Browse research from the School of Psychology.
Submissions from 2016
Promoting energy users' behavioural change in social housing through a serious game, M Casals, M Gangolells, M Macarulla, A Fuertes, R Jones, S Pahl, and M Ruiz
Healthcare meetings where the patient is absent: The ethical and values based implications for research, CA Smart, T Madeleine, S Mhlanga, and J Dickenson
iCOP: Live forensics to reveal previously unknown criminal media on P2P networks, C Peersman, C Schulze, A Rashid, M Brennan, and C Fischer
Space heating preferences in UK social housing: A socio-technical household survey combined with building audits, RV Jones, A Fuertes, C Boomsma, and S Pahl
Tailoring risk communication to improve comprehension: Do patient preferences help or hurt?, AJ Barnes, Y Hanoch, T Miron-Shatz, and EM Ozanne
The format of children's mental images: Evidence from mental scanning., MC Wimmer, KL Maras, EJ Robinson, and C Thomas
Drawing Firmer Conclusions: Autistic Children Show No Evidence of a Local Processing Bias in a Controlled Copying Task, Alastair D. Smith, Lorcan Kenny, Anna Rudnicka, Josie Briscoe, and Elizabeth Pellicano
Social influences on unconscious plagiarism and anti-plagiarism, Timothy J. Hollins, Nicholas Lange, Ian Dennis, and Christopher A. Longmore
Assessment of motivation to control alcohol use: The motivational thought frequency and state motivation scales for alcohol control, David Kavanagh, Nicole Robinson, Jason Connor, Jon May, and Jackie Andrade
Can cognitive psychological research on reasoning enhance the discussion around moral judgments?, M Bialek and S Terbeck
Cognition, Health Literacy, and Actual and Perceived Medicare Knowledge Among Inner-City Medicare Beneficiaries, H Sivakumar, Y Hanoch, AJ Barnes, and AD Federman
Explaining unexplained pain to fibromyalgia patients: finding a narrative that is acceptable to patients and provides a rationale for evidence based interventions, Michael E. Hyland, Claire Hinton, Charlotte Hill, Ben Whalley, Rupert C.M. Jones, and Anthony F. Davies
The Things You Do: Internal Models of Others’ Expected Behaviour Guide Action Observation, KC Schenke, NA Wyer, and P Bach
The psychological cycle behind dental appointment attendance: a cross-sectional study of experiences, anticipations, and behavioral intentions, Annegret Schneider, Jackie Andrade, Karin Tanja-Dijkstra, Mathew White, and David R. Moles
Inner speech sustains predictable task switching: direct evidence in adults, Fabien Mathy, Lucie Laurent, Jean Louis Millot, Patrice Andrieu, Valérie Camos, and Caroline Floccia
Costly third-party interventions: The role of incidental anger and attention focus in punishment of the perpetrator and compensation of the victim, M Gummerum, LF Van Dillen, E Van Dijk, and B López-Pérez
Influence of the type of patient in the emotional response of nurses and nursing students, B Lopez-Perez, T Ambrona, and Y Hanoch
Noticing Future Me, CN Macrae, JP Mitchell, DL McNamara, M Golubickis, and et al
Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to Study Dynamic Stereoscopic Depth Perception, LM Ward, G Morison, WA Simpson, AJ Simmers, and U Shahani
Ambient scent as a mood inducer in supermarkets: The role of scent intensity and time-pressure of shoppers, MAAM Leenders, A Smidts, and AE Haji
Distinct and Overlapping Brain Areas Engaged during Value-Based, Mathematical, and Emotional Decision Processing, C-W Hsu and JOS Goh
Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse, Willem Kuyken, Fiona C. Warren, Rod S. Taylor, Ben Whalley, Catherine Crane, Guido Bondolfi, Rachel Hayes, Marloes Huijbers, Helen Ma, Susanne Schweizer, Zindel Segal, Anne Speckens, John D. Teasdale, Heeringen K Van, Mark Williams, Sarah Byford, Richard Byng, and Tim Dalgleish
The observing self: Diminishing egocentrism through brief mindfulness meditation, M Golubickis, LBG Tan, JK Falben, and CN Macrae
