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A multi‐centre prospective cohort study investigating the roles of psychological flexibility and self‐compassion in appearance concerns after burn injuries (2024)
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Shepherd, L., Sirois, F. M., Harcourt, D., Norman, P., Aaron, D., Adkins, K., Cartwright, A., Hodgkinson, E., Murphy, N., & Thompson, A. R. (2025). A multi‐centre prospective cohort study investigating the roles of psychological flexibility and self‐compassion in appearance concerns after burn injuries. British Journal of Health Psychology, 30(1), Article e12754. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12754

Objectives: Appearance concerns following burn injuries are common. Psychological factors are important in maintaining such concerns. However, there is a lack of longitudinal or prospective research investigating their development. This study investi... Read More about A multi‐centre prospective cohort study investigating the roles of psychological flexibility and self‐compassion in appearance concerns after burn injuries.

The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries (2024)
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Doell, K. C., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., Bak Coleman, J. B., Pronizius, E., Schumann, P., Azevedo, F., Patel, Y., Berkebile-Wineberg, M. M., Brick, C., Lange, F., Grayson, S. J., Pei, Y., Chakroff, A., van den Broek, K. L., Lamm, C., Vlasceanu, D., Constantino, S. M., Rathje, S., Goldwert, D., …Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific Data, 11(1), Article 1066. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1

Climate change is currently one of humanity’s greatest threats. To help scholars understand the psychology of climate change, we conducted an online quasi-experimental survey on 59,508 participants from 63 countries (collected between July 2022 and J... Read More about The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries.

The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales (2024)
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Ridley, B. J., Evans, E. H., Cornelissen, P. L., Kramer, R. S. S., & Tovée, M. J. (2024). The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales. Children, 11(10), Article 1243. https://doi.org/10.3390/children11101243

Background/Objectives: It is vital to identify children whose weight status means that they may benefit from medical or behavioural support, but adult visual judgements of child weight status are inaccurate, and children are seldom routinely weighed... Read More about The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales.

Early appearance concerns after burns: Investigating the roles of psychological flexibility and self-compassion (2024)
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Shepherd, L., Sirois, F., Harcourt, D., Norman, P., & Thompson, A. R. (2024). Early appearance concerns after burns: Investigating the roles of psychological flexibility and self-compassion. Body Image, 51, Article 101797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2024.101797

Few qualitative studies have explored appearance concerns soon after burn injuries. This study aimed to understand the early experiences of appearance concerns after burns, through the lens of psychological flexibility and self-compassion. Template a... Read More about Early appearance concerns after burns: Investigating the roles of psychological flexibility and self-compassion.

Attentional templates for target features versus locations (2024)
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Jimenez, M., Wang, Z., & Grubert, A. (2024). Attentional templates for target features versus locations. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 22306. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73656-6

Visual search is guided by visual working memory representations (i.e., attentional templates) that are activated prior to search and contain target-defining features (e.g., color). In the present study, we tested whether attentional templates can al... Read More about Attentional templates for target features versus locations.

“Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum (2024)
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Swyer, A., Woods, A., Ellison, A., & Alderson-Day, B. (online). “Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum. Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches, https://doi.org/10.1080/17522439.2024.2407138

Non-clinical voice-hearers (NCVHs) have been the subject of a growing body of psychological research, a primary aim of which is the development of new therapeutic techniques to support those who struggle with voice-hearing. However, relatively little... Read More about “Distress is probably the wrong word”: exploring uncertainty and ambivalence in non-clinical voice-hearing and the psychosis continuum.

On Trivalent Logics, Probabilistic Weak Deduction Theorems, and a General Import-Export Principle (2024)
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Gilio, A., Over, D. E., Pfeifer, N., & Sanfilippo, G. (2024). On Trivalent Logics, Probabilistic Weak Deduction Theorems, and a General Import-Export Principle. Artificial Intelligence, 337, Article 104229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2024.104229

In this paper we first recall some results for conditional events, compound conditionals, conditional random quantities, p-consistency, and p-entailment. We discuss the equivalence between conditional bets and bets on conditionals, and review de Fine... Read More about On Trivalent Logics, Probabilistic Weak Deduction Theorems, and a General Import-Export Principle.

Piloerection persists throughout repeated exposure to emotional stimuli (2024)
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McPhetres, J., Gao, H. H., Kemp, N., & Khati, B. (2024). Piloerection persists throughout repeated exposure to emotional stimuli. PLoS ONE, 19(9), Article e0309347. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0309347

It is often suggested that piloerection, or goosebumps, is primarily triggered by emotional experience—theoretical perspectives place a heavy emphasis on experiencing novelty and surprise. However, the two studies described here challenge this perspe... Read More about Piloerection persists throughout repeated exposure to emotional stimuli.

“You Are the Expert of Your Own Experience”: A Thematic Analysis of Experiences of Autism and Gender Diversity in Adulthood (2024)
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Glackin, A., Pearson, A., & Davis, R. (2024). “You Are the Expert of Your Own Experience”: A Thematic Analysis of Experiences of Autism and Gender Diversity in Adulthood. Autism in Adulthood, 6(3), 300-311. https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2022.0111

Background: Autistic people are more likely to report gender dysphoric traits, and transgender and gender-expansive individuals frequently report higher scores on self-report measures of autistic traits. Despite the clear association between autism a... Read More about “You Are the Expert of Your Own Experience”: A Thematic Analysis of Experiences of Autism and Gender Diversity in Adulthood.

Elements of episodic memory: lessons from 40 years of research (2024)
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Martin-Ordas, G., & Easton, A. (2024). Elements of episodic memory: lessons from 40 years of research. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1913), Article 20230395. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0395

40 years ago, Endel Tulving published his hugely influential Elements of Episodic Memory (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983). For the first time, this discussed the details of episodic memory (i.e. the ability to remember personal past events), including... Read More about Elements of episodic memory: lessons from 40 years of research.