All Outputs (146)

Understanding the Patterns of Hate Incidents and Reporting Attitudes at a UK University (2023)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., Towl, G., Matthewson, J., & Earnshaw, M. (online). Understanding the Patterns of Hate Incidents and Reporting Attitudes at a UK University. Qeios, https://doi.org/10.32388/D3PO6I

Widening participation, through diversity and inclusion, has become a major goal to achieve in UK Higher Education, with the potential of the most able, rather than simply the socially advantaged, attending university. Addressing challenges of racism... Read More about Understanding the Patterns of Hate Incidents and Reporting Attitudes at a UK University.

Restricting social networking site use for one week produces varied effects on mood but does not increase explicit or implicit desires to use SNSs: Findings from an ecological momentary assessment study (2023)
Journal Article
Wadsley, M., & Ihssen, N. (2023). Restricting social networking site use for one week produces varied effects on mood but does not increase explicit or implicit desires to use SNSs: Findings from an ecological momentary assessment study. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0293467. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293467

Recent research on the addictive potential of modern technologies such as the internet, smartphones, or social networking sites (SNSs) has suggested that emotional and motivational changes associated with the sudden discontinuation of engagement with... Read More about Restricting social networking site use for one week produces varied effects on mood but does not increase explicit or implicit desires to use SNSs: Findings from an ecological momentary assessment study.

Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two‐ and six‐year‐olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties? (2023)
Journal Article
Carrington, S. J., Uljarević, M., Meins, E., Fernyhough, C., McConachie, H., Le Couteur, A., & Leekam, S. R. (2023). Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two‐ and six‐year‐olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties?. JCPP Advances, Article e12209. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12209

Background: Restricted and repetitive patterns of behaviour (RRBs) serve an adaptive role in development. Elevated levels of RRBs beyond the early years, however, are associated with poorer outcome in language, cognition, and wellbeing, and are seen... Read More about Are restricted and repetitive behaviours in two‐ and six‐year‐olds associated with emotional and behavioural difficulties?.

How neural representations of newly learnt faces change over time: Event-related brain potential evidence for overnight consolidation (2023)
Journal Article
Wiese, H., Popova, T., Schipper, M., Zakriev, D., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2024). How neural representations of newly learnt faces change over time: Event-related brain potential evidence for overnight consolidation. Cortex, 171, 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2023.10.007

Previous experiments have shown that a brief encounter with a previously unfamiliar person leads to the establishment of new facial representations, which can be activated by completely novel pictures of the newly learnt face. The present study exami... Read More about How neural representations of newly learnt faces change over time: Event-related brain potential evidence for overnight consolidation.

The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art (2023)
Journal Article
Wisher, I., Pettitt, P., & Kentridge, R. (2023). The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 19009. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46320-8

Virtual Reality (VR) has vast potential for developing systematic, interdisciplinary studies to understand ephemeral behaviours in the archaeological record, such as the emergence and development of visual culture. Upper Palaeolithic cave art forms t... Read More about The deep past in the virtual present: developing an interdisciplinary approach towards understanding the psychological foundations of palaeolithic cave art.

Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms (2023)
Journal Article
Dougall, I., Vasiljevic, M., Kutlaca, M., & Weick, M. (2023). Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms. PLoS ONE, 18(11), Article e0292842. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292842

Universities are seeing growing numbers of students with poor mental health and wellbeing. Given that lower socioeconomic status (SES) students typically have poorer mental health and wellbeing than their peers, this may be, in part, caused by an inc... Read More about Socioeconomic inequalities in mental health and wellbeing among UK students during the COVID-19 pandemic: Clarifying underlying mechanisms.

