Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (41)

Facial affect perception in alcoholics (2002)
Journal Article
Frigerio, E., Burt, D., Montagne, B., Murray, L., & Perrett, D. (2002). Facial affect perception in alcoholics. Psychiatry Research, 113(1), 161-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0165-1781%2802%2900244-5

Satisfactory interpersonal interaction involves understanding others' facial expressions. Alcoholic individuals often have severe interpersonal difficulties that may relate to poor and distorted perception of facial expressions. The importance of att... Read More about Facial affect perception in alcoholics.

Maternal mind-mindedness and attachment security as predictors of theory of mind understanding (2002)
Journal Article
Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., Wainwright, R., Das Gupta, M., Fradley, E., & Tuckey, M. (2002). Maternal mind-mindedness and attachment security as predictors of theory of mind understanding. Child Development, 73(6), 1715-1726. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8624.00501

This study investigated relations between social interaction during infancy and children's subsequent theory of mind (ToM). Infant-mother pairs (N= 57) were observed in a free-play context at 6 months. Interactions were coded for (a) mothers' use of... Read More about Maternal mind-mindedness and attachment security as predictors of theory of mind understanding.

Public perceptions of risk and preference-based values of safety (2002)
Journal Article
Chilton, S., Covey, J., Hopkins, L., Jones-Lee, M., Loomes, G., Pidgeon, N., & Spencer, A. (2002). Public perceptions of risk and preference-based values of safety. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 25(3), 211-232. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1020962104810

This article reports the results of two studies aimed at estimating preference-based values of safety in three contexts—namely rail, domestic fires and fires in public places—relative to the corresponding value for roads using matching (or equivalenc... Read More about Public perceptions of risk and preference-based values of safety.

“Sausage-string” appearance of arteries and arterioles can be caused by an instability of the blood vessel wall (2002)
Journal Article
Jacobsen, J., Beierholm, U., Mikkelsen, R., Gustafsson, F., Alstrøm, P., & Holstein-Rathlou, N. (2002). “Sausage-string” appearance of arteries and arterioles can be caused by an instability of the blood vessel wall. American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 283(5), R1118-R1130. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpregu.00006.2002

Vascular damage induced by acute hypertension is preceded by a peculiar pattern where blood vessels show alternating regions of constrictions and dilations (“sausages on a string”). The pattern occurs in the smaller blood vessels, and it plays a cent... Read More about “Sausage-string” appearance of arteries and arterioles can be caused by an instability of the blood vessel wall.

The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal (2002)
Journal Article
Tipples, J., Atkinson, A., & Young, A. (2002). The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal. Emotion, 2(3), 288-296. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.2.3.288

Seven experiments investigated the finding that threatening schematic faces are detected more quickly than nonthreatening faces. Threatening faces with ∨-shaped eyebrows (angry and scheming expressions) were detected more quickly than nonthreatening... Read More about The eyebrow frown: a salient social signal.

Interaction of inferior temporal cortex with frontal cortex and basal forebrain: Double dissociation in strategy implementation and associative learning (2002)
Journal Article
Gaffan, D., Easton, A., & Parker, A. (2002). Interaction of inferior temporal cortex with frontal cortex and basal forebrain: Double dissociation in strategy implementation and associative learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 22(16), 7288-7296

Macaque monkeys learned a strategy task in which two groups of visual objects needed to be treated differently, one with persistent and one with sporadic object choices, to obtain food rewards. After preoperative training, they were divided into two... Read More about Interaction of inferior temporal cortex with frontal cortex and basal forebrain: Double dissociation in strategy implementation and associative learning.

Alternative antecedents, probabilities, and the suppression of fallacies in Wason's selection task (2002)
Journal Article
Handley, S., Feeney, A., & Harper, C. (2002). Alternative antecedents, probabilities, and the suppression of fallacies in Wason's selection task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55(3), 799-818. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980143000497

Three experiments examined the influence of a second rule on the pattern of card selections on Wason's selection task. In Experiment 1 participants received a version of the task with a single test rule or one of two versions of the task with the sam... Read More about Alternative antecedents, probabilities, and the suppression of fallacies in Wason's selection task.

Unilateral lesions of the cholinergic basal forebrain and fornix in one hemisphere and inferior temporal cortex in the opposite hemisphere produce severe learning impairments in rhesus monkeys (2002)
Journal Article
Easton, A., Ridley, R., Baker, H., & Gaffan, D. (2002). Unilateral lesions of the cholinergic basal forebrain and fornix in one hemisphere and inferior temporal cortex in the opposite hemisphere produce severe learning impairments in rhesus monkeys. Cerebral Cortex, 12(7), 729-736. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/12.7.729

It has been proposed that isolation of the inferior temporal cortex and medial temporal lobe from their cholinergic afferents results in a severe anterograde amnesia. To test this hypothesis directly, seven rhesus monkeys received a unilateral immuno... Read More about Unilateral lesions of the cholinergic basal forebrain and fornix in one hemisphere and inferior temporal cortex in the opposite hemisphere produce severe learning impairments in rhesus monkeys.

