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What are the perceived target groups and occasions for wines and beers labelled with verbal and numerical descriptors of lower alcohol strength? An experimental study (2019)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Couturier, D., & Marteau, T. (2019). What are the perceived target groups and occasions for wines and beers labelled with verbal and numerical descriptors of lower alcohol strength? An experimental study. BMJ Open, 9(6), Article e024412. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024412

Objectives: Alcohol consumption is the fifth leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The development and promotion of lower strength alcohol products may help reduce alcohol consumption and associated harms. This study assessed what a samp... Read More about What are the perceived target groups and occasions for wines and beers labelled with verbal and numerical descriptors of lower alcohol strength? An experimental study.

The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people (2019)
Journal Article
Hadden, L. M., Alderson‐Day, B., Jackson, M., Fernyhough, C., & Bentall, R. P. (2020). The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 93(1), 122-133. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12234

Objectives: Psychological models of voice‐hearing propose that auditory‐verbal hallucinations occur when inner speech is attributed to a source external to the self. Approximately half of the world's population is multilingual, and the extent to whic... Read More about The auditory‐verbal hallucinations of Welsh–English bilingual people.

The Visual Word Form Area natively processes shape sequences: Implications for developmental dyslexia (2019)
Journal Article
Whitney, C., Ross, P., Zhou, Z., & Strother, L. (2019). The Visual Word Form Area natively processes shape sequences: Implications for developmental dyslexia. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/vr58g. Manuscript submitted for publication

The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) is a cortical region that adapts to support fluent word recognition. Surprisingly, the region of ventrolateral occipitotemporal cortex that becomes VWFA is specialized for processing the motion of inanimate objects th... Read More about The Visual Word Form Area natively processes shape sequences: Implications for developmental dyslexia.

Evaluation of Safeguarding Students Catalyst Fund Projects (2019)
Report
Baird, H., Renfrew, K., Nash-Henry, Z., & Towl, G. (in press). Evaluation of Safeguarding Students Catalyst Fund Projects. [No known commissioning body]

What is the impact of increasing the prominence of calorie labelling? A stepped wedge randomised controlled pilot trial in worksite cafeterias (2019)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., Fuller, G., Pilling, M., Hollands, G., Pechey, R., Jebb, S., & Marteau, T. (2019). What is the impact of increasing the prominence of calorie labelling? A stepped wedge randomised controlled pilot trial in worksite cafeterias. Appetite, 141, Article 104304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.05.035

Background: Calorie labelling may help to reduce energy consumption, but few well-controlled experimental studies have been conducted in real world settings. In a previous randomised controlled pilot trial we did not observe an effect of calorie labe... Read More about What is the impact of increasing the prominence of calorie labelling? A stepped wedge randomised controlled pilot trial in worksite cafeterias.

Intergroup Contact, Social Dominance and Environmental Concern: A Test of the Cognitive-Liberalization Hypothesis (2019)
Journal Article
Meleady, R., Crisp, R., Dhont, K., & Hopthrow, T. (2020). Intergroup Contact, Social Dominance and Environmental Concern: A Test of the Cognitive-Liberalization Hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 118(6), 1146-1164. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000196

Intergroup contact is among the most effective ways to improve intergroup attitudes. Although it is now beyond any doubt that contact can reduce prejudice, in this article we provide evidence that its benefits can extend beyond intergroup relations—a... Read More about Intergroup Contact, Social Dominance and Environmental Concern: A Test of the Cognitive-Liberalization Hypothesis.

Emotion Modulation of Body-Selective Areas in the Developing Brain (2019)
Journal Article
Ross, P., de Gelder, B., Crabbe, F., & Grosbras, M. (2019). Emotion Modulation of Body-Selective Areas in the Developing Brain. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, Article 100660. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100660

Emotions are strongly conveyed by the human body and the ability to recognize emotions from body posture or movement is still developing through childhood and adolescence. To date, very few studies have explored how these behavioural observations are... Read More about Emotion Modulation of Body-Selective Areas in the Developing Brain.

Sensory Processing in Williams Syndrome: A Narrative Review (2019)
Journal Article
Glod, M., Riby, D., & Rodgers, J. (2020). Sensory Processing in Williams Syndrome: A Narrative Review. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 7, 32-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40489-019-00174-x

To date, little is known about sensory processing in Williams syndrome (WS) and the similarities of the sensory profile in individuals with WS compared to people with other neurodevelopmental disorders. The current review aims to consolidate availabl... Read More about Sensory Processing in Williams Syndrome: A Narrative Review.

The Limitations of Reward Effects on Saccade Latencies: An Exploration of Task-Specificity and Strength (2019)
Journal Article
Dunne, S., Ellison, A., & Smith, D. (2019). The Limitations of Reward Effects on Saccade Latencies: An Exploration of Task-Specificity and Strength. Vision, 3(2), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3020020

Saccadic eye movements are simple, visually guided actions. Operant conditioning of specific saccade directions can reduce the latency of eye movements in the conditioned direction. However, it is not clear to what extent this learning transfers from... Read More about The Limitations of Reward Effects on Saccade Latencies: An Exploration of Task-Specificity and Strength.

Mate Preferences Across the Lifespan (2019)
Book Chapter
Boothroyd, L., & Vukovic, J. (2019). Mate Preferences Across the Lifespan. In L. Welling, & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of evolutionary psychology and behavioral endocrinology (143-159). Oxford University Press

Humans show preferential responses to ‘attractive’ individuals from the first hours of life onwards. However, these early preferences are subject to later development, both in terms of increasing agreement on general attractiveness, and the emergence... Read More about Mate Preferences Across the Lifespan.

Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weight advice in adults with obesity: A randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial) (2019)
Journal Article
Sniehotta, F. F., Evans, E. H., Sainsbury, K., Adamson, A., Batterham, A., Becker, F., …Araújo-Soares, V. (2019). Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weight advice in adults with obesity: A randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial). PLoS Medicine, 16(5), Article e1002793. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002793

Background: Scalable weight loss maintenance (WLM) interventions for adults with obesity are lacking but vital for the health and economic benefits of weight loss to be fully realised. We examined the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a low-int... Read More about Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance versus standard weight advice in adults with obesity: A randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial).

Associations and Dissociations between Oculomotor Readiness and Covert Attention (2019)
Journal Article
Casteau, S., & Smith, D. (2019). Associations and Dissociations between Oculomotor Readiness and Covert Attention. Vision, 3(2), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision3020017

The idea that covert mental processes such as spatial attention are fundamentally dependent on systems that control overt movements of the eyes has had a profound influence on theoretical models of spatial attention. However, theories such as Klein’s... Read More about Associations and Dissociations between Oculomotor Readiness and Covert Attention.

En route to delineating hippocampal roles in spatial learning (2019)
Journal Article
Poulter, S., Austen, J. M., Kosaki, Y., Dachtler, J., Lever, C., & McGregor, A. (2019). En route to delineating hippocampal roles in spatial learning. Behavioural Brain Research, 369, Article 111936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2019.111936

The precise role played by the hippocampus in spatial learning tasks, such as the Morris Water Maze (MWM), is not fully understood. One theory is that the hippocampus is not required for ‘knowing where’ but rather is crucial in ‘getting there’. To ex... Read More about En route to delineating hippocampal roles in spatial learning.

Social Construction of the Value–Behavior Relation (2019)
Journal Article
Ponizovskiy, V., Grigoryan, L., Kühnen, U., & Boehnke, K. (2019). Social Construction of the Value–Behavior Relation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00934

Personal values are reliable cross-situational predictors of attitudes and behavior. Since the resurgence in research on values following the introduction of Schwartz’s theory of basic values, efforts were focused on identifying universal patterns in... Read More about Social Construction of the Value–Behavior Relation.

Does the language we use to segment the body, shape the way we perceive it? A study of tactile perceptual distortions (2019)
Journal Article
Knight, F. L. C., Bremner, A. J., & Cowie, D. (2019). Does the language we use to segment the body, shape the way we perceive it? A study of tactile perceptual distortions. Cognition, 197, Article 104127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104127

Tactile perception is referenced to, and modulated by, body parts and their boundaries. For example, tactile distances presented over the wrist are perceptually elongated relative to those presented within the hand or arm. This phenomenon is argued t... Read More about Does the language we use to segment the body, shape the way we perceive it? A study of tactile perceptual distortions.

Dealing in Hope: Does Observing Hope Expressions Increase Conciliatory Attitudes in Intergroup Conflict? (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen-Chen, S., van Kleef, G., Crisp, R., & Halperin, E. (2019). Dealing in Hope: Does Observing Hope Expressions Increase Conciliatory Attitudes in Intergroup Conflict?. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 83, 102-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.04.002

The emotion of hope has been found to play a pivotal role in intergroup conflict resolution processes. As a positive and motivating emotion, prominent group members, such as group leaders or representatives may wish to instill hope among ingroup memb... Read More about Dealing in Hope: Does Observing Hope Expressions Increase Conciliatory Attitudes in Intergroup Conflict?.

Endorsing and Reinforcing Gender and Age Stereotypes: The Negative Effect on Self-Rated Leadership Potential for Women and Older Workers (2019)
Journal Article
Tresh, F., Steeden, B., Randsley de Moura, G., Leite, A. C., Swift, H. J., & Player, A. (2019). Endorsing and Reinforcing Gender and Age Stereotypes: The Negative Effect on Self-Rated Leadership Potential for Women and Older Workers. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 688. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00688

Previous research has examined the impact of stereotypes on outcomes such as career progression and hiring decisions. We present a novel approach to examine the role of stereotypes in predicting self-rated leadership potential across gender and age g... Read More about Endorsing and Reinforcing Gender and Age Stereotypes: The Negative Effect on Self-Rated Leadership Potential for Women and Older Workers.

Student pro-sociality: Measuring institutional and individual factors that predict pro-social behaviour at university (2019)
Journal Article
Stiff, C., Rosenthal-Stott, H. E., Wake, S., & Woodward, A. (2019). Student pro-sociality: Measuring institutional and individual factors that predict pro-social behaviour at university. Current Psychology, 38(4), 920-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00256-3

Students operate within a bounded social context and often face decisions regarding whether to pursue selfish or group-level benefit. Yet little work has examined what predicts their behaviour towards fellow students. This work addresses this gap by... Read More about Student pro-sociality: Measuring institutional and individual factors that predict pro-social behaviour at university.

Red color facilitates the detection of facial anger — But how much? (2019)
Journal Article
Peromaa, T., & Olkkonen, M. (2019). Red color facilitates the detection of facial anger — But how much?. PLoS ONE, 14(4), Article e0215610. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215610

The color red seems to be consistently associated with the concept of anger. Beyond semantic associations, it has been suggested that the color red enhances our ability to perceive anger in faces. However, previous studies often lack proper color con... Read More about Red color facilitates the detection of facial anger — But how much?.

Evaluating the real-world effectiveness of a cognitive behavior therapy-based transdiagnostic program for emotional problems in children in a regular school setting (2019)
Journal Article
Essau, C., Sasagawa, S., Jones, G., Fernandes, B., & Ollendick, T. (2019). Evaluating the real-world effectiveness of a cognitive behavior therapy-based transdiagnostic program for emotional problems in children in a regular school setting. Journal of Affective Disorders, 253, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2019.04.036