Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2017
Spatiotemporal neural characterization of prediction error valence and surprise during reward learning in humans, Elsa Fouragnan, Filippo Queirazza, Chris Retzler, Karen J. Mullinger, and Marios G. Philiastides
FFTrees: A toolbox to create, visualize, and evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees, ND Phillips, H Neth, JK Woike, and W Gaissmaier
The redundancy effect in human causal learning: no evidence for changes in selective attention, Peter M. Jones and Tara Zaksaite
Neural correlates of evidence accumulation during value-based decisions revealed via simultaneous EEG-fMRI, M. Andrea Pisauro, Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, and Marios G. Philiastides
Evidence of a Goal-Directed Process in Human Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer, Tina Seabrooke, Pelley ME Le, Lee Hogarth, and Chris J. Mitchell
Evaluation of a surfing programme designed to increase personal well-being and connectedness to the natural environment among ‘at risk’ young people, A Hignett, MP White, S Pahl, R Jenkin, and ML Froy
Dual Coding of object relations: An alternative framework for understanding perceptual processing in autism?, Alastair D. Smith and Elizabeth Milne
Results from the 2016 Pituitary Foundation Survey, H Forrest, AL Norman, and S Jackson
Improvements in mood during Greenwood Music Workshops, K Keogh, M Atkins, and J May
Members experiences of the Pituitary Foundation., A Underwood, AL Norman, and S Jackson
Do Others Judge My Humor Style as I Do? Self-Other Agreement and Construct Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Sonja Heintz
The Soothing Sea: A Virtual Coastal Walk Can Reduce Experienced and Recollected Pain, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White, Melissa Auvray, Robert J. Stone, Jackie Andrade, Jon May, Ian Mills, and David R. Moles
Lifestyle factors and Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome, Athena V. Kenshole, Deanna Gallichan, Sabine Pahl, and John Clibbens
You Said You Would! The Predictability of Other's Behavior From Their Intentions Determines Predictive Biases in Action Perception., Matthew Hudson, Patric Bach, and Toby Nicholson
Body representation difficulties in children and adolescents with autism may be due to delayed development of visuo-tactile temporal binding, Danielle Ropar, Katie Greenfield, Alastair D. Smith, Mark Carey, and Roger Newport
The Recognizability and Localizability of Auditory Alarms: Setting Global Medical Device Standards, J Edworthy, S Reid, S McDougall, J Edworthy, S Hall, D Bennett, J Khan, and E Pye
Transfer of learned category-response associations is modulated by instruction, CS Longman, F Milton, AJ Wills, and F Verbruggen
“Damp in bathroom. Damp in back room. It's very depressing!” exploring the relationship between perceived housing problems, energy affordability concerns, and health and well-being in UK social housing, GT Boomsma, S Pahl, RV Jones, and A Fuertes
The relationship between exposure to natural and urban environments and children’s self-regulation, R Jenkin, I Frampton, MP White, and S Pahl
Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
Audiovisual integration in social evaluation, Mila Mileva, James Tompkinson, Dominic Watt, and A. Mike Burton
Prevalence of anxiety in people with aphasia after stroke, Reg Morris, Alicia Eccles, Brooke Ryan, and Ian I. Kneebone
Drug cue reactivity involves hierarchical instrumental learning: evidence from a biconditional Pavlovian to instrumental transfer task, Lorna Hardy, Chris Mitchell, Tina Seabrooke, and Lee Hogarth
Natural environments and subjective wellbeing: Different types of exposure are associated with different aspects of wellbeing, MP White, S Pahl, BW Wheeler, MH Depledge, and LE Fleming
The role of life context and self-defined well-being in the outcomes that matter to people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, H Lloyd, J Lloyd, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Michele Peters
