Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2024
Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy (EFP) and Well-Being: Exploring the Experiences of UK Military Veterans Using a Dialogical Narrative Approach, Imogen Campbell and David Murphy
Characterising the anxiogenic network from functional connectivity analysis of the CO2 challenge model, Daniel Graham, Santra Mathew, Jonathan Marsden, Alastair D Smith, Gary Smerdon, and Stephen D Hall
Working within a perfect storm: the current UK care crisis in community neurorehabilitation, Alyson Norman, Mark Holloway, Jackie Dean, Andrew Patterson, Ben Needham-Holmes, Valentina Curro, Craig Andrews, Phillipa Feltham-White, and Jo Clark-Wilson
Expedition Psychology: Using Functional Imagery Training for Challenging Goals, Jon Rhodes and Alastair Smith
The Wind in the Willows Effect: Does age affect human versus animal faux pas recognition?, Gray Atherton, Lucy Robinson, Lucie Guy-Smith, and Liam Cross
Multiple negative impacts of marine plastic pollution on tropical coastal ecosystem services, and human health and well-being, Carya Maharja, Radisti A. Praptiwi, Sainal Sainal, Prawesti Wulandari, Matthew Ashley, Kayleigh Wyles, Joyashree Roy, I Gede Hendrawan, Susan Jobling, and Melanie Austen
Reputation-surveillance model of mate guarding: community size and religious veiling, Farid Pazhoohi
Toward a Theory of Exposure, Brian Rappert and Gustav Kuhn
Voicing experiences of family members providing care to loved ones with a Pituitary condition, Carly Ellicott, Alyson Norman, and Sue Jackson
Working memory gating in obesity is moderated by striatal dopaminergic gene variants, Nadine Herzog, Hendrik Hartmann, Lieneke Katharina Janssen, Arsene Kanyamibwa, Maria Waltmann, Peter Kovacs, Lorenz Deserno, Sean Fallon, Arno Villringer, and Annette Horstmann
Developing the ‘Life Threads’ approach to support families after traumatic brain injury in UK community settings: Protocol for a Qualitative Pre-feasibility study., Charlotte Whiffin, Caroline Ellis-Hill, Alyson Norman, Morag Lee, Pam Singh, Jo Clark-Wilson, Audrey Daisley, Natasha Yasmin, Mark Holloway, Sara Rose, and Fergus Gracey
The impact of virtual reality exposure on ocean connectedness and consumer responses to single-use packaging, Sohvi Nuojua, Sabine Pahl, Kayleigh Wyles, and Richard Thompson
Impact of healthcare education on preferences for electronic health records: Results from national survey of patient users in Sweden, Anna Kharko, Jamie Linnea Luckhaus, Charlotte Blease, Åsa Cajander, Josefin Hagström, Bridget T. Kane, Gunnar O. Klein, Sari Kujala, Jonas Moll, Isabella Scandurra, and Maria Hägglund
People with Dyslexia or Dyscalculia are less biased: Results of a preregistered study from over 450,000 people on the Implicit Association Test, Liam Cross, Gray Atherton, and Roderick Nicolson
Magic for the blind: are auditory tricks impossible?, Gustav Kuhn, Cyril Thomas, Tyler Gibgot, and Vebjorn Ekroll
Young carers in the UK: Young carers in early childhood, Carly Ellicott
Investigating the role of mental imagery use in the assessment of anhedonia, Julie L Ji, Marcella L Woud, Angela Rölver, Lies Notebaert, Jemma Todd, Patrick J F Clarke, Frances Meeten, Jürgen Margraf, and Simon E Blackwell
Adapting low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy for autistic adults: Lessons from Plymouth's NHS Talking Therapies and Autism Spectrum Service, Hope Trimmer, Sonja Heintz, and Sarah Williams
Harnessing the therapeutic effects of nature for chronic Pain: A role for immersive virtual reality? A narrative review, Alexander Smith, Kayleigh Wyles, Sonia Medina Herandez, Sophie Clarke, Patricia Schofield, and Sam Hughes
