Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2019
Do Psychological Factors Relate to Energy Saving Behaviours in Inefficient and Damp Homes? A study among English social housing residents, C Boomsma, RV Jones, S Pahl, and A Fuertes
Face search in CCTV surveillance, A. Mike Burton and Mila Mileva
Individual variation in patterns of task focused, and detailed, thought are uniquely associated within the architecture of the medial temporal lobe, Nerissa Siu Ping Ho, Xiuyi Wang, Deniz Vatansever, Daniel S. Margulies, Boris Bernhardt, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought, A. Turnbull, HT Wang, C. Murphy, N. S.P. Ho, X Wang, M. Sormaz, T. Karapanagiotidis, R. M. Leech, B. Bernhardt, D. S. Margulies, D. Vatansever, E. Jefferies, and J. Smallwood
Long Term Care Needs Following Acquired Brain Injury and Social Care Services in the UK, M Holloway and A Norman
Stärkenbasierte Interventionen in der Positiven Psychologie. [Strengths-based interventions in Positive Psychology.], V Vylobkova, S Heintz, and F Gander
The potential and value of objective eye tracking in the ophthalmology clinic, R Clark, J Blundell, MJ Dunn, JT Erichsen, ME Giardini, I Gottlob, C Harris, H Lee, L Mcilreavy, A Olson, JE Self, V Vinuela-Navarro, J Waddington, JM Woodhouse, ID Gilchrist, and C Williams
Uncertainty and blocking in human causal learning, Peter M. Jones, Tara Zaksaite, and Chris J. Mitchell
Understanding facial impressions between and within identities, Mila Mileva, Andrew W. Young, Robin S.S. Kramer, and A. Mike Burton
Submissions from 2018
Perception of risk for older adults: Differences in evaluations for self vs. others and across risk domains, J Rolison, Y Hanoch, and A Freund
Slower alpha rhythm associates with poorer seizure control in epilepsy, E Abela, AD Pawley, C Tangwiriyasakul, SN Yaakub, and et al
A computationally efficient formal method for discovering simutlaneous masking in medical alarms, ML Bolton, J Edworthy, AD Boyd, J Wei, and X Zheng
A Qualitative Evaluation of Recovery Processes Experienced by Mentally Disordered Offenders following a Group Treatment Programme, B Colquhoun1, Alex Lord, and Alison M. Bacon
Competitive escalation and interventions, Sebastian Hafenbrädl and Jan K. Woike
Investigating the association between fantasy proneness and emotional distress: the mediating role of cognitive coping strategies, AM Bacon and JJ Charlesford
Multiple dimensions of biodiversity drive human interest in tide pool communities, TP Fairchild, MS Fowler, S Pahl, and JN Griffin
Radically open dialectical behaviour therapy for refractory depression: the RefraMED RCT, TR Lynch, RJ Hempel, B Whalley, S Byford, R Chamba, P Clarke, S Clarke, D Kingdon, H O’Mahen, B Remington, SC Rushbrook, J Shearer, M Stanton, M Swales, A Watkins, and IT Russell
The revised four-factor motivational thought frequency and state motivation scales for alcohol control, David J. Kavanagh, Nicole Robinson, Jennifer Connolly, Jason Connor, Jackie Andrade, and Jon May
Predictors of post-traumatic growth in stroke survivors, Grace Kelly, Reg Morris, and Hamsaraj Shetty
The ‘Right’ Side of Creativity: Creative Personality and Social Risk-Taking Predict Political Party Affiliation, V Tyagi, Y Hanoch, B Choma, and SL Denham
Dissecting the politics of “Obamacare”: The role of distributive justice, deservingness, and affect., Y Hanoch, B Choma, A Barnes, and R Braun
Should Phd Students Teach?, S Homer
Smiles in face matching: Idiosyncratic information revealed through a smile improves unfamiliar face matching performance, Mila Mileva and A. Mike Burton
What a discursive understanding of interprofessional team meetings might reveal: an exploration of intellectual (learning) disability managers' performances., C Smart, N Froomberg, and T Auburn
The logic sense: exploring the role of executive functioning in belief and logic-based judgments, Stephanie Howarth, Simon Handley, and Clare Walsh
Supranuclear eye movements and nystagmus in children: A review of the literature and guide to clinical examination, interpretation of findings and age-appropriate norms., D Osborne, M Theodorou, H Lee, M Ranger, F Shawkat, CM Harris, and JE Self
Eye movements while judging faces for trustworthiness and dominance, F Hermens, M Golubickis, and CN Macrae
Reaping the Benefits and Avoiding the Risks: Unrealistic Optimism in the Health Domain., Y Hanoch, J Rolison, and AM Freund
Paving the way to Eureka-introducing "Dira" as an experimental paradigm to observe the process of creative problem solving, Frank Loesche, Jeremy Goslin, and Guido Bugmann
