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Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes (2022)
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Weick, M., Couturier, L., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., …Van de Vyver, J. (2022). Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, Article 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353

A large body of research points to differences in the communal orientation of people from a lower and higher socio-economic status (SES) background. However, direct evidence for differences in communal attitudes remains scant. In this pre-registered... Read More about Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes.

The impact of risk perceptions and belief in conspiracy theories on COVID-19 pandemic-related behaviours (2022)
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Hughes, J., Efstratiou, A., Komer, S., Baxter, L., Vasiljevic, M., & Leite, A. (2022). The impact of risk perceptions and belief in conspiracy theories on COVID-19 pandemic-related behaviours. PLoS ONE, 17(2), Article e0263716. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263716

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories about the virus spread rapidly, and whilst governments across the globe put in place different restrictions and guidelines to contain the pandemic, these were not universally adhered to. This rese... Read More about The impact of risk perceptions and belief in conspiracy theories on COVID-19 pandemic-related behaviours.

Efficacy of a theory-driven program to implement alcohol screening and brief interventions in primary health-care: a cluster randomized controlled trial (2022)
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Rosário, F., Vasiljevic, M., Pas, L., Angus, C., Ribeiro, C., & Fitzgerald, N. (2022). Efficacy of a theory-driven program to implement alcohol screening and brief interventions in primary health-care: a cluster randomized controlled trial. Addiction, 117(6), 1609-1621. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15782

Background and Aims Screening and brief interventions (SBI) in primary health-care practices (PHCP) are effective in reducing reported alcohol consumption, but have not been routinely implemented. Most programs seeking to improve implementation rates... Read More about Efficacy of a theory-driven program to implement alcohol screening and brief interventions in primary health-care: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

A content analysis of the aims, strategies, and effects of food and nonalcoholic drink advertising based on advertising industry case studies (2021)
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Nanchahal, K., Vasiljevic, M., & Petticrew, M. (2022). A content analysis of the aims, strategies, and effects of food and nonalcoholic drink advertising based on advertising industry case studies. Obesity Science and Practice, 8(2), 208-218. https://doi.org/10.1002/osp4.561

Background Placing limitations on advertising of food and nonalcoholic drinks to children is an effective strategy in addressing childhood obesity. The industry maintains that further restrictions are unnecessary. Aims To ascertain whether the advert... Read More about A content analysis of the aims, strategies, and effects of food and nonalcoholic drink advertising based on advertising industry case studies.

Social class and wellbeing among staff and students in higher education settings: Mapping the problem and exploring underlying mechanisms (2021)
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Dougall, I., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2021). Social class and wellbeing among staff and students in higher education settings: Mapping the problem and exploring underlying mechanisms. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 51(10), 965-986. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12814

Within Higher Education (HE), staff and students from lower social class backgrounds often experience poorer wellbeing than their higher social class counterparts. Previous research conducted outside educational contexts has linked social class diffe... Read More about Social class and wellbeing among staff and students in higher education settings: Mapping the problem and exploring underlying mechanisms.

Do alcohol product labels stating lower strength verbal description, percentage alcohol‐by‐volume, or their combination affect wine consumption? A bar laboratory adaptive randomised controlled trial (2021)
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Vasiljevic, M., Frings, D., Pilling, M., & Marteau, T. (2021). Do alcohol product labels stating lower strength verbal description, percentage alcohol‐by‐volume, or their combination affect wine consumption? A bar laboratory adaptive randomised controlled trial. Addiction, 116(9), 2339-2347. https://doi.org/10.1111/add.15444

Background and Aims A previous research study concluded that wine and beer labelled as lower in strength increase consumption compared with the same drinks labelled as regular strength. The label included both a verbal and numerical descriptor of str... Read More about Do alcohol product labels stating lower strength verbal description, percentage alcohol‐by‐volume, or their combination affect wine consumption? A bar laboratory adaptive randomised controlled trial.

Communicating evidence about the environment's role in obesity and support for government policies to tackle obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis (2020)
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Reynolds, J., Vasiljevic, M., Pilling, M., & Marteau, T. (2022). Communicating evidence about the environment's role in obesity and support for government policies to tackle obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review, 16(1), 67-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/17437199.2020.1829980

Public support for many policies that tackle obesity by changing environments is low. This may reflect commonly held causal beliefs about obesity, namely that it is due to failures of self-control rather than environmental influences. Several studies... Read More about Communicating evidence about the environment's role in obesity and support for government policies to tackle obesity: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

Communicating evidence about the causes of obesity and support for obesity policies: Two population-based survey experiments (2020)
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Reynolds, J., Vasiljevic, M., Pilling, M., Hall, M., Ribisl, K., & Marteau, T. (2020). Communicating evidence about the causes of obesity and support for obesity policies: Two population-based survey experiments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(18), Article 6539. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186539

Public support for numerous obesity policies is low, which is one barrier to their implementation. One reason for this low support is the tendency to ascribe obesity to failings of willpower as opposed to the environment. Correlational evidence suppo... Read More about Communicating evidence about the causes of obesity and support for obesity policies: Two population-based survey experiments.

What are the perceived target groups and occasions for wines and beers labelled with verbal and numerical descriptors of lower alcohol strength? An experimental study (2019)
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Vasiljevic, M., Couturier, D., & Marteau, T. (2019). What are the perceived target groups and occasions for wines and beers labelled with verbal and numerical descriptors of lower alcohol strength? An experimental study. BMJ Open, 9(6), Article e024412. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024412

Objectives: Alcohol consumption is the fifth leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The development and promotion of lower strength alcohol products may help reduce alcohol consumption and associated harms. This study assessed what a samp... Read More about What are the perceived target groups and occasions for wines and beers labelled with verbal and numerical descriptors of lower alcohol strength? An experimental study.