Effects of intensity on emotion regulation strategy preferences are emotion-specific, Bram Van Bockstaele, Patrick J.F. Clarke, Jemma Todd, Frances Meeten, Julie L. Ji, Julian Basanovic, Nigel T.M. Chen, Daniel Rudaizky, and Lies Notebaert
Kelley’s Paradox and strength skewness in research on unconscious mental processes, Daryl Lee, Christopher Berry, and David R. Shanks
Children Sustain Cooperation in a Threshold Public-Goods Game Even When Seeing Others’ Outcomes, Patricia Kanngiesser, Jahnavi Sunderarajan, Sebastian Hafenbrädl, and Jan K. Woike
Large language models have divergent effects on self-perceptions of mind and the attributes considered uniquely human, Oliver L. Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, and Alan Kingstone
A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others, Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta, Andrea Pisauro, Svenja Küchenhoff, Arno Gekiere, Campbell Le Heron, Patricia Lockwood, and Matthew AJ Apps
“It’s the closest I can get to meditation sometimes”: Volunteering as a Surf Therapy Mentor., Karl Potts and Jon May
Incomplete Faces Do but Masked Faces Do Not Affect Mind Perception, Farid Pazhoohi, Keina Aoki, and Alan Kingstone
Gaze Preferences to Male Contrapposto and Non-Contrapposto Postures, Farid Pazhoohi, Oliver Lee Jacobs, and Alan Kingstone
Comparison of the symptom networks of long-COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome: From modularity to connectionism, Michael Hyland, Yuri Antonacci, and Alison Bacon
Global scoping review of behavioral interventions to reduce plastic pollution with recommendations for key sectors, Sohvi Nuojua, Deborah Louise Cracknell, Anja Heske, Sabine Pahl, Kayleigh J. Wyles, and Richard C. Thompson
Game changer: Exploring the role of board games in the lives of autistic people, Gray Atherton, Liam Cross, Francesca Belshaw, and Andrea Piovesan
Experiences from patients in mental healthcare accessing their electronic health records: results from a cross-national survey in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, Annika Bärkås, A. J. Fagerlund, A. Kharko, C. R. Blease, J. Hagström, I. Huvila, I. Hörhammer, B. Kane, E. Kristiansen, S. Kujala, J. Moll, H. Rexhepi, I. Scandurra, S. Simola, H. Soone, B. Wang, R. M. Åhlfeldt, M. Hägglund, and M. A. Johansen
A Nordic Perspective on Patient Online Record Access and the European Health Data Space, Maria Hägglund, Anna Kharko, Annika Bärkås, Charlotte Blease, Åsa Cajander, Catherine DesRoches, Asbjørn Johansen Fagerlund, Josefin Hagström, Isto Huvila, Iiris Hörhammer, Bridget Kane, Gunnar O. Klein, Eli Kristiansen, Jonas Moll, Irene Muli, Hanife Rexhepi, Sara Riggare, Peeter Ross, Isabella Scandurra, Saija Simola, Hedvig Soone, Bo Wang, Maedeh Ghorbanian Zolbin, Rose Mharie Åhlfeldt, Sari Kujala, and Monika Alise Johansen
Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making, Tarryn Balsdon, M. Andrea Pisauro, and Marios G. Philiastides
Engaging nursing students with a behaviour change intervention designed to improve their lifestyle, Daniela Austin and Jon May
Comparing child word associations to adult associative norms: Evidence for child-specific associations with a strong priming effect in 3-year-olds, Nadine Fitzpatrick and Caroline Floccia
Do Dark Humour Users Have Dark Tendencies? Relationships between Dark Humour, the Dark Tetrad, and Online Trolling, Sonja Heintz and Sophie Voisey
Men’s Perceptions of Beardedness in a Hispanic and Iranian Sample: The Role of Intrasexual Competition on Evaluations of Attractiveness, Masculinity, and Fighting Ability, Ray Garza, Reza Afhami, and Farid Pazhoohi
Examining Ecological Harshness, Sociosexuality, and Mate Value in Women’s Preferences for Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio, Ray Garza, Regina Gonzalez Elizondo, and Farid Pazhoohi