Dynamic brain network states in human generalized spike-wave discharges, C Tangwiriyasakul, S Perani, M Centeno, SN Yaakub, and et al
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
Attitudes Toward Presidential Candidates in the 2012 and 2016 American Elections: Cognitive Ability and Support for Trump, Y Ganzach, Y Hanoch, and B Choma
Creativity Through Connectedness: The Role of Closeness and Perspective Taking in Group Creativity, P Öztop, KV Katsikopoulos, and M Gummerum
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
Amygdala reactivity in ethnic minorities and its relationship to the social environment: an fMRI study, R McCutcheon, MAP Bloomfield, T Dahoun, M Quinlan, and et al
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
Emotional Preferences and Goals and Emotion Dysregulation in Children with Asperger’s Syndrome and Typically Developing Children, B Lopez-Perez, T Ambrona, and M Gummerum
Enhancing Grit through Functional Imagery Training in Professional Soccer, Jonathan Rhodes, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, and David Kavanagh
Frequency-dependent top-down modulation of temporal summation by anodal transcranial direct-current stimulation of the primary motor cortex in healthy adults, SW Hughes, M Ali, P Sharma, N Insan, and PH Strutton
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
Inter-rater agreement in trait judgements from faces, Robin S.S. Kramer, Mila Mileva, and Kay L. Ritchie
Perceptual Teleology: Expectations of Action Efficiency Bias Social Perception, Patric Bach, Matthew Hudson, Katrina L. McDonough, and Rhys Edwards
Self-relevance enhances the benefits of attention on perception, CN Macrae, A Visokomogilski, M Golubickis, and A Sahraie
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
What influences women to continue or stop breastfeeding? A thematic analysis, Alyson Norman, Jessica Keevash, Hannah Forrest, and Samantha Mortimer
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
Lexical knowledge boosts statistically-driven speech segmentation, SD Palmer, J Hudson, L White, and SL Mattys
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
Humor Assessment and Interventions in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review, Lisa M. Linge-Dahl, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, and Lukas Radbruch
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
A spotlight on safeguarding in trainee selection: The Plymouth programmes experience of safer recruitment, H Lloyd and M Heath
Call to claim your prize: Perceived benefits and risk drive intention to comply in a mass marketing scam., S Wood, P-J Liu, Y Hanoch, PM Xi, and L Klapatch
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
Updating an International Medical Device Standard: A Process for Audible Alarms, J Edworthy, R Mcneer, C Bennett, and R Dudaryk
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
Similar but separate systems underlie perceptual bistability in vision and audition, SL Denham, D Farkas, R van Ee, M Taranu, and et al
Designing Road Safety Interventions for Young Drivers: the Power of Peer Influence, L Weston and EJ Hellier
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
Correction: Prospective mental imagery as its link with anxiety and depression in prisoners, B López-Pérez, C Deeprose, and Y Hanoch
Trust in artificial voices, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, Laurence White, and Debora Zanatto
Evaluation of an innovative evidence-guided PBL approach, HF Lloyd
Framing of Online Risk: Young Adults’ and Adolescents’ Representations of Risky Gambles., CM White, M Gummerum, and Y Hanoch
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
Evaluation of an innovative, evidence- guided, PBL approach, Stephanie Bull, Hilary Neve, Helen Lloyd, Kerry Gilbert, and Karen Mattick
Prospective mental imagery as its link with anxiety and depression in prisoners, B López-Pérez, C Deeprose, and Y Hanoch
Health Literacy and Plan Choice: Implications for Medicare Managed Care, RT Braun, AJ Barnes, Y Hanoch, and AD Federman
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
The visual influence of ostracism, M Golubickis, A Sahraie, AR Hunt, and et al
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
Exploring the self-ownership effect: Separating stimulus and response biases., M Golubickis, JK Falben, WA Cunningham, and CN Macrae
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
