Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2015
Is patient acceptance of the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures linked to symptomatology?, Mark Thaller, Michael E. Hyland, Rohan Kandasamy, and Martin Sadler
The propositional basis of cue-controlled reward seeking, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth, and Chris J. Mitchell
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
The oculomotor resonance effect in spatial–numerical mapping, Andriy Myachykov, Angelo Cangelosi, Rob Ellis, and Martin H. Fischer
The logic-bias effect: The role of effortful processing in the resolution of belief–logic conflict, Stephanie Howarth, Simon J. Handley, and Clare Walsh
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
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
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
Social influences on unconscious plagiarism and anti-plagiarism, Timothy J. Hollins, Nicholas Lange, Ian Dennis, and Christopher A. Longmore
Top-down modulation of visual processing and knowledge after 250 ms supports object constancy of category decisions, HE Schendan and G Ganis
Peripheral cues and gaze direction jointly focus attention and inhibition of return, Matthew Hudson and Paul A. Skarratt
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
Playing Tetris decreases drug and other cravings in real world settings, J Skorka-Brown, J Andrade, B Whalley, and J May
Two spatiotemporally distinct value systems shape reward-based learning in the human brain, Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, Karen Mullinger, and Marios G. Philiastides
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
A Computational Model of Innate Directional Selectivity Refined by Visual Experience, SV Adams and CM Harris
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
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
Adverse childhood experience and asthma onset: a systematic review, Daniel Exley, Alyson Norman, and Michael Hyland
Negative mental imagery in public speaking anxiety: Forming cognitive resistance by taxing visuospatial working memory, Sophie R. Homer, Catherine Deeprose, and Jackie Andrade
The Effectiveness of Psychosocial Intervention for Individuals With Cleft Lip and/or Palate., Alyson Norman, Martin Persson, Nicola Stock, Nichola Rumsey, Jonathan Sandy, Andrea Waylen, Zoe Edwards, Vanessa Hammond, Lucy Partridge, and Andy Ness
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
Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: a systematic review, AL Norman and TP Moss
Better but still biased: Analytic cognitive style and belief bias, Dries Trippas, Gordon Pennycook, Michael F. Verde, and Simon J. Handley
A New Set of Three-Dimensional Shapes for Investigating Mental Rotation Processes: Validation Data and Stimulus Set, G Ganis and R Kievit
Enhanced visual statistical learning in adults with autism., Matthew E. Roser, Richard N. Aslin, Rebecca McKenzie, Daniel Zahra, and József Fiser
The developmental trajectory of intramaze and extramaze landmark biases in spatial navigation: An unexpected journey., Matthew G. Buckley, Mark Haselgrove, and Alastair D. Smith
Investigating reasoning with multiple integrated neuroscientific methods, Matthew E. Roser, Jonathan St B.T. Evans, Nicolas A. McNair, Giorgio Fuggetta, Simon J. Handley, Lauren S. Carroll, and Dries Trippas
The importance of internal facial features in learning new faces, Christopher A. Longmore, Chang Hong Liu, and Andrew W. Young
Does Rumination Cause “Inhibitory” Deficits?, Henrietta Roberts, Edward R. Watkins, and Andy J. Wills
Spatial navigation in autism spectrum disorders: a critical review, Alastair D. Smith
Alleviating the concerns with the SDT approach to reasoning: reply to Singnnann and Kellen (2014), Dries Trippas, Michael F. Verde, and Simon J. Handley
A neural reward prediction error revealed by a meta-analysis of ERPs using great grand averages., Thomas D. Sambrook and Jeremy Goslin
Late Emergence of the First Possession Heuristic: Evidence From a Small-Scale Culture, Patricia Kanngiesser, Federico Rossano, and Michael Tomasello
Outcome predictability biases learning., Oren Griffiths, Chris J. Mitchell, Anna Bethmont, and Peter F. Lovibond
The hows and whys of face processing: Level of construal influences the holistic processing of human faces., NA Wyer, TJ Hollins, and S Pahl
Submissions from 2014
