Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2020
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
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
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
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
Nrf2-interacting nutrients and COVID-19: time for research to develop adaptation strategies, Jean Bousquet, The ARIA Group, Jean Paul Cristol, Wienczyslawa Czarlewski, Josep M. Anto, Adrian Martineau, Tari Haahtela, Susana C. Fonseca, Guido Iaccarino, Hubert Blain, Alessandro Fiocchi, G. Walter Canonica, Joao A. Fonseca, Alain Vidal, Hak Jong Choi, Hyun Ju Kim, Vincent Le Moing, Jacques Reynes, Cezmi A. Akdis, Torsten Zuberbier, Amir Hamzah Abdul Latiff, Baharudin Abdullah, Werner Aberer, Nancy Abusada, Ian Adcock, Alejandro Afani, Ioana Agache, Xenofon Aggelidis, Jenifer Agustin, and Mübeccel Akdis
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
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
Positive intergroup contact modulates fusiform gyrus activity to black and white faces, S. Terbeck, H. Farmer, M. Hewstone, O. Spiegler, H. Morse, A. Saifullah, X. Pan, B. Fell, and J. Charlesford
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
Rivals without a cause? Relative performance feedback creates destructive competition despite aligned incentives, Jan K. Woike and Sebastian Hafenbrädl
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
Separating Content and Structure in Humor Appreciation: A Bimodal Structural Equation Modeling Approach, Sonja Heintz
The unequal variance signal-detection model of recognition memory: Investigating the encoding variability hypothesis, Christopher J. Berry and Rory W. Spanton
Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers, Caroline Floccia, Luche C Delle, Irina Lepadatu, Janette Chow, Paul Ratnage, and Kim Plunkett
Umorismo e intelligenza. Uno studio sperimentale [Humor and intelligence. An experimental study], G Forabosco, A Dionigi, F Cioni, and S Heintz
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
Word up – Experiential and neurocognitive evidence for associations between autistic symptomology and a preference for thinking in the form of words, Adam Turnbull, Sarah N. Garfinkel, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Hugo D. Critchley, Boris C. Bernhardt, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
Submissions from 2019
Bradykinesia is driven by cumulative beta power during continuous movement and alleviated by GABAergic modulation in Parkinson’s disease., Stephen D. Hall, Emma J. Prokic, Gavin L. Woodhall, Adrian C. Williams, and Ian M. Stanford
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?, Alison M. Bacon, Naomi Gibbons, 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, Alyson Norman, Christian D. Adshead, and Mark Holloway
Upon Repeated Reflection: Consequences of Frequent Exposure to the Cognitive Reflection Test for Mechanical Turk Participants, Jan K. Woike
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, Cosima Locher, Helen Koechlin, Ben Whalley, and Nicky J. Welton
Attenuation of capsaicin-induced ongoing pain and secondary hyperalgesia during exposure to an immersive virtual reality environment, SW Hughes, H Zhao, EJ Auvinet, and PH Strutton
Emotion Goals: What do Sexual Offenders Want to Feel?, C Garofalo, B Lopez-Perez, M Gummerum, Y Hanoch, and M Tamir
On the dimensionality of humorous conduct and associations with humor traits and behaviors, Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
Benevolent and Corrective Humor, Life Satisfaction, and Broad Humor Dimensions: Extending the Nomological Network of the BenCor Across 25 Countries, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Simge Aykan, Ingrid Brdar, Dorota Brzozowska, Hugo Carretero-Dios, Hsueh Chih Chen, Władysław Chłopicki, Incheol Choi, Alberto Dionigi, Róbert Ďurka, Thomas E. Ford, Angelika Güsewell, Robert B. Isler, Alyona Ivanova, Liisi Laineste, Petra Lajčiaková, Chloe Lau, Minha Lee, Stanca Măda, Charles Martin-Krumm, Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel, Ifu Migiwa, Nailya Mustafi, Atsushi Oshio, Tracey Platt, René T. Proyer, Angélica Quiroga-Garza, Tamil Selvan Ramis, and Răzvan Săftoiu
Health-related quality-of-life assessment in dementia: Evidence of cross-cultural validity in Latin America., K-C Chua, JR Böhnke, M Prince, and S Banerjee
Predictably confirmatory: The influence of stereotypes during decisional processing, JK Falbén, D Tsamadi, M Golubickis, JL Olivier, and et al
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
Memory Influences Visual Cognition across Multiple Functional States of Interactive Cortical Dynamics, H Schendan
Pituitary conditions: importance of geography and the Pituitary Foundation in patient support, U Anneliese, Alyson Norman, and J Sue
Sertraline and Mirtazapine Versus Placebo in Subgroups of Depression in Dementia: Findings From the HTA-SADD Randomized Controlled Trial, M Zuidersma, K-C Chua, J Hellier, RO Voshaar, and S Banerjee
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
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, Alyson Norman, Sophie Moore, Rebecca Wotus, Mark Holloway, and Jackie Dean
Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive functions and creativity, M Taranu, MC Wimmer, J Ross, D Farkas, and et al
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), Ben Fosh, Helen Lloyd, 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
Revealing epilepsy type using a computational analysis of interictal EEG, MA Lopes, S Perani, SN Yaakub, and et al
Could Greater Time Spent Displaying Waking Inactivity in the Home Environment Be a Marker for a Depression-Like State in the Domestic Dog?, ND Harvey, A Moesta, S Kappel, C Wongsaengchan, and et al
Barzellette: comprensione e divertimento. Uno studio preliminare [Jokes: comprehension and funninness. A preliminary study], G Forabosco, A Dionigi, F Cioni, and S Heintz
Comic styles and their relation to the sense of humor, humor appreciation, acceptability of prejudice, humorous self-image and happiness, Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel and Sonja Heintz
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
Best Practice in the Management of Online Sex Offending, M Brennan, DE Perkins, HL Merdian, E Tyrrell, and et al
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., Alison M. Bacon and Catherine Bennett
When Punishment is Emotion-Driven: Children’s, Adolescents’, and Adults’ Costly Punishment of Unfair Allocations, M Gummerum, B Lopez-Perez, E Van Dijk, and LF Van Dillen
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
Diffusion tensor imaging reveals changes in microstructural integrity along compressed nerve roots that correlate with chronic pain symptoms and motor deficiencies in elderly stenosis patients, SW Hughes, PJ Hellyer, DJ Sharp, and et al
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
Food Production, Processing and Foodways in Neolithic Ireland, M McClatchie, R Schulting, R McLaughlin, S Colledge, and et al
Treatment choice in Adolescents with Cleft Lip and/or Palate: the importance of Shared Decision-Making, Alyson Norman, Francesca Wogden, 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
Sensitive individuals are more creative, D Bridges and HE Schendan
The sensitive, open creator, D Bridges and H Schendan
Well-being in post-primary schools in Ireland: the assessment and contribution of character strengths, Jolanta Burke and Stephen James Minton
Arguments for the Adoption of a Nystagmus Care Pathway, CM Harris, J Owen, and J Sanders
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
Clinical and cost-effectiveness of the Managing Agitation and Raising Quality of Life (MARQUE) intervention for agitation in people with dementia in care homes: a single-blind, cluster-randomised controlled trial, G Livingston, J Barber, L Marston, A Stringer, and et al
A changed reality: Experience of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) group after stroke, Reg Morris, Rebecca Large, and Victoria Samuel
The effect of mental countermeasures on neuroimaging-based concealed information tests, Giorgio Ganis, Chun Wei Hsu, Chiara Begliomini, and Tommaso Dall'Acqua
An automated segmentation approach to calibrating infantile nystagmus waveforms, MJ Dunn, CM Harris, FA Ennis, TH Margrain, JM Woodhouse, L McIlreavy, and JT Erichsen
An automated segmentation approach to calibrating infantile nystagmus waveforms, MJ Dunn, CM Harris, FA Ennis, TH Margrain, and et al
More Intelligent Designs: Comparing the Effectiveness of Choice Architectures in US Health Insurance Marketplaces, A Barnes, M Karpman, S Long, Y Hanoch, and T Rice
Spontaneous Vicarious Perception of the Content of Another’s Visual Perspective, Patric Bach, Eleanor Ward, and Giorgio Ganis
Sensory Processing Sensitivity in the context of Environmental Sensitivity: A critical review and development of research agenda, CU Greven, F Lionetti, C Booth, EN Aron, and et al
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
Locating eight comic styles in basic and broad concepts of humor: Findings from self-reports and behavior tests, Sonja Heintz
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, Reg Morris and Irina Lapadatu
Character Strengths and Job Satisfaction: Differential Relationships Across Occupational Groups and Adulthood, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
Differential Relationships of Light and Darker Forms of Humor with Mindfulness, Jennifer Hofmann, Sonja Heintz, Dandan Pang, and Willibald Ruch
Abnormal temporal lobe morphology in asymptomatic relatives of patients with hippocampal sclerosis: A replication study, SN Yaakub, GJ Barker, SJ Carr, E Abela, and et al
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
How prioritized is self-prioritization during stimulus processing?, JK Falbén, M Golubickis, R Balseryte, LM Persson, and et al
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
An evaluation of the Fishing For Litter (FFL) scheme in the UK in terms of attitudes, behavior, barriers and opportunities, Sabine Pahl, Kayleigh J. Wyles, Lauren Carroll, and Richard C. Thompson
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
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
Brief group‐based acceptance and commitment therapy for stroke survivors, Reg Morris and Sarah Majumdar
