Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2020
Say it aloud: Measuring change talk and user perceptions in an automated, technology-delivered adaptation of motivational interviewing delivered by video-counsellor, Jackie Andrade, Gomes da Silva J Galvão, David J. Kavanagh, and Jon May
Rethinking legibility in the era of digital mobile maps: An empirical study, Negar Ahmadpoor, Alastair D. Smith, and Tim Heath
Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the primary motor cortex attenuates capsaicin‐induced dynamic mechanical allodynia and mechanical pain sensitivity in humans, SW Hughes, G Ward, and PH Strutton
Living with suicidality following traumatic brain injury: A qualitative study, Alyson Norman, Ellie Knight, and Grahame K. Simpson
Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams, Rotem Botvinik-Nezer, Felix Holzmeister, Colin F. Camerer, Anna Dreber, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Roni Iwanir, Jeanette A. Mumford, R. Alison Adcock, Paolo Avesani, Blazej M. Baczkowski, Aahana Bajracharya, Leah Bakst, Sheryl Ball, Marco Barilari, Nadège Bault, Derek Beaton, Julia Beitner, Roland G. Benoit, Ruud M.W.J. Berkers, Jamil P. Bhanji, Bharat B. Biswal, Sebastian Bobadilla-Suarez, Tiago Bortolini, Katherine L. Bottenhorn, Alexander Bowring, Senne Braem, Hayley R. Brooks, Emily G. Brudner, Cristian B. Calderon, Julia A. Camilleri, Jaime J. Castrellon, Luca Cecchetti, Edna C. Cieslik, Zachary J. Cole, Olivier Collignon, Robert W. Cox, William A. Cunningham, Stefan Czoschke, Kamalaker Dadi, Charles P. Davis, Alberto De Luca, Mauricio R. Delgado, Lysia Demetriou, Jeffrey B. Dennison, Xin Di, Erin W. Dickie, Ekaterina Dobryakova, Claire L. Donnat, Juergen Dukart, Niall W. Duncan, Joke Durnez, Amr Eed, Simon B. Eickhoff, Andrew Erhart, Laura Fontanesi, G. Matthew Fricke, Shiguang Fu, Adriana Galván, Remi Gau, Sarah Genon, Tristan Glatard, Enrico Glerean, Jelle J. Goeman, Sergej A.E. Golowin, Carlos González-García, Krzysztof J. Gorgolewski, Cheryl L. Grady, Mikella A. Green, Moreira JF Guassi, Olivia Guest, Shabnam Hakimi, J. Paul Hamilton, Roeland Hancock, Giacomo Handjaras, Bronson B. Harry, Colin Hawco, Peer Herholz, Gabrielle Herman, Stephan Heunis, Felix Hoffstaedter, Jeremy Hogeveen, Susan Holmes, Chuan Peng Hu, Scott A. Huettel, and Matthew E. Hughes
Diffusion tensor imaging of lumbar spinal nerves reveals changes in microstructural integrity following decompression surgery associated with improvements in clinical symptoms: A case report, SW Hughes, PJ Hellyer, DJ Sharp, and et al
Results and insight gained from applying the EnergyCat energy-saving serious game in UK social housing, R Hafner, A Fuertes, S Pahl, R Jones, C Boomsma, M Gangolells, and M Casals
Is diet partly responsible for differences in COVID-19 death rates between and within countries?, Jean Bousquet, The ARIA Group, Josep M. Anto, Guido Iaccarino, Wienczyslawa Czarlewski, Tari Haahtela, Aram Anto, Cezmi A. Akdis, Hubert Blain, G. Walter Canonica, Victoria Cardona, Alvaro A. Cruz, Maddalena Illario, Juan Carlos Ivancevich, Marek Jutel, Ludger Klimek, Piotr Kuna, Daniel Laune, Désirée Larenas-linnemann, Joaquim Mullol, Nikos G. Papadopoulos, Oliver Pfaar, Boleslaw Samolinski, Arunas Valiulis, Arzu Yorgancioglu, Torsten Zuberbier, Amir Hamzah Abdul Latiff, Baharudin Abdullah, Werner Aberer, and Nancy Abusada
Decoding music-evoked emotions in the auditory and motor cortex, V Putkinen, S Nazari-Farsani, K Seppälä, T Karjalainen, L Sun, HK Karlsson, M Hudson, TT Heikkilä, J Hirvonen, and L Nummenmaa
Mental Capacity Past, Present and Future: An overview, R Morris
