Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2020
Say it aloud: Measuring change talk and user perceptions in an automated, technology-delivered adaptation of motivational interviewing delivered by video-counsellor, Gomes da Silva J Galvão, David J. Kavanagh, Jon May, and Jackie Andrade
Trauma after childbirth: The mediating effects of perceived support, Grace Baptie, Jackie Andrade, Alison M. Bacon, and Alyson Norman
Neurocognitive patterns dissociating semantic processing from executive control are linked to more detailed off-task mental time travel, Hao Ting Wang, Nerissa Siu Ping Ho, Danilo Bzdok, Boris C. Bernhardt, Daniel S. Margulies, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
Global reward state affects learning and activity in raphe nucleus and anterior insula in monkeys, Marco K. Wittmann, Elsa Fouragnan, Davide Folloni, M Klein-Flugge, Bolton K.H. Chau, Mehdi Khamassi, and Matthew F.S. Rushworth
Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Felix Holzmeister, Colin F. Camerer, Anna Dreber, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Roni Iwanir, Jeanette A. Mumford, R. Alison Adcock, Paolo Avesani, Blazej M. Baczkowski, Aahana Bajracharya, Leah Bakst, Sheryl Ball, Marco Barilari, Nadège Bault, Derek Beaton, Julia Beitner, Roland G. Benoit, Ruud M.W.J. Berkers, Jamil P. Bhanji, Bharat B. Biswal, Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, Tiago Bortolini, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Alexander Bowring, Senne Braem, Hayley R. Brooks, Emily G. Brudner, Cristian B. Calderon, Julia A. Camilleri, Jaime J. Castrellon, Luca Cecchetti, Edna C. Cieslik, Zachary J. Cole, Olivier Collignon, Robert W. Cox, William A. Cunningham, Stefan Czoschke, Kamalaker Dadi, Charles P. Davis, Alberto De Luca, Mauricio R. Delgado, Lysia Demetriou, Jeffrey B. Dennison, Xin Di, Erin W. Dickie, Ekaterina Dobryakova, Claire L. Donnat, Juergen Dukart, Niall W. Duncan, Joke Durnez, Amr Eed, Simon B. Eickhoff, Andrew Erhart, Laura Fontanesi, G. Matthew Fricke, Shiguang Fu, Adriana Galván, Remi Gau, Sarah Genon, Tristan Glatard, Enrico Glerean, Jelle J. Goeman, Sergej A.E. Golowin, Carlos González-García, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Cheryl L. Grady, Mikella A. Green, Moreira JF Guassi, Olivia Guest, Shabnam Hakimi, J. Paul Hamilton, Roeland Hancock, Giacomo Handjaras, Bronson B. Harry, Colin Hawco, Peer Herholz, Gabrielle Herman, Stephan Heunis, Felix Hoffstaedter, Jeremy Hogeveen, Susan Holmes, Chuan Peng Hu, Scott A. Huettel, and Matthew E. Hughes
Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: An empirical study, Negar Ahmadpoor, Alastair D. Smith, and Tim Heath
Results and insight gained from applying the EnergyCat energy-saving serious game in UK social housing, R Hafner, A Fuertes, S Pahl, R Jones, C Boomsma, M Gangolells, and M Casals
Correction: Management of nystagmus in children: a review of the literature and current practice in UK specialist services, JE Self, MJ Dunn, JT Erichsen, I Gottlob, HJ Griffiths, C Harris, H Lee, J Owen, J Sanders, F Shawkat, M Theodorou, and JP Whittle
Decoding music-evoked emotions in the auditory and motor cortex, V Putkinen, S Nazari-Farsani, K Seppälä, T Karjalainen, L Sun, HK Karlsson, M Hudson, TT Heikkilä, J Hirvonen, and L Nummenmaa
Mental Capacity Past, Present and Future: An overview, R Morris
Motor cortex activity during action observation predicts subsequent action imitation in human infants, Moritz Köster, Miriam Langeloh, Christian Kliesch, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Stefanie Hoehl
How does familiarity with a voice affect trait judgements?, Nadine Lavan, Mila Mileva, and Carolyn McGettigan
Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-Based Dilemmas in The Processing of Scientific Information, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jan K. Woike, and Klaus Oberauer
Living with suicidality following traumatic brain injury: A qualitative study, Ellie Knight, Alyson Norman, and Grahame K. Simpson
Subtly encouraging more deliberate decisions: using a forcing technique and population stereotype to investigate free will, Alice Pailhès and Gustav Kuhn