A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building, Michael C. Frank, Elika Bergelson, Christina Bergmann, Alejandrina Cristia, Caroline Floccia, Judit Gervain, J. Kiley Hamlin, Erin E. Hannon, Melissa Kline, Claartje Levelt, Casey Lew-Williams, Thierry Nazzi, Robin Panneton, Hugh Rabagliati, Melanie Soderstrom, Jessica Sullivan, Sandra Waxman, and Daniel Yurovsky
Electrophysiological correlates of motion extrapolation: An investigation on the CNV, Luca Battaglini, Clara Casco, Bethany Rose Isaacs, David Bridges, and Giorgio Ganis
The Risky Side of Creativity: Domain Specific Risk Taking in Creative Individuals, Vaibhav Tyagi, Yaniv Hanoch, Stephen D. Hall, Mark Runco, and Susan L. Denham
Motivating emotional intelligence: A reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) perspective, Alison M. Bacon and Philip J. Corr
The relationship between stroke survivors’ perceived identity and mood, self-esteem and quality of life, Irina Lapadatu and Reg Morris
Rapid detection of snakes modulates spatial orienting in infancy, Julie Bertels, Clémence Bayard, Caroline Floccia, and Arnaud Destrebecqz
Undoing the past in order to lie in the present: Counterfactual thinking and deceptive communication, Raluca A. Briazu, Clare R. Walsh, Catherine Deeprose, and Giorgio Ganis
How To Use Metrics, Measures & Insights To Commission Person Centred Coordinated Care: A Guide for Commissioners., H Lloyd, J Close, J Horrell, H Wheat, and J Valeras
Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease, 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
Why aren't we beating bullying?, SJ Minton
Submissions from 2016
People trying to lose weight dislike calorie counting apps and want motivational support to help them achieve their goals., L Solbrig, R Jones, DJ Kavanagh, J May, T Parkin, and J Andrade
Voluntary and Involuntary Imagery in Social Anxiety, SR Homer and C Deeprose
Understanding the Goals of Everyday Instrumental Actions Is Primarily Linked to Object, Not Motor-Kinematic, Information: Evidence from fMRI, Toby Nicholson, Matt Roser, and Patric Bach
Familiarity-Based Stimulus Generalization of Conditioned Suppression, Jasper Robinson, Emma J. Whitt, and Peter M. Jones
Saving for your future self: The role of imaginary experiences, C. Neil Macrae, Jason P. Mitchell, Marius Golubickis, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Rain Sherlock, Raffaella Parlongo, Olivia C.M. Simpson, and Brittany M. Christian
Description and experience: How experimental investors learn about booms and busts affects their financial risk taking, Tomás Lejarraga, Jan K. Woike, and Ralph Hertwig
The Mini Alcohol Craving Experience Questionnaire: Development and Clinical Application, Jason M. Coates, Matthew J. Gullo, Gerald F.X. Feeney, David J. Kavanagh, Ross Mc D. Young, Genevieve A. Dingle, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, Dixie J. Statham, and Jason P. Connor
Psychometric evaluation of the revised Sense of Humor Scale and the construction of a parallel form, Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
Carryover of scanning behaviour affects upright face recognition differently to inverted face recognition, Peter J. Hills, Mila Mileva, Catherine Thompson, and J. Michael Pake
The effect of gaze angle on visual acuity in infantile nystagmus, MJ Dunn, D Wiggins, JM Woodhouse, TH Margrain, CM Harris, and JT Erichsen
Patient safety in community dementia services: what can we learn from the experiences of caregivers and healthcare professionals?, Sophie Behrman, Philip Wilkinson, Helen Lloyd, and Charles Vincent
Free classification of large sets of everyday objects is more thematic than taxonomic, Rebecca Lawson, Franklin Chang, and Andy J. Wills
Imagining Change: An Integrative Approach towards Explaining the Motivational Role of Mental Imagery in Pro-Environmental Behaviour, Christine Boomsma, Sabine Pahl, and Jackie Andrade
In Defence of Effect-Centric Research, Andy J. Wills and Timothy J. Hollins