Social environment-based opportunity costs dictate when people leave social interactions, Anthony S. Gabay, Andrea Pisauro, Kathryn C. O’Nell, and Matthew A. J. Apps
“We’ve all come together”: A board game intervention for children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities, Gray Atherton, Emily Dawson, and Liam Cross
Everyday Amnesia: Residual Memory for High Confidence Misses and Implications for Decision Models of Recognition, Christopher J. Berry and David R. Shanks
'I can still swing a spade': a qualitative exploratory study of gardening groups for people with dementia, Helen Foster-Collins, Ruth A. Lamont, Raff Calitri, Mark Tarrant, Noreen Orr, and Rebecca Whear
Neural and computational mechanisms of effort under the pressure of a deadline, Andrea Pisauro, Daniele Pollicino, Lucy Fisher, and Matthew A.J. Apps
Picturing self‐harm: Investigating flash‐forward mental imagery as a proximal and modifiable driver of non‐suicidal self‐injury, Julie L. Ji, Michael Kyron, Lisa Saulsman, Rodrigo Becerra, Ashleigh Lin, Penelope Hasking, and Emily A. Holmes
Imagery training for athletes with low imagery abilities, Jonathan Rhodes, Karol Nedza, Jon May, and Lucie Clements
Timing along the cardiac cycle modulates neural signals of reward-based learning, Elsa F. Fouragnan, Billy Hosking, Yin Cheung, Brooke Prakash, Matthew Rushworth, and Alejandra Sel
Adapting language development research paradigms to online testing: Data from preferential looking, word learning and vocabulary assessment in toddlers, Delphine K.L. Nguyen, Nadine Fitzpatrick, and Caroline Floccia
Working memory gating in obesity: Insights from a case-control fMRI study, Nadine Herzog, Hendrik Hartmann, Lieneke K. Janssen, Maria Waltmann, Sean J. Fallon, Lorenz Deserno, and Annette Horstmann
Blending Behavioural Theory and Narrative Analysis to Explore the Lived Experience of Obesity and Assess Potential Engagement in a UK Weight Management Service: Theory and Narrative Approaches in Weight Management, Helen Lloyd, Jessica Gillespie, Hannah Wright, and Jonathan Pinkney
Open notes in psychotherapy: An exploratory mixed methods survey of psychotherapy students in Switzerland, Charlotte Blease, Anna Kharko, Sarah Buergler, Annika Bärkås, Maria Hägglund, Jens Gaab, Asbjørn Johansen Fagerlund, and Cosima Locher
Assessing immediate emotions in the theory of planned behavior can substantially contribute to increases in pro-environmental behavior, Daniel T. Blumstein, Vanessa C. Ho, Anne H. Berman, Jackie Andrade, David J. Kavanagh, Stéphane La Branche, Jon May, and Conner S. Philson
Recognizing newly learned faces across changes in age, Sarah Laurence, Laura Sexton, Mila Mileva, Graham Hole, and Ailsa Strathie
The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research, Kathrin S. Kopp, Patricia Kanngiesser, Rahel K. Brügger, Moritz M. Daum, Anja Gampe, Moritz Köster, Carel P. van Schaik, Katja Liebal, and Judith M. Burkart
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
Impaired updating of working memory representations in individuals with high BMI: evidence for dopaminergic mechanisms, Nadine Herzog, Hendrik Hartmann, Lieneke K. Janssen, Arsene Kanyamibwa, Maria Waltmann, Peter Kovacs, Lorenz Deserno, Sean Fallon, Arno Villringer, and Annette Horstmann
Virtual Reality and Spatial Cognition: Bridging the Epistemic Gap Between Laboratory and Real-World Insights, Alastair D. Smith
Mapping Patients' Online Record Access Worldwide: Preliminary Results from an International Survey of Healthcare Experts, Anna Kharko, Charlotte Blease, Monika Johansen, Anne Moen, Isabella Scandurra, Brian McMillan, and Maria Hägglund