Supporting Innovative Person-Centred Care in Financially Constrained Environments: The WE CARE Exploratory Health Laboratory Evaluation Strategy, Helen M. Lloyd, Inger Ekman, Heather L. Rogers, Vítor Raposo, Paulo Melo, Valentina D. Marinkovic, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Einav Srulovici, Roman Andrzej Lewandowski, and Nicky Britten
The long and winding road: A comprehensive analysis of 50 years of Eysenck instruments for the assessment of personality, Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz, Fabian Gander, Jennifer Hofmann, Tracey Platt, and René T. Proyer
A qualitative investigation of flow experience in group creativity, Klara Łucznik, Jon May, and Emma Redding
Accepting what we do not know: A need to improve professional understanding of Brain Injury in the UK, Alyson Norman, Mark Holloway, Tolu Odumuyiwa, Machaela Kennedy, Hannah Forrest, Freya Suffield, and Hilary Dicks
The Motivational Thought Frequency scales for increased physical activity and reduced high-energy snacking, David J. Kavanagh, Hugo Teixeira, Jennifer Connolly, Jackie Andrade, Jon May, Shaneen Godfrey, Amanda Carroll, Kimberly Taylor, and Jason P. Connor
The higher-order structure of primal world beliefs in German-speaking countries: Adaptation and initial validation of the German Primals Inventory (PI-66-G), Alexander G. Stahlmann, Jennifer Hofmann, Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz, and Jeremy D.W. Clifton
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK: A personality-based perspective on concerns and intention to self-isolate, Alison M. Bacon and Philip J. Corr
Labels strengthen motor learning of new tools, Francois R. Foerster, Anna M. Borghi, and Jeremy Goslin
Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment, Bailey R. House, Patricia Kanngiesser, HC Barrett, Süheyla Yilmaz, Andrew Marcus Smith, Carla Sebastian-Enesco, Alejandro Erut, and Joan B. Silk
Spatial knowledge acquisition and mobile maps: The role of environmental legibility, Negar Ahmadpoor and Alastair D. Smith
Affordance matching predictively shapes the perceptual representation of others’ ongoing actions., Katrina L. McDonough, Marcello Costantini, Matthew Hudson, Eleanor Ward, and Patric Bach
Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference, Michael C. Frank, Katherine Jane Alcock, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Gisa Aschersleben, Dare Baldwin, Stéphanie Barbu, Elika Bergelson, Christina Bergmann, Alexis K. Black, Ryan Blything, Maximilian P. Böhland, Petra Bolitho, Arielle Borovsky, Shannon M. Brady, Bettina Braun, Anna Brown, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Linda E. Campbell, Cara Cashon, Mihye Choi, Joan Christodoulou, Laura K. Cirelli, Stefania Conte, Sara Cordes, Christopher Cox, Alejandrina Cristia, Rhodri Cusack, Catherine Davies, Klerk M de, Luche C Delle, LD Ruiter, Dhanya Dinakar, Kate C. Dixon, Virginie Durier, Samantha Durrant, Christopher Fennell, Brock Ferguson, Alissa Ferry, Paula Fikkert, Teresa Flanagan, Caroline Floccia, Megan Foley, Tom Fritzsche, Rebecca L.A. Frost, Anja Gampe, Judit Gervain, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Anna Gupta, Laura E. Hahn, Hamlin J Kiley, EE Hannon, N Havron, J Hay, M Hernik, B Höhle, DM Houston, LH Howard, M Ishikawa, S Itakura, I Jackson, KV Jakobsen, M Jarto, SP Johnson, C Junge, D Karadag, N Kartushina, DJ Kellier, T Keren-Portnoy, K Klassen, M Kline, E-S Ko, JF Kominsky, JE Kosie, HE Kragness, AAR Krieger, F Krieger, J Lany, RJ Lazo, M Lee, C Leservoisier, C Levelt, C Lew-Williams, M Lippold, U Liszkowski, L Liu, SG Luke, RA Lundwall, Cassia V Macchi, and N Mani
Searching for meaning in sound: Learning and interpreting alarm signals in visual environments., S McDougall, J Edworthy, D Sinimeri, J Goodliffe, D Bradley, and J Foster
The unequal variance signal-detection model of recognition memory: Investigating the encoding variability hypothesis, Rory W. Spanton and Christopher J. Berry
Perspective taking as virtual navigation? Perceptual simulation of what others see reflects their location in space but not their gaze, Eleanor Ward, Giorgio Ganis, Katrina L. McDonough, and Patric Bach