Motor cortex activity during action observation predicts subsequent action imitation in human infants, Moritz Köster, Miriam Langeloh, Christian Kliesch, Patricia Kanngiesser, and Stefanie Hoehl
The Motivational Thought Frequency scales for increased physical activity and reduced high-energy snacking, David J. Kavanagh, Hugo Teixeira, Jennifer Connolly, Jackie Andrade, Jon May, Shaneen Godfrey, Amanda Carroll, Kimberly Taylor, and Jason P. Connor
Affordance matching predictively shapes the perceptual representation of others’ ongoing actions., Katrina L. McDonough, Marcello Costantini, Matthew Hudson, Eleanor Ward, and Patric Bach
Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task, M Wimmer, C Marx, S Stirk, and P Hancock
Spatial knowledge acquisition and mobile maps: The role of environmental legibility, Negar Ahmadpoor and Alastair D. Smith
Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-Based Dilemmas in The Processing of Scientific Information, Stephan Lewandowsky, Jan K. Woike, and Klaus Oberauer
Genesis or Evolution of Gender Differences? Worldview-based Dilemmas in The Processing of Scientific Information (preprint), S Lewandowsky, JK Woike, and K Oberauer
The long and winding road: A comprehensive analysis of 50 years of Eysenck instruments for the assessment of personality, Willibald Ruch, Sonja Heintz, Fabian Gander, Jennifer Hofmann, Tracey Platt, and René T. Proyer
Supporting Innovative Person-Centred Care in Financially Constrained Environments: The WE CARE Exploratory Health Laboratory Evaluation Strategy, Helen M. Lloyd, Inger Ekman, Heather L. Rogers, Vítor Raposo, Paulo Melo, Valentina D. Marinkovic, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Einav Srulovici, Roman Andrzej Lewandowski, and Nicky Britten
Capsaicin-Induced Changes in Electrical Pain Perception Threshold Can Be Used to Assess the Magnitude of Secondary Hyperalgesia in Humans, SW Hughes, M Basra, C Chan, C Parr, and et al
Heritability of alpha and sensorimotor network changes in temporal lobe epilepsy, SN Yaakub, C Tangwiriyasakul, E Abela, M Koutroumanidis, and et al
Labels strengthen motor learning of new tools, Francois R. Foerster, Anna M. Borghi, and Jeremy Goslin
Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment, Bailey R. House, Patricia Kanngiesser, HC Barrett, Süheyla Yilmaz, Andrew Marcus Smith, Carla Sebastian-Enesco, Alejandro Erut, and Joan B. Silk
It’s not always about me: The effects of prior beliefs and stimulus prevalence on self–other prioritisation, JK Falbén, M Golubickis, D Wischerath, D Tsamadi, and et al
Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams (Preprint), R Botvinik-Nezer, F Holzmeister, CF Camerer, A Dreber, J Huber, M Johannesson, M Kirchler, R Iwanir, JA Mumford, A Adcock, P Avesani, B Baczkowski, A Bajracharya, L Bakst, S Ball, M Barilari, N Bault, D Beaton, J Beitner, R Benoit, R Berkers, J Bhanji, B Biswal, S Bobadilla-Suarez, T Bortolini, K Bottenhorn, A Bowring, S Braem, H Brooks, and E Brudner
Energy use in social housing residents in the UK and recommendations for developing energy behaviour change interventions, RJ Hafner, S Pahl, RV Jones, and A Fuertes
The role of face and voice cues in predicting the outcome of student representative elections, Mila Mileva, James Tompkinson, Dominic Watt, and A. Mike Burton
Who shows which kind of humor? Exploring sociodemographic differences in eight comic styles in a large Chilean sample, A Mendiburo‐Seguel and Sonja Heintz
A dimensional summation account of polymorphous category learning, Andy J. Wills, Lyn Ellett, Fraser Milton, Gareth Croft, and Tom Beesley
