Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2017
Familiarity-Based Stimulus Generalization of Conditioned Suppression, Jasper Robinson, Emma J. Whitt, and Peter M. Jones
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
Psychometric properties of the Behavioural Outcomes of Anxiety questionnaire in stroke patients with aphasia, Alicia Eccles, Reg Morris, and Ian Kneebone
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
Why aren't we beating bullying?, SJ Minton
Rapid detection of snakes modulates spatial orienting in infancy, Julie Bertels, Clémence Bayard, Caroline Floccia, and Arnaud Destrebecqz
Motivating emotional intelligence: A reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) perspective, Alison M. Bacon and Philip J. Corr
Voluntary and Involuntary Imagery in Social Anxiety, SR Homer and C Deeprose
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
Questioning the preparatory function of counterfactual thinking, Hugo Mercier, Jonathan J. Rolison, Marta Stragà, Donatella Ferrante, Clare R. Walsh, and Vittorio Girotto
Electrophysiological correlates of motion extrapolation: An investigation on the CNV, Luca Battaglini, Clara Casco, Bethany Rose Isaacs, David Bridges, and Giorgio Ganis
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
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
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
A formal approach to discovering simultaneous additive masking between auditory medical alarms, Bassam Hasanain, Andrew D. Boyd, Judy Edworthy, and Matthew L. Bolton
Free classification of large sets of everyday objects is more thematic than taxonomic, Rebecca Lawson, Franklin Chang, and Andy J. Wills
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
The effect of gaze angle on visual acuity in infantile nystagmus, MJ Dunn, D Wiggins, JM Woodhouse, TH Margrain, CM Harris, and JT Erichsen
The Neural Correlates of Similarity- and Rule-based Generalization, Fraser Milton, Pippa Bealing, Kathryn L. Carpenter, Abdelmalek Bennattayallah, and Andy J. Wills
Submissions from 2016
A preventable death? A family’s perspective on an adult safeguarding review regarding an adult with traumatic brain injury, Alyson Norman
Description and experience: How experimental investors learn about booms and busts affects their financial risk taking, Tomás Lejarraga, Jan K. Woike, and Ralph Hertwig
Is anterior N2 enhancement a reliable electrophysiological index of concealed information?, Giorgio Ganis, David Bridges, C-W Hsu, and Haline E. Schendan
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
The propositional basis of cue-controlled reward seeking, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth, and Chris J. Mitchell
Alarm fatigue in the ward, J Edworthy, M Kristensen, and E Ozcan
Carryover of scanning behaviour affects upright face recognition differently to inverted face recognition, Peter J. Hills, Mila Mileva, Catherine Thompson, and J. Michael Pake
Imagining Change: An Integrative Approach towards Explaining the Motivational Role of Mental Imagery in Pro-Environmental Behaviour, Christine Boomsma, Sabine Pahl, and Jackie Andrade
Assessment of Motivational Cognitions in Diabetes Self-Care: the Motivation Thought Frequency Scales for Glucose Testing, Physical Activity and Healthy Eating, Sophie C. Parham, David Kavanagh, C Gericke, N King, Jon May, and Jackie Andrade
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
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
Attention and associative learning in humans: An integrative review, Pelley ME Le, Chris J. Mitchell, Tom Beesley, David N. George, and Andy J. Wills
Peripheral cues and gaze direction jointly focus attention and inhibition of return, Matthew Hudson and Paul A. Skarratt
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
Logic brightens my day: Evidence for implicit sensitivity to logical validity., Dries Trippas, Simon J. Handley, Michael F. Verde, and Kinga Morsanyi
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
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
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
Social influences on unconscious plagiarism and anti-plagiarism, Timothy J. Hollins, Nicholas Lange, Ian Dennis, and Christopher A. Longmore
Assessment of motivation to control alcohol use: The motivational thought frequency and state motivation scales for alcohol control, David Kavanagh, Nicole Robinson, Jason Connor, Jon May, and Jackie Andrade
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
The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor., Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
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
Inner speech sustains predictable task switching: direct evidence in adults, Lucie Laurent, Jean Louis Millot, Patrice Andrieu, Valérie Camos, Caroline Floccia, and Fabien Mathy
Discrimination amongst Arctic Indigenous Sámi and non-Sámi Populations in Norway, KL Hansen, S Minton, O Friborg, and T Sørlie
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
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
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
Functional Imagery Training to reduce snacking: Testing a novel motivational intervention based on Elaborated Intrusion theory, Jackie Andrade, Marina Khalil, Jennifer Dickson, Jon May, and David J. Kavanagh
Peer abuse and its contexts in industrial schools in Ireland, Jeremiah J. Lynch and Stephen James Minton
Different Attentional Patterns for Regret and Disappointment: An Eye‐tracking Study, Nadège Bault, Pierre Wydoodt, and Giorgio Coricelli
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
Is patient acceptance of the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures linked to symptomatology?, Mark Thaller, Michael E. Hyland, Rohan Kandasamy, and Martin Sadler