Protocol for direct reporting of awareness in maternity patients (DREAMY): a prospective, multicentre cohort study of accidental awareness during general anaesthesia, P. M. Odor, S. Bampoe, D. N. Lucas, S. R. Moonesinghe, J. Andrade, and J. J. Pandit
A single system account of enhanced recognition memory in synaesthesia, Nicolas Rothen, Christopher J. Berry, Anil K. Seth, Sabine Oligschläger, and Jamie Ward
Expertise in Evaluating Choreographic Creativity: An Online Variation of the Consensual Assessment Technique, Lucie Clements, Emma Redding, Sell N Lefebvre, and Jon May
Positive intergroup contact modulates fusiform gyrus activity to black and white faces, H. Farmer, M. Hewstone, O. Spiegler, H. Morse, A. Saifullah, X. Pan, B. Fell, J. Charlesford, and S. Terbeck
Looking Behind and Looking Ahead: Personality Differences in Counterfactual and Prefactual Thinking, Alison M. Bacon, Clare R. Walsh, and R Briazu
Understanding Public Attitudes to Hate: Developing and Testing a U.K. Version of the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale, Alison M. Bacon, Jon May, and Jaysan J. Charlesford
Psychological and emotional issues after stroke, R Morris
Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours, L Martin, MP White, A Hunt, M Richardson, S Pahl, and J Burt
Putting your money where your self is: Connecting dimensions of closeness and theories of personal identity, Jan K. Woike, Philip Collard, and Bruce Hood
Predictive Action Perception from Explicit Intention Information in Autism, M Hudson, T Nicholson, R McKenzi, and P Bach
Ambiguity in Psychology, J May
Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development, Bailey R. House, Patricia Kanngiesser, H. Clark Barrett, Tanya Broesch, Senay Cebioglu, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Alejandro Erut, Sheina Lew-Levy, Carla Sebastian-Enesco, Andrew Marcus Smith, Süheyla Yilmaz, and Joan B. Silk
Submissions from 2019
A dimensional summation account of polymorphous category learning, Andy J. Wills, Lyn Ellett, Fraser Milton, Gareth Croft, and Tom Beesley
Associations between pro-environmental behaviour and neighbourhood nature, nature visit frequency and nature appreciation: Evidence from a nationally representative survey in England, I Alcock, MP White, S Pahl, R Duarte-Davidson, and LE Fleming
The Art of Influencing Consumer Choices: A Reflection on Recent Advances in Decision Neuroscience, Nadège Bault and Elena Rusconi
Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers, Caroline Floccia, Luche C Delle, Irina Lepadatu, Janette Chow, Paul Ratnage, and Kim Plunkett
Energy use in social housing residents in the UK and recommendations for developing energy behaviour change interventions, RJ Hafner, S Pahl, RV Jones, and A Fuertes
Linking repetition priming, recognition, and source memory: A single-system signal-detection account, Nicholas Lange, Christopher J. Berry, and Timothy J. Hollins
The inter-relationship between acquired brain injury, substance use and homelessness; the impact of adverse childhood experiences: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study, Christian D. Adshead, Alyson Norman, and Mark Holloway
If your device could smile: People trust happy-sounding artificial agents more, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, and Laurence White
Pretesting boosts recognition, but not cued recall, of targets from unrelated word pairs, Tina Seabrooke, Chris J. Mitchell, Andy J. Wills, and Timothy J. Hollins
Bradykinesia is driven by cumulative beta power during continuous movement and alleviated by GABAergic modulation in Parkinson’s disease., Emma J. Prokic, Gavin L. Woodhall, Adrian C. Williams, Ian M. Stanford, and Stephen D. Hall
Implications for Practice: Why signposting patients to the Pituitary Foundation matters, Sue Jackson, Alyson Norman, Pat McBride, and Pauline Whittingham
Evaluating motor cortical oscillations and age-related change in autism spectrum disorder, William Gaetz, Edward Rhodes, Luke Bloy, Lisa Blaskey, Carissa R. Jackel, Edward S. Brodkin, Amy Waldman, David Embick, Stephen Hall, and Timothy P.L. Roberts