Do Humans Imitate Robots?, Debora Zanatto, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Jeremy Goslin, Serge Thill, and Angelo Cangelosi
Predictive coding in auditory perception: challenges and unresolved questions, SL Denham and I Winkler
Understanding Public Attitudes to Hate: Developing and Testing a U.K. Version of the Hate Crime Beliefs Scale, Alison M. Bacon, Jon May, and Jaysan J. Charlesford
Looking Behind and Looking Ahead: Personality Differences in Counterfactual and Prefactual Thinking, Alison M. Bacon, Clare R. Walsh, and R Briazu
Protocol for direct reporting of awareness in maternity patients (DREAMY): a prospective, multicentre cohort study of accidental awareness during general anaesthesia, P. M. Odor, S. Bampoe, D. N. Lucas, S. R. Moonesinghe, J. Andrade, and J. J. Pandit
Putting your money where your self is: Connecting dimensions of closeness and theories of personal identity, Jan K. Woike, Philip Collard, and Bruce Hood
A single system account of enhanced recognition memory in synaesthesia, Nicolas Rothen, Christopher J. Berry, Anil K. Seth, Sabine Oligschläger, and Jamie Ward
Expertise in Evaluating Choreographic Creativity: An Online Variation of the Consensual Assessment Technique, Lucie Clements, Emma Redding, Sell N Lefebvre, and Jon May
Population fragmentation drives up genetic diversity in signals of individual identity, C Dytham and MDF Thom
The Art of Influencing Consumer Choices: A Reflection on Recent Advances in Decision Neuroscience, Nadège Bault and Elena Rusconi
Psychological and emotional issues after stroke, R Morris
Predictive Action Perception from Explicit Intention Information in Autism, M Hudson, T Nicholson, R McKenzi, and P Bach
Aging Predicts Decline in Explicit and Implicit Memory: A Life-Span Study, Emma V. Ward, Christopher J. Berry, David R. Shanks, Petter L. Moller, and Enida Czsiser
Ambiguity in Psychology, J May
A measure to assess the workplace well‐being of psychological practitioners, Reg C. Morris, Elisabeth M.A. Summers, and Gita E. Bhutani
An interdisciplinary approach to improving the quality of life in Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: A case study, C Turner, D Crocker, J Rhodes, K Nedza, and J May
A reformulated contextual model of psychotherapy for treating anxiety and depression, Michael E. Hyland
Associations between pro-environmental behaviour and neighbourhood nature, nature visit frequency and nature appreciation: Evidence from a nationally representative survey in England, I Alcock, MP White, S Pahl, R Duarte-Davidson, and LE Fleming
Beyond the crossroads of magic, health, and well-being, Steven Bagienski and Gustav Kuhn
Birth trauma from the perspective of perinatal counsellors. A mini focus group study, G Baptie, E Januario, and A Norman
Children, but not great apes, respect ownership, Patricia Kanngiesser, Federico Rossano, Ramona Frickel, Anne Tomm, and Michael Tomasello
Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK: A personality-based perspective on concerns and intention to self-isolate, Alison M. Bacon and Philip J. Corr
Correction: Management of nystagmus in children: a review of the literature and current practice in UK specialist services, JE Self, MJ Dunn, JT Erichsen, I Gottlob, HJ Griffiths, C Harris, H Lee, J Owen, J Sanders, F Shawkat, M Theodorou, and JP Whittle