Implementation and Preliminary Evaluation of a 12-Week Cognitive Behavioural and Motivational Enhancement Group Therapy for Cannabis Use Disorder (2023)
Journal Article
Trick, L., Butler, K., Bourgault, Z., Vandervoort, J., & Le Foll, B. (2023). Implementation and Preliminary Evaluation of a 12-Week Cognitive Behavioural and Motivational Enhancement Group Therapy for Cannabis Use Disorder. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 17, https://doi.org/10.1177/11782218231205840

Background:: The purpose of this paper is to provide a preliminary evaluation of treatment outcomes, retention and client satisfaction following a 12-week combined cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and motivational enhancement therapy (MET) group t... Read More about Implementation and Preliminary Evaluation of a 12-Week Cognitive Behavioural and Motivational Enhancement Group Therapy for Cannabis Use Disorder.

No transfer of arousal from other’s eyes in Williams syndrome (2023)
Journal Article
Kleberg, J. L., Hallman, A. E. Z., Galazka, M. A., Riby, D. M., Bölte, S., Willfors, C., …Nordgren, A. (2023). No transfer of arousal from other’s eyes in Williams syndrome. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 18397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45521-5

Typically developing humans automatically synchronize their arousal levels, resulting in pupillary contagion, or spontaneous adaptation of pupil size to that of others. This phenomenon emerges in infancy and is believed to facilitate social interacti... Read More about No transfer of arousal from other’s eyes in Williams syndrome.

Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks (2023)
Journal Article
Wijeakumar, S., Forbes, S. H., Magnotta, V. A., Deoni, S., Jackson, K., Singh, V. P., …Spencer, J. P. (2023). Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks. Nature Human Behaviour, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01725-3

Stunting is associated with poor long-term cognitive, academic and economic outcomes, yet the mechanisms through which stunting impacts cognition in early development remain unknown. In a first-ever neuroimaging study conducted on infants from rural... Read More about Stunting in infancy is associated with atypical activation of working memory and attention networks.

Time spent playing video games during periods of isolation has no effect on loneliness or mental health (2023)
Journal Article
Hodgetts, S., Butler, J., & Patrick Williams, G. (2023). Time spent playing video games during periods of isolation has no effect on loneliness or mental health. Behaviour and Information Technology, https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2272201

Video games are a ubiquitous form of entertainment that also have the potential to fulfil the socialisation needs of players. In recent years, policy makers and healthcare providers have voiced growing concerns regarding the potential for video gamin... Read More about Time spent playing video games during periods of isolation has no effect on loneliness or mental health.

Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion. (2023)
Journal Article
Guyer, J. J., Briñol, P., Vaughan-Johnston, T. I., Fabrigar, L. R., Moreno, L., Paredes, B., & Petty, R. E. (2023). Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231197547

Three experiments tested how low versus high pitch generated from sources beyond a message communicator can affect reliance on thoughts and influence recipients' attitudes. First, participants wrote positive or negative thoughts about an exam proposa... Read More about Pitch as a Recipient, Channel, and Context Factor Affecting Thought Reliance and Persuasion..

Rapid processing of observed touch through social perceptual brain regions: an EEG-fMRI fusion study. (2023)
Journal Article
Lee Masson, H., & Isik, L. (2023). Rapid processing of observed touch through social perceptual brain regions: an EEG-fMRI fusion study. Journal of Neuroscience, 43(45), 7700-7711. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0995-23.2023

Seeing social touch triggers a strong social-affective response that involves multiple brain networks, including visual, social perceptual, and somatosensory systems. Previous studies have identified the specific functional role of each system, but l... Read More about Rapid processing of observed touch through social perceptual brain regions: an EEG-fMRI fusion study..

Cross-Species Comparisons of Human and Non-Human Culture: Approaches, Discoveries, Limitations, and Future Directions (2023)
Book Chapter
Wood, L. A., Vale, G. L., Flynn, E. G., & Rawlings, B. S. (2023). Cross-Species Comparisons of Human and Non-Human Culture: Approaches, Discoveries, Limitations, and Future Directions. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.30

Studies that directly compare the behaviour of two or more species can identify important similarities and differences in the psychological mechanisms that underpin culture, social learning, and innovation. This chapter focuses on the phylogeneticall... Read More about Cross-Species Comparisons of Human and Non-Human Culture: Approaches, Discoveries, Limitations, and Future Directions.

