Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2019
What motivates academic dishonesty in students? A Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory explanation., Alison M. Bacon, Chloe McDaid, Natasha Williams, and Philip J. Corr
Spontaneous Vicarious Perception of the Content of Another’s Visual Perspective, Eleanor Ward, Giorgio Ganis, and Patric Bach
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
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
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
Long Term Care Needs Following Acquired Brain Injury and Social Care Services in the UK, M Holloway and A Norman
Submissions from 2018
Thinking outside of the box II: Disrupting the cognitive map., Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
From four to nine styles: An update on individual differences in humor, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
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 CORE-10 in screening for current mental health problems and severe mental illness in prisoners, Gwen O'Connor and Reg Morris
An automated segmentation approach to calibrating infantile nystagmus waveforms, MJ Dunn, CM Harris, FA Ennis, TH Margrain, JM Woodhouse, L McIlreavy, and JT Erichsen
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
Goal-directed control in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth, C. E.R. Edmunds, and Chris J. Mitchell
Still Fighting for Breath: a patient survey of the challenges and impact of severe asthma, Paraskevi Katsaounou, Mikaela Odemyr, Otto Spranger, Michael E. Hyland, Claus Kroegel, Lorena Garcia Conde, Robin Gore, Francesco Menzella, Ribas C Domingo, Mario Morais-Almeida, Matthias Gasser, and Ismail Kasujee
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
Uncertainty and blocking in human causal learning, Peter M. Jones, Tara Zaksaite, and Chris J. Mitchell
Multiple dimensions of biodiversity drive human interest in tide pool communities, TP Fairchild, MS Fowler, S Pahl, and JN Griffin
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
Children's scale errors, Beata J. Grzyb, Angelo Cangelosi, Allegra Cattani, and Caroline Floccia
Well-being in post-primary schools in Ireland: the assessment and contribution of character strengths, Jolanta Burke and Stephen James Minton
Automaticity and cognitive control: Effects of cognitive load on cue-controlled reward choice, Tina Seabrooke, Andy J. Wills, Lee Hogarth, and Chris J. Mitchell
A Qualitative Evaluation of Recovery Processes Experienced by Mentally Disordered Offenders following a Group Treatment Programme, B Colquhoun1, Alex Lord, and Alison M. Bacon
Expertise in evaluating choreographic creativity: an online adaptation of the Consensual Assessment Technique, Lucie Clements, Sell NM Lefebvre, Emma Redding, and Jon May
Brief group‐based acceptance and commitment therapy for stroke survivors, Sarah Majumdar and Reg Morris
Perceptual Teleology: Expectations of Action Efficiency Bias Social Perception, Patric Bach, Matthew Hudson, Katrina L. McDonough, and Rhys Edwards
Interaction between Musical and Poetic Form Affects Song Popularity: The Case of the Genevan Psalter, Y Schotanus, V Koops, and J Edworthy
Investigating the association between fantasy proneness and emotional distress: the mediating role of cognitive coping strategies, AM Bacon and JJ Charlesford
The construction and validation of the Severe Asthma Questionnaire, Michael E. Hyland, Rupert C. Jones, Joseph W. Lanario, and Matthew Masoli
Children’s Selective Trust in Promises, Margherita Isella, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Michael Tomasello
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
Mental imagery in dentistry: Phenomenology and role in dental anxiety, Annegret Schneider, Jackie Andrade, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, and David R. Moles
Smiles in face matching: Idiosyncratic information revealed through a smile improves unfamiliar face matching performance, Mila Mileva and A. Mike Burton
A computationally efficient formal method for discovering simutlaneous masking in medical alarms, ML Bolton, J Edworthy, AD Boyd, J Wei, and X Zheng
Electrophysiological study of action-affordance priming between object names., Isabel M. Feven-Parsons and Jeremy Goslin
Acoustic features of auditory medical alarms - an experimental study of alarm volume, N/A Schlesinger, JJ, SH Baum, K Nash, M Bruce, D Ashmead, MS Shotwell, MT Wallace, MB Weinger, and J Edworthy
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
Should We Play Games Where Energy Is Concerned? Perceptions of Serious Gaming as a Technology to Motivate Energy Behaviour Change among Social Housing Residents, C Boomsma, R Hafner, S Pahl, RV Jones, and A Fuertes
Social contact patterns can buffer costs of forgetting in the evolution of cooperation, Jeffrey R. Stevens, Jan K. Woike, Lael J. Schooler, Stefan Lindner, and Thorsten Pachur
The Impact of Workload on the Ability to Localize Auditory Alarms, J Edworthy, S Reid, K Peel, S Lock, J Williams, C Newbury, J Foster, and M Farrington
Model-free and model-based reward prediction errors in EEG, T Sambrook, AJ Wills, B Hardwick, and J Goslin
Patient Experiences of Care from Multi-Speciality Community Providers: Findings from a Realist Synthesis of International Evidence, HM Lloyd, R Sheaff, S Brand, A Wanner, R Byng, J Valderas, and M Pearson
