Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2024
Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing, Delphine K.L. Nguyen, Nadine Fitzpatrick, and Caroline Floccia
Submissions from 2023
The importance of acoustic output measurement and monitoring for the replicability of transcranial ultrasonic stimulation studies, Miriam C. Klein-Flügge, Elsa F. Fouragnan, and Eleanor Martin
Finding Silver Linings in the Covid-19 Pandemic: a 2-wave study with the UK general public, A Bacon, J Charlesford, T Puskas, P Hughes, and M Hyland
Finding Silver Linings in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A 2-Wave Study in the UK, Alison M. Bacon, Jaysan Charlesford, Michael Hyland, Tilla Puskas, and Poppy Hughes
Self-discrepancies in mind perception for actual, ideal, and ought selves and partners, Oliver L. Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, and Alan Kingstone
Facial first impressions following a prison sentence: Negative shift in trait ratings but the same underlying structure, Coral M. Coutts, Christopher A. Longmore, and Mila Mileva
Transfer of strategic task components across unique tasks that share some common structures, C Longman, F Milton, and A Wills
COVID-19 vaccination, acceptance, safety, and side-effects in European patients with severe asthma, Apostolos Bossios, Alison M. Bacon, and Katrien Eger
Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship, Norbert Meskó, Marta Kowal, András Láng, Ferenc Kocsor, Szabolcs A. Bandi, Adam Putz, Piotr Sorokowski, David A. Frederick, Felipe E. García, Leonardo A. Aguilar, Anna Studzinska, Chee Seng Tan, Biljana Gjoneska, Taciano L. Milfont, Bulut M Topcu, Dmitry Grigoryev, Toivo Aavik, Mahmoud Boussena, Alan D.A. Mattiassi, Reza Afhami, Rizwana Amin, Roberto Baiocco, Hamdaoui Brahim, Ali R. Can, Joao Carneiro, Hakan Çetinkaya, Dimitri Chubinidze, Eliane Deschrijver, Yahya Don, Dmitrii Dubrov, Izzet Duyar, Marija Jovic, Julia A. Kamburidis, Farah Khan, Hareesol Khun-Inkeeree, Maida Koso-Drljevic, David Lacko, Karlijn Massar, Mara Morelli, Jean C. Natividade, Ellen K. Nyhus, Ju Hee Park, Farid Pazhoohi, Ekaterine Pirtskhalava, Koen Ponnet, Pavol Prokop, Dušana Šakan, Singha Tulyakul, Austin H. Wang, Sibele D. Aquino, Derya D. Atamtürk, Nana Burduli, Antonio Chirumbolo, Seda Dural, Edgardo Etchezahar, Moharrampour N Ghahraman, Balazs Aczel, Luca Kozma, Samuel Lins, Efisio Manunta, Tiago Marot, Moises Mebarak, Kirill G. Miroshnik, Katarina Misetic, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, Bence Bakos, Fatima Zahra Sahli, Sangeeta Singh, Çağlar Solak, Tatiana Volkodav, Anna Wlodarczyk, Grace Akello, Marios Argyrides, Ogeday Çoker, Katarzyna Galasinska, Yepes T Gómez, Aleksander Kobylarek, Miguel Landa-Blanco, Marlon Mayorga, Barış Özener, Ma Criselda T. Pacquing, Marc Eric S. Reyes, Ayşegül Şahin, William Tamayo-Agudelo, Gulmira Topanova, and N/A Toplu-Demir
Social workers and acquired brain injury: A systematic review of the current evidence-base., Mark A. Linden, Mark Holloway, Claire Cooper, Akudo Amadiegwu, Caroline Bald, Andy Mantell, Alyson Norman, and Andrew Bateman
Strength of Pornography Craving Experience (PCE-S): psychometric properties of a new measure based on the Elaborated Intrusion theory of desire, Brahim F. Ben, Cruz G Vera, Robert Courtois, Jon May, and Yasser Khazaal
Inner Development Goals and the Meaning, Awareness and Purpose (MAP) Model for Climate Coaching, J Rhodes, J Blakeley-Glover, A Miller, A Taylor, and I Rochmankowski