Thinking outside of the box: Transfer of shape-based reorientation across the boundary of an arena, Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
An evolutionary perspective on the co-occurrence of social anxiety disorder and alcohol use disorder, A Bulley, B Miloyan, B Brilot, MJ Gullo, and T Suddendorf
Auditory Multi-Stability: Idiosyncratic Perceptual Switching Patterns, Executive Functions and Personality Traits, D Farkas, SL Denham, A Bendixen, and et al
Attitudes toward hydraulic fracturing: The opposing forces of political conservatism and basic knowledge about fracking, BL Choma, Y Hanoch, and S Currie
Functional Imagery Training to reduce snacking: Testing a novel motivational intervention based on Elaborated Intrusion theory, Jackie Andrade, Marina Khalil, Jennifer Dickson, Jon May, and David J. Kavanagh
The feasibility of saving energy in challenging organisational contexts: Testing energy visualisation in a social services office in the United Kingdom, C Boomsma, J Goodhew, S Pahl, and RV Jones
Examining group dynamics more closely: A Conversation Analysis study of how agenda change points are managed in LD healthcare service planning meetings., CA Smart and N Froomberg
Achieving patient-centred care in multidisciplinary teams: Examining interactions when raising a concern about a patient, M Tremblett and CA Smart
Group Analysis in Practice: Narrative Approaches, A Phoenix, J Brannen, H Elliott, J Smithson, and et al
Relative Pitch Perception and the Detection of Deviant Tone Patterns, SL Denham, M Coath, GP Háden, F Murray, and I Winkler
Peer abuse and its contexts in industrial schools in Ireland, Stephen James Minton and Jeremiah J. Lynch
Different Attentional Patterns for Regret and Disappointment: An Eye‐tracking Study, Nadège Bault, Pierre Wydoodt, and Giorgio Coricelli
Evidence of a metacognitive benefit to memory?, TJ Hollins and N Weber
Assessing the validity of subjective reports in the auditory streaming paradigm, D Farkas, SL Denham, A Bendixen, and I Winkler
Preference for Safe Over Risky Options in Binge Eating, Giorgio Coricelli, R Neveu, Elsa Fouragnan, Franck Barsumian, Edouard Carrier, Massimo Lai, Alain Nicolas, and D Neveu
Can Plan Recommendations Improve the Coverage Decisions of Vulnerable Populations in Health Insurance Marketplaces?, AJ Barnes, Y Hanoch, and T Rice
Is patient acceptance of the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures linked to symptomatology?, Mark Thaller, Michael E. Hyland, Rohan Kandasamy, and Martin Sadler
AN OVERVIEW OF ATTACHMENT THEORY: BOWLBY AND BEYOND, Helen K. Fletcher and Deanna J. Gallichan
ATTACHMENT TRAUMA AND PATHOLOGICAL MOURNING IN ADULTS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, Deanna J. Gallichan and Carol George
NORADRENALINE EFFECTS ON SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, INTERGROUP RELATIONS, AND MORAL DECISIONS, S Terbeck, J Savulescu, and P Cowen
The format of children’s mental images: Penetrability of spatial images, MC Wimmer, KL Maras, EJ Robinson, and C Thomas
Ocular drift along the mental number line., A Myachykov, R Ellis, A Cangelosi, and MH Fischer
A Comparison of the neural correlates that underlie rule-based and information-integration category learning, Kathryn L. Carpenter, Andy J. Wills, Abdelmalek Benattayallah, and Fraser Milton
A "Mental Models" approach to the communication of subsurface hydrology and hazards, H Gibson, I Stewart, S Pahl, and A Stokes
Amnesic Patients Show Superior Generalization in Category Learning, Garret O'Connell, Catherine E. Myers, Ramona O. Hopkins, R. P. McLaren, Mark A. Gluck, and Andy J. Wills
Attention and associative learning in humans: An integrative review, Pelley ME Le, Chris J. Mitchell, Tom Beesley, David N. George, and Andy J. Wills
British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infant-directed speech stimuli, Caroline Floccia, Tamar Keren-Portnoy, Rory DePaolis, Hester Duffy, Luche C Delle, Samantha Durrant, Laurence White, Jeremy Goslin, and Marilyn Vihman