Passing crisis and emergency risk communications: the effects of communication channel, information type, and repetition., Judy Edworthy, Elizabeth Hellier, Lex Newbold, and Kirsteen Titchener
Does verbal labeling influence age differences in proactive and reactive cognitive control?, Jutta Kray, Hannah Schmitt, Sonja Heintz, and Agnès Blaye
Synthetic Retinoid Interventions and Outcomes in People with Cancer or Potentially Malignant Disorders of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, AL Norman, R Perry, AR Ness, SS Prime, H Cole-Hawkins, and S Thomas
Assessing Vividness of Mental Imagery: The Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire, J Andrade, J May, C Deeprose, SJ Baugh, and G Ganis
Sex differences in the relationship between sensation seeking, trait emotional intelligence and delinquent behaviour, Alison M. Bacon, Hannah Burak, and James Rann
Neural dynamics of social tie formation in economic decision-making, Nadège Bault, Benjamin Pelloux, Johannes J. Fahrenfort, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, and Winden F van
Elaborated Intrusion theory: Explaining the cognitive and motivational basis of desire., J May, J Andrade, Dillen L van, and D Kavanagh
Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation, Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Development of joint stiffness and learnability, N Kuppuswamy and CM Harris
The Elaborated Intrusion Theory of Desire: A 10-year retrospective and implications for addiction treatments, Jon May, David J. Kavanagh, and Jackie Andrade
A qualitative study of the impact of severe asthma and its treatment showing that treatment burden is neglected in existing asthma assessment scales., Michael E. Hyland, Ben Whalley, Rupert C. Jones, and Matthew Masoli
English-learning one- to two-year-olds do not show a consonant bias in word learning., Caroline Floccia, Thierry Nazzi, Luche C Delle, Silvana Poltrock, and Jeremy Goslin
PhonItalia: a phonological lexicon for Italian., Jeremy Goslin, Claudia Galluzzi, and Cristina Romani
Improved Planning Abilities in Binge Eating, R Neveu, D Neveu, Franck Barsumian, Elsa Fouragnan, Edouard Carrier, Massimo Lai, Jocelyne Sultan, Alain Nicolas, and Giorgio Coricelli
Using forced choice to test belief bias in syllogistic reasoning., Dries Trippas, Michael F. Verde, and Simon J. Handley
A Single-System Model Predicts Recognition Memory and Repetition Priming in Amnesia, Christopher J. Berry, Roy P.C. Kessels, Arie J. Wester, and David R. Shanks
Does incidental training increase the prevalence of overall similarity classification? A re-examination of Kemler Nelson (1984), AB Inkster, FN Milton, and AJ Wills
Machine learning of visual object categorization: an application of the SUSTAIN model, GS Carmantini, A Cangelosi, and AJ Wills
The effect of pre-exposure on family resemblance categorization for stimuli of varying levels of perceptual difficulty, F Milton, E Copestake, D Satherley, T Stevens, and AJ Wills
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
Reducing Prejudice with (Elaborated) Imagined and Physical Intergroup Contact Interventions, BL Choma, JJ Charlesford, and G Hodson
Feedback can be superior to observational training for both rule-based and information-integration category structures, C. E.R. Edmunds, Fraser Milton, and Andy J. Wills
Mediofrontal event-related potentials in response to positive, negative and unsigned prediction errors., Thomas D. Sambrook and Jeremy Goslin
Destructive behavior in a Fragile Public Good game, Maximilian Hoyer, Nadège Bault, Ben Loerakker, and Winden F van
Planning-related motor processes underlie mental practice and imitation learning., Patric Bach, Bassem Khalaf Allami, Mike Tucker, and Rob Ellis
Short Form of the Orientations to Happiness Questionnaire for the German-Speaking Countries: Development and analysis of the psychometric properties, Willibald Ruch, María Luisa Martínez-Martí, Sonja Heintz, and Symen A. Brouwers
The affordance-matching hypothesis: how objects guide action understanding and prediction, P Bach, T Nicholson, and M Hudson
Collocating Interface Objects: Zooming into Maps, Jon May and Tim Gamble
State trace analysis: Dissociable processes in a connectionist network?, Fayme Yeates, Andy J. Wills, Fergal W. Jones, and Ian P.L. Mclaren
Prejudice and effective anti-bullying intervention: Evidence from the bullying of “minorities”, Stephen James Minton