Competitive escalation and interventions, Sebastian Hafenbrädl and Jan K. Woike
Functional Imagery Training versus Motivational Interviewing for Weight Loss: A randomised controlled trial of brief individual interventions for overweight and obesity, Linda Solbrig, Ben Whalley, David J. Kavanagh, Jon May, Tracey Parkin, Ray Jones, and Jackie Andrade
Enhancing Grit through Functional Imagery Training in Professional Soccer, Jonathan Rhodes, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, and David Kavanagh
Trust in artificial voices, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, and Debora Zanatto
Auditory icon alarms are more accurately and quickly identified than standard melodic alarms in a simulated clinical setting, R Mcneer, Horn D Bodzin, C Bennett, J Edworthy, and R Dudaryk
Extinguishing cue-controlled reward choice: Effects of Pavlovian extinction on outcome-selective Pavlovian-instrumental transfer, Tina Seabrooke, Pelley ME Le, Alexis Porter, and Chris J. Mitchell
Separate neural representations of prediction error valence and surprise: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis., Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, and Marios G. Philiastides
Intention insertion: Activating an action's perceptual consequences is sufficient to induce non-willed motor behavior, James Colton, Patric Bach, Ben Whalley, and Christopher Mitchell
Getting alarm sounds into a global standard: A cases study with reflections, J Edworthy, R McNeer, C Bennett, R Dudaryk, S McDougall, J Schlesinger, M Bolton, Edworthy J Reed, Vieira E Özcan, A Boyd, S Reid, M Rayo, M Wright, and D Osborn
Perceived language proficiency and pain assessment by registered and student nurses in native English-speaking and EAL children aged 4–7 years, Pary M. Azize, Allegra Cattani, and Ruth Endacott
Risk as reward: Reinforcement sensitivity theory and psychopathic personality perspectives on everyday risk-taking, Liam P. Satchell, L.P., Alison M. Bacon, Jennifer L. Firth, and Philip J. Corr
Due process in dual process: Model-recovery simulations of decision-bound strategy analysis in category learning, Charlotte E.R. Edmunds, Fraser Milton, and Andy J. Wills
Patient-Reported Measures for Person-Centered Coordinated Care: A Comparative Domain Map and Web-Based Compendium for Supporting Policy Development and Implementation, Helen Lloyd, Hannah Wheat, Jane Horrell, Thavapriya Sugavanam, Benjamin Fosh, Jose M. Valderas, and James Close
Creativity and cognitive control: Behavioral and ERP evidence that divergent thinking, but not real-life creative achievement, relates to better cognitive control., Darya L. Zabelina and Giorgio Ganis
Multiple Feature Use in Pigeons’ Category Discrimination: The Influence of Stimulus Set Structure and the Salience of Stimulus Differences, SEG Lea, EM Pothos, AJ Wills, LA Leaver, CME Ryan, and C Meier
Getting Better Hospital Alarm Sounds Into a Global Standard, J Edworthy, RR McNeer, CL Bennett, R Dudaryk, SJP McDougall, JJ Schlesinger, ML Bolton, JDR Edworthy, E Özcan, AD Boyd, SKJ Reid, MF Rayo, MC Wright, and D Osborn
Psychometric Comparisons of Benevolent and Corrective Humor across 22 Countries: The Virtue Gap in Humor Goes International, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Tracey Platt, Dandan Pang, Hugo Carretero-Dios, Alberto Dionigi, Gutiérrez C Argüello, Ingrid Brdar, Dorota Brzozowska, Hsueh Chih Chen, W Chłopicki, Matthew Collins, R Ďurka, NYE Yahfoufi, Angélica Quiroga-Garza, Robert B. Isler, Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel, Tamil Selvan Ramis, Betül Saglam, Olga V. Shcherbakova, Kamlesh Singh, Ieva Stokenberga, Peter S.O. Wong, and Jorge Torres-Marín
How patient participation was used to develop a questionnaire that is fit for purpose for assessing quality of life in severe asthma., Michael E. Hyland, Joseph W. Lanario, Jill Pooler, Matthew Masoli, and Rupert C. Jones
A comparison of descriptive writing and drawing of plants for the development of adult novices’ botanical knowledge, Bethan C. Stagg and Michael F. Verde
Humor, the PEN model of personality, and subjective well-being: Support for differential relationships with eight comic styles, W Ruch, L Wagner, and S Heintz
Broadening Humor: Comic Styles Differentially Tap into Temperament, Character, and Ability, Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz, Tracey Platt, Lisa Wagner, and René T. Proyer
Can Nursing Students Gain Person-Centred Skills while Supporting Citizen Contacts to use the Internet for Health?, TM Page, HM Lloyd, GR Williamson, and RB Jones
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
Submissions from 2017
A test of the adaptive network explanation of functional disorders using a machine learning analysis of symptoms., Christos Melidis, Susan L. Denham, and Michael E. Hyland
“I carry her in my heart”: An exploration of the experience of bereavement for people with learning disability, Nicki Thorp, Jacqui Stedmon, and Helen Lloyd
Does study duration have opposite effects on recognition and repetition priming?, Christopher J. Berry, Emma V. Ward, and David R. Shanks
The Secondary Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Family and Friends, Jane Townshend and Alyson Norman
