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The meaning of loneliness to stroke survivors: A qualitative study in Northeast England (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, K., Armstrong, N., Diamond, C., Lane, A. R., & Dunne, S. (2022). The meaning of loneliness to stroke survivors: A qualitative study in Northeast England. Journal of Health Psychology, 27(11), 2539-2548. https://doi.org/10.1177/13591053211017198

This study explored stroke survivors’ experiences of loneliness. Drawing on interviews with 29 community dwelling stroke survivors living in the Northeast of England, we found several themes: loneliness as being alone, the season or time, lack of und... Read More about The meaning of loneliness to stroke survivors: A qualitative study in Northeast England.

Measurement practices in hallucinations research (2021)
Journal Article
Smailes, D., Alderson-Day, B., Hazell, C., Wright, A., & Moseley, P. (2022). Measurement practices in hallucinations research. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 27(2-3), 183-198. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546805.2021.1999224

In several sub-fields of psychology, there has been a renewed focus on measurement practices. As far as we are aware, this has been absent in hallucinations research. Thus, we investigated (a) cross-study variation in how hallucinatory experiences ar... Read More about Measurement practices in hallucinations research.

Williams syndrome: On the role of intellectual abilities in anxiety (2021)
Journal Article
Willfors, C., Riby, D., Van Der Poll, M., Ekholm, K., Avdic Björlin, H., Kleberg, J., & Nordgren, A. (2021). Williams syndrome: On the role of intellectual abilities in anxiety. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 16, Article 472. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-021-02098-4

Background: Individuals with Williams syndrome (WS) have an elevated risk for anxiety disorders throughout the life span, making it a research priority to identify the individual factors associated with anxiety. Most of the existing literature is bas... Read More about Williams syndrome: On the role of intellectual abilities in anxiety.

Do Superordinate Identification and Temporal/Social Comparisons Independently Predict Citizens’ System Trust? Evidence From a 40-Nation Survey (2021)
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Caricati, L., Owuamalam, C. K., & Bonetti, C. (2021). Do Superordinate Identification and Temporal/Social Comparisons Independently Predict Citizens’ System Trust? Evidence From a 40-Nation Survey. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 745168. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745168

Do superordinate ingroup bias, temporal and social comparisons offer unique standalone explanations for system justification? We addressed this question using the latest World Value Survey (7th Wave), combining the responses of 55,721 participants fr... Read More about Do Superordinate Identification and Temporal/Social Comparisons Independently Predict Citizens’ System Trust? Evidence From a 40-Nation Survey.

The Paths to Connectedness: A Review of the Antecedents of Connectedness to Nature (2021)
Journal Article
Lengieza, M. L., & Swim, J. K. (2021). The Paths to Connectedness: A Review of the Antecedents of Connectedness to Nature. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 763231. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.763231

Although many philosophers and environmental psychologists agree that progress toward a more ecologically conscious society depends upon individuals developing a sense of connectedness to nature, such agreement is of limited use if we do not understa... Read More about The Paths to Connectedness: A Review of the Antecedents of Connectedness to Nature.

What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood (2021)
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Weinstein, N., Nguyen, T., & Hansen, H. (2021). What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 714518. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.714518

Solitude – the state of being alone and not physically with another – can be rewarding. The present research explored the potential benefits of solitude from a pragmatist approach: a ground-up, top-down perspective that is receptive to new knowledge... Read More about What Time Alone Offers: Narratives of Solitude From Adolescence to Older Adulthood.

An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation (2021)
Journal Article
Negen, J., Bird, L., & Nardini, M. (2021). An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(10), 1409-1429. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000950

After becoming disoriented, an organism must use the local environment to reorient and recover vectors to important locations. A new theory, Adaptive Combination, suggests that the information from different spatial cues are combined with Bayesian ef... Read More about An Adaptive Cue Selection Model of Allocentric Spatial Reorientation.

Employee reactions to positive action policies in the United Kingdom: Does the organization’s justification matter? (2021)
Journal Article
Marcinko, A., & Taylor, C. (2021). Employee reactions to positive action policies in the United Kingdom: Does the organization’s justification matter?. Journal of Economic Psychology, 87, Article 102453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2021.102453

Affirmative action remains a contentious topic in both research and practice. While advocates suggest that such action is necessary to overcome demographic imbalances in the labor market, some research shows that these policies can prompt undesirable... Read More about Employee reactions to positive action policies in the United Kingdom: Does the organization’s justification matter?.

The effects of induced optical blur on visual search performance and training (2021)
Journal Article
Musa, A., Lane, A. R., & Ellison, A. (2022). The effects of induced optical blur on visual search performance and training. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(2), 277-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211050280

Visual Search is a task often used in the rehabilitation of patients with cortical and non-cortical visual pathologies such as visual field loss. Reduced visual acuity is often co-morbid with these disorders and it remains poorly defined how low visu... Read More about The effects of induced optical blur on visual search performance and training.