Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2018
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
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
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
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
Automaticity and cognitive control: Effects of cognitive load on cue-controlled reward choice, Tina Seabrooke, Andy J. Wills, Lee Hogarth, and Chris J. Mitchell
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
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
Electrophysiological study of action-affordance priming between object names., Isabel M. Feven-Parsons and Jeremy Goslin
Enhancing Grit through Functional Imagery Training in Professional Soccer, Jonathan Rhodes, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, and David Kavanagh
Interaction between Musical and Poetic Form Affects Song Popularity: The Case of the Genevan Psalter, Y Schotanus, V Koops, and J Edworthy
Model-free and model-based reward prediction errors in EEG, T Sambrook, AJ Wills, B Hardwick, and J Goslin
Children's scale errors: A by-product of lexical development?, Beata J. Grzyb, Angelo Cangelosi, Allegra Cattani, and Caroline Floccia
Expertise in evaluating choreographic creativity: an online adaptation of the Consensual Assessment Technique, Lucie Clements, Sell NM Lefebvre, Emma Redding, and Jon May
Perceptual Teleology: Expectations of Action Efficiency Bias Social Perception, Patric Bach, Matthew Hudson, Katrina L. McDonough, and Rhys Edwards
Mental imagery in dentistry: Phenomenology and role in dental anxiety, Annegret Schneider, Jackie Andrade, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, and David R. Moles
Can self-defeating humor make you happy? Cognitive interviews reveal the adaptive side of the self-defeating humor style, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
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
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
Separate neural representations of prediction error valence and surprise: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis., Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, and Marios G. Philiastides
The construction and validation of the Severe Asthma Questionnaire, Michael E. Hyland, Rupert C. Jones, Joseph W. Lanario, and Matthew Masoli
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
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
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
Eye movement attenuation of intrusive social anxiety imagery: A pilot study., SR Homer and C Deeprose
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
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
Psychometric evaluation of the revised Sense of Humor Scale and the construction of a parallel form, Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
Trust in artificial voices, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, and Debora Zanatto
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
The relationship between exposure to natural and urban environments and children’s self-regulation, R Jenkin, I Frampton, MP White, and S Pahl
A Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory explanation of antisocial behaviour, Alison M. Bacon, Philip J. Corr, and Liam Paul Satchell
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Broadening Humor: Comic Styles Differentially Tap into Temperament, Character, and Ability, Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz, Tracey Platt, Lisa Wagner, and René T. Proyer
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
The Secondary Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Family and Friends, Jane Townshend and Alyson Norman
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
Audiovisual integration in social evaluation, Mila Mileva, James Tompkinson, Dominic Watt, and A. Mike Burton
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
Initial training with difficult items does not facilitate category learning, C. E.R. Edmunds, Andy J. Wills, and Fraser Milton
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
Submissions from 2017
Prevalence of anxiety in people with aphasia after stroke, Reg Morris, Alicia Eccles, Brooke Ryan, and Ian I. Kneebone
Does study duration have opposite effects on recognition and repetition priming?, Christopher J. Berry, Emma V. Ward, and David R. Shanks
Lifestyle factors and Alzheimer's disease in people with Down syndrome, Athena V. Kenshole, Deanna Gallichan, Sabine Pahl, and John Clibbens
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
Treatment outcomes in schizophrenia: qualitative study of the views of family carers, J Lloyd, H Lloyd, Ray Fitzpatrick, and Michele Peters
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
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): A Beginner's Guide for Design and Implementation, Hayley Thair, Amy L. Holloway, Roger Newport, and Alastair D. Smith
Creativity and Blocking: No Evidence for an Association, Tara Zaksaite, Peter M. Jones, and Chris J. Mitchell
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
The Recognizability and Localizability of Auditory Alarms: Setting Global Medical Device Standards, J Edworthy, S Reid, S McDougall, S Hall, D Bennett, J Khan, and E Pye
Trait emotional intelligence and social deviance in males and females, AM Bacon, L Lenton-Maughan, and J May
Channelling passion for the ocean towards plastic pollution, Sabine Pahl, Kayleigh J. Wyles, and Richard C. Thompson
Cultural differences in attention: Eye movement evidence from a comparative visual search task., Albandri Alotaibi, Geoffrey Underwood, and Alastair D. Smith
Evidence of a Goal-Directed Process in Human Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer, Tina Seabrooke, Pelley ME Le, Lee Hogarth, and Chris J. Mitchell
Integrating and testing natural frequencies, naïve Bayes, and fast-and-frugal trees., Jan K. Woike, Ulrich Hoffrage, and Laura Martignon
Comparing phoneme frequency, age of acquisition, and loss in aphasia: Implications for phonological universals, Cristina Romani, Claudia Galuzzi, Cecilia Guariglia, and Jeremy Goslin
Methodological determinism and the free will hypothesis., Irving Kirsch and Michael E. Hyland
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
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
Factors Affecting the Success of Long-term ABI Rehabilitation Final Report for Headway Somerset, AL Norman, J Turner, and M Orman
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
The redundancy effect in human causal learning: no evidence for changes in selective attention, Peter M. Jones and Tara Zaksaite
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
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
“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
Does Rumination Cause “Inhibitory” Deficits?, Henrietta Roberts, Edward R. Watkins, and Andy J. Wills
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
FFTrees: A toolbox to create, visualize, and evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees, ND Phillips, H Neth, JK Woike, and W Gaissmaier
Dual Coding of object relations: An alternative framework for understanding perceptual processing in autism?, Alastair D. Smith and Elizabeth Milne
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
Results from the 2016 Pituitary Foundation Survey, H Forrest, AL Norman, and S Jackson
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
Members experiences of the Pituitary Foundation., A Underwood, AL Norman, and S Jackson
Improvements in mood during Greenwood Music Workshops, K Keogh, M Atkins, and J May
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
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
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
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 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
Transfer of learned category-response associations is modulated by instruction, CS Longman, F Milton, AJ Wills, and F Verbruggen
Experimentally Manipulating Items Informs on the (Limited) Construct and Criterion Validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
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
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
In Defence of Effect-Centric Research, Andy J. Wills and Timothy J. Hollins
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
The human dimension: how social and behavioural research methods can help address microplastics in the environment, S. Pahl and K. J. Wyles
