Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2022
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
Measuring Trustworthiness or Automating Physiognomy? A Comment on Safra, Chevallier, Grèzes, and Baumard (2020), RW Spanton and O Guest
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
Mechanisms underlying childhood exposure to blue spaces and adult subjective well-being: An 18-country analysis, Valeria Vitale, Leanne Martin, Mathew P. White, Lewis R. Elliott, Kayleigh J. Wyles, Matthew H.E.M. Browning, Sabine Pahl, Patricia Stehl, Simon Bell, Gregory N. Bratman, Mireia Gascon, James Grellier, Maria L. Lima, Mare Lõhmus, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Ann Ojala, Jane Taylor, den Bosch M van, Netta Weinstein, and Lora E. Fleming
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
That’s me in the spotlight: Self-relevance modulates attentional breadth, M Golubickis and CN Macrae
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
Fear of cancer recurrence and adverse cancer treatment outcomes: predicting 2- to 5-year fear of recurrence from post-treatment symptoms and functional problems in uveal melanoma survivors, SL Brown, P Fisher, L Hope-Stone, B Damato, and et al
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
Empowered or powerless? Contributing factors to women’s appraisal of traumatic childbirth, G Baptie, Januário E Mueller, and A Norman
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
A Cognitive Category-Learning Model of Rule Abstraction, Attention Learning, and Contextual Modulation, René Schlegelmilch, Andy J. Wills, and Helversen B von
Parent–Child Joint Behaviors in Novel Object Play Create High‐Quality Data for Word Learning, C Chen, DM Houston, and C Yu
Tool use and function knowledge shape visual object processing, Francois R. Foerster and Jeremy Goslin
Brief online negative affect focused functional imagery training improves two-week drinking outcomes in hazardous student drinkers: a pilot randomised controlled trial, Ruichong Shuai, Alexandra Elissavet Bakou, Jackie Andrade, Leanne Hides, and Lee Hogarth
'Seeing' proximal representations: Testing attitudes to the relationship between vision and images., S Samuel, K Hagspiel, G Cole, and M Eacott
Remembering Social Events: A Construal Level Approach, NA Wyer, TJ Hollins, and S Pahl
From couch to ultra marathon: using functional imagery training to enhance motivation, Jonathan Rhodes, Karol Nedza, Jon May, Thomas Jenkins, and Tom Stone
The Benefits of Impossible Tests: Assessing the Role of Error-Correction in the Pretesting Effect, Tina Seabrooke, Chris J. Mitchell, Andy J. Wills, Angus B. Inkster, and Timothy J. Hollins
Comparing person and people perception: Multiple group members do not increase stereotype priming, LM Persson, M Golubickis, D Dublas, N Mastnak, and et al
SUSTAIN captures category learning, recognition, and hippocampal activation in a unidimensional vs information-integration task, L Dome, C Edmunds, and A Wills
More or less of me and you: self-relevance augments the effects of item probability on stimulus prioritization, SL Svensson, M Golubickis, H Maclean, JK Falbén, and et al
Physical Presence during Moral Action in Immersive Virtual Reality, Sylvia Terbeck, Jaysan Charlesford, Heather Clemans, Emily Pope, Aimee Lee, Joshua Turner, Michaela Gummerum, and Bettina Bussmann
Measuring older peoples’ experiences of person-centred coordinated care: experience and methodological reflections from applying a patient reported experience measure in SUSTAIN, R Jillian, G Erica, R Mieke, Annerieke Stoop, Mireia Espallargues, Helen M. Lloyd, James Close, and Bruin S de
Looking through the COVID-19 window of opportunity: Future scenarios arising from the COVID-19 pandemic across five case study sites, Isabell Richter, A Avillonosa, Victoria Cheung, Hong Ching Goh, Sofia Johari, Susan Kay, Carya Maharja, TH Nyguyen, Sabine Pahl, J Sugarjito, Joel Sumeldan, QV Nguyen, Hien Thuc Vu, WNSWM Ariffin, and Melanie C. Austen
Judging me and you: Task design modulates self-prioritization, M Golubickis and CN Macrae
