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Forensic Psychology (2021)
Book
Crighton, D., & Towl, G. (Eds.). (in press). Forensic Psychology. Wiley

Three principles for the progress of immersive technologies in healthcare training and education. (2021)
Journal Article
Mathew, R., Collaboration, T. I. H., & Mushtaq, F. (2021). Three principles for the progress of immersive technologies in healthcare training and education. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjstel-2021-000881

The challenge of providing training and education in healthcare has never been greater. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the weaknesses of methods that rely on master–apprentice models, face-to-face delivery and patient access. The emergence of... Read More about Three principles for the progress of immersive technologies in healthcare training and education..

Altering Choice Architecture to Alter Drinking Behaviour: Evidence from Research on Lower Strength Alcohol Labelling and Glass Design (2021)
Book Chapter
Vasiljevic, M., & Pechey, R. (2021). Altering Choice Architecture to Alter Drinking Behaviour: Evidence from Research on Lower Strength Alcohol Labelling and Glass Design. In R. Cooke, D. Conroy, E. Davies, M. Hagger, & R. de Visser (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Psychological Perspectives on Alcohol Consumption (229-252). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66941-6_10

This chapter brings together recent work investigating the impact of the physical micro-environment on alcohol-related perceptions and behaviour, taking examples of how altering the ways in which alcoholic drinks (in particular wine and beer) are pre... Read More about Altering Choice Architecture to Alter Drinking Behaviour: Evidence from Research on Lower Strength Alcohol Labelling and Glass Design.

Feeling Colours: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Tangible 3D Objects, Colours and Emotions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lin, A., Scheller, M., Feng, F., Proulx, M. J., & Metatla, O. (2021). Feeling Colours: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Tangible 3D Objects, Colours and Emotions. In CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-12). https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445373

With increasing interest in multisensory experiences in HCI there is a need to consider the potential impact of crossmodal correspondences (CCs) between sensory modalities on perception and interpretation. We investigated CCs between active haptic ex... Read More about Feeling Colours: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Tangible 3D Objects, Colours and Emotions.

The presence of placeholders modulates the naso-temporal asymmetry in the remote distractor effect (2021)
Journal Article
Casteau, S., Lodge, R., Chalkley, M., Walker, R., & Smith, D. T. (2021). The presence of placeholders modulates the naso-temporal asymmetry in the remote distractor effect. Cortex, 141, 201-210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.04.007

The remote distractor effect (RDE) is a well-known and robust phenomenon whereby latencies of saccades are increased when a distractor is presented simultaneously along with the saccade target. Studies of the RDE in patients with a loss of vision in... Read More about The presence of placeholders modulates the naso-temporal asymmetry in the remote distractor effect.

Improving Robotic Grasping on Monocular Images Via Multi-Task Learning and Positional Loss (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Prew, W., Breckon, T., Bordewich, M., & Beierholm, U. (2021). Improving Robotic Grasping on Monocular Images Via Multi-Task Learning and Positional Loss. . https://doi.org/10.1109/icpr48806.2021.9413197

In this paper we introduce two methods of improving real-time object grasping performance from monocular colour images in an end-to-end CNN architecture. The first is the addition of an auxiliary task during model training (multi-task learning). Our... Read More about Improving Robotic Grasping on Monocular Images Via Multi-Task Learning and Positional Loss.

An EEG investigation of alpha and beta activity during resting states in adults with Williams syndrome (2021)
Journal Article
Greer, J. M., Riby, D. M., McMullon, M. E., Hamilton, C., & Riby, L. M. (2021). An EEG investigation of alpha and beta activity during resting states in adults with Williams syndrome. BMC Psychology, 9(1), Article 72. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00575-w

Background Williams syndrome (WS) is neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive deficits of attention and inhibitory processing. The current study examined the neural mechanisms during resting states in adults with WS in order to investig... Read More about An EEG investigation of alpha and beta activity during resting states in adults with Williams syndrome.

Risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases Related to Obesity among First- and Second-Generation Bangladeshi Migrants Living in North-east or South-east England (2021)
Journal Article
Akhter, N., Begum, K., Nahar, P., Cooper, G., Vallis, D., Kasim, A., & Bentley, G. R. (2021). Risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases Related to Obesity among First- and Second-Generation Bangladeshi Migrants Living in North-east or South-east England. International Journal of Obesity, 45(7), 1588-1598. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-021-00822-5

Background: Obesity is a global burden, which significantly increases the risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). More than a quarter of adults in the United Kingdom are obese, but prevalence varies by ethnicity, and South Asians have the largest b... Read More about Risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases Related to Obesity among First- and Second-Generation Bangladeshi Migrants Living in North-east or South-east England.

Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles (2021)
Journal Article
Gettler, L. T., Lew-Levy, S., Sarma, M. S., Miegakanda, V., Doxsey, M., Meyer, J. S., & Boyette, A. H. (2021). Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1827), Article 20200031. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0031

Children and mothers’ cortisol production in response to family psychosocial conditions, including parenting demands, family resource availability and parental conflict, has been extensively studied in the United States and Europe. Less is known abou... Read More about Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles.

Psychometric properties of the compulsive internet use scale among adolescents in India, Philippines and Turkey (2021)
Journal Article
Fernandes, B., Aydin, C., Uzun, B., Tan-Mansukhani, R., & Biswas, U. N. (2021). Psychometric properties of the compulsive internet use scale among adolescents in India, Philippines and Turkey. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 13, Article 100349. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2021.100349

Research shows that internet addiction continues to grow globally, with wider access to the internet and changing use of smartphones. The compulsive internet use scale (CIUS) which has been found to be consistently associated with pathological intern... Read More about Psychometric properties of the compulsive internet use scale among adolescents in India, Philippines and Turkey.

Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health (2021)
Journal Article
Tan, C. M., Owuamalam, C. K., & Ng, P. K. (2021). Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health. Personality and Individual Differences, 179, Article 110948. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110948

How might confidence in government shape the negative association often found between stay-home mandates and mental health? Using a nationally representative sample of UK residents (N = 32,108), we showed that although the stay-home order during the... Read More about Stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives! Confidence in government moderates the negative effects of staying at home on mental health.

Diminished Public Self-Awareness in Nature Contributes to the Positive Effects of Contact with Nature on Connectedness to Nature (2021)
Journal Article
Lengieza, M. L., & Swim, J. K. (2021). Diminished Public Self-Awareness in Nature Contributes to the Positive Effects of Contact with Nature on Connectedness to Nature. Ecopsychology, 13(3), 210-218. https://doi.org/10.1089/eco.2020.0047

A number of studies have demonstrated that contact with nature increases connectedness to nature. The precise psychological process through which this effect occurs, however, has been relatively understudied. We test the role of self-awareness as a m... Read More about Diminished Public Self-Awareness in Nature Contributes to the Positive Effects of Contact with Nature on Connectedness to Nature.

My virtual self: the role of movement in children's sense of embodiment (2021)
Journal Article
Dewe, H., Gottwald, J., Bird, L., Brenton, H., Gillies, M., & Cowie, D. (2022). My virtual self: the role of movement in children's sense of embodiment. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 28(12), 4061-4072. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvcg.2021.3073906

There are vast potential applications for children's entertainment and education with modern virtual reality (VR) experiences, yet we know very little about how the movement or form of such a virtual body can influence children's feelings of control... Read More about My virtual self: the role of movement in children's sense of embodiment.

Carers' perceptions of harm and the protective measures taken to safeguard children's health against inhalation of volcanic ash: A comparative study across Indonesia, Japan and Mexico (2021)
Journal Article
Covey, J., Dominelli, L., Horwell, C., Rachmawati, L., Martin-del Pozzo, A., Armienta, M., …Ogawa, R. (2021). Carers' perceptions of harm and the protective measures taken to safeguard children's health against inhalation of volcanic ash: A comparative study across Indonesia, Japan and Mexico. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 59, Article 102194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102194

Volcanic ash contains potentially toxic elements which could affect human health. There is a paucity of research focusing on the impact of airborne volcanic emissions on the health of children, and on their exposure reduction. Children's carers (pare... Read More about Carers' perceptions of harm and the protective measures taken to safeguard children's health against inhalation of volcanic ash: A comparative study across Indonesia, Japan and Mexico.

Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity (2021)
Journal Article
Ameen-Ali, K. E., Sivakumaran, M. H., Eacott, M. J., O'Connor, A. R., Ainge, J. A., & Easton, A. (2021). Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 182, Article 107439. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107439

Spontaneous object recognition (SOR) is a widely used task of recognition memory in rodents which relies on their propensity to explore novel (or relatively novel) objects. Network models typically define perirhinal cortex as a region required for re... Read More about Perirhinal cortex and the recognition of relative familiarity.