Potential associations between behavior change techniques and engagement with mobile health apps: a systematic review, Madison Milne-Ives, Sophie R. Homer, Jackie Andrade, and Edward Meinert
Evaluation of a Study Protocol of the Application of Humor Interventions in Palliative Care Through a First Pilot Study, Lisa Linge-Dahl, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Maria Bley, Hirschhausen E von, and Lukas Radbruch
Eyelash length attractiveness across ethnicities, Farid Pazhoohi and Alan Kingstone
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates, N Bault, SN Yaakub, and E Fouragnan
Transcranial focused ultrasound-mediated neurochemical and functional connectivity changes in deep cortical regions in humans, Siti N. Yaakub, Tristan A. White, Jamie Roberts, Eleanor Martin, Lennart Verhagen, Charlotte J. Stagg, Stephen Hall, and Elsa F. Fouragnan
Do not forget them, Steve Minton
Experiencing the improbable: How does the objective probability of a magic trick occurring influence a spectator’s experience?, Gustav Kuhn, Alice Pailhès, Joshua Jay, and Max Lukian
Correction to: ‘Sex differences in human mate preferences vary across sex ratios’ (2023) by Walter et al., Kathryn V. Walter, Daniel Conroy-Beam, David M. Buss, Kelly Asao, Agnieszka Sorokowska, Piotr Sorokowski, Toivo Aavik, Grace Akello, Mohammad Madallh Alhabahba, Charlotte Alm, Naumana Amjad, Afifa Anjum, Chiemezie S. Atama, DA Duyar, Richard Ayebare, Carlota Batres, Mons Bendixen, Aicha Bensafia, Boris Bizumic, Mahmoud Boussena, Marina Butovskaya, Seda Can, Katarzyna Cantarero, Antonin Carrier, Hakan Cetinkaya, Ilona Croy, Rosa María Cueto, Marcin Czub, Daria Dronova, Seda Dural, I Duyar, Berna Ertugrul, Agustín Espinosa, Ignacio Estevan, Carla Sofia Esteves, Luxi Fang, Tomasz Frackowiak, Jorge Contreras Garduño, Karina Ugalde González, Farida Guemaz, Petra Gyuris, Mária Halamová, Iskra Herak, Marina Horvat, Ivana Hromatko, Chin Ming Hui, Jas Laile Jaafar, Feng Jiang, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Tina Kavčič, Leif Edward Ottesen Kennair, Nicolas Kervyn, Ha TT Khanh, Imran Ahmed Khilji, Nils C. Köbis, Hoang Moc Lan, András Láng, Georgina R. Lennard, Ernesto León, Torun Lindholm, Trinh Thi Linh, Giulia Lopez, Nguyen Van Luot, Alvaro Mailhos, Zoi Manesi, Rocio Martinez, Sarah L. McKerchar, Norbert Meskó, Girishwar Misra, Conal Monaghan, Emanuel C. Mora, Alba Moya-Garófano, Bojan Musil, Jean Carlos Natividade, Agnieszka Niemczyk, George Nizharadze, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, Anna Oleszkiewicz, Mohd Sofian Omar-Fauzee, Ike E. Onyishi, Baris Özener, Ariela Francesca Pagani, Vilmante Pakalniskiene, Miriam Parise, Farid Pazhoohi, A Pisanski, K Pisanski, Edna Ponciano, Camelia Popa, Pavol Prokop, and N/A Riz
Anticipatory reward dysfunction in alcohol dependence: An electroencephalography monetary incentive delay task study, Mica Komarnyckyj, Chris Retzler, Robert Whelan, Oliver Young, Elsa Fouragnan, and Anna Murphy
Coaching Imagery to Athletes with Aphantasia, J Rhodes and K Nedza
Investigating the role of action-contingent expectancy biases in dysphoria-linked activity engagement behavioural choice, Julie L. Ji and Colin MacLeod
Effects of cholinesterase inhibition on attention and working memory in Lewy body dementias, Sean James Fallon, Olivia Plant, Younes A. Tabi, Sanjay G. Manohar, and Masud Husain
Who is Flexible and Adaptive in Everyday Life?, Valentina Vylobkova and Sonja Heintz
Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children, Patricia Kanngiesser, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, and Jan K. Woike
Stakeholder alliances are essential to reduce the scourge of plastic pollution, RS Lampitt, S Fletcher, M Cole, A Kloker, S Krause, F O’Hara, P Ryde, M Saha, A Voronkova, and A Whyle
Decoding brain basis of laughter and crying in natural scenes, Lauri Nummenmaa, Tuulia Malèn, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Severi Santavirta, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Jussi Hirvonen, Mikko Sams, Sophie Scott, and Vesa Putkinen
Heterogeneity of Rules in Bayesian Reasoning: A Toolbox Analysis, Jan K. Woike, Ralph Hertwig, and Gerd Gigerenzer
Perception of threat and intent to harm from vocal and facial cues, James Tompkinson, Mila Mileva, Dominic Watt, and Burton A Mike
Functional organization of social perception networks in the human brain, Severi Santavirta, Tomi Karjalainen, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Matthew Hudson, Vesa Putkinen, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Enrico Glerean, Jussi Hirvonen, Henry K. Karlsson, and Lauri Nummenmaa
‘It should be more outspoken and not hushed away, not like put in a dark box’: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of experiences of menopause voiced by women with learning disabilities, K Langer‐Shapland, SJ Minton, and N Richards
Two of a Kind or Distant Relatives?, Willibald Ruch, Valentina Vylobkova, and Sonja Heintz
What bothers severe asthma patients most? A paired patient–clinician study across seven European countries, Ben Ainsworth, Eleanor Chatburn, Aruna T. Bansal, Olivia Fulton, Dominique Hamerlijnck, Courtney Coleman, Katrien Eger, Michael Hyland, Joshua Holmes, Liam Heaney, Vratislav Sedlák, Sabina Škrgat, Natalija Edelbaher, Brinke A ten, Celeste Porsbjerg, Mina Gaga, Claudia Loureiro, Ratko Djukanovic, Emmanuelle Berret, and Namhee Kwon
Neural responses to biological motion distinguish autistic and schizotypal traits, Matthew Hudson, Severi Santavirta, Vesa Putkinen, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, and Lauri Nummenmaa
With a Little Help from my Friends: Acculturation and Mental Health in Arabic-speaking Refugee Youth Living with their Families, Caroline Meyer, Lina Alhaddad, Nadine Stammel, Frederick Sixtus, Jenny Sarah Wesche, Rudolf Kerschreiter, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Christine Knaevelsrud
The Secondary Impact of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the Experiences of Family Members, James Gamgee, Jessica Runacres, Alyson Norman, and Priyanka Pradhan
Introduction to the “Festschrift for Willibald Ruch”, Sonja Heintz, Jennifer Hofmann, Tracey Platt, and René T. Proyer
Part 1: Festschrift Commentaries, Sonja Heintz
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?, Roman Stengelin, Daniel B.M. Haun, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Promises on the go: A field study on keeping one's word, P Kanngiesser, D Serko, and JK Woike
Humor comprehension and appreciation: an analysis of Italian jokes, Sonja Heintz, Giovannantonio Forabosco, Alberto Dionigi, and Filippo Cioni
The Effect of Pre-Event Instructions on Eyewitness Identification, Mario J. Baldassari, Kara N. Moore, Ira E. Hyman, IE Jr, Lorraine Hope, Eric Y. Mah, D. Stephen Lindsay, Jamal Mansour, Renan Saraiva, Ruth Horry, Hannah Rath, Lauren Kelly, Rosie Jones, Shannan Vale, Bethany Lawson, Josh Pedretti, Tomás A. Palma, Francisco Cruz, Joana Quarenta, der Cruyssen I Van, Mila Mileva, Jessica Allen, Brittany Jeye, and Sara Wiechert
