturally grounded developmental science, Tanya Broesch, Sheina Lew-Levy, Michelle Kline, Joscha Kärtner, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Exploring Documentation in Person-Centred Care: A Content Analysis of Care Plans, Doris Lydahl, Nicky Britten, Helen Lloyd, Axel Wolf, Öncel Naldemirci, and Birgit Heckemann
“I see myself”: Craving imagery among individuals with addictive disorders, Viktor Månsson, Jackie Andrade, Nitya Jayaram-Lindström, and Anne H. Berman
Prevention and management of intra-operative pain during caesarean section under neuraxial anaesthesia: a technical and interpersonal approach, F. Plaat, S. E.R. Stanford, D. N. Lucas, J. Andrade, J. Careless, R. Russell, D. Bishop, Q. Lo, and D. Bogod
Breastfeeding experiences & support: A mixed-methods approach to identifying factors influencing breastfeeding behaviour, Alyson Norman, Samantha Mortimer, Nena Percuklievska, Hannah Ferrario, and Grace Baptie
The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?, Lauren E. Marsh, Joanna Gil, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Associations between Behaviour Change Techniques and engagement with mobile health apps: Systematic review protocol, Madison Milne-Ives, Sophie Homer, Jackie Andrade, and Edward Meinert
Convergence and Psychometric Properties of Character Strengths Measures: The VIA-IS and the VIA-IS-R, Valentina Vylobkova, Sonja Heintz, Fabian Gander, Lisa Wagner, and Willibald Ruch
Last chance for wildlife: making tourism count for conservation, Christy Hehir, Caroline Scarles, Kayleigh J. Wyles, and Joe Kantenbacher
Experiences of individuals with Acquired Brain Injury and their families interacting with community services: a systematic scoping review, Alyson Norman, Valentina Curro, Mark Holloway, Nena Percuklievska, and Hannah Ferrario
Just a Little Bit of History Repeating: The recurring and fatal consequences of lacking professional knowledge of acquired brain injury, Mark Holloway and Alyson Norman
Non-invasive transcranial ultrasound stimulation for neuromodulation, G. Darmani, T. O. Bergmann, Pauly K Butts, C. F. Caskey, Lecea L de, A. Fomenko, E. Fouragnan, W. Legon, K. R. Murphy, T. Nandi, M. A. Phipps, G. Pinton, H. Ramezanpour, J. Sallet, S. N. Yaakub, S. S. Yoo, and R. Chen
Organizational perspectives on outdoor talking therapy: Towards a position of ‘environmental safe uncertainty’, Sam J. Cooley, Ceri R. Jones, Duncan Moss, and Noelle Robertson
EXPRESS: Is Implicit Level-2 Visual perspective taking embodied? Spontaneous perceptual simulation of others’ perspectives is not impaired by motor restriction., Eleanor Ward, Giorgio Ganis, Katrina L. McDonough, and Patric Bach
The Transmission Game: Testing behavioral interventions in a pandemic-like simulation, Jan K. Woike, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Ralph Hertwig
Exploring barriers, motivators and potential solutions to achieve healthy lifestyle among undergraduate student nurses, Daniela Austin, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, and Andy Nichols
Understanding Engagement, Marketing, and Motivation to Benefit Recruitment and Retention in Citizen Science, Adam G. Hart, David Adcock, Matthew Barr, Stuart Church, Tamara Clegg, Samuel Copland, Meyer K De, Ria Dunkley, Rachel M. Pateman, Ralph Underhill, Kayleigh Wyles, and Michael J.O. Pocock
Evaluating the GAD-2 to screen for post-stroke anxiety on an acute stroke unit, Meghan McCrory, Donnchadh F. Murphy, Reg C. Morris, and Rupert F. Noad
Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception, Haneen Abdulhamid, Nils Jäger, Holger Schnädelbach, and Alastair D. Smith
The use of virtual reality in environment experiences and the importance of realism, M. Newman, B. Gatersleben, K. J. Wyles, and E. Ratcliffe
Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways, Patricia Kanngiesser, Marie Schäfer, Esther Herrmann, Henriette Zeidler, Daniel Haun, and Michael Tomasello
A qualitative exploration of the Media’s Influence on UK Women’s views of Breastfeeding, Kiron Srivastava, Alyson Norman, and Samantha Mortimer
