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The role of visuomotor synchrony on virtual full‐body illusions in children and adults (2024)
Journal Article
Dewe, H., Sill, O., Thurlbeck, S., Kentridge, R., & Cowie, D. (2024). The role of visuomotor synchrony on virtual full‐body illusions in children and adults. Journal of Neuropsychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12372

The present study explored the effects of visuomotor synchrony in virtual reality during the embodiment of a full human avatar in children (aged 5–6 years) and adults. Participants viewed their virtual bodies from a first‐person perspective while the... Read More about The role of visuomotor synchrony on virtual full‐body illusions in children and adults.

Individuals lack the ability to accurately detect emotional piloerection (2024)
Journal Article
McPhetres, J., Han, A., Gao, H. H., Kemp, N., Khati, B., Pu, C. X., …Shui, X. (2024). Individuals lack the ability to accurately detect emotional piloerection. Psychophysiology, Article e14605. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14605

Piloerection (e.g., goosebumps) is an essential thermoregulatory and social signaling mechanism in non‐human animals. Although humans also experience piloerection—often being perceived as an indicator of profound emotional experiences—its comparative... Read More about Individuals lack the ability to accurately detect emotional piloerection.

Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war (2024)
Journal Article
Grigoryan, L., Ponizovskiy, V., Weißflog, M. I., Osin, E., & Lickel, B. (in press). Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12985

Feeling guilt and shame for the harm done to others by the ingroup can facilitate intergroup reconciliation. Most of the studies showing this effect are conducted in democratic countries and on historical, not current, conflicts. We investigated the... Read More about Guilt, shame, and antiwar action in an authoritarian country at war.

A meta‐analysis of coping strategies and psychological distress in rheumatoid arthritis (2024)
Journal Article
Hinch, R., & Sirois, F. M. (2024). A meta‐analysis of coping strategies and psychological distress in rheumatoid arthritis. British Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12726

Purpose: Theory and research indicate that coping plays a central role in the experience of psychological distress in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This study meta‐analysed the associations of adaptive and maladaptive coping strategies with... Read More about A meta‐analysis of coping strategies and psychological distress in rheumatoid arthritis.

Predicting vaccination hesitancy: The role of basic needs satisfaction and institutional trust. (2024)
Journal Article
Marinthe, G., Brown, G., Cristea, M., & Kutlaca, M. (2024). Predicting vaccination hesitancy: The role of basic needs satisfaction and institutional trust. Vaccine, 42(16), 3592-3600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.04.068

Autonomous motivation is considered a powerful driver of health behaviour, but less is known about the specific roles played by basic needs. Drawing on the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this research examined basic needs as a motivational determi... Read More about Predicting vaccination hesitancy: The role of basic needs satisfaction and institutional trust..

Activation and functional connectivity of cerebellum during reading and during arithmetic in children with combined reading and math disabilities (2024)
Journal Article
Ashburn, S. M., Matejko, A. A., & Eden, G. F. (2024). Activation and functional connectivity of cerebellum during reading and during arithmetic in children with combined reading and math disabilities. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 18, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2024.1135166

Background: Reading and math constitute important academic skills, and as such, reading disability (RD or developmental dyslexia) and math disability (MD or developmental dyscalculia) can have negative consequences for children’s educational progre... Read More about Activation and functional connectivity of cerebellum during reading and during arithmetic in children with combined reading and math disabilities.

Personal Development of Doctoral Students (2024)
Journal Article
Riby, D. M., & Rees, S. (2024). Personal Development of Doctoral Students. Encyclopedia, 4(2), 743-752. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4020047

Definition: Personal development refers to the process of increasing one’s self-awareness, associated increases of self-esteem, increasing skills, and fulfilling one’s aspirations. The current paper reflects on these elements within the doctoral jour... Read More about Personal Development of Doctoral Students.

Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women (2024)
Journal Article
Dell’Erba, S., Scheller, M., de Sousa, A. A., & Proulx, M. J. (2024). Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482x241235167

Introduction: Visual experience has a substantial effect on how individuals construct a template of their own bodies in space. Whether the absence of total or partial visual exposure in individuals of both genders allows the buffering of harmful ef... Read More about Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women.

Associations between autistic traits, depression, social anxiety and social rejection in autistic and non-autistic adults (2024)
Journal Article
Gurbuz, E., Riby, D. M., South, M., & Hanley, M. (2024). Associations between autistic traits, depression, social anxiety and social rejection in autistic and non-autistic adults. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 9065. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59532-3

Autistic people frequently experience negative judgements from non-autistic people, often fuelled by misconceptions that autistic people lack empathy. Understanding responses to negative social judgement among autistic people is crucial because of th... Read More about Associations between autistic traits, depression, social anxiety and social rejection in autistic and non-autistic adults.