Vowels and Consonants Matter Equally to British English-Learning 11-Month-Olds’ Familiar Word Form Recognition, Caroline Floccia, Paul Ratnage, and Thierry Nazzi
Pre-schoolers’ images, intergroup attitudes, and liking of refugee peers in Germany, Iris Würbel and Patricia Kanngiesser
A Sage and a Guru Walk into a Bar: Wisdom and Humor Styles, Jeffrey Dean Webster and Sonja Heintz
Self-reported intake of high-fat and high-sugar diet is not associated with cognitive stability and flexibility in healthy men, Hendrik Hartmann, Lieneke K. Janssen, Nadine Herzog, Filip Morys, Daniel Fängström, Sean J. Fallon, and Annette Horstmann
Action Slips in Food Choices: A Measure of Habits and Goal-Directed Control, Katie M.J. Wood, Tina Seabrooke, and Chris J. Mitchell
A systematic review of interventions targeting physical activity and/or healthy eating behaviours in adolescents: practice and training, Hannah Allcott-Watson, Angel Chater, Nick Troop, and Neil Howlett
Humour interventions for patients in palliative care—a randomized controlled trial, Lisa Linge-Dahl, Rainer Kreuz, Mieke Stoffelen, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Hirschhausen E von, and Lukas Radbruch
Pattern recognition reveals sex‐dependent neural substrates of sexual perception, Vesa Putkinen, S Nazari‐Farsani, Tomi Karjalainen, Severi Santavirta, Matthew Hudson, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, and Lauri Nummenmaa
Pseudo-CTs from T1-weighted MRI for planning of low-intensity transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation: An open-source tool, Siti N. Yaakub, Tristan A. White, Eric Kerfoot, Lennart Verhagen, Alexander Hammers, and Elsa F. Fouragnan
Hydrocephalus: A neuropsychological and theoretical primer, Tara Zaksaite, Catherine Loveday, Trudi Edginton, Hugo J. Spiers, and Alastair D. Smith
How are secure attachment relationships fostered through talk between teachers and students who have been adopted? A conversation analysis, R Phillips, R Dallos, S Minton, and P Keohane
Submissions from 2022
The association between Adverse Childhood Experiences, Self-Silencing behaviours and symptoms in women with Fibromyalgia., Alison M. Bacon and Leah White
Three-layer model with absorption for conservative estimation of the maximum acoustic transmission coefficient through the human skull for transcranial ultrasound stimulation, David Attali, Thomas Tiennot, Mark Schafer, Elsa Fouragnan, Jérôme Sallet, Charles F. Caskey, Robert Chen, Ghazaleh Darmani, Ellen J. Bubrick, Christopher Butler, Charlotte J. Stagg, Miriam Klein-Flügge, Lennart Verhagen, Seung Schik Yoo, Kim Butts Pauly, and Jean Francois Aubry
Mechanisms underlying corruption of working memory in Parkinson's disease, Sean James Fallon, Rhee C van, Annika Kienast, Sanjay G. Manohar, and Masud Husain
Moving towards patient-centred outcomes: the Severe Asthma Questionnaire, Drew Davies, Michael E. Hyland, Joseph W. Lanario, Rupert C. Jones, and Matthew Masoli
Bottle with a message: The role of story writing as an engagement tool to explore children's perceptions of marine plastic litter, Estelle Praet, Jostein Baeza-Álvarez, Veer D De, Geraldine Holtmann-Ahumada, Jen S. Jones, Sarah Langford, Jessica Michel Dearte, John Schofield, Martin Thiel, and Kayleigh J. Wyles
Verbal Lie Detection: Its Past, Present and Future, Aldert Vrij, Pär Anders Granhag, Tzachi Ashkenazi, Giorgio Ganis, Sharon Leal, and Ronald P. Fisher
