Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2020
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
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
Looking Behind and Looking Ahead: Personality Differences in Counterfactual and Prefactual Thinking, Alison M. Bacon, Clare R. Walsh, and R Briazu
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
Putting your money where your self is: Connecting dimensions of closeness and theories of personal identity, Jan K. Woike, Philip Collard, and Bruce Hood
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
The Art of Influencing Consumer Choices: A Reflection on Recent Advances in Decision Neuroscience, Nadège Bault and Elena Rusconi
Psychological and emotional issues after stroke, R Morris
Predictive Action Perception from Explicit Intention Information in Autism, M Hudson, T Nicholson, R McKenzi, and P Bach
Ambiguity in Psychology, J May
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
Beyond the crossroads of magic, health, and well-being, Steven Bagienski and Gustav Kuhn
Children, but not great apes, respect ownership, Patricia Kanngiesser, Federico Rossano, Ramona Frickel, Anne Tomm, and Michael Tomasello
Rivals without a cause? Relative performance feedback creates destructive competition despite aligned incentives, Jan K. Woike and Sebastian Hafenbrädl
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
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
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
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
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
Upon Repeated Reflection: Consequences of Frequent Exposure to the Cognitive Reflection Test for Mechanical Turk Participants, Jan K. Woike
Linking repetition priming, recognition, and source memory: A single-system signal-detection account, Nicholas Lange, Christopher J. Berry, and Timothy J. Hollins
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
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
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
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
Children’s Selective Trust in Promises, Margherita Isella, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Michael Tomasello
The effect of pre-exposure on overall similarity categorization, Fraser Milton, I. P.L. McLaren, Edward Copestake, David Satherley, and Andy J. Wills
Are Future Psychologists Willing to Accept and Use a Humanoid Robot in Their Practice? Italian and English Students’ Perspective, Daniela Conti, Allegra Cattani, Nuovo S Di, and Nuovo A Di
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
Pituitary conditions: importance of geography and the Pituitary Foundation in patient support, U Anneliese, Alyson Norman, and J Sue
Do Others Judge My Humor Style as I Do? Self-Other Agreement and Construct Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Sonja Heintz
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
Two- and three-year-olds consider ownership when selecting and allocating resources, M Petrowski, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Ori Friedman
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
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
Behind the cloak of competence: Brain Injury and Mental Capacity Legislation, Sophie Moore, Rebecca Wotus, Alyson Norman, Mark Holloway, and Jackie Dean
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
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
Validation of the person-centred coordinated care experience questionnaire (P3CEQ), Helen Lloyd, Ben Fosh, Ben Whalley, Richard Byng, and James Close
Most people keep their word rather than their money, Jan K. Woike and Patricia Kanngiesser
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
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
Natural environments and craving: The mediating role of negative affect, Leanne Martin, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White, and Jon May
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
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
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
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
A possible explanation for non-responders, responders and super-responders to biologics in severe asthma, ME Hyland, M Masoli, J Lanario, and R Jones
At long last, a Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory Explanation of Procrastination., Catherine Bennett and Alison M. Bacon
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
Mine or mother’s? Exploring the self-ownership effect across cultures, M Golubickis, NSP Ho, JK Falbén, KM Mackenzie, A Boschetti, WA Cunningham, and Macrae C Neil
Social Evaluation of Faces Across Gender and Familiarity, Mila Mileva, Robin S.S. Kramer, and A. Mike Burton
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
Treatment choice in Adolescents with Cleft Lip and/or Palate: the importance of Shared Decision-Making, Francesca Wogden, Alyson Norman, and Louise Dibben
Gestures and Words in Naming: Evidence From Crosslinguistic and Crosscultural Comparison, Allegra Cattani, Caroline Floccia, Evan Kidd, Paola Pettenati, Daniela Onofrio, and Virginia Volterra
Dissociation between Private and Social Counterfactual Value Signals Following Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage, Nadège Bault, Pellegrino G di, Martina Puppi, Gaëlle Opolczynski, Alessia Monti, Davide Braghittoni, Florence Thibaut, Aldo Rustichini, and Giorgio Coricelli
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
Well-being in post-primary schools in Ireland: the assessment and contribution of character strengths, Jolanta Burke and Stephen James Minton
