Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2021
A Cognitive Category-Learning Model of Rule Abstraction, Attention Learning, and Contextual Modulation, René Schlegelmilch, Andy J. Wills, and Helversen B von
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
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
SUSTAIN captures category learning, recognition, and hippocampal activation in a unidimensional vs information-integration task, L Dome, C Edmunds, and A Wills
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Virtually renovating the Trauma Film Paradigm: Comparing virtual reality with on-screen presentation of an analogue trauma., Grace Baptie, Jackie Andrade, Alison M. Bacon, and Alyson Norman
Submissions from 2020
Enhancing creativity by training metacognitive skills in mental imagery, Jon May, Emma Redding, Sarah Whatley, Klara Łucznik, Lucie Clements, Rebecca Weber, John Sikorski, and Sara Reed
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
Behavioural Immune System responses to coronavirus: a Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory explanation of conformity, warmth towards others and attitudes towards lockdown, Alison M. Bacon and Philip J. Corr
B I R T H T R A U M A F R O M T H E P E R S P E C T I V E O F P E R I N A T A L C O U N S E L L O R S : A M I N I F O C U S G R O U P S T U D Y, G Baptie, Januario E Mueller, and A Norman
Co-occurrence Patterns of Character Strengths and Measured Core Virtues in German-Speaking Adults, Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz, and Lisa Wagner
Differential functional connectivity underlying asymmetric reward-related activity in human and nonhuman primates, Alizée Lopez-Persem, Léa Roumazeilles, Davide Folloni, Kévin Marche, Elsa F. Fouragnan, Nima Khalighinejad, Matthew F.S. Rushworth, and Jérôme Sallet
Birth trauma from the perspective of perinatal counsellors. A mini focus group study, G Baptie, E Januario, and A Norman
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK: A personality-based perspective on concerns and intention to self-isolate, Alison M. Bacon and Philip J. Corr
Penalty Success in Professional Soccer: A Randomised Comparison between Imagery Methodologies, Jonathan Rhodes, Jon May, and Alex Booth
Epistemic injustices in clinical communication: The example of narrative elicitation in person-centred care., Helen Lloyd, Nicky Britten, Öncel Naldemirci, and Axel Wolf
Neighbourhood Greenspace and Smoking Prevalence: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey in England., Leanne Martin, Mathew P. White, Sabine Pahl, Jon May, and Benedict W. Wheeler
A survey of psychological practitioner workplace wellbeing, Elisabeth M.A. Summers, Reg C. Morris, Gita E. Bhutani, Amra S. Rao, and Jeremy C. Clarke
An expert advantage in detecting unfamiliar visual signals in noise, Zahra Hussain
Trauma after childbirth: The mediating effects of perceived support, Grace Baptie, Jackie Andrade, Alison M. Bacon, and Alyson Norman
US primary care in 2029: A Delphi survey on the impact of machine learning, C Blease, A Kharko, C Locher, CM DesRoches, and KD Mandl
Missing the forest because of the trees: Slower alternations during binocular rivalry are associated with lower levels of visual detail during ongoing thought, Nerissa Siu Ping Ho, Daniel Baker, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Paul Seli, Hao Ting Wang, Robert Leech, Boris Bernhardt, Daniel Margulies, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
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
Delivering digital health: The barriers and facilitators to University-Industry Collaboration, Daniela Austin, Jackie Andrade, Jon May, and Ray Jones
General anaesthetic and airway management practice for obstetric surgery in England: a prospective, multi-centre observational study, P. M. Odor, S. Bampoe, S. R. Moonesinghe, J. Andrade, J. J. Pandit, and D. N. Lucas
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
Mental health and the wish to have a child: a longitudinal, cross-cultural comparison between Germany and China, Jürgen Margraf, Kristen L. Lavallee, Xiao Chi Zhang, Jan K. Woike, and Silvia Schneider
Aging Predicts Decline in Explicit and Implicit Memory: A Life-Span Study, Emma V. Ward, Christopher J. Berry, David R. Shanks, Petter L. Moller, and Enida Czsiser
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
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
Polarity of uncertainty representation during exploration and exploitation in ventromedial prefrontal cortex, Nadescha Trudel, Jacqueline Scholl, Miriam C. Klein-Flügge, Elsa Fouragnan, Lev Tankelevitch, Marco K. Wittmann, and Matthew F.S. Rushworth
Absence of cross-modality analogical transfer in perceptual categorization, C Edmunds, A Inkster, P Jones, F Milton, and A Wills
A reformulated contextual model of psychotherapy for treating anxiety and depression, Michael E. Hyland
The unequal variance signal-detection model of recognition memory: Investigating the encoding variability hypothesis, Rory W. Spanton and Christopher J. Berry
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
The psychological correlates of distinct neural states occurring during wakeful rest, T Karapanagiotidis, D Vidaurre, AJ Quinn, D Vatansever, GL Poerio, A Turnbull, N Ho, R Leech, BC Bernhardt, E Jefferies, DS Margulies, TE Nichols, MW Woolrich, and J Smallwood
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
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
Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: An empirical study, Negar Ahmadpoor, Alastair D. Smith, and Tim Heath
Living with suicidality following traumatic brain injury: A qualitative study, Ellie Knight, Alyson Norman, and Grahame K. Simpson
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
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
Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers, Caroline Floccia, Luche C Delle, Irina Lepadatu, Janette Chow, Paul Ratnage, and Kim Plunkett
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
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
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
Affordance matching predictively shapes the perceptual representation of others’ ongoing actions., Katrina L. McDonough, Marcello Costantini, Matthew Hudson, Eleanor Ward, and Patric Bach
Spatial knowledge acquisition and mobile maps: The role of environmental legibility, Negar Ahmadpoor and Alastair D. Smith
Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-Based Dilemmas in The Processing of Scientific Information, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jan K. Woike, and Klaus Oberauer
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
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
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
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
If your device could smile: People trust happy-sounding artificial agents more, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, and Laurence White
Implications for Practice: Why signposting patients to the Pituitary Foundation matters, Sue Jackson, Alyson Norman, Pat McBride, and Pauline Whittingham
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
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