Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2021
Reducing optimism bias in the driver’s seat: Comparing two interventions, Clara Alida Cutello, Clare Walsh, Yaniv Hanoch, and Elizabeth Hellier
Valence and ownership: object desirability influences self-prioritization, Marius Golubickis, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Johanna K. Falbén, Carlotta L. Schwertel, Alessia Maiuri, Dagmara Dublas, William A. Cunningham, and C. Neil Macrae
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
Spatially clustered resources increase male aggregation and mating duration in Drosophila melanogaster, ER Churchill, JR Bridle, and MDF Thom
Stereotype-based priming without stereotype activation: A tale of two priming tasks, D Tsamadi, JK Falbén, LM Persson, M Golubickis, and et al
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
Birth trauma: the mediating effects of perceived support, Grace Baptie, Jackie Andrade, Alison M. Bacon, and Alyson Norman
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
Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaw puzzles index metacognitive development, MJ Doherty, M Wimmer, C Golleck, E Robinson, and C Stone
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
Perceptual learning of detection of textures in noise, Zahra Hussain and Patrick J. Bennett
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
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the primary motor cortex attenuates capsaicin‐induced dynamic mechanical allodynia and mechanical pain sensitivity in humans, SW Hughes, G Ward, and PH Strutton
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
Diffusion tensor imaging of lumbar spinal nerves reveals changes in microstructural integrity following decompression surgery associated with improvements in clinical symptoms: A case report, SW Hughes, PJ Hellyer, DJ Sharp, and et al
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
Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task, M Wimmer, C Marx, S Stirk, and P Hancock
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
Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-based Dilemmas in The Processing of Scientific Information (preprint), S Lewandowsky, JK Woike, and K 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
Capsaicin-Induced Changes in Electrical Pain Perception Threshold Can Be Used to Assess the Magnitude of Secondary Hyperalgesia in Humans, SW Hughes, M Basra, C Chan, C Parr, and et al
Heritability of alpha and sensorimotor network changes in temporal lobe epilepsy, SN Yaakub, C Tangwiriyasakul, E Abela, M Koutroumanidis, and et al
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
It’s not always about me: The effects of prior beliefs and stimulus prevalence on self–other prioritisation, JK Falbén, M Golubickis, D Wischerath, D Tsamadi, and et al
Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams (Preprint), R Botvinik-Nezer, F Holzmeister, CF Camerer, A Dreber, J Huber, M Johannesson, M Kirchler, R Iwanir, JA Mumford, A Adcock, P Avesani, B Baczkowski, A Bajracharya, L Bakst, S Ball, M Barilari, N Bault, D Beaton, J Beitner, R Benoit, R Berkers, J Bhanji, B Biswal, S Bobadilla-Suarez, T Bortolini, K Bottenhorn, A Bowring, S Braem, H Brooks, and E Brudner
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
The role of face and voice cues in predicting the outcome of student representative elections, Mila Mileva, James Tompkinson, Dominic Watt, and A. Mike Burton
Who shows which kind of humor? Exploring sociodemographic differences in eight comic styles in a large Chilean sample, A Mendiburo‐Seguel and Sonja Heintz
A dimensional summation account of polymorphous category learning, Andy J. Wills, Lyn Ellett, Fraser Milton, Gareth Croft, and Tom Beesley
Do Humans Imitate Robots?, Debora Zanatto, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Jeremy Goslin, Serge Thill, and Angelo Cangelosi
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
Predictive coding in auditory perception: challenges and unresolved questions, SL Denham and I Winkler
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
Population fragmentation drives up genetic diversity in signals of individual identity, C Dytham and MDF Thom
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
Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results., Justin F. Landy, ML Jia, Isabel L. Ding, Domenico Viganola, Warren Tierney, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Charles R. Ebersole, Quentin F. Gronau, A Ly, den Bergh D van, Maarten Marsman, Koen Derks, E-J Wagenmakers, Andrew Proctor, Daniel M. Bartels, Christopher W. Bauman, William J. Brady, F Cheung, Andrei Cimpian, Simone Dohle, M. Brent Donnellan, Adam Hahn, Michael P. Hall, William Jiménez-Leal, DJ Johnson, Richard E. Lucas, BenoÎt Monin, and Andres Montealegre
Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear, Matthew Hudson, Kerttu Seppälä, Vesa Putkinen, Lihua Sun, Enrico Glerean, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, and Lauri Nummenmaa
Facial identity across the lifespan, Mila Mileva, Andrew W. Young, Rob Jenkins, and A. Mike Burton
Facing up to the wandering mind: Patterns of off-task laboratory thought are associated with stronger neural recruitment of right fusiform cortex while processing facial stimuli, Nerissa Siu Ping Ho, Giulia Poerio, Delali Konu, Adam Turnbull, Mladen Sormaz, Robert Leech, Boris Bernhardt, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
Parts of me: Identity-relevance moderates self-prioritization, Marius Golubickis, Johanna K. Falbén, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Jie Sui, William A. Cunningham, and Macrae C Neil
Rivals without a cause? Relative performance feedback creates destructive competition despite aligned incentives, Jan K. Woike and Sebastian Hafenbrädl
Separating Content and Structure in Humor Appreciation: A Bimodal Structural Equation Modeling Approach, Sonja Heintz
Umorismo e intelligenza. Uno studio sperimentale [Humor and intelligence. An experimental study], G Forabosco, A Dionigi, F Cioni, and S Heintz