A meeting of positive behaviors: The relations of three aspects of flexibility with character strengths., Valentina Vylobkova and Sonja Heintz
Not Just a Trick: A survey study exploring how ‘exposing’ exhibition visitors to science of magic concepts impacts their appreciation of magic, Gabriel Medeiros, Mathew Tompkins, Steve Bagienski, and Gustav Kuhn
Submissions from 2021
Facebook sharenting in mothers of young children: The risks are worth it but only for some., Raluca A. Briazu, Caroline Floccia, and Yaniv Hanoch
Supplemental Material for Facebook sharenting in mothers of young children: The risks are worth it but only for some., RA Briazu, C Floccia, and Y Hanoch
Development and validation of the RAFFLE; a measure of Reasons And Facilitators for Loot box Engagement, J Lloyd, Laura Louise Nicklin, Stuart Gordon Spicer, Chris Fullwood, Maria Uther, Daniel P. Hinton, Jonathan Parke, H Lloyd, and James Close
Ultrasound modulation of macaque prefrontal cortex selectively alters credit assignment–related activity and behavior, Davide Folloni, Elsa Fouragnan, Marco K. Wittmann, Lea Roumazeilles, Lev Tankelevitch, Lennart Verhagen, David Attali, Jean François Aubry, Jerome Sallet, and Matthew F.S. Rushworth
Coping with Fibromyalgia during the COVID-19 pandemic: adjustment and wellbeing, Alison M. Bacon, Leah White, and Alyson Norman
Preliminary development of a questionnaire to measure the extra-pulmonary symptoms of severe asthma, Felice G. de, Michael E. Hyland, Joseph W. Lanario, Yuri Antonacci, Rupert C. Jones, and Matthew Masoli
The co-development of HedgeDATE, a public engagement and decision support tool for air pollution exposure mitigation by green infrastructure, Yendle Barwise, Prashant Kumar, Arvind Tiwari, Fahad Rafi-Butt, Aonghus McNabola, Stuart Cole, Benjamin C.T. Field, Justine Fuller, Jeewaka Mendis, and Kayleigh J. Wyles
Neural correlates of the inverse base-rate effect, Angus B. Inkster, Fraser Milton, Charlotte E.R. Edmunds, Abdelmalek Benattayallah, and Andy J. Wills
Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany, Lina Alhaddad, Robin Goodwin, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats’ gustatory sensory preconditioning, Jasper Robinson, Peter M. Jones, and Emma J. Whitt
Age-related changes in ongoing thought relate to external context and individual cognition, Adam Turnbull, Giulia L. Poerio, Nerissa SP Ho, Léa M. Martinon, Leigh M. Riby, Feng V. Lin, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
Neural Implementation of computational mechanisms underlying the continuous trade-off between cooperation and competition, MA Pisauro, E Fouragnan, D Arabadzhiyska, MAJ Apps, and MG Philiastides
#Springwatch #WildMorningswithChris: Engaging With Nature via Social Media and Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Shi Xu, George Murrell, Sarah E. Golding, Beth F.T. Brockett, Birgitta Gatersleben, Caroline Scarles, Emma V. White, Cheryl Willis, and Kayleigh J. Wyles
Applied Imagery for Motivation: A Person-centred Model, Jonathan Rhodes and Jon May
Sources of variation in search and foraging: A theoretical perspective, Alastair D. Smith and Lillo C De
Supporting spatial orientation during route following through dynamic maps with off-screen landmark persistence, Alastair D. Smith, Gary Priestnall, and Juliette Cross
Does Brief Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Meditation Affect the Attentional Blink?, Paul Sharpe, Ben Whalley, and Chris J. Mitchell
Explaining the association between repetition priming and source memory: No evidence for a contribution of recognition or fluency, Nicholas Lange and Christopher J. Berry
Vaccination hesitancy and conspiracy beliefs in the UK during the Covid-19 pandemic, Alison M. Bacon and Steven Taylor
Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise, Patricia Kanngiesser, Maria Mammen, and Michael Tomasello
Pretesting boosts item but not source memory, Tina Seabrooke, Chris J. Mitchell, and Timothy J. Hollins