A preventable death? A family’s perspective on an adult safeguarding review regarding an adult with traumatic brain injury, Alyson Norman
Questioning the preparatory function of counterfactual thinking, Hugo Mercier, Jonathan J. Rolison, Marta Stragà, Donatella Ferrante, Clare R. Walsh, and Vittorio Girotto
The human dimension: how social and behavioural research methods can help address microplastics in the environment, S. Pahl and K. J. Wyles
A preliminary investigation into the restorative potential of public aquaria exhibits: a UK student-based study, Deborah Cracknell, Mathew P. White, Sabine Pahl, and Michael H. Depledge
Progress in modeling through distributed collaboration: Concepts, tools, and category-learning examples, Andy J. Wills, Garret O'Connell, Charlotte E.R. Edmunds, and Angus B. Inkster
Energy saving behaviours among social housing tenants: Exploring the relationship with dwelling characteristics, monetary concerns, and psychological motivations, C Boomsma, RV Jones, S Pahl, and A Fuertes
Promoting energy users' behavioural change in social housing through a serious game, M Casals, M Gangolells, M Macarulla, A Fuertes, R Jones, S Pahl, and M Ruiz
Preference for different relaxation techniques by COPD patients: comparison between six techniques, David M.G. Halpin, Michael E. Hyland, Sue Blake, D Seamark, Margaret Pinnuck, David Ward, Ben Whalley, Colin J. Greaves, Adam L. Hawkins, and C Seamark
Image Dependency In The Recognition Of Newly Learnt Faces, Christopher A. Longmore, Isabel M. Santos, Carlos F. Silva, Abi Hall, Dipo Faloyin, and Emily Little
Is anterior N2 enhancement a reliable electrophysiological index of concealed information?, Giorgio Ganis, David Bridges, C-W Hsu, and Haline E. Schendan
Alarm fatigue in the ward, J Edworthy, M Kristensen, and E Ozcan
Drawing Firmer Conclusions: Autistic Children Show No Evidence of a Local Processing Bias in a Controlled Copying Task, Alastair D. Smith, Lorcan Kenny, Anna Rudnicka, Josie Briscoe, and Elizabeth Pellicano
Assessment of motivation to control alcohol use, Nicole Robinson, David Kavanagh, Jason Connor, Jon May, and Jackie Andrade
A formal approach to discovering simultaneous additive masking between auditory medical alarms, Bassam Hasanain, Andrew D. Boyd, Judy Edworthy, and Matthew L. Bolton
Psychometric properties of the Behavioural Outcomes of Anxiety questionnaire in stroke patients with aphasia, Alicia Eccles, Reg Morris, and Ian Kneebone
Discrimination amongst Arctic Indigenous Sámi and non-Sámi Populations in Norway, KL Hansen, S Minton, O Friborg, and T Sørlie
Attention and associative learning in humans: An integrative review, Pelley ME Le, Chris J. Mitchell, Tom Beesley, David N. George, and Andy J. Wills
Space heating preferences in UK social housing: A socio-technical household survey combined with building audits, RV Jones, A Fuertes, C Boomsma, and S Pahl
Giving and stealing ideas in memory: Source errors in recall are influenced by both early-selection and late-correction retrieval processes, Timothy J. Hollins, Nicholas Lange, Christopher J. Berry, and Ian Dennis
Infants' First Words are not Phonetically Specified: Own Name Recognition in British English-Learning 5-Month-Olds, Luche C. Delle, Caroline Floccia, Lionel Granjon, and Thierry Nazzi
Amnesic Patients Show Superior Generalization in Category Learning, Garret O'Connell, Catherine E. Myers, Ramona O. Hopkins, R. P. McLaren, Mark A. Gluck, and Andy J. Wills
A Comparison of the neural correlates that underlie rule-based and information-integration category learning, Kathryn L. Carpenter, Andy J. Wills, Abdelmalek Benattayallah, and Fraser Milton
The Neural Correlates of Similarity- and Rule-based Generalization, Fraser Milton, Pippa Bealing, Kathryn L. Carpenter, Abdelmalek Bennattayallah, and Andy J. Wills
Functional Imagery Training to reduce snacking, Jackie Andrade, Marina Khalil, Jennifer Dickson, Jon May, and David J. Kavanagh
Thinking outside of the box: Transfer of shape-based reorientation across the boundary of an arena, Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor., Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
