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Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition (2014)
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Hanley, M., Riby, D., McCormack, T., Carty, C., Coyle, L., Crozier, N., …McPhillips, M. (2014). Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 8(7), 908-924. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2014.03.020

Eye-tracking studies have shown how people with autism spend significantly less time looking at socially relevant information on-screen compared to those developing typically. This has been suggested to impact on the development of socio-cognitive sk... Read More about Attention during social interaction in children with autism: Comparison to specific language impairment, typical development, and links to social cognition.

Developmental changes in children's facial preferences (2014)
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Boothroyd, L., Meins, E., Vukovic, J., & Burt, D. (2014). Developmental changes in children's facial preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5), 376-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.05.002

Facial averageness, symmetry, health, and femininity are positively associated with adults' judgements of attractiveness, but little is known about the age at which preferences for individual facial traits develop. We investigated preferences for the... Read More about Developmental changes in children's facial preferences.

Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends (2014)
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Davis, P., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends. Infant and Child Development, 23(6), 622-633. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.1869

Relations between having an imaginary companion (IC) and (i) descriptions of a real-life friend, (ii) theory of mind performance, and (iii) reported prosocial behaviour and behavioural difficulties were investigated in a sample of 5-year-olds (N = 15... Read More about Children with imaginary companions focus on mental characteristics when describing their real-life friends.

Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure. (2014)
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Goclowska, M. A., Baas, M., Crisp, R. J., & De Dreu, C. K. (2014). Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(8), 959-971. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214533132

Although people and events that disconfirm observers’ expectancies can increase their creativity, sometimes such social schema violations increase observers’ rigidity of thought and undermine creative cognition. Here we examined whether individual di... Read More about Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure..

Development of prenatal lateralization: evidence from fetal mouth movements (2014)
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Reissland, N., Francis, B., Aydin, E., Mason, J., & Exley, K. (2014). Development of prenatal lateralization: evidence from fetal mouth movements. Physiology & Behavior, 131, 160-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.04.035

Background: Human lateralized behaviors relate to the asymmetric development of the brain. Research of the prenatal origins of laterality is equivocal with some studies suggesting that fetuses exhibit lateralized behavior and other not finding such l... Read More about Development of prenatal lateralization: evidence from fetal mouth movements.

Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs. (2014)
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Vezzali, L., Crisp, R. J., Stathi, S., & Giovannini, D. (2015). Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(1), 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214527853

Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new cognitive intervention designed to improve intergroup relations. In two studies, we examined whether it could also facilitate intercultural communication among international students and hos... Read More about Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs..

New normative standards of conditional reasoning and the dual-source model (2014)
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Singmann, H., Klauer, C., & Over, D. (2014). New normative standards of conditional reasoning and the dual-source model. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 316. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00316

There has been a major shift in research on human reasoning toward Bayesian and probabilistic approaches, which has been called a new paradigm. The new paradigm sees most everyday and scientific reasoning as taking place in a context of uncertainty,... Read More about New normative standards of conditional reasoning and the dual-source model.

The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination (2014)
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Smailes, D., Meins, E., & Fernyhough, C. (2014). The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 45(3), 389-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.04.001

Background and objectives: People who experience auditory hallucinations tend to show weak reality discrimination skills, so that they misattribute internal, self-generated events to an external, non-self source. We examined whether inducing negative... Read More about The impact of negative affect on reality discrimination.

Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation (2014)
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Bae, G., Olkkonen, M., Allred, S., Wilson, C., & Flombaum, J. (2014). Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation. Journal of Vision, 14(4), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/14.4.7

Working memory for color has been the central focus in an ongoing debate concerning the structure and limits of visual working memory. Within this area, the delayed estimation task has played a key role. An implicit assumption in color working memory... Read More about Stimulus-specific variability in color working memory with delayed estimation.