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Impact of advertisements promoting candy-like flavoured e-cigarettes on appeal of tobacco smoking among children: an experimental study (2016)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Petrescu, D., & Marteau, T. (2016). Impact of advertisements promoting candy-like flavoured e-cigarettes on appeal of tobacco smoking among children: an experimental study. Tobacco Control, 25, e107-e112. https://doi.org/10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052593

Background: There are concerns that the marketing of e-cigarettes may increase the appeal of tobacco smoking in children. We examined this concern by assessing the impact on appeal of tobacco smoking after exposure to advertisements for e-cigarettes... Read More about Impact of advertisements promoting candy-like flavoured e-cigarettes on appeal of tobacco smoking among children: an experimental study.

Boosting belligerence: How the July 7, 2005, London bombings affected Liberals' moral foundations and prejudice (2015)
Journal Article
Van de Vyver, J., Houston, D., Abrams, D., & Vasiljevic, M. (2016). Boosting belligerence: How the July 7, 2005, London bombings affected Liberals' moral foundations and prejudice. Psychological Science, 27(2), 169-177. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615615584

Major terrorist events, such as the recent attacks in Ankara, Sinai, and Paris, can have profound effects on a nation’s values, attitudes, and prejudices. Yet psychological evidence testing the impact of such events via data collected immediately bef... Read More about Boosting belligerence: How the July 7, 2005, London bombings affected Liberals' moral foundations and prejudice.

Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias (2015)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Allen, J., Vasiljevic, M., & Yao, B. (2016). Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias. Cognition, 147, 106-112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.006

Healthy individuals display a tendency to allocate attention unequally across space, and this bias has implications for how individuals interact with their environments. However, the origins of this phenomenon remain relatively poorly understood. The... Read More about Walking blindfolded unveils unique contributions of behavioural approach and inhibition to lateral spatial bias.

Is the intention-behaviour gap greater amongst the more deprived? A meta-analysis of five studies on physical activity, diet, and medication adherence in smoking cessation (2015)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Ng, Y., Griffin, S., Sutton, S., & Marteau, T. (2016). Is the intention-behaviour gap greater amongst the more deprived? A meta-analysis of five studies on physical activity, diet, and medication adherence in smoking cessation. British Journal of Health Psychology, 21(1), 11-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12152

Objectives: Unhealthy behaviour is more common amongst the deprived, thereby contributing to health inequalities. The evidence that the gap between intention and behaviour is greater amongst the more deprived is limited and inconsistent. We tested th... Read More about Is the intention-behaviour gap greater amongst the more deprived? A meta-analysis of five studies on physical activity, diet, and medication adherence in smoking cessation.

Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods (2015)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Pechey, R., & Marteau, T. (2015). Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods. Appetite, 91, 56-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2015.03.034

Recent studies report that using green labels to denote healthier foods, and red to denote less healthy foods increases consumption of green- and decreases consumption of red-labelled foods. Other symbols (e.g. emoticons conveying normative approval... Read More about Making food labels social: The impact of colour of nutritional labels and injunctive norms on perceptions and choice of snack foods.

Synergies between healthy and sustainable diets (2015)
Report
Bajzelj, B., Benton, T., Clark, M., Garnett, T., Marteau, T., Richards, K., …Vasiljevic, M. (2015). Synergies between healthy and sustainable diets. [No known commissioning body]

Some extended psychological benefits of challenging social stereotypes: Decreased dehumanization and a reduced reliance on heuristic thinking. (2015)
Journal Article
Prati, F., Vasiljevic, M., Crisp, R., & Rubini, M. (2015). Some extended psychological benefits of challenging social stereotypes: Decreased dehumanization and a reduced reliance on heuristic thinking. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(6), 801-816. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214567762

One way to promote equality is to encourage people to generate counterstereotypic role models. In two experiments, we demonstrate that such interventions have much broader benefits than previously thought—reducing a reliance on heuristic thinking and... Read More about Some extended psychological benefits of challenging social stereotypes: Decreased dehumanization and a reduced reliance on heuristic thinking..

Equality hypocrisy, inconsistency, and prejudice: The unequal application of the universal human right to equality (2015)
Journal Article
Abrams, D., Houston, D., Van de Vyver, J., & Vasiljevic, M. (2015). Equality hypocrisy, inconsistency, and prejudice: The unequal application of the universal human right to equality. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 21(1), 28-46. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000084

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 21(3) of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (see record 2015-17043-001). In the article, the copyright should have been “© 2015 The Author(s)”. In addition, the author n... Read More about Equality hypocrisy, inconsistency, and prejudice: The unequal application of the universal human right to equality.

How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room (2014)
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Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room. [No known commissioning body]

In this article, Mario Weick, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Kent and Milica Vasiljevic, Research Associate at the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, discuss insights gained from social, cognitive,... Read More about How attitude and behaviour affect our reactions to risk: The gorilla in the room.

Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it (2013)
Journal Article
Yao, B., Vasiljevic, M., Weick, M., Sereno, M., O'Donnell, P., & Sereno, S. (2013). Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it. PLoS ONE, 8(9), Article e75000. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075000

Size is an important visuo-spatial characteristic of the physical world. In language processing, previous research has demonstrated a processing advantage for words denoting semantically “big” (e.g., jungle) versus “small” (e.g., needle) concrete obj... Read More about Semantic size of abstract concepts: It gets emotional when you can't see it.

Power and Revenge (2013)
Journal Article
Strelan, P., Weick, M., & Vasiljevic, M. (2014). Power and Revenge. British Journal of Social Psychology, 53(3), 521-540. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12044

We took an individual differences approach to explain revenge tendencies in powerholders. Across four experimental studies, chronically powerless individuals sought more revenge than chronically powerful individuals following a high power episode (St... Read More about Power and Revenge.

Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination (2013)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., & Crisp, R. (2013). Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination. PLoS ONE, 8(3), Article e57106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057106

Prejudices towards different groups are interrelated, but research has yet to find a way to promote tolerance towards multiple outgroups. We devise, develop and implement a new cognitive intervention for achieving generalized tolerance based on scien... Read More about Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination.

Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks (2013)
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Vasiljevic, M., Weick, M., Taylor-Gooby, P., Abrams, D., & Hopthrow, T. (2013). Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks. [No known commissioning body]

The present report outlines behavioural biases studied in the literature in relation to the way people reason about and respond to catastrophe risks. The project is led by the Lighthill Risk Network, in collaboration with a team of social and behavio... Read More about Reasoning about extreme events: A review of behavioural biases in relation to catastrophe risks.