Cross-Cultural Preferences for Women’s Waist to Hip Ratio and Men’s Shoulder to Hip Ratio: Data From Iran, Norway, Poland, and Russia, Farid Pazhoohi, Reza Afhami, Razieh Chegeni, Dmitrii Dubrov, Katarzyna Gałasińska, Ray Garza, Nasim ghahraman Moharrampour, Dmitry Grigoryev, Marta Kowal, Ståle Pallesen, and Gerit Pfuhl
Association between interpretation flexibility and emotional health in an anxious sample: The challenge of measuring flexible adoption of multiple perspectives, Julie L. Ji, Elske Salemink, and Bethany A. Teachman
A critical hit: Dungeons and Dragons as a buff for autistic people, Gray Atherton, Rhys Hathaway, Ingela Visuri, and Liam Cross
Association of life history strategy and mate retention behavior in men and women, Farid Pazhoohi, Sepide Pazhouhi, and Ray Garza
Benchmarking usability of patient portals in Estonia, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, Sari Kujala, Saija Simola, Bo Wang, Hedvig Soone, Josefin Hagström, Annika Bärkås, Iiris Hörhammer, Åsa Cajander, Asbjørn Johansen Fagerlund, Bridget Kane, Anna Kharko, Eli Kristiansen, Jonas Moll, Hanife Rexphepi, Maria Hägglund, and Monika A. Johansen
Conservatism Negatively Predicts Creativity: A Study Across 28 Countries, Agata Groyecka-Bernard, Piotr Sorokowski, Maciej Karwowski, S. Craig Roberts, Toivo Aavik, Grace Akello, Charlotte Alm, Naumana Amjad, Kelly Asao, Chiemezie S. Atama, Derya Atamtürk Duyar, Richard Ayebare, Carlota Batres, Aicha Bensafia, Anna Bertoni, Boris Bizumic, Mahmoud Boussena, David M. Buss, Marina Butovskaya, Seda Can, Antonin Carrier, Hakan Cetinkaya, Daniel Conroy-Beam, Marco Antonio Correa Varella, Ilona Croy, Rosa María Cueto, Marta Czerwonka, Marcin Czub, Silvia Donato, and Daria Dronova
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates, Nadège Bault, Siti N. Yaakub, and Elsa Fouragnan
Everyday places to get away – Lessons learned from Covid-19 lockdowns, B. Gatersleben, Emma V. White, K.J. Wyles, S.E. Golding, G. Murrell, C. Scarles, T. Xu, B.F.T. Brockett, and C. Willis
Gendered violence and sexualized representations in video games: (Lack of) effect on gender-related attitudes, Liam Cross, Linda K. Kaye, Juris Savostijanovs, Neil McLatchie, Matthew Johnston, Liam Whiteman, Robyn Mooney, and Gray Atherton
One hundred years of EEG for brain and behaviour research, Faisal Mushtaq, Dominik Welke, Anne Gallagher, Yuri G Pavlov, Layla Kouara, Jorge Bosch-Bayard, Jasper J F van den Bosch, Mahnaz Arvaneh, Amy R Bland, Maximilien Chaumon, Cornelius Borck, Xun He, Steven J Luck, Maro G Machizawa, Cyril Pernet, Aina Puce, Sidney J Segalowitz, Christine Rogers, Muhammad Awais, Claudio Babiloni, Neil W Bailey, Sylvain Baillet, Robert C A Bendall, Daniel Brady, Maria L Bringas-Vega, Niko A Busch, Ana Calzada-Reyes, Armand Chatard, Peter E Clayson, and Michael X Cohen
Peer inclusion and school equality norm associations with intergroup contact, and academic self-efficacy amongst ethnic majority and ethnic minority youth, Shelley McKeown, Gian Antonio Di Bernardo, Jaysan Charlesford, Loris Vezzali, and Thia Sagherian-Dickey
Reward Count(s): Negative Recency in Probabilistic Experience-Based Learning, Andy Wills, René Schlegelmilch, and Bettina von Helversen
Social connections and social identity as a basis for learning and support: Experiences of medical students with minoritised and non-minoritised ethnic identities, Stephanie Bull, Rohini Terry, Neil Rice, Daniele Carrieri, Mark Tarrant, and Gerens Curnow