A meta-analysis of gender differences in character strengths and age, nation, and measure as moderators, Sonja Heintz, Christoph Kramm, and Willibald Ruch
A Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory explanation of antisocial behaviour, Alison M. Bacon, Philip J. Corr, and Liam Paul Satchell
Eye movement attenuation of intrusive social anxiety imagery: A pilot study., SR Homer and C Deeprose
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): A Beginner's Guide for Design and Implementation, Hayley Thair, Amy L. Holloway, Roger Newport, and Alastair D. Smith
Can self-defeating humor make you happy? Cognitive interviews reveal the adaptive side of the self-defeating humor style, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
Collaborative action for person-centred coordinated care (P3C): an approach to support the development of a comprehensive system-wide solution to fragmented care, Helen M. Lloyd, Mark Pearson, Rod Sheaff, Sheena Asthana, Hannah Wheat, Thava Priya Sugavanam, Nicky Britten, Jose Valderas, Michael Bainbridge, Louise Witts, Debra Westlake, and Jane Horrell
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
Trait emotional intelligence and social deviance in males and females, AM Bacon, L Lenton-Maughan, and J May
Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis., Suzanne H. Richards, Lindsey Anderson, Caroline E. Jenkinson, Ben Whalley, Karen Rees, Philippa Davies, Paul Bennett, Zulian Liu, Robert West, David R. Thompson, and Rod S. Taylor
Channelling passion for the ocean towards plastic pollution, Sabine Pahl, Kayleigh J. Wyles, and Richard C. Thompson
Integrating and testing natural frequencies, naïve Bayes, and fast-and-frugal trees., Jan K. Woike, Ulrich Hoffrage, and Laura Martignon
Connected, supported, informed: Experiences and benefits of membership of the Pituitary Foundation., A Underwood, AL Norman, H Forrest, S Jackson, and P McBride
Understanding the psychosocial needs of pituitary patients: A survey of Pituitary Foundation members., AL Norman, H Forrest, S Jackson, and P McBride
Creativity and Blocking: No Evidence for an Association, Tara Zaksaite, Peter M. Jones, and Chris J. Mitchell
Cultural differences in attention: Eye movement evidence from a comparative visual search task., Albandri Alotaibi, Geoffrey Underwood, and Alastair D. Smith
Methodological determinism and the free will hypothesis., Irving Kirsch and Michael E. Hyland
Vocabulary of 2-Year-Olds Learning English and an Additional Language: Norms and Effects of Linguistic Distance, C Floccia, TD Sambrook, Luche C Delle, R Kwok, J Goslin, L White, A Cattani, E Sullivan, K Abbot-Smith, A Krott, D Mills, C Rowland, J Gervain, and K Plunkett
Neural Signatures of Spatial Statistical Learning: Characterizing the Extraction of Structure from Complex Visual Scenes, Elisabeth A. Karuza, Lauren L. Emberson, Matthew E. Roser, Daniel Cole, Richard N. Aslin, and Jozsef Fiser
III: ANALYSES AND RESULTS FOR STUDY 1: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF LINGUISTIC DISTANCE ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT., Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Luche C Delle, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett
II: METHODS., Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Luche C Delle, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett
I: INTRODUCTION., Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Luche C Delle, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett
IV: RESULTS FOR STUDIES 2 AND 3: THE UKBTAT MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO NONTARGET ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS., Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Luche C Delle, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett
V: GENERAL DISCUSSION., Caroline Floccia, Thomas D. Sambrook, Luche C Delle, Rosa Kwok, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, Allegra Cattani, Emily Sullivan, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Andrea Krott, Debbie Mills, Caroline Rowland, Judit Gervain, and Kim Plunkett
Comparing phoneme frequency, age of acquisition, and loss in aphasia: Implications for phonological universals, Cristina Romani, Claudia Galuzzi, Cecilia Guariglia, and Jeremy Goslin
Predictors of post-traumatic growth in stroke survivors, Grace Kelly, Reg Morris, and Hamsaraj Shetty
Factors Affecting the Success of Long-term ABI Rehabilitation Final Report for Headway Somerset, AL Norman, J Turner, and M Orman
What helps in self-help? A qualitative exploration of interactions within a borderline personality disorder self-help group, Briony Bond, John Wright, and Alison Bacon
Treatment outcomes in schizophrenia: qualitative study of the views of family carers, J Lloyd, H Lloyd, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Michele Peters
Qualitative analysis of feedback on Functional Imagery Training: A novel motivational intervention for type 2 diabetes., Sophie C. Parham, David J. Kavanagh, Mika Shimada, Jon May, and Jackie Andrade
A qualitative assessment of the effectiveness of the Hospital Liaison Officer Service: Final Report to Headway Somerset, E Knight, W Copeman, A Parrott, and AL Norman
Initial training with difficult items does not facilitate category learning, C. E.R. Edmunds, Andy J. Wills, and Fraser Milton