A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures. (2023)
Journal Article
Singh, L., Barokova, M. D., Baumgartner, H. A., Lopera-Perez, D. C., Omane, P. O., Sheskin, M., …Frank, M. C. (2024). A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures. Developmental Psychology, 60(2), 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001623

Culture is a key determinant of children’s development both in its own right and as a measure of generalizability of developmental phenomena. Studying the role of culture in development requires information about participants’ demographic backgrounds... Read More about A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures..

The Impact of Educator Anxiety and Anxiety Literacy on Primary Educators’ Responses to Anxious Children (2023)
Journal Article
Byrne, J. A., & Clark, L. H. (2024). The Impact of Educator Anxiety and Anxiety Literacy on Primary Educators’ Responses to Anxious Children. Child and Youth Care Forum, 53(3), 757-777. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-023-09771-8

Background: Parental anxiety and over-involved parenting behaviour are consistently associated with an increase in child anxiety symptoms. Primary school aged children also often develop a strong and influential relationship with their class teacher... Read More about The Impact of Educator Anxiety and Anxiety Literacy on Primary Educators’ Responses to Anxious Children.

Estradiol driven change in hallucination proneness across the menstrual cycle as studied with a white noise paradigm (2023)
Journal Article
Hjelmervik, H., Hausmann, M., Bless, J. J., Harkestad, N., Hugdahl, K., & Laloyaux, J. (2024). Estradiol driven change in hallucination proneness across the menstrual cycle as studied with a white noise paradigm. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 159, Article 106410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2023.106410

The estrogen hypothesis for schizophrenia suggests neuroprotective effects of estrogen for the development of the disorder and for symptom severity, including auditory hallucinations. Furthermore, estrogen has shown enhancing effects on cognitive con... Read More about Estradiol driven change in hallucination proneness across the menstrual cycle as studied with a white noise paradigm.

Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence (2023)
Journal Article
Cook, A., Thompson, M., & Ross, P. (2023). Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence. PLoS ONE, 18(9), https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291444

Trait inferences from first impressions are drawn rapidly and spontaneously. However, the Covid-19 pandemic forced interactions online introducing differential influential factors on first impressions. As such, there is an absence of research investi... Read More about Virtual First Impressions: Zoom backgrounds affect judgements of trust and competence.

Personal familiarity of faces, animals, objects, and scenes: Distinct perceptual and overlapping conceptual representations (2023)
Journal Article
Wiese, H., Schipper, M., Popova, T., Burton, A. M., & Young, A. W. (2023). Personal familiarity of faces, animals, objects, and scenes: Distinct perceptual and overlapping conceptual representations. Cognition, 241, Article 105625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105625

While face, object, and scene recognition are often studied at a basic categorization level (e.g. “a face”, “a car”, “a kitchen”), we frequently recognise individual items of these categories as unique entities (e.g. “my mother”, “my car”, “my kitche... Read More about Personal familiarity of faces, animals, objects, and scenes: Distinct perceptual and overlapping conceptual representations.

Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool. (2023)
Journal Article
Fernyhough, C., & Borghi, A. M. (2023). Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27(12), S1364-6613(23)00210-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.08.014

Many people report a form of internal language known as inner speech (IS). This review examines recent growth of research interest in the phenomenon, which has broadly supported a theoretical model in which IS is a functional language process that ca... Read More about Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool..

Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience (2023)
Journal Article
Scheller, M., Fang, H., & Sui, J. (2023). Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience. British Journal of Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12683

Our everyday perceptual experiences are grounded in the integration of information within and across our senses. Due to this direct behavioural relevance, cross-modal integration retains a certain degree of contextual flexibility, even to social rele... Read More about Self as a prior: The malleability of Bayesian multisensory integration to social salience.