Tackling loneliness together: A three-tier social identity framework for social prescribing, S. Alexander Haslam, Catherine Haslam, Tegan Cruwys, Leah S. Sharman, Shaun Hayes, Zoe Walter, Jolanda Jetten, Niklas K. Steffens, Magnolia Cardona, Crystal J. La Rue, Niamh McNamara, Blerina Këllezi, Juliet R.H. Wakefield, Clifford Stevenson, Mhairi Bowe, Peter McEvoy, Alysia M. Robertson, Mark Tarrant, Genevieve Dingle, and Tarli Young
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
Visuospatial memory in apraxia: Exploring quantitative drawing metrics to assess the representation of local and global information, Sarah K. Salo, Alastair D. Smith, Cathryn A. Harries, and M. Jane Riddoch
Submissions from 2023
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
Self-discrepancies in mind perception for actual, ideal, and ought selves and partners, Oliver L. Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, and Alan Kingstone
Transfer of strategic task components across unique tasks that share some common structures, C Longman, F Milton, and A Wills
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
A Sage and a Guru Walk into a Bar: Wisdom and Humor Styles, Jeffrey Dean Webster and Sonja Heintz
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
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
The irrepressible influence of vocal stereotypes on trust, Ilaria Torre, Laurence White, Jeremy Goslin, and Sarah Knight
COVID-19 vaccination, acceptance, safety, and side-effects in European patients with severe asthma, Apostolos Bossios, Alison M. Bacon, and Katrien Eger
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
Competitive Latent Structures for the Comic Style Markers: Developing a Psychometrically Sound Short Version Using Spanish and US American Samples, Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, Jorge Torres-Marín, Mariela Bustos-Ortega, Sonja Heintz, and Hugo Carretero-Dios
Attachment, psychological health and interpersonal functioning: a comparison of clinical and non-clinical groups of people with intellectual disability, Lucy Bateman, Andrea Flood, Deanna Jayne Gallichan, and Pascalis L De
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
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
Two of a Kind or Distant Relatives?, Willibald Ruch, Valentina Vylobkova, and Sonja Heintz
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
Eyelash length attractiveness across ethnicities, Farid Pazhoohi and Alan Kingstone
Strength of Pornography Craving Experience (PCE-S): psychometric properties of a new measure based on the Elaborated Intrusion theory of desire, F Ben Brahim, G Vera Cruz, Robert Courtois, Jon May, and Yasser Khazaal
Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making, Tarryn Balsdon, M. Andrea Pisauro, and Marios G. Philiastides
Does variability in recognition memory scale with mean memory strength or encoding variability in the UVSD model?, Rory W. Spanton and Christopher J. Berry
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
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?, Roman Stengelin, Daniel B.M. Haun, and Patricia Kanngiesser
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
Deep-learning predicted PET can be subtracted from the true clinical fluorodeoxyglucose PET co-registered to MRI to identify the epileptogenic zone in focal epilepsy, A Flaus, J Jung, K Ostrowky‐Coste, S Rheims, and et al
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates, N Bault, SN Yaakub, and E Fouragnan
Investigating the role of action-contingent expectancy biases in dysphoria-linked activity engagement behavioural choice, Julie L. Ji and Colin MacLeod
Predicting narcissistic personality traits from brain and psychological features: A supervised machine learning approach, Khanitin Jornkokgoud, Teresa Baggio, Md Faysal, Richard Bakiaj, Peera Wongupparaj, Remo Job, and Alessandro Grecucci