Phoneme awareness is a better predictor of early reading skill than onset-rime awareness (2002)
Journal Article
Hulme, C., Hatcher, P., Nation, K., Brown, A., Adams, J., & Stuart, G. (2002). Phoneme awareness is a better predictor of early reading skill than onset-rime awareness. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 82(1), 2-28. https://doi.org/10.1006/jecp.2002.2670

We present the results of a short-term longitudinal study. Children in the early stages of learning to read (5 and 6 year olds) were administered three different tasks (deletion, oddity, and detection) tapping awareness of four phonological units (in... Read More about Phoneme awareness is a better predictor of early reading skill than onset-rime awareness.

The melody of surprise: maternal surprise vocalizations during play with her infant (2002)
Journal Article
Reissland, N., Shepherd, J., & Cowie, L. (2002). The melody of surprise: maternal surprise vocalizations during play with her infant. Infant and Child Development, 11(3), 271-278. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.258

Two groups of mothers and their infants (24 infants, mean age=3.5 months and 24 infants, mean age=5.5 months) were video- and audio-taped in their homes while playing with a Jack-in-the-box. The mean fundamental frequency of spontaneous surprise excl... Read More about The melody of surprise: maternal surprise vocalizations during play with her infant.

Power dressing and meta-analysis: Incorporating power analysis into meta-analysis (2002)
Journal Article
Muncer, S., Taylor, S., & Craigie, M. (2002). Power dressing and meta-analysis: Incorporating power analysis into meta-analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 38(3), 274-280. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02177.x

Aims. This paper highlights the lack of consideration that is given to power in the health and social sciences, which is a continuing problem with both single study research and more importantly for meta-analysis. Background. The power of a study is... Read More about Power dressing and meta-analysis: Incorporating power analysis into meta-analysis.

Background beliefs in Bayesian inference (2002)
Journal Article
Evans, J., Handley, S., Over, D., & Perham, N. (2002). Background beliefs in Bayesian inference. Memory and Cognition, 30(2), 179-190

We report five experiments in which the role of background beliefs in social judgments of posterior probability was investigated. From a Bayesian perspective, people should combine prior probabilities (or base rates) and diagnostic evidence with equa... Read More about Background beliefs in Bayesian inference.

The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use (2002)
Journal Article
Wing, L., Leekam, S., Libby, S., Gould, J., & Larcombe, M. (2002). The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(3), 307-325. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00023

Background: The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO) is a schedule for the diagnosis of autistic spectrum and related disorders and assessment of individual needs. It enables information to be recorded systematically fo... Read More about The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Background, inter-rater reliability and clinical use.

The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Algorithms for ICD-10 Childhood Autism and Wing & Gould Autistic Spectrum Disorder (2002)
Journal Article
Leekam, S., Libby, S., Wing, L., Gould, J., & Taylor, C. (2002). The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Algorithms for ICD-10 Childhood Autism and Wing & Gould Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 43(3), 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-7610.00024

Background: The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO) is an interviewer-based schedule for use with parents and carers. In addition to its primary clinical purpose of helping the clinician to obtain a developmental histo... Read More about The Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders: Algorithms for ICD-10 Childhood Autism and Wing & Gould Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Reliability of health information on the Internet: An examination of experts’ ratings (2002)
Journal Article
Craigie, M., Loader, B., Burrows, R., & Muncer, S. (2002). Reliability of health information on the Internet: An examination of experts’ ratings. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.2196/jmir.4.1.e2

Background: The use of medical experts in rating the content of health-related sites on the Internet has flourished in recent years. In this research, it has been common practice to use a single medical expert to rate the content of the Web sites. In... Read More about Reliability of health information on the Internet: An examination of experts’ ratings.

Predicting length of stay in hospital after brain injury (2002)
Journal Article
Craigie, M., Shah, S., & Muncer, S. (2002). Predicting length of stay in hospital after brain injury. British journal of therapy & rehabilitation, 9(1), 30-32. https://doi.org/10.12968/bjtr.2002.9.1.13597

It is very useful to have good predictive measures of rehabilitation outcome so that limited resources can be allocated efficiently. This paper reports a cross-validation of a regression equation that predicts length of hospital stay from a patient's... Read More about Predicting length of stay in hospital after brain injury.