Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2018
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
Adverse life events and the onset of anxiety disorders., B Miloyan, O Joseph Bienvenu, B Brilot, and WW Eaton
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
Functional brain networks underlying idiosyncratic switching patterns in multi-stable auditory perception, D Farkas, SL Denham, and I Winkler
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
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care, G Livingston, A Sommerlad, V Orgeta, and et al
Does study duration have opposite effects on recognition and repetition priming?, Christopher J. Berry, Emma V. Ward, and David R. Shanks
Knowledge and understanding of health insurance: challenges and remedies, AJ Barnes and Y Hanoch
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
Perceived language proficiency and pain assessment by registered and student nurses in native English-speaking and EAL children aged 4-7 years, PM Azize, A Cattani, and R Endacott
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
Dance Improvisational Cognition, K Łucznik and F Loesche
Navigating Cognitive Innovation, M Kristensen, F Loesche, and D Maranan
Spectres of Ambiguity in Divergent Thinking and Perceptual Switching, M Taranu and F Loesche
The association of Social Anxiety Disorder, Alcohol Use Disorder and reproduction: Results from four nationally representative samples of adults in the USA., B Miloyan, A Bulley, B Brilot, and T Suddendorf
Thalamic volume reduction in drug-naive patients with new-onset genetic generalized epilepsy, S Perani, TM Tierney, M Centeno, EA Shamshiri, and et al
Connected, supported, informed: Experiences and benefits of membership of the Pituitary Foundation., A Underwood, AL Norman, H Forrest, S Jackson, and P McBride
Tobacco use and health insurance literacy among vulnerable populations: implications for health reform, RT Braun, Y Hanoch, and AJ Barnes
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
Impact of antipsychotic review and non-pharmacological intervention on health-related quality of life in people with dementia living in care homes: WHELD-a factorial cluster randomised controlled trial, C Ballard, M Orrell, Y Sun, E Moniz-Cook, and et al
Integrating and testing natural frequencies, naïve Bayes, and fast-and-frugal trees., Jan K. Woike, Ulrich Hoffrage, and Laura Martignon
Moving Beyond Blind Men and Elephants: Providing Total Estimated Annual Costs Improves Health Insurance Decision Making, AJ Barnes, Y Hanoch, T Rice, and SK Long
Self-prioritization and perceptual matching: The effects of temporal construal, M Golubickis, JK Falben, A Sahraie, A Visokomogilski, and et al
Testing the Motor Simulation Account of Source Errors for Actions in Recall, N Lange, TJ Hollins, and P Bach
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
Hypnotic analgesia reduces brain responses to pain seen in others, C Braboszcz, E Brandao-Farinelli, and P Vuilleumier
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
Saving for the future: Dynamic effects of time horizon, JJ Rolison, Y Hanoch, and S Wood
The Influence of Adult and Peer Models on Children’s and Adolescents’ Sharing Decisions, A Ruggeri, S Luan, M Keller, and M Gummerum
Miss it and miss out: Counterproductive nonspatial attentional capture by task-irrelevant, value-related stimuli, ME Le Pelley, T Seabrooke, BL Kennedy, D Pearson, and et al
Factors Affecting the Success of Long-term ABI Rehabilitation Final Report for Headway Somerset, AL Norman, J Turner, and M Orman
Autonomous vehicle decision-making: Should we be bio-inspired?, CM Harris
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
Predictive social perception: Towards a unifying framework from action observation to person knowledge, P Bach and KC Schenke
A Cross-Cultural Study of Risky Online Self-Presentation, CM White, CA Cutello, M Gummerum, and Y Hanoch
Dual Coding of object relations: An alternative framework for understanding perceptual processing in autism?, Alastair D. Smith and Elizabeth Milne
Invasive Prenatal Diagnostic Testing Recommendations are Influenced by Maternal Age, Statistical Misconception and Perceived Liability., T Miron-Shatz, SR Rapaport, N Srebnik, Y Hanoch, and et al
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
Cruel to be Kind: Factors Underlying Altruistic Efforts to Worsen Another Person's Mood, B Lopez-Perez, L Howells, and M Gummerum
CogNovo – A Case Study for Cognitive Innovation, F Loesche, I Torre, DS Maranan, and S Denham
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
When fast logic meets slow belief: Evidence for a parallel-processing model of belief bias, D Trippas, VA Thompson, and SJ Handley
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
Social Influence, S Gibson and CA Smart
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
Internet Safety and the Silver Surfer: The Relationship Between Gist Reasoning and Adults' Risky Online Behavior, CM White, M Gummerum, S Wood, and Y Hanoch
The human dimension: how social and behavioural research methods can help address microplastics in the environment, S. Pahl and K. J. Wyles
Decreased functional connectivity within a language subnetwork in benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, CJ McGinnity, AB Smith, SN Yaakub, S Weidenbach Gerbase, and et al
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
Self-relevance prioritizes access to visual awareness., CN Macrae, A Visokomogilski, M Golubickis, WA Cunningham, and A Sahraie
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
Trends in diagnosis and treatment for people with dementia in the UK from 2005 to 2015: a longitudinal retrospective cohort study, K Donegan, N Fox, N Black, and et al
Why aren't we beating bullying?, SJ Minton
Ego depletion in visual perception: Ego-depleted viewers experience less ambiguous figure reversal., MC Wimmer, S Stirk, and PJB Hancock
Rapid detection of snakes modulates spatial orienting in infancy, Julie Bertels, Clémence Bayard, Caroline Floccia, and Arnaud Destrebecqz
Auditory multistability and neurotransmitter concentrations in the human brain, HM Kondo, D Farkas, SL Denham, T Asai, and I Winkler
Motivating emotional intelligence: A reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) perspective, Alison M. Bacon and Philip J. Corr
Are developments in mental scanning and mental rotation related?, MC Wimmer, EJ Robinson, and MJ Doherty
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
Classifying Alarms: Seeking Durability, Credibility, Consistency, and Simplicity, JR Edworthy, JJ Schlesinger, RR McNeer, MS Kristensen, and CL Bennett
Cognitive ability and authoritarianism: Understanding support for Trump and Clinton, BL Choma and Y Hanoch
Questioning the preparatory function of counterfactual thinking, Hugo Mercier, Jonathan J. Rolison, Marta Stragà, Donatella Ferrante, Clare R. Walsh, and Vittorio Girotto
Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: measures to reduce risk, B Mclean, R Shankar, J Hanna, C Jory, and C Newman