The value of subsequent memory paradigms in uncovering neural mechanisms of early social learning, Moritz Köster, Miriam Langeloh, Christian Kliesch, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Stefanie Hoehl
Testing Cost Containment of Future Health Care with Maintained or Improved Quality – The COST CARES project Running title: Cost Containment of Future Health Care, Karl Swedberg and Helen M. Lloyd
Age differences in deliberate ignorance., Ralph Hertwig, Jan K. Woike, and Jürgen Schupp
Exposure to an Immersive Virtual Reality Environment can Modulate Perceptual Correlates of Endogenous Analgesia and Central Sensitization in Healthy Volunteers, E Mehesz, H Karoui, PH Strutton, and SW Hughes
Multiple-image arrays in face matching tasks with and without memory, Kay L. Ritchie, Robin S.S. Kramer, Mila Mileva, Adam Sandford, and A. Mike Burton
Subtly encouraging more deliberate decisions: using a forcing technique and population stereotype to investigate free will, Alice Pailhès and Gustav Kuhn
Predictive action perception from explicit intention information in autism, Matthew Hudson, Toby Nicholson, Anna Kharko, Rebecca McKenzie, and Patric Bach
Ethical Considerations for Committees, Supervisors, Student Researchers Conducting Qualitative Research with Young People in the United Kingdom, LA Lenton-Maughan, Victoria Smith, Alison M. Bacon, Jon May, and Jaysan Charlesford
A qualitative investigation of flow experience in group creativity, Klara Łucznik, Jon May, and Emma Redding
Measuring patient experiences of person-centred care: cultural adaption and qualitative evaluation of item candidates for use in England and Sweden, L Roselund, S Jackobsson, A Nilsson, Helen Lloyd, and Anna Dencker
Towards a greater understanding of the psychosocial impact of the symptoms of pituitary conditions, Alyson Norman, Sue Jackson, Hannah Ferrario, Nena Percuklievska, and Pat McBride
On stopping yourself: Self-relevance facilitates response inhibition, M Golubickis, LM Persson, JK Falbén, and CN Macrae
Straws, seals, and supermarkets: Topics in the newspaper coverage of marine plastic pollution, A Keller and Kayleigh J. Wyles
An Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI in 17 Arabic Dialects for Children Aged 8 to 30 Months, Alshaimaa Gaber Salah Abdelwahab, Samuel Forbes, Allegra Cattani, Jeremy Goslin, and Caroline Floccia
Is accurate routine cancer prognostication psychologically harmful? 5-year outcomes of life expectancy prognostication in uveal melanoma survivors, SL Brown, P Fisher, L Hope-Stone, B Damato, and et al
Brain Basis of Psychopathy in Criminal Offenders and General Population, Lauri Nummenmaa, Lasse Lukkarinen, Lihua Sun, Vesa Putkinen, Kerttu Seppälä, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Niina Venetjoki, Marja Salomaa, Päivi Rautio, Jussi Hirvonen, Hannu Lauerma, and Jari Tiihonen
Machine Learning in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Education: A Mixed Methods Pilot Survey of Postgraduate Students at a Swiss University, C Blease, A Kharko, M Annoni, J Gaab, and C Locher
#EEGManyLabs: Investigating the replicability of influential EEG experiments, Yuri G. Pavlov, Faisal Mushtaq, Nika Adamian, Stefan Appelhoff, Mahnaz Arvaneh, Christopher S.Y. Benwell, Christian Beste, Amy R. Bland, Daniel E. Bradford, Florian Bublatzky, Niko A. Busch, Peter E. Clayson, Damian Cruse, Artur Czeszumski, Anna Dreber, Guillaume Dumas, Benedikt Ehinger, Giorgio Ganis, Xun He, José A. Hinojosa, Christoph Huber-Huber, Michael Inzlicht, Bradley N. Jack, Magnus Johannesson, Rhiannon Jones, Evgenii Kalenkovich, Laura Kaltwasser, Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani, Andreas Keil, and Peter König
Keeping them honest: Promises reduce cheating in adolescents, Patricia Kanngiesser, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, and Jan K. Woike
Similarities and differences: Comment on Chan et al., Peter M. Jones, Chris J. Mitchell, Andy J. Wills, and Stuart G. Spicer
Decoding Music-Evoked Emotions in the Auditory and Motor Cortex, Vesa Putkinen, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Kerttu Seppälä, Tomi Karjalainen, Lihua Sun, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Timo T. Heikkilä, Jussi Hirvonen, and Lauri Nummenmaa