Peer abuse and its contexts in industrial schools in Ireland, Jeremiah J. Lynch and Stephen James Minton
Preference for Safe Over Risky Options in Binge Eating, R Neveu, Elsa Fouragnan, Franck Barsumian, Edouard Carrier, Massimo Lai, Alain Nicolas, D Neveu, and Giorgio Coricelli
Inner speech sustains predictable task switching: direct evidence in adults, Lucie Laurent, Jean Louis Millot, Patrice Andrieu, Valérie Camos, Caroline Floccia, and Fabien Mathy
British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infant-directed speech stimuli, Caroline Floccia, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Rory DePaolis, Hester Duffy, Luche C Delle, Samantha Durrant, Laurence White, Jeremy Goslin, and Marilyn Vihman
Neural connectivity of alexithymia: Specific association with major depressive disorder, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Michael M.C. Wong, and Tatia M.C. Lee
Explaining unexplained pain to fibromyalgia patients: finding a narrative that is acceptable to patients and provides a rationale for evidence based interventions, Michael E. Hyland, Claire Hinton, Charlotte Hill, Ben Whalley, Rupert C.M. Jones, and Anthony F. Davies
Different Attentional Patterns for Regret and Disappointment: An Eye‐tracking Study, Nadège Bault, Pierre Wydoodt, and Giorgio Coricelli
The psychological cycle behind dental appointment attendance: a cross-sectional study of experiences, anticipations, and behavioral intentions, Annegret Schneider, Jackie Andrade, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, Mathew White, and David R. Moles
Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse, Willem Kuyken, Fiona C. Warren, Rod S. Taylor, Ben Whalley, Catherine Crane, Guido Bondolfi, Rachel Hayes, Marloes Huijbers, Helen Ma, Susanne Schweizer, Zindel Segal, Anne Speckens, John D. Teasdale, Heeringen K Van, Mark Williams, Sarah Byford, Richard Byng, and Tim Dalgleish
I see what you say: Prior knowledge of other’s goals automatically biases the perception of their actions, Matthew Hudson, Toby Nicholson, Rob Ellis, and Patric Bach
Manipulative emotional behaviour and delinquency: sex differences and links to emotional intelligence., Alison M. Bacon and Lisa Regan
One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others’ actions are biased toward expected goals., Matthew Hudson, Toby Nicholson, William A. Simpson, Rob Ellis, and Patric Bach
Picture yourself: Self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children, Bruce Hood, Sandra Weltzien, Lauren Marsh, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Principal components analysis of reward prediction errors in a reinforcement learning task, Thomas D. Sambrook and Jeremy Goslin
Transitions in Interface Objects: Searching Databases, Tim Gamble and Jon May
Submissions from 2015
A "Mental Models" approach to the communication of subsurface hydrology and hazards, H Gibson, I Stewart, S Pahl, and A Stokes
Logic brightens my day: Evidence for implicit sensitivity to logical validity., Dries Trippas, Simon J. Handley, Michael F. Verde, and Kinga Morsanyi
Response: No need to match: a comment on Bach, Nicholson, and Hudson's “Affordance-Matching Hypothesis”, Patric Bach, Toby Nicholson, and Matthew Hudson
The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor., W Ruch and S Heintz
Making Heat Visible, Julie Goodhew, Sabine Pahl, Tim Auburn, and Steve Goodhew
Understanding fear and anxiety in patients at the time of an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study, D Halpin, M Hyland, S Blake, C Seamark, M Pinnuck, D Ward, B Whalley, C Greaves, A Hawkins, and D Seamark
Blocking spatial navigation across environments that have a different shape., Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Reply to Martin (2015): Why our conclusions hold, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
Investigating decision rules with a new experimental design: the EXACT paradigm, V Biscione and CM Harris
