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History and Research Methods (2024)
Book Chapter
Ross, P., Vasiljevic, M., & Paolini, S. (2024). History and Research Methods. In S. Paolini, R. N. Turner, M. Vasiljevic, & R. J. Crisp (Eds.), Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. (1). SAGE Publications

Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, A., Thompson, M., & Ross, P. (2023). Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence. PLoS ONE, 18(9), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291444

Trait inferences from first impressions are drawn rapidly and spontaneously. However, the Covid-19 pandemic forced interactions online introducing differential influential factors on first impressions. As such, there is an absence of research investi... Read More about Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence.

Turn that music down! Affective musical bursts cause an auditory dominance in children recognising bodily emotions (2023)
Journal Article
Ross, P., Williams, E., Herbert, G., Manning, L., & Lee, B. (2023). Turn that music down! Affective musical bursts cause an auditory dominance in children recognising bodily emotions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 230, Article 105632. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105632

Previous work has shown that different sensory channels are prioritized across the life course, with children preferentially responding to auditory information. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether the mechanism that drives this au... Read More about Turn that music down! Affective musical bursts cause an auditory dominance in children recognising bodily emotions.

Are Face Masks a Problem for Emotion Recognition? Not When the Whole Body Is Visible (2022)
Journal Article
Ross, P., & George, E. (2022). Are Face Masks a Problem for Emotion Recognition? Not When the Whole Body Is Visible. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, Article 915927. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.915927

The rise of the novel COVID-19 virus has made face masks commonplace items around the globe. Recent research found that face masks significantly impair emotion recognition on isolated faces. However, faces are rarely seen in isolation and the body is... Read More about Are Face Masks a Problem for Emotion Recognition? Not When the Whole Body Is Visible.

Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes (2022)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Couturier, L.-C., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., Leite, A., Marcinko, A., Nguyen, T., & 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.