Pre-testing Effects Are Target-Specific and Are Not Driven by a Generalised State of Curiosity, Timothy J. Hollins, Tina Seabrooke, Angus Inkster, Andy Wills, and Chris J. Mitchell
Does variability in recognition memory scale with mean memory strength or encoding variability in the UVSD model?, Rory W. Spanton and Christopher J. Berry
Eye Closure Interacts with Music to Influence Vividness and Content of Directed Imagery, Steffen A. Herff, Sophie McConnell, Julie L. Ji, and Jon B. Prince
UK Men’s experience of the Gender-Role Journey and Implications for Clinicians and Mental Health Services, Laurie Grandi, Steve Minton, Katie Tipton, and Jon May
Neural implementation of computational mechanisms underlying the continuous trade-off between cooperation and competition, M. A. Pisauro, E. F. Fouragnan, D. H. Arabadzhiyska, M. A.J. Apps, and M. G. Philiastides
The hidden cost of a smartphone: The effects of smartphone notifications on cognitive control from a behavioral and electrophysiological perspective, Joshua D. Upshaw, Carl E. Stevens, Giorgio Ganis, and Darya L. Zabelina
Trait impressions from voices are formed rapidly within 400ms of exposure, Mila Mileva and Nadine Lavan
Analysis of Fibroblast Growth Factor 14 (FGF14) structural variants reveals the genetic basis of the early onset nystagmus locus NYS4 and variable ataxia, F Ceroni, D Osborne, S Clokie, DA Bax, EJ Cassidy, MJ Dunn, CM Harris, JE Self, and NK Ragge
The Bidirectional Relationship Between Breastfeeding and Mental Health, Jennifer Scarborough, Alyson Norman, and Leanne Cooper
Forecasting postoperative delirium in older adult patients with Fast-and-Frugal decision trees, Maria Heinrich, Jan K. Woike, Claudia D. Spies, and Odette Wegwarth
Social worker decision-making in court, Dale Abbotts and Alyson Norman
Tracking the associative boost in infancy, Kim Plunkett, Luche C Delle, Thomas Hills, and Caroline Floccia
A common neural account for social and non-social decisions, Elsa Fouragnan, Desislava H. Arabadzhiyska, Oliver G.B. Garrod, G S Philippe, and G. P Marios
The efficacy of therapist-supported acceptance and commitment therapy-based bibliotherapy for psychological distress after stroke: a single-case multiple-baseline study, Misbah Gladwyn-Khan and Reg Morris
Tell me all about it: narrated memories are less emotional than imagined memories, Jackie Andrade, Tom IJdema, N Vadazs, and Jon May
Citizen science in marine litter research: A review, L. A. Kawabe, N. P. Ghilardi-Lopes, A. Turra, and K. J. Wyles
Assessing the Usability and Acceptability of FaceIT@home: an online CBT Intervention for People with Visible Differences, Alyson Norman, Joanne Veale, and Heidi Williamson
Outcome evaluation of Active Herts: A community-based physical activity programme for inactive adults at risk of cardiovascular disease and/or low mental wellbeing, Angel M. Chater, Joerg Schulz, Andy Jones, Amanda Burke, Shelby Carr, Dora Kukucska, Nick Troop, Daksha Trivedi, and Neil Howlett
Children over-imitate adults and peers more than puppets., Roman Stengelin, Rabea Ball, Luke Maurits, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Daniel B.M. Haun
The developmental trajectories of children’s reorientation to global and local properties of environmental geometry, Matthew G. Buckley, Luke J. Holden, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Too perfect to be good? An investigation of magicians’ Too Perfect Theory, Alice Pailhès, Kole Lee, and Gustav Kuhn