AN OVERVIEW OF ATTACHMENT THEORY: BOWLBY AND BEYOND, Helen K. Fletcher and Deanna J. Gallichan
ATTACHMENT TRAUMA AND PATHOLOGICAL MOURNING IN ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Deanna J. Gallichan and Carol George
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
Negative mental imagery in public speaking anxiety: Forming cognitive resistance by taxing visuospatial working memory, Sophie R. Homer, Catherine Deeprose, and Jackie Andrade
Neural connectivity of alexithymia: Specific association with major depressive disorder, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Michael M.C. Wong, and Tatia M.C. Lee
The logic-bias effect: The role of effortful processing in the resolution of belief–logic conflict, Stephanie Howarth, Simon J. Handley, and Clare Walsh
Ocular drift along the mental number line., A Myachykov, R Ellis, A Cangelosi, and MH Fischer
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
A "Mental Models" approach to the communication of subsurface hydrology and hazards, H Gibson, I Stewart, S Pahl, and A Stokes
Derailing the streetcar named desire. Cognitive distractions reduce individual differences in cravings and unhealthy snacking in response to palatable food, Dillen L. van and Jackie Andrade
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
Reply to Martin (2015): Why our conclusions hold, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor., W Ruch and S Heintz
Transitions in Interface Objects: Searching Databases, Tim Gamble and Jon May
Submissions from 2015
Playing Tetris decreases drug and other cravings in real world settings, J Skorka-Brown, J Andrade, B Whalley, and J May
Response: No need to match: a comment on Bach, Nicholson, and Hudson's “Affordance-Matching Hypothesis”, Patric Bach, Toby Nicholson, and Matthew Hudson
A Computational Model of Innate Directional Selectivity Refined by Visual Experience, SV Adams and CM Harris
Making Heat Visible: Promoting Energy Conservation Behaviors Through Thermal Imaging, 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
Visuo-tactile integration in autism: atypical temporal binding may underlie greater reliance on proprioceptive information, Katie Greenfield, Danielle Ropar, Alastair D. Smith, Mark Carey, and Roger Newport
Blocking spatial navigation across environments that have a different shape., Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Investigating decision rules with a new experimental design: the EXACT paradigm, V Biscione and CM Harris
Feature- versus rule-based generalization in rats, pigeons and humans, Elisa Maes, Filippo G De, Angus B. Inkster, Stephen E.G. Lea, Houwer J De, Rudi D’Hooge, Tom Beckers, and Andy J. Wills
An examination of the convergence between the conceptualization and the measurement of humor styles: A study of the construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
The hows and whys of face memory: level of construal influences the recognition of human faces, NA Wyer, TJ Hollins, S Pahl, and J Roper
Better but still biased: Analytic cognitive style and belief bias, Dries Trippas, Gordon Pennycook, Michael F. Verde, and Simon J. Handley
The oculomotor resonance effect in spatial–numerical mapping, Andriy Myachykov, Angelo Cangelosi, Rob Ellis, and Martin H. Fischer
The Effects of Exercising in Different Natural Environments on Psycho-Physiological Outcomes in Post-Menopausal Women: A Simulation Study, MP White, S Pahl, KJ Ashbullby, F Burton, and MH Depledge
Top-down modulation of visual processing and knowledge after 250 ms supports object constancy of category decisions, HE Schendan and G Ganis
A methodological investigation of the Intermodal Preferential Looking paradigm: Methods of analyses, picture selection and data rejection criteria, Luche C. Delle, Samantha Durrant, Silvana Poltrock, and Caroline Floccia
Combination or Differentiation? Two theories of processing order in classification, Andy J. Wills, Angus B. Inkster, and Fraser Milton
Cortical oscillatory dynamics and benzodiazepine-site modulation of tonic inhibition in fast spiking interneurons, Emma J. Prokic, Cathryn Weston, Naoki Yamawaki, Stephen D. Hall, Roland S.G. Jones, Ian M. Stanford, Graham Ladds, and Gavin L. Woodhall
Picking profitable investments: The success of equal weighting in simulated venture capitalist decision making, Jan K. Woike, Ulrich Hoffrage, and Jeffrey S. Petty
Call me Alix, not Elix: vowels are more important than consonants in own-name recognition at 5 months., Camillia Bouchon, Caroline Floccia, Thibaut Fux, Martine Adda-Decker, and Thierry Nazzi
Refractory depression: mechanisms and evaluation of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RO-DBT) [REFRAMED]: protocol for randomised trial, T. R. Lynch, B. Whalley, R. J. Hempel, S. Byford, P Clarke, S Clarke, D. Kingdon, H. O'Mahen, I. T. Russell, J. Shearer, M. Stanton, M. Swales, A. Watkins, and B. Remington
State trace analysis: Dissociable processes in a connectionist network?, Fayme Yeates, Andy J. Wills, Fergal W. Jones, and Ian P.L. Mclaren
Good Liars Are Neither ‘Dark’ Nor Self-Deceptive, Gordon R.T. Wright, Christopher J. Berry, Caroline Catmur, and Geoffrey Bird
A comparison of linear and logarithmic auditory tones in pulse oximeters, Zoe Brown, Judy Edworthy, J. Robert Sneyd, and Joseph Schlesinger
Negative mood reverses devaluation of goal-directed drug-seeking favouring an incentive learning account of drug dependence, Lee Hogarth, H Zhimin, Henry W. Chase, Andy J. Wills, Joseph Troisi, Adam M. Leventhal, Amanda R. Mathew, and Brian Hitsman
Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation, Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Adverse childhood experience and asthma onset: a systematic review, Daniel Exley, Alyson Norman, and Michael Hyland