Cues to intention bias action perception toward the most efficient trajectory, Katrina L. McDonough, Matthew Hudson, and Patric Bach
Generalisation of Anthropomorphic Stereotype, Debora Zanatto, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Angelo Cangelosi, and Jeremy Goslin
From four to nine styles: An update on individual differences in humor, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
A changed reality: Experience of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) group after stroke, Rebecca Large, Victoria Samuel, and Reg Morris
The effect of mental countermeasures on neuroimaging-based concealed information tests, Chun Wei Hsu, Chiara Begliomini, Tommaso Dall'Acqua, and Giorgio Ganis
An automated segmentation approach to calibrating infantile nystagmus waveforms, MJ Dunn, CM Harris, FA Ennis, TH Margrain, JM Woodhouse, L McIlreavy, and JT Erichsen
Spontaneous Vicarious Perception of the Content of Another’s Visual Perspective, Eleanor Ward, Giorgio Ganis, and Patric Bach
Brief group‐based acceptance and commitment therapy for stroke survivors, Sarah Majumdar 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
Manipulation of subcortical and deep cortical activity in the primate brain using transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation, Davide Folloni, Lennart Verhagen, Rogier B. Mars, Elsa Fouragnan, Charlotte Constans, Jean François Aubry, Matthew F.S. Rushworth, and Jérôme Sallet
What motivates academic dishonesty in students? A Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory explanation., Alison M. Bacon, Chloe McDaid, Natasha Williams, and Philip J. Corr
The relationship between stroke survivors’ perceived identity and mood, self-esteem and quality of life, Irina Lapadatu and Reg Morris
Are Some Natural Environments More Psychologically Beneficial Than Others? The Importance of Type and Quality on Connectedness to Nature and Psychological Restoration, Kayleigh J. Wyles, Mathew P. White, Caroline Hattam, Sabine Pahl, Haney King, and Melanie Austen
Learning from failure: Errorful generation improves memory for items, not associations, Tina Seabrooke, Timothy J. Hollins, Christopher Kent, Andy J. Wills, and Chris J. Mitchell
The CORE-10 in screening for current mental health problems and severe mental illness in prisoners, Gwen O'Connor and Reg Morris
Thinking outside of the box II: Disrupting the cognitive map., Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Goal-directed control in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth, C. E.R. Edmunds, and Chris J. Mitchell
A meta-analysis of gender differences in character strengths and age, nation, and measure as moderators, Sonja Heintz, Christoph Kramm, and Willibald Ruch
Story of a Seed: educational theatre improves students’ comprehension of plant reproduction and attitudes to plants in primary science education, Bethan C. Stagg and Michael F. Verde
A comparison of descriptive writing and drawing of plants for the development of adult novices’ botanical knowledge, Bethan C. Stagg and Michael F. Verde
Brain Injury Case Managers' Experience of Mental Capacity and the UK's Mental Capacity Act: Supporting Decision Making, M Holloway, A Norman, and J Dean
Do Psychological Factors Relate to Energy Saving Behaviours in Inefficient and Damp Homes? A study among English social housing residents, C Boomsma, RV Jones, S Pahl, and A Fuertes
Long Term Care Needs Following Acquired Brain Injury and Social Care Services in the UK, M Holloway and A Norman
Uncertainty and blocking in human causal learning, Peter M. Jones, Tara Zaksaite, and Chris J. Mitchell
Submissions from 2018
A computationally efficient formal method for discovering simutlaneous masking in medical alarms, ML Bolton, J Edworthy, AD Boyd, J Wei, and X Zheng
A Qualitative Evaluation of Recovery Processes Experienced by Mentally Disordered Offenders following a Group Treatment Programme, B Colquhoun1, Alex Lord, and Alison M. Bacon
Competitive escalation and interventions, Sebastian Hafenbrädl and Jan K. Woike
Investigating the association between fantasy proneness and emotional distress: the mediating role of cognitive coping strategies, AM Bacon and JJ Charlesford
Multiple dimensions of biodiversity drive human interest in tide pool communities, TP Fairchild, MS Fowler, S Pahl, and JN Griffin
Radically open dialectical behaviour therapy for refractory depression: the RefraMED RCT, TR Lynch, RJ Hempel, B Whalley, S Byford, R Chamba, P Clarke, S Clarke, D Kingdon, H O’Mahen, B Remington, SC Rushbrook, J Shearer, M Stanton, M Swales, A Watkins, and IT Russell
The revised four-factor motivational thought frequency and state motivation scales for alcohol control, David J. Kavanagh, Nicole Robinson, Jennifer Connolly, Jason Connor, Jackie Andrade, and Jon May
Predictors of post-traumatic growth in stroke survivors, Grace Kelly, Reg Morris, and Hamsaraj Shetty
Smiles in face matching: Idiosyncratic information revealed through a smile improves unfamiliar face matching performance, Mila Mileva and A. Mike Burton
The logic sense: exploring the role of executive functioning in belief and logic-based judgments, Stephanie Howarth, Simon Handley, and Clare Walsh
Supranuclear eye movements and nystagmus in children: A review of the literature and guide to clinical examination, interpretation of findings and age-appropriate norms., D Osborne, M Theodorou, H Lee, M Ranger, F Shawkat, CM Harris, and JE Self
Paving the way to Eureka-introducing "Dira" as an experimental paradigm to observe the process of creative problem solving, Frank Loesche, Jeremy Goslin, and Guido Bugmann