Crowdsourcing hypothesis tests: Making transparent how design choices shape research results., Justin F. Landy, ML Jia, Isabel L. Ding, Domenico Viganola, Warren Tierney, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Charles R. Ebersole, Quentin F. Gronau, A Ly, den Bergh D van, Maarten Marsman, Koen Derks, E-J Wagenmakers, Andrew Proctor, Daniel M. Bartels, Christopher W. Bauman, William J. Brady, F Cheung, Andrei Cimpian, Simone Dohle, M. Brent Donnellan, Adam Hahn, Michael P. Hall, William Jiménez-Leal, DJ Johnson, Richard E. Lucas, BenoÎt Monin, and Andres Montealegre
Dissociable neural systems for unconditioned acute and sustained fear, Matthew Hudson, Kerttu Seppälä, Vesa Putkinen, Lihua Sun, Enrico Glerean, Tomi Karjalainen, Henry K. Karlsson, Jussi Hirvonen, and Lauri Nummenmaa
Enhancing creativity by training metacognitive skills in mental imagery, Jon May, Emma Redding, Sarah Whatley, Klara Łucznik, Lucie Clements, Rebecca Weber, John Sikorski, and Sara Reed
Facial identity across the lifespan, Mila Mileva, Andrew W. Young, Rob Jenkins, and A. Mike Burton
Facing up to the wandering mind: Patterns of off-task laboratory thought are associated with stronger neural recruitment of right fusiform cortex while processing facial stimuli, Nerissa Siu Ping Ho, Giulia Poerio, Delali Konu, Adam Turnbull, Mladen Sormaz, Robert Leech, Boris Bernhardt, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
If your device could smile: People trust happy-sounding artificial agents more, Ilaria Torre, Jeremy Goslin, and Laurence White
Implications for Practice: Why signposting patients to the Pituitary Foundation matters, Sue Jackson, Alyson Norman, Pat McBride, and Pauline Whittingham
Nature contact, nature connectedness and associations with health, wellbeing and pro-environmental behaviours, L Martin, MP White, A Hunt, M Richardson, S Pahl, and J Burt
Nrf2-interacting nutrients and COVID-19: time for research to develop adaptation strategies, Jean Bousquet, The ARIA Group, Jean Paul Cristol, Wienczyslawa Czarlewski, Josep M. Anto, Adrian Martineau, Tari Haahtela, Susana C. Fonseca, Guido Iaccarino, Hubert Blain, Alessandro Fiocchi, G. Walter Canonica, Joao A. Fonseca, Alain Vidal, Hak Jong Choi, Hyun Ju Kim, Vincent Le Moing, Jacques Reynes, Cezmi A. Akdis, Torsten Zuberbier, Amir Hamzah Abdul Latiff, Baharudin Abdullah, Werner Aberer, Nancy Abusada, Ian Adcock, Alejandro Afani, Ioana Agache, Xenofon Aggelidis, Jenifer Agustin, and Mübeccel Akdis
Parts of me: Identity-relevance moderates self-prioritization, Marius Golubickis, Johanna K. Falbén, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Jie Sui, William A. Cunningham, and Macrae C Neil
Perspective taking as virtual navigation? Perceptual simulation of what others see reflects their location in space but not their gaze, Eleanor Ward, Giorgio Ganis, Katrina L. McDonough, and Patric Bach
Positive intergroup contact modulates fusiform gyrus activity to black and white faces, S. Terbeck, H. Farmer, M. Hewstone, O. Spiegler, H. Morse, A. Saifullah, X. Pan, B. Fell, and J. Charlesford
Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference, Michael C. Frank, Katherine Jane Alcock, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Gisa Aschersleben, Dare Baldwin, Stéphanie Barbu, Elika Bergelson, Christina Bergmann, Alexis K. Black, Ryan Blything, Maximilian P. Böhland, Petra Bolitho, Arielle Borovsky, Shannon M. Brady, Bettina Braun, Anna Brown, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Linda E. Campbell, Cara Cashon, Mihye Choi, Joan Christodoulou, Laura K. Cirelli, Stefania Conte, Sara Cordes, Christopher Cox, Alejandrina Cristia, Rhodri Cusack, Catherine Davies, Klerk M de, Luche C Delle, LD Ruiter, Dhanya Dinakar, Kate C. Dixon, Virginie Durier, Samantha Durrant, Christopher Fennell, Brock