Anhedonia reduction correlates with increased ventral caudate connectivity with superior frontal gyrus in depression., Xinhua Yang, Jia Huang, Matthew E. Roser, and X Guangrong
Effect of a context shift on the inverse base rate effect, A Inkster, C Mitchell, R Schlegelmilch, and A Wills
Assessing reactive violence using Immersive Virtual Reality, Sylvia Terbeck, Alison Bacon, and I Howard
Regulations governing psychologists: An international survey., Hee Sun Kim, Seowon Yoon, Gaeun Son, Euntaek Hong, Amanda Clinton, Catherine L. Grus, David Murphy, Alex M. Siegel, Eleni Karayianni, Michael O. Ezenwa, Georgia Zara, Germán Gutiérrez, Daniel Balva, Jeanyung Chey, and Kee Hong Choi
Implantable Doppler Probe as a Vascular Monitoring Device in Kidney Transplant Patients: Investigation of Use at a Single Center, M. Shahzar Malik, Jacob Akoh, Somaiah Aroori, and Jos M. Latour
The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?, Lauren E. Marsh, Joanna Gil, and Patricia Kanngiesser
A roadmap to doing culturally grounded developmental science, Tanya Broesch, Sheina Lew-Levy, Michelle Kline, Joscha Kärtner, and Patricia Kanngiesser
“I see myself”: Craving imagery among individuals with addictive disorders, Viktor Månsson, Jackie Andrade, Nitya Jayaram-Lindström, and Anne H. Berman
At‐risk alcohol users have disrupted valence discrimination during reward anticipation, Mica Komarnyckyj, Chris Retzler, Zhipeng Cao, Giorgio Ganis, Anna Murphy, Robert Whelan, and Elsa Florence Fouragnan
Building bridges between natural and social science disciplines: a standardized methodology to combine data on ecosystem quality trends, I. Richter, B. R. Roberts, S. F. Sailley, E. Sullivan, V. V. Cheung, J. Eales, M. Fortnam, J. B. Jontila, C. Maharja, T. Ha Nguyen, S. Pahl, R. A. Praptiwi, J. Sugardjito, J. D.C. Sumeldan, W. M. Syazwan, A. Y. Then, and M. C. Austen
Disruption of Positional Encoding at Small Separations in the Amblyopic Periphery, Zahra Hussain and Paul V. McGraw
Exploring Documentation in Person-Centred Care: A Content Analysis of Care Plans, Doris Lydahl, Nicky Britten, Helen Lloyd, Axel Wolf, Öncel Naldemirci, and Birgit Heckemann
Prevention and management of intra-operative pain during caesarean section under neuraxial anaesthesia: a technical and interpersonal approach, F. Plaat, S. E.R. Stanford, D. N. Lucas, J. Andrade, J. Careless, R. Russell, D. Bishop, Q. Lo, and D. Bogod
Last chance for wildlife: making tourism count for conservation, Christy Hehir, Caroline Scarles, Kayleigh J. Wyles, and Joe Kantenbacher
Exploring barriers, motivators and potential solutions to achieve healthy lifestyle among undergraduate student nurses, Daniela Austin, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, and Andy Nichols
Whose outcome is it anyway? Outcome and Brain Injury Case Management, Jessica Lowry, Thomas Wakeham, Alyson Norman, Jackie Dean, Mark Holloway, Ben Needham-Holmes, Jo Clark-Wilson, and Philippa Feltham-White
Breastfeeding experiences & support: A mixed-methods approach to identifying factors influencing breastfeeding behaviour, Alyson Norman, Samantha Mortimer, Nena Percuklievska, Hannah Ferrario, and Grace Baptie
Convergence and Psychometric Properties of Character Strengths Measures: The VIA-IS and the VIA-IS-R, Valentina Vylobkova, Sonja Heintz, Fabian Gander, Lisa Wagner, and Willibald Ruch
Experiences of individuals with Acquired Brain Injury and their families interacting with community services: a systematic scoping review, Alyson Norman, Valentina Curro, Mark Holloway, Nena Percuklievska, and Hannah Ferrario