Derailing the streetcar named desire. Cognitive distractions reduce individual differences in cravings and unhealthy snacking in response to palatable food, Dillen L van and Jackie Andrade
Description and experience: How experimental investors learn about booms and busts affects their financial risk taking, Tomás Lejarraga, Jan K. Woike, and Ralph Hertwig
Discrimination amongst Arctic Indigenous Sámi and non-Sámi Populations in Norway, KL Hansen, S Minton, O Friborg, and T Sørlie
Giving and stealing ideas in memory: Source errors in recall are influenced by both early-selection and late-correction retrieval processes, Timothy J. Hollins, Nicholas Lange, Christopher J. Berry, and Ian Dennis
Is anterior N2 enhancement a reliable electrophysiological index of concealed information?, Giorgio Ganis, David Bridges, C-W Hsu, and Haline E. Schendan
I see what you say: Prior knowledge of other’s goals automatically biases the perception of their actions, Matthew Hudson, Toby Nicholson, Rob Ellis, and Patric Bach
Logic brightens my day: Evidence for implicit sensitivity to logical validity., Dries Trippas, Simon J. Handley, Michael F. Verde, and Kinga Morsanyi
Manipulative emotional behaviour and delinquency: sex differences and links to emotional intelligence., Alison M. Bacon and Lisa Regan
Negative mental imagery in public speaking anxiety: Forming cognitive resistance by taxing visuospatial working memory, Catherine Deeprose, Sophie R. Homer, and Jackie Andrade
Neural connectivity of alexithymia: Specific association with major depressive disorder, Tatia M.C. Lee, Nerissa S.P. Ho, and Michael M.C. Wong
One step ahead: The perceived kinematics of others’ actions are biased toward expected goals., Matthew Hudson, Toby Nicholson, William A. Simpson, Rob Ellis, and Patric Bach
Picture yourself: Self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children, Bruce Hood, Sandra Weltzien, Lauren Marsh, and Patricia Kanngiesser
Preference for different relaxation techniques by COPD patients: comparison between six techniques, David M.G. Halpin, Michael E. Hyland, Sue Blake, D Seamark, Margaret Pinnuck, David Ward, Ben Whalley, Colin J. Greaves, Adam L. Hawkins, and C Seamark
Principal components analysis of reward prediction errors in a reinforcement learning task, Thomas D. Sambrook and Jeremy Goslin
Reply to Martin (2015): Why our conclusions hold, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5), J Bousquet, J. Farrell, G. Crooks, P. Hellings, E. H. Bel, M. Bewick, N. H. Chavannes, Sousa JC de, A. A. Cruz, T. Haahtela, G. Joos, N. Khaltaev, J. Malva, A. Muraro, M. Nogues, S. Palkonen, S. Pedersen, C. Robalo-Cordeiro, B. Samolinski, T. Strandberg, A. Valiulis, A. Yorgancioglu, T. Zuberbier, A. Bedbrook, W. Aberer, M. Adachi, A. Agusti, CA Akdis, M Akdis, and J. Ankri
The German Version of the Humor Styles Questionnaire: Psychometric Properties and Overlap With Other Styles of Humor., Willibald Ruch and Sonja Heintz
The logic-bias effect: The role of effortful processing in the resolution of belief–logic conflict, Stephanie Howarth, Simon J. Handley, and Clare Walsh
The Mini Alcohol Craving Experience Questionnaire: Development and Clinical Application, Jason P. Connor, Jason M. Coates, Matthew J. Gullo, Gerald F.X. Feeney, David J. Kavanagh, Ross Mc D. Young, Genevieve A. Dingle, Jon May, Jackie Andrade, and Dixie J. Statham
The propositional basis of cue-controlled reward seeking, Tina Seabrooke, Lee Hogarth, and Chris J. Mitchell
The virtue gap in humor: Exploring benevolent and corrective humor., W Ruch and S Heintz
Transitions in Interface Objects: Searching Databases, Tim Gamble and Jon May
Submissions from 2015
Playing Tetris decreases drug and other cravings in real world settings, J Skorka-Brown, J Andrade, B Whalley, and J May
Response: No need to match: a comment on Bach, Nicholson, and Hudson's “Affordance-Matching Hypothesis”, Patric Bach, Toby Nicholson, and Matthew Hudson