Ferguson, Alissa Ferry, Paula Fikkert, Teresa Flanagan, Caroline Floccia, Megan Foley, Tom Fritzsche, Rebecca L.A. Frost, Anja Gampe, Judit Gervain, Nayeli Gonzalez-Gomez, Anna Gupta, Laura E. Hahn, Hamlin J Kiley, EE Hannon, N Havron, J Hay, M Hernik, B Höhle, DM Houston, LH Howard, M Ishikawa, S Itakura, I Jackson, KV Jakobsen, M Jarto, SP Johnson, C Junge, D Karadag, N Kartushina, DJ Kellier, T Keren-Portnoy, K Klassen, M Kline, E-S Ko, JF Kominsky, JE Kosie, HE Kragness, AAR Krieger, F Krieger, J Lany, RJ Lazo, M Lee, C Leservoisier, C Levelt, C Lew-Williams, M Lippold, U Liszkowski, L Liu, SG Luke, RA Lundwall, Cassia V Macchi, and N Mani
Rivals without a cause? Relative performance feedback creates destructive competition despite aligned incentives, Jan K. Woike and Sebastian Hafenbrädl
Searching for meaning in sound: Learning and interpreting alarm signals in visual environments., S McDougall, J Edworthy, D Sinimeri, J Goodliffe, D Bradley, and J Foster
Separating Content and Structure in Humor Appreciation: A Bimodal Structural Equation Modeling Approach, Sonja Heintz
The unequal variance signal-detection model of recognition memory: Investigating the encoding variability hypothesis, Christopher J. Berry and Rory W. Spanton
Translation equivalent and cross-language semantic priming in bilingual toddlers, Caroline Floccia, Luche C Delle, Irina Lepadatu, Janette Chow, Paul Ratnage, and Kim Plunkett
Umorismo e intelligenza. Uno studio sperimentale [Humor and intelligence. An experimental study], G Forabosco, A Dionigi, F Cioni, and S Heintz
Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development, Bailey R. House, Patricia Kanngiesser, H. Clark Barrett, Tanya Broesch, Senay Cebioglu, Alyssa N. Crittenden, Alejandro Erut, Sheina Lew-Levy, Carla Sebastian-Enesco, Andrew Marcus Smith, Süheyla Yilmaz, and Joan B. Silk
Word up – Experiential and neurocognitive evidence for associations between autistic symptomology and a preference for thinking in the form of words, Adam Turnbull, Sarah N. Garfinkel, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Hugo D. Critchley, Boris C. Bernhardt, Elizabeth Jefferies, and Jonathan Smallwood
Submissions from 2019
Bradykinesia is driven by cumulative beta power during continuous movement and alleviated by GABAergic modulation in Parkinson’s disease., Stephen D. Hall, Emma J. Prokic, Gavin L. Woodhall, Adrian C. Williams, and Ian M. Stanford
Diving and mental health: the potential benefits and risks from a survey of recreational scuba divers, Leger Dowse M St, Ben Whalley, Matthew K. Waterman, Robert M. Conway, and GR Smeardon
Is Nurturing Attachments training effective in improving Self-Efficacy in foster carers and in reducing manifestations of Reactive Attachment Disorder in looked after children?, Alison M. Bacon, Naomi Gibbons, and Lisa Lloyd
The inter-relationship between acquired brain injury, substance use and homelessness; the impact of adverse childhood experiences: an interpretative phenomenological analysis study, Alyson Norman, Christian D. Adshead, and Mark Holloway
Upon Repeated Reflection: Consequences of Frequent Exposure to the Cognitive Reflection Test for Mechanical Turk Participants, Jan K. Woike
Social information use in adolescents: The impact of adults, peers and household composition, Lucas Molleman, Patricia Kanngiesser, and den Bos W van
Investigating cooperation with robotic peers, Debora Zanatto, Massimiliano Patacchiola, Jeremy Goslin, and Angelo Cangelosi
The potential and pitfalls of narrative elicitation in person-centred care, Helen Lloyd