Upon Repeated Reflection: Consequences of Frequent Exposure to the Cognitive Reflection Test for Mechanical Turk Participants, Jan K. Woike
Social information use in adolescents: The impact of adults, peers and household composition, Lucas Molleman, Patricia Kanngiesser, and den Bos W van
Investigating cooperation with robotic peers, Debora Zanatto, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Jeremy Goslin, and Angelo Cangelosi
The potential and pitfalls of narrative elicitation in person-centred care, Helen Lloyd
The potential and pitfalls of narrative elicitation in person‐centred care., Öncel Naldemirci, Axel Wolf, Nicky Britten, and Helen Lloyd
Rivals without a cause? Relative performance feedback creates destructive competition despite aligned incentives, Jan K. Woike and Sebastian Hafenbrädl
The best treatment option(s) for adult and elderly patients with chronic primary musculoskeletal pain: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis, Helen Koechlin, Ben Whalley, Nicky J. Welton, and Cosima Locher
A measure to assess the workplace well‐being of psychological practitioners, Elisabeth M.A. Summers, Reg C. Morris, and Gita E. Bhutani
An interdisciplinary approach to improving the quality of life in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: A case study, C Turner, D Crocker, J Rhodes, K Nedza, and J May
Effectiveness of nurse-coordinated, person-centered comprehensive assessment on improving quality of life of community-dwelling frail older people, Helen Lyndon, Frazer Underwood, Jos M. Latour, Jonathan Marsden, Anne Brown, and Bridie Kent
Diving and mental health: the potential benefits and risks from a survey of recreational scuba divers, Leger Dowse M St, Ben Whalley, Matthew K. Waterman, Robert M. Conway, and GR Smeardon
Pituitary conditions: importance of geography and the Pituitary Foundation in patient support, U Anneliese, Alyson Norman, and J Sue
The redundancy effect is related to a lack of conditioned inhibition: Evidence from a task in which excitation and inhibition are symmetrical, Tara Zaksaite and Peter M. Jones
The effect of pre-exposure on overall similarity categorization, Fraser Milton, I. P.L. McLaren, Edward Copestake, David Satherley, and Andy J. Wills
Validation of the person-centred coordinated care experience questionnaire (P3CEQ), Helen Lloyd, Ben Fosh, Ben Whalley, Richard Byng, and James Close
Selective effects of errorful generation on recognition memory: The role of motivation and surprise., Tina Seabrooke, Chris J. Mitchell, Andy J. Wills, Jessica L. Waters, and Timothy J. Hollins
Is Nurturing Attachments training effective in improving Self-Efficacy in foster carers and in reducing manifestations of Reactive Attachment Disorder in looked after children?, Naomi Gibbons, Alison M. Bacon, and Lisa Lloyd
Improving access to social care services following Acquired Brain Injury: A needs analysis., T Odumuyiwa, M Kennedy, A Norman, M Holloway, S Freya, F Hannah, and D Hilary
Refractory depression – cost-effectiveness of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy: findings of economic evaluation of RefraMED trial, James Shearer, Thomas R. Lynch, Rampaul Chamba, Susan Clarke, Roelie J. Hempel, David G. Kingdon, Heather O'Mahen, Bob Remington, Sophie C. Rushbrook, Ian T. Russell, Maggie Stanton, Michaela Swales, Alan Watkins, Ben Whalley, and Sarah Byford
Refractory depression – mechanisms and efficacy of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RefraMED): findings of a randomised trial on benefits and harms, Thomas R. Lynch, Roelie J. Hempel, Ben Whalley, Sarah Byford, Rampaul Chamba, P Clarke, S Clarke, David G. Kingdon, Heather O'Mahen, Bob Remington, Sophie C. Rushbrook, James Shearer, Maggie Stanton, Michaela Swales, Alan Watkins, and Ian T. Russell
Dissociable learning processes, associative theory, and testimonial reviews: A comment on Smith and Church (2018, Andy J. Wills, Charlotte E.R. Edmunds, Pelley M Le, Fraser Milton, Ben R. Newell, Dominic M. Dwyer, and David R. Shanks
An Experimental Validation of Masking in IEC 60601-1-8:2006-compliant Alarm Sounds, M Bolton, XI Zheng, L Meng, J Edworthy, and A Boyd