Engaging people with energy efficiency: A randomised controlled trial testing the effects of thermal imaging visuals in a letter communication, Julie Goodhew, Sabine Pahl, Katy King, Michael Sanders, Paul Elliott, Matthew Fox, Christine Boomsma, and Steve Goodhew
A meaning-centred, whole-school approach for responsible decision-making: The Logotherapeutic Framework, Shane A. Hanna and Stephen James Minton
How do women with a history of gestational diabetes mellitus use mHealth during and after pregnancy? Qualitative exploration of women's views and experiences, Katie J. Edwards, Hannah L. Bradwell, Ray B. Jones, Jackie Andrade, and Jill A. Shawe
“I can’t skip it”: does free report improve accuracy in false memories?, Marina C. Wimmer, Ben Whalley, and Timothy J. Hollins
Motivational differences in unipolar and bipolar depression, manic bipolar, acute and stable phase schizophrenia, Xinhua Yang, Jia Huang, Phillippa Harrision, Matthew E. Roser, Kai Tian, Dongfang Wang, and Guangya Liu
Co-Creating Descriptors and a Definition for Person- Centred Coordinated Health Care: An Action Research Study, Amanda Phelan, Daniela Rohde, Gerard Fealy, Patrick Felle, Gabrielle O’kelly, Helen Lloyd, and Aine Carroll
mHealth as a primary mode of intervention for women at risk of, or diagnosed with, gestational diabetes, Katie J. Edwards, Kate Maslin, Jackie Andrade, Ray B. Jones, and Jill Shawe
Trait evaluations of faces and voices: Comparing within- and between-person variability, Nadine Lavan, Mila Mileva, Andrew W. Young, A. Mike Burton, and Carolyn McGettigan
Knowledge and attitudes among healthcare workers and patients with total knee and hip replacement towards the use of brief psychological techniques: A qualitative study in UK and Saudi hospitals, T Alsanaani, A Norman, and B Whalley
Cross-sectional age differences in 24 character strengths: Five meta-analyses from early adolescence to late adulthood, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
The researcher Toolkit: A preventative, peer-support approach to postgraduate research student mental health, Sophie R. Homer, Linda Solbrig, Despina Djama, Anne Bentley, Sarah Kearns, and Jon May
How does familiarity with a voice affect trait judgements?, Nadine Lavan, Mila Mileva, and Carolyn McGettigan
Investigating experiences of the family connections programme for supporters of individuals with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, N Fisher, P Keohane, and B Whalley
The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought, Jonathan Smallwood, Adam Turnbull, Hao ting Wang, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Giulia L. Poerio, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Delali Konu, Brontë Mckeown, Meichao Zhang, Charlotte Murphy, Deniz Vatansever, Danilo Bzdok, Mahiko Konishi, Robert Leech, Paul Seli, Jonathan W. Schooler, Boris Bernhardt, Daniel S. Margulies, and Elizabeth Jefferies
Virtual Capacity Building for International Research Collaborations in Times of COVID-19 and #Flygskam, I Richter, E Gabe-Thomas, C Maharja, TH Nguyen, Nguyen Q Van, R Praptiwi, and S Pahl
Incidence of accidental awareness during general anaesthesia in obstetrics: a multi-centre, prospective cohort study, P. M. Odor, S. Bampoe, D. N. Lucas, J. Andrade, S. R. Moonesinghe, and J. J. Pandit
Comparison of the sensitivity of patient-reported outcomes for detecting the benefit of biologics in severe asthma, Michael E. Hyland, Joseph W. Lanario, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Adel H. Mansur, James W. Dodd, Stephen J. Fowler, Gemma Hayes, Rupert C. Jones, and Matthew Masoli
Development and validation of the Body Compassion Questionnaire, Emily S. Beadle, Alison Cain, Shazia Akhtar, Joyce Lennox, Lauren McGuire, and Nicholas A. Troop
Measuring individual and group flow in collaborative improvisational dance, Klara Łucznik and Jon May
Measuring optimism bias among military personnel, Clara Alida Cutello, Clare Walsh, François Remy Foerster, Yaniv Hanoch, and Elizabeth Hellier