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Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007 (2011)
Journal Article
Tiffin, P., Arnott, B., Moore, H., & Summerbell, C. (2011). Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 5, Article 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-5-31

A number of studies have reported significant associations between obesity and poor psychological wellbeing in children but findings have been inconsistent. Methods: This study utilised data from 3,898 children aged 5-16 years obtained from the Healt... Read More about Modelling the relationship between obesity and mental health in children and adolescents: findings from the Health Survey for England 2007.

Cultural niche construction and human learning environments: investigating socio-cultural perspectives (2011)
Journal Article
Kendal, J. (2011). Cultural niche construction and human learning environments: investigating socio-cultural perspectives. Biological Theory, 6(3), 241-250. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0038-2

Niche construction theory (NCT) can be applied to examine the influence of culturally constructed learning environments on the acquisition and retention of beliefs, values, role expectations, and skills. Thus, NCT provides a quantitative framework to... Read More about Cultural niche construction and human learning environments: investigating socio-cultural perspectives.

A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Factors Associated with Narrowing Health Inequalities in England. (2011)
Journal Article
Blackman, T., Wistow, J., & Byrne, D. (2011). A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Factors Associated with Narrowing Health Inequalities in England. Social Science & Medicine, 72(12), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.04.003

This study explores why progress with tackling health inequalities has varied among a group of local authority areas in England that were set targets to narrow important health outcomes compared to national averages. It focuses on premature deaths fr... Read More about A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Factors Associated with Narrowing Health Inequalities in England..

Developing perceptions of interculturality: a troublesome space? (2011)
Book Chapter
Montgomery, C. (2011). Developing perceptions of interculturality: a troublesome space?. In B. Preisler, I. Klitgard, & A. Fabricius (Eds.), Language and Learning in the International University: From English Uniformity to Diversity and Hybridity (59-75). Multilingual Matters

Interactions between cognition and culture (2011)
Book Chapter
Kendal, J. (2011). Interactions between cognition and culture. In V. Swami (Ed.), Evolutionary psychology : a critical introduction (311-342). Wiley

This chapter takes a broad and often comparative perspective to look at the interactions between cognition and culture. After a brief introduction of the methods used to study cultural evolution and gene-culture co-evolution (G-CC), there is a review... Read More about Interactions between cognition and culture.

Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus (2011)
Journal Article
Kendal, J., Tehrani, J., & Odling-Smee, J. (2011). Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366(1566), 785-792. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2010.0306

Niche construction is an endogenous causal process in evolution, reciprocal to the causal process of natural selection. It works by adding ecological inheritance, comprising the inheritance of natural selection pressures previously modified by niche... Read More about Human Niche Construction in Interdisciplinary Focus.

Evidence-base for primary prevention of obesity in children and adolescents = Evidenzbasierung von Primärprävention der Adipositas bei Kindern und Jugendlichen (2011)
Journal Article
Hillier, F., Pedley, C., & Summerbell, C. (2011). Evidence-base for primary prevention of obesity in children and adolescents = Evidenzbasierung von Primärprävention der Adipositas bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz, 54(3), 259-264. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00103-010-1227-4

Effective interventions to prevent obesity in children have never been more necessary. There have been over 30 published reviews and meta-analyses on such interventions (randomized and controlled trials) since 2008. In summary, interventions which in... Read More about Evidence-base for primary prevention of obesity in children and adolescents = Evidenzbasierung von Primärprävention der Adipositas bei Kindern und Jugendlichen.

Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills (2011)
Journal Article
Setchell, J., Kendal, J., & Tyniec, P. (2011). Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36(1), 51-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.06.004

The concept of female cycle (or estrous) synchrony has enduring popular appeal. However, critical reviews of estrous synchrony studies in both humans and non-humans have found that synchrony has not been demonstrated convincingly, due to methodologic... Read More about Do non-human primates synchronise their menstrual cycles? A test in mandrills.