Neural correlates of weighted reward prediction error during reinforcement learning classify response to cognitive behavioral therapy in depression, Filippo Queirazza, Elsa Fouragnan, J. Douglas Steele, Jonathan Cavanagh, and Marios G. Philiastides
Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear, M Hudson, K Seppälä, V Putkinen, L Sun, E Glerean, T Karjalainen, J Hirvonen, and L Nummenmaa
Natural environments and craving: The mediating role of negative affect, Leanne Martin, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White, and Jon May
A possible explanation for non-responders, responders and super-responders to biologics in severe asthma, ME Hyland, M Masoli, J Lanario, and R Jones
Behind the cloak of competence: Brain Injury and Mental Capacity Legislation, Sophie Moore, Rebecca Wotus, Alyson Norman, Mark Holloway, and Jackie Dean
Symptom frequency and development of a generic functional disorder symptom scale suitable for use in studies with IBS, FMS or CFS patients., Michael E. Hyland, Alison M. Bacon, Joseph W. Lanario, and Anthony F. Davies
Stop stereotyping, Johanna K. Falbén, Juliana L. Olivier, Marius Golubickis, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Linn M. Persson, Dimitra Tsamadi, Eleni Marinopoulou, Bianca Bianciardi, William A. Cunningham, and C. Neil Macrae
A Change of Mind: Applying Social and Behavioral Research Methods to the Assessment of the Effectiveness of Ocean Literacy Initiatives, Matthew Ashley, Sabine Pahl, Gillian Glegg, and Stephen Fletcher
Most people keep their word rather than their money, Jan K. Woike and Patricia Kanngiesser
Social Evaluation of Faces Across Gender and Familiarity, Mila Mileva, Robin S.S. Kramer, and A. Mike Burton
Children, but not great apes, respect ownership, Patricia Kanngiesser, Federico Rossano, Ramona Frickel, Anne Tomm, and Michael Tomasello
A worked example of initial theorybuilding: PARTNERS2 collaborative care for people who have experienced psychosis in England, Helen Lloyd, Richard Byng, G Laura, and A John
Two- and three-year-olds consider ownership when selecting and allocating resources, M Petrowski, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Ori Friedman
An evaluation of the Fishing For Litter (FFL) scheme in the UK in terms of attitudes, behavior, barriers and opportunities, Kayleigh J. Wyles, Sabine Pahl, Lauren Carroll, and Richard C. Thompson
Treatment choice in Adolescents with Cleft Lip and/or Palate: the importance of Shared Decision-Making, Francesca Wogden, Alyson Norman, and Louise Dibben
Generalisation of Anthropomorphic Stereotype, Debora Zanatto, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Angelo Cangelosi, and Jeremy Goslin
Recommendation of New Medical Alarms based on Audibility, Identifiability, and Detectability in a Randomized, Simulation-Based Study, J Edworthy, C Bennett, R Dudaryk, N Crenshaw, and R McNeer
Cues to intention bias action perception toward the most efficient trajectory, Katrina L. McDonough, Matthew Hudson, and Patric Bach
The macaque anterior cingulate cortex translates counterfactual choice value into actual behavioral change, Elsa F. Fouragnan, Bolton K.H. Chau, Davide Folloni, Nils Kolling, Lennart Verhagen, Miriam Klein-Flügge, Lev Tankelevitch, Georgios K. Papageorgiou, Jean Francois Aubry, Jerome Sallet, and Matthew F.S. Rushworth
At long last, a Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Explanation of Procrastination., Catherine Bennett and Alison M. Bacon
A changed reality: Experience of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) group after stroke, Rebecca Large, Victoria Samuel, and Reg Morris
Tailoring Self-Help Mindfulness and Relaxation Techniques for Stroke Survivors: Examining Preferences, Feasibility and Acceptability, Xu Wang, Connie Smith, Laura Ashley, and Michael E. Hyland
The effect of mental countermeasures on neuroimaging-based concealed information tests, Chun Wei Hsu, Chiara Begliomini, Tommaso Dall'Acqua, and Giorgio Ganis
Gestures and Words in Naming, Allegra Cattani, Caroline Floccia, Evan Kidd, Paola Pettenati, Daniela Onofrio, and Virginia Volterra