Between minds and bodies: Some insights about creativity from dance improvisation, K Łucznik
Making Heat Visible: Promoting Energy Conservation Behaviors Through Thermal Imaging, Julie Goodhew, Sabine Pahl, Tim Auburn, and Steve Goodhew
Nursing home placement in the Donepezil and Memantine in Moderate to Severe Alzheimer's Disease (DOMINO-AD) trial: secondary and post-hoc analyses, R Howard, R McShane, J Lindesay, and et al
The impact of multimorbidity on adult physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: what does the study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) reveal?, P Arokiasamy, U Uttamacharya, K Jain, RB Biritwum, and et al
Turning I into me: Imagining your future self, CN Macrae, JP Mitchell, KA Tait, DL McNamara, and et al
Understanding fear and anxiety in patients at the time of an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study, D Halpin, M Hyland, S Blake, C Seamark, M Pinnuck, D Ward, B Whalley, C Greaves, A Hawkins, and D Seamark
How Visuo-Spatial Mental Imagery Develops: Image Generation and Maintenance, MC Wimmer, KL Maras, EJ Robinson, MJ Doherty, and N Pugeault
Blocking spatial navigation across environments that have a different shape., Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
Investigating decision rules with a new experimental design: the EXACT paradigm, V Biscione and CM Harris
A comparison of linear and logarithmic auditory tones in pulse oximeters, Judy Edworthy, Zoe Brown, J. Robert Sneyd, and Joseph Schlesinger
An examination of the convergence between the conceptualization and the measurement of humor styles: A study of the construct validity of the Humor Styles Questionnaire, Sonja Heintz and Willibald Ruch
The hows and whys of face memory: level of construal influences the recognition of human faces, NA Wyer, TJ Hollins, S Pahl, and J Roper
Better but still biased: Analytic cognitive style and belief bias, Dries Trippas, Gordon Pennycook, Michael F. Verde, and Simon J. Handley
The Effects of Exercising in Different Natural Environments on Psycho-Physiological Outcomes in Post-Menopausal Women: A Simulation Study, MP White, S Pahl, KJ Ashbullby, F Burton, and MH Depledge
Top-down modulation of visual processing and knowledge after 250 ms supports object constancy of category decisions, HE Schendan and G Ganis
Clients bringing professionals together: Affiliation and alignment in psychology involved healthcare MDT meetings, CA Smart, N Froomberg, N Parish, L Aikman, and T Auburn
Beating the bounds: Localized timing cues to word segmentation, L White, SL Mattys, L Stefansdottir, and V Jones
β-Adrenoceptor blockade modulates fusiform gyrus activity to black versus white faces, S Terbeck, G Kahane, S McTavish, R McCutcheon, and et al
Good Liars Are Neither ‘Dark’ Nor Self-Deceptive, Gordon R.T. Wright, Christopher J. Berry, Caroline Catmur, and Geoffrey Bird
Negative mood reverses devaluation of goal-directed drug-seeking favouring an incentive learning account of drug dependence, Lee Hogarth, H Zhimin, Henry W. Chase, Andy J. Wills, Joseph Troisi, Adam M. Leventhal, Amanda R. Mathew, and Brian Hitsman
Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation, Matthew G. Buckley, Alastair D. Smith, and Mark Haselgrove
The developmental trajectory of intramaze and extramaze landmark biases in spatial navigation: An unexpected journey., Matthew G. Buckley, Mark Haselgrove, and Alastair D. Smith
Long‐term patterns in interpersonal behaviour amongst psychopathic patients in secure inpatient treatment: A follow‐up study, S Draycott, R Short, and T Kirkpatrick
Passing crisis and emergency risk communications: The effects of communication channel, information type, and repetition, J Edworthy, E Hellier, L Newbold, and K Titchener
Psychosocial interventions for adults with visible differences: a systematic review, AL Norman and TP Moss
