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Sex/gender differences in hemispheric asymmetries (2025)
Book Chapter
Hodgetts, S., & Hausmann, M. (2025). Sex/gender differences in hemispheric asymmetries. In Cerebral Asymmetries (255-265). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-443-15646-5.00014-2

This chapter will critically review evidence across 40 years of research, covering both early and contemporary studies that have investigated sex/gender differences in hemispheric asymmetries, including both structural and functional asymmetries. We... Read More about Sex/gender differences in hemispheric asymmetries.

The role of health behaviour in obesity (2025)
Book Chapter
Evans, E. H., Ahern, A. L., Dombrowski, S. U., & Vasiljevic, M. (2025). The role of health behaviour in obesity. In R. Sanderman, & K. Morgan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Health Psychology: Global and Contemporary Issues (242-256). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003318026-17

Obesity is the accumulation of excess adipose tissue (fat) and presents risks to physical and mental health. Health-related behaviours contribute to the occurrence of obesity, and both these behaviours and obesity itself may be responsible for some o... Read More about The role of health behaviour in obesity.

Trauma-Informed Care (2024)
Book Chapter
Haines-Delmont, A., Duxbury, J. A., Gupta, V., & Lantta, T. (2024). Trauma-Informed Care. In N. Hallett, R. Whittington, D. Richter, & E. Eneje (Eds.), Coercion and Violence in Mental Health Settings: Causes, Consequences, Management (287-310). (2nd ed). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61224-4_13

In this chapter, we discuss the paradigm shift from a traditional, individual blaming approach to understanding mental health crisis towards trauma-informed thinking, the impact of coercive practices on trauma and retraumatisation, and the range of t... Read More about Trauma-Informed Care.

Social Cognition (2024)
Book Chapter
Weick, M. (2024). Social Cognition. In S. Paolini, R. N. Turner, M. Vasiljevic, & R. J. Crisp (Eds.), Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. SAGE Publications

History and Research Methods (2024)
Book Chapter
Ross, P., Vasiljevic, M., & Paolini, S. (2024). History and Research Methods. In S. Paolini, R. N. Turner, M. Vasiljevic, & R. J. Crisp (Eds.), Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. (1). SAGE Publications

Behaviour Change (2024)
Book Chapter
Vasiljevic, M. (2024). Behaviour Change. In S. Paolini, R. N. Turner, M. Vasiljevic, & R. Crisp (Eds.), Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. SAGE Publications

What Is Innovation?: A Review of Definitions, Approaches, and Key Questions in Human and Non-Human Innovation (2024)
Book Chapter
Rawlings, B. S., & Reader, S. M. (2024). What Is Innovation?: A Review of Definitions, Approaches, and Key Questions in Human and Non-Human Innovation. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.11

Innovation, new or modified learned behaviour, is core to cultural evolution and fundamental to the success of humans. Innovations allow us to adapt to and change habitats, solve novel problems, and survive and flourish in diverse environments. Innov... Read More about What Is Innovation?: A Review of Definitions, Approaches, and Key Questions in Human and Non-Human Innovation.

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.

Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals in the Psychology of Reasoning (2023)
Book Chapter
Over, D. E., & Cruz, N. (2023). Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals in the Psychology of Reasoning. In S. Kaufmann, D. E. Over, & G. Sharma (Eds.), . Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05682-6_6

Our objective in this chapter is to introduce the study of indictive and counterfactual conditionals in the psychology of reasoning, and to discuss how psychology can make progress in understanding the relationship between these conditionals in peopl... Read More about Indicative and Counterfactual Conditionals in the Psychology of Reasoning.

Independence Conditionals (2023)
Book Chapter
Cruz, N., & Over, D. E. (2023). Independence Conditionals. In S. Kaufmann, D. E. Over, & G. Sharma (Eds.), Conditionals: Logic, Linguistics and Psychology (223-233). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05682-6_8

Douven et al. (this volume) have replied to our critique (Over and Cruz this volume) of their version of truth condition inferentialism (TCI). They have generously allowed us to have the last word (in this volume) in this debate. Their TCI theory is... Read More about Independence Conditionals.

Community psychology as reparations for violence in the construction of autism knowledge (2022)
Book Chapter
Botha, M. (2022). Community psychology as reparations for violence in the construction of autism knowledge. In D. Milton, & S. Ryan (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003056577-8

Reparations refer to measures taken to redress systematic violations of human rights. I argue that Community Psychology should be a basic reparation for the systematic violation of human rights that traditional methods in Psychology have facilitated... Read More about Community psychology as reparations for violence in the construction of autism knowledge.

Social Psychology: Exemplary Interdiscipline or Subdiscipline (2022)
Book Chapter
Good, J. M. M. (2022). Social Psychology: Exemplary Interdiscipline or Subdiscipline. In D. McCallum (Ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences (1005-1034). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7255-2_78

This chapter explores the history and disciplinary status of twentieth-century social psychology. In keeping with the theoretical commitments of this Handbook, the analysis is framed within a history of the human sciences perspective grounded in the... Read More about Social Psychology: Exemplary Interdiscipline or Subdiscipline.

Primate empathy: A flexible and multi-componential phenomenon (2022)
Book Chapter
Brooker, J. S., Webb, C. E., & Clay, Z. (2022). Primate empathy: A flexible and multi-componential phenomenon. In M. J. Beran, & B. L. Schwartz (Eds.), Primate Cognitive Studies (505-531). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955836.020

Empathy, the capacity to share and understand others’ states, is crucial for facilitating enduring social relationships and managing ingroup and outgroup dynamics. Despite being at the center of much scrutiny and debate in human research, the evoluti... Read More about Primate empathy: A flexible and multi-componential phenomenon.