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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.

Testing the prosocial effectiveness of the prototypical moral emotions: Elevation increases benevolent behaviors and outrage increases justice behaviors (2014)
Journal Article
Van de Vyver, J., & Abrams, D. (2015). Testing the prosocial effectiveness of the prototypical moral emotions: Elevation increases benevolent behaviors and outrage increases justice behaviors. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 58, 23-33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2014.12.005

How can we overcome apathy and instigate a desire to help others? This research tests and compares the prosocial effects of two of the most prototypical emotions on a range of prosocial intentions and behaviors. Emotion-inducing videos were used to i... Read More about Testing the prosocial effectiveness of the prototypical moral emotions: Elevation increases benevolent behaviors and outrage increases justice behaviors.

Dissociating the neural mechanisms of distance and spatial reference frames (2014)
Journal Article
Lane, A. R., Ball, K., & Ellison, A. (2015). Dissociating the neural mechanisms of distance and spatial reference frames. Neuropsychologia, 74, 42-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.12.019

This study investigated if the neural mechanisms involved in processing distance (near and far) and frame of reference (egocentric and allocentric) can be dissociated. 36 participants completed a conjunction visual search task using either an egocent... Read More about Dissociating the neural mechanisms of distance and spatial reference frames.

How do selective attentional processes contribute to maintenance and recall in children's working memory capacity? (2014)
Journal Article
Roome, H., Towse, J., & Jarrold, C. (2014). How do selective attentional processes contribute to maintenance and recall in children's working memory capacity?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 1011. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01011

The development of working memory capacity is considered from the perspective of the active maintenance of items in primary memory (PM) and a cue-dependent search component, secondary memory (SM). Using free recall, plus a more novel serial interleav... Read More about How do selective attentional processes contribute to maintenance and recall in children's working memory capacity?.

Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder (2014)
Journal Article
Najt, P., & Hausmann, M. (2014). Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder. Psychiatry Research, 220(1-2), 315-321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2014.08.015

Bipolar disorder (BD) has been associated with right hemisphere dysfunction. These findings usually come from studies that have not distinguished between symptomatic and euthymic states of BD. The present study aims to investigate atypical right (and... Read More about Atypical right hemispheric functioning in the euthymic state of bipolar affective disorder.

Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions (2014)
Book
van Herwegen, J., & Riby, D. (Eds.). (2014). Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions. Psychology Press

Interest in the field of neurodevelopmental disorders has grown exponentially in recent years across a range of disciplines, including psychology, psychiatry, education and neuroscience. The research itself has become more sophisticated, using multid... Read More about Neurodevelopmental Disorders: Research Challenges and Solutions.

Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking (2014)
Journal Article
Jones, P., Kalwarowsky, K., Atkinson, J., Braddick, O., & Nardini, M. (2014). Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 55(12), 8102-8110. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.14-15108

Purpose. To validate a novel, automated test of infant resolution acuity based on remote eye-tracking. Methods. Infants aged 2 to 12 months were tested binocularly using a new adaptive computerized test of infant vision using eye tracking (ACTIVE), a... Read More about Automated measurement of resolution acuity in infants using remote eye-tracking.

Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? (2014)
Journal Article
Kühn, S., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., & Hurlburt, R. (2014). Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393

To provide full accounts of human experience and behavior, research in cognitive neuroscience must be linked to inner experience, but introspective reports of inner experience have often been found to be unreliable. The present case study aimed at pr... Read More about Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI?.

Driving under the influence of risky peers: An experimental study of adolescent risk taking (2014)
Journal Article
Centifanti, L., Modecki, K., MacLellan, S., & Gowling, H. (2016). Driving under the influence of risky peers: An experimental study of adolescent risk taking. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26(1), 207-222. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12187

Both passive and active social influences may affect adolescents' dangerous driving. In this study, we used an experimental paradigm to delineate these two influences with actual peers. Adolescents completed a simulated driving task, and we measured... Read More about Driving under the influence of risky peers: An experimental study of adolescent risk taking.

Perspective-taking mediates the imagined contact effect. (2014)
Journal Article
Husnu, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2015). Perspective-taking mediates the imagined contact effect. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 44, 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2014.11.005

We investigated the potential for mental imagery to reduce intergroup bias in Cyprus, an island that has suffered from interethnic tension for over 40 years. Seventy-three Turkish Cypriots were asked to imagine a scenario in which they interacted wit... Read More about Perspective-taking mediates the imagined contact effect..

Theory of Planned Behavior interventions for reducing heterosexual risk behaviors: A meta-analysis (2014)
Journal Article
Tyson, M., Covey, J., & Rosenthal, H. (2014). Theory of Planned Behavior interventions for reducing heterosexual risk behaviors: A meta-analysis. Health Psychology, 33(12), 1454-1467. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000047

Objective: The meta-analysis reported here examined interventions informed by the theory of planned behavior (TPB) or theory of reasoned action (TRA) aimed at reducing heterosexual risk behaviors (prevention of STDs and unwanted pregnancy). Methods:... Read More about Theory of Planned Behavior interventions for reducing heterosexual risk behaviors: A meta-analysis.