Can virtual nature improve patient experiences and memories of dental treatment? A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White, Jackie Andrade, Jon May, Robert J. Stone, Malcolm Bruce, Ian Mills, Melissa Auvray, Rhys Gabe, and David R. Moles
A biological, latent variable model of health (EarlyBird 68)., Michael E. Hyland, Alison N. Jeffery, and Terence J. Wilkin
Improving Dental Experiences by Using Virtual Reality Distraction: A Simulation Study, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White, Jackie Andrade, Cheng Qian, Malcolm Bruce, Jon May, and David R. Moles
Spike Firing and IPSPs in Layer V Pyramidal Neurons during Beta Oscillations in Rat Primary Motor Cortex (M1) In Vitro, Michael G. Lacey, Gerard Gooding-Williams, Emma J. Prokic, Naoki Yamawaki, Stephen D. Hall, Ian M. Stanford, and Gavin L. Woodhall
A proto-architecture for innate directionally selective visual maps., SV Adams and CM Harris
Differential processing of consonants and vowels in the auditory modality: A cross-linguistic study, Luche C. Delle, Silvana Poltrock, Jeremy Goslin, Boris New, Caroline Floccia, and Thierry Nazzi
Do muscle synergies reduce the dimensionality of behavior?, N Kuppuswamy and CM Harris
Fluency and belief bias in deductive reasoning: new indices for old effects., Ies Trippas, Simon J. Handley, and Michael F. Verde
GABA-MEDIATED CHANGES IN INTER-HEMISPHERIC BETA FREQUENCY ACTIVITY IN EARLY-STAGE PARKINSON'S DISEASE, S. D. Hall, E. J. Prokic, C. J. McAllister, K. C. Ronnqvist, A. C. Williams, N. Yamawaki, C. Witton, G. L. Woodhall, and I. M. Stanford
Manual choice reaction times in the rate-domain., CM Harris, J Waddington, V Biscione, and S Manzi
Modeling causal conditional reasoning data using SDT: caveats and new insights., Dries Trippas, Michael F. Verde, Simon J. Handley, Matthew E. Roser, Nicolas A. McNair, and Jonathan St B.T. Evans
Motivational interventions may have greater sustained impact if they trained imagery-based self-management, David J. Kavanagh, Jackie Andrade, Jon May, and Jason P. Connor
Patient reports of the outcomes of treatment: a structured review of approaches, Helen Lloyd, Crispin Jenkinson, Monica Hadi, Elizabeth Gibbons, and Ray Fitzpatrick
Perceptions of time in relation to climate change, S Pahl, S Sheppard, C Boomsma, and C Groves
The Craving Experience Questionnaire: A Brief, Theory-Based Measure of Consummatory Desire and Craving, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, David J. Kavanagh, Gerald F.X. Feeney, Mathew J. Gullo, Dixie J. Statham, Jessica Skorka-Brown, Jennifer M. Connolly, Mandy Cassimatis, Ross Mcd Young, and Jason P. Connor
The fate of redundant cues: Further analysis of the redundancy effect, Peter M. Jones and John M. Pearce
Utterance-Final Lengthening Is Predictive of Infants' Discrimination of English Accents, Laurence White, Caroline Floccia, Jeremy Goslin, and Joseph Butler
Submissions from 2013
Normative Minor Childhood Stress and Risk of Later Adult Psychopathology in Saudi Arabia, M Hyland
Alcohol consumption in young adults: the role of multisensory imagery., JP Connor, DJ Kavanagh, J Andrade, J May, GFX Feeney, MJ Gullo, AM White, M-L Fry, J Drennan, J Previte, and D Tjondronegoro
Implicit meaning in 18-month-old toddlers., Luche C. Delle, Samantha Durrant, Caroline Floccia, and Kim Plunkett
Assessing the relationship between eating disorder psychopathology and autistic traits in a non-clinical adult population, Amelia Myri Carton and Alastair D. Smith
Attention, predictive learning, and the inverse base-rate effect: evidence from event-related potentials., Andy J. Wills, Aureliu Lavric, Yvonne Hemmings, and Ed Surrey
Evaluating the application of research-based guidance to the design of an emergency preparedness leaflet., E. Hellier, J. Edworthy, L. Newbold, K. Titchener, M. Tucker, and E. Gabe-Thomas
Shape shifting: Local landmarks interfere with navigation by, and recognition of, global shape., Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Using building simulation to drive changes in occupant behaviour: A pilot study, Wilde P. de, S Pahl, N Hamza, S Wei, R Jones, and I Abohela
Humour styles, personality and psychological well-being: What’s humour got to do with it?, W Ruch and S Heintz
Brief guided imagery and body scanning interventions reduce food cravings, J Hamilton, S Fawson, J May, J Andrade, and DJ Kavanagh
From Theory to Practice: Two Ecosystemic Approaches and Their Applications to Understanding School Bullying, Guckin C. Mc and Stephen James Minton