Effects of a novel, brief psychological therapy (Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences) for hallucinations in first episode psychosis (MUSE FEP): findings from an exploratory randomised controlled trial. (2024)
Journal Article
Dudley, R., Dodgson, G., Common, S., Ogundimu, E., Liley, J., O’Grady, L., Watson, F., Gibbs, C., Arnott, B., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., & Aynsworth, C. (2024). Effects of a novel, brief psychological therapy (Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences) for hallucinations in first episode psychosis (MUSE FEP): findings from an exploratory randomised controlled trial. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 174, 289-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2024.04.031

Hallucinations are a common feature of psychosis, yet access to effective psychological treatment is limited. The Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences for First-Episode-Psychosis (MUSE-FEP) trial aimed to establish the feasibility and acceptability o... Read More about Effects of a novel, brief psychological therapy (Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences) for hallucinations in first episode psychosis (MUSE FEP): findings from an exploratory randomised controlled trial..

The expression of empathy in human's closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees: current and future directions (2024)
Journal Article
Brooker, J. S., Webb, C. E., de Waal, F. B. M., & Clay, Z. (2024). The expression of empathy in human's closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees: current and future directions. Biological Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.13080

Empathy is a complex, multi‐dimensional capacity that facilitates the sharing and understanding of others' emotions. As our closest living relatives, bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzees (P. troglodytes) provide an opportunity to explore the origin... Read More about The expression of empathy in human's closest relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees: current and future directions.

The role of Occupational Therapy in community development to combat social isolation and loneliness (2024)
Journal Article
Cowen, K., Collins, T., Carr, S., & Wilson Menzfeld, G. (2024). The role of Occupational Therapy in community development to combat social isolation and loneliness. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226241239564

Background: Social participation activities, an important area of occupation, have been effective in reducing social isolation and loneliness. However, most attendees are women, warranting the need to explore older men’s social participation needs.... Read More about The role of Occupational Therapy in community development to combat social isolation and loneliness.

The overlooked role of unisensory precision in multisensory research. (2024)
Journal Article
Zhu, H., Beierholm, U., & Shams, L. (2024). The overlooked role of unisensory precision in multisensory research. Current Biology, 34(6), R229-R231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.01.057

Zhu et al. present an alternative explanation for the weaker multisensory illusions in football goalkeepers compared with outfielders and non-athletes, showing that better unisensory precision in goalkeepers can also account for this effect.

A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean (2024)
Journal Article
Sanderson, D. J. (2024). A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean. Cognition, 247, Article 105770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105770

The temporal bisection procedure has been used to assess theories of time perception. A problem with the procedure for measuring the perceived midpoint of two durations is that the spacing of probe durations affects the length of the bisection point.... Read More about A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean.

On Independence and Compound and Iterated Conditionals (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gilio, A., Over, D., Pfeifer, N., & Sanfilippo, G. (2024). On Independence and Compound and Iterated Conditionals. In Human and Artificial Rationalities: Second International Conference, HAR 2023, Paris, France, September 19–22, 2023, Proceedings (159-177). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55245-8_11

Understanding the logic of uncertain conditionals is a key problem in the new paradigm psychology of reasoning and related fields. We investigate conjunctions of conditionals, iterated conditionals, and independence within the theory of logical opera... Read More about On Independence and Compound and Iterated Conditionals.

The experience of felt presence in a general population sample. (2024)
Journal Article
Brederoo, S. G., Alderson-Day, B., de Boer, J. N., Linszen, M. M. J., & Sommer, I. E. C. (2024). The experience of felt presence in a general population sample. British Journal of Psychiatry, 224(4), 119-121. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.7

Felt presence is a widely occurring experience, but remains under-recognised in clinical and research practice. To contribute to a wider recognition of the phenomenon, we aimed to assess the presentation of felt presence in a large population sample... Read More about The experience of felt presence in a general population sample..

Co-located Heroin Assisted Treatment within primary care: A preliminary analysis of the implications for healthcare access, cost, and treatment delivery in the UK. (2024)
Journal Article
Poulter, H. L., Moore, H. J., Ahmed, D., Riley, F., Walker, T., & Harris, M. (2024). Co-located Heroin Assisted Treatment within primary care: A preliminary analysis of the implications for healthcare access, cost, and treatment delivery in the UK. International Journal of Drug Policy, 126, Article 104367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104367

The UK is experiencing its highest rate of drug related deaths in 25 years. Poor and inconsistent access to healthcare negatively impacts health outcomes for people who use drugs. Innovation in models of care which promote access and availability of... Read More about Co-located Heroin Assisted Treatment within primary care: A preliminary analysis of the implications for healthcare access, cost, and treatment delivery in the UK..

Proximity to rewards modulates parameters of effortful control exertion. (2024)
Journal Article
Devine, S., Roy, M., Beierholm, U., & Otto, A. R. (2024). Proximity to rewards modulates parameters of effortful control exertion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(5), 1257–1267. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001561

The now-classic goal-gradient hypothesis posits that organisms increase effort expenditure as a function of their proximity to a goal. Despite nearly a century having passed since its original formulation, goal-gradient-like behavior in human cogniti... Read More about Proximity to rewards modulates parameters of effortful control exertion..