The potential and pitfalls of narrative elicitation in person‐centred care., Öncel Naldemirci, Axel Wolf, Nicky Britten, and Helen Lloyd
Improving access to social care services following Acquired Brain Injury: A needs analysis., T Odumuyiwa, M Kennedy, A Norman, M Holloway, S Freya, F Hannah, and D Hilary
Evaluating motor cortical oscillations and age-related change in autism spectrum disorder, William Gaetz, Edward Rhodes, Luke Bloy, Lisa Blaskey, Carissa R. Jackel, Edward S. Brodkin, Amy Waldman, David Embick, Stephen Hall, and Timothy P.L. Roberts
The best treatment option(s) for adult and elderly patients with chronic primary musculoskeletal pain: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis, Cosima Locher, Helen Koechlin, Ben Whalley, and Nicky J. Welton
Attenuation of capsaicin-induced ongoing pain and secondary hyperalgesia during exposure to an immersive virtual reality environment, SW Hughes, H Zhao, EJ Auvinet, and PH Strutton
Emotion Goals: What do Sexual Offenders Want to Feel?, C Garofalo, B Lopez-Perez, M Gummerum, Y Hanoch, and M Tamir
On the dimensionality of humorous conduct and associations with humor traits and behaviors, Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
Benevolent and Corrective Humor, Life Satisfaction, and Broad Humor Dimensions: Extending the Nomological Network of the BenCor Across 25 Countries, Sonja Heintz, Willibald Ruch, Simge Aykan, Ingrid Brdar, Dorota Brzozowska, Hugo Carretero-Dios, Hsueh Chih Chen, Władysław Chłopicki, Incheol Choi, Alberto Dionigi, Róbert Ďurka, Thomas E. Ford, Angelika Güsewell, Robert B. Isler, Alyona Ivanova, Liisi Laineste, Petra Lajčiaková, Chloe Lau, Minha Lee, Stanca Măda, Charles Martin-Krumm, Andrés Mendiburo-Seguel, Ifu Migiwa, Nailya Mustafi, Atsushi Oshio, Tracey Platt, René T. Proyer, Angélica Quiroga-Garza, Tamil Selvan Ramis, and Răzvan Săftoiu
Health-related quality-of-life assessment in dementia: Evidence of cross-cultural validity in Latin America., K-C Chua, JR Böhnke, M Prince, and S Banerjee
Predictably confirmatory: The influence of stereotypes during decisional processing, JK Falbén, D Tsamadi, M Golubickis, JL Olivier, and et al
The effect of pre-exposure on overall similarity categorization, Fraser Milton, I. P.L. McLaren, Edward Copestake, David Satherley, and Andy J. Wills
Are Future Psychologists Willing to Accept and Use a Humanoid Robot in Their Practice? Italian and English Students’ Perspective, Daniela Conti, Allegra Cattani, Nuovo S Di, and Nuovo A Di
The redundancy effect is related to a lack of conditioned inhibition: Evidence from a task in which excitation and inhibition are symmetrical, Tara Zaksaite and Peter M. Jones
Memory Influences Visual Cognition across Multiple Functional States of Interactive Cortical Dynamics, H Schendan
Pituitary conditions: importance of geography and the Pituitary Foundation in patient support, U Anneliese, Alyson Norman, and J Sue
Sertraline and Mirtazapine Versus Placebo in Subgroups of Depression in Dementia: Findings From the HTA-SADD Randomized Controlled Trial, M Zuidersma, K-C Chua, J Hellier, RO Voshaar, and S Banerjee
An Experimental Validation of Masking in IEC 60601-1-8:2006-compliant Alarm Sounds, M Bolton, XI Zheng, L Meng, J Edworthy, and A Boyd
An Experimental Validation of Masking in IEC 60601-1-8:2006-compliant Alarm Sounds, M Bolton, XI Zheng, L Meng, J Edworthy, and A Boyd
Dissociable learning processes, associative theory, and testimonial reviews: A comment on Smith and Church (2018, Andy J. Wills, Charlotte E.R. Edmunds, Pelley M Le, Fraser Milton, Ben R. Newell, Dominic M. Dwyer, and David R. Shanks
