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Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions (2015)
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Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. (2015). Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions. Cognition, 145, 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.08.002

Rituals are a pervasive and ubiquitous aspect of human culture, but when we naïvely observe an opaque set of ritual actions, how do we come to understand its significance? To investigate this, across two experiments we manipulated the degree to which... Read More about Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions.

ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors. (2015)
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Street, C. N. H. ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 335-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.06.002

People make for poor lie detectors. They have accuracy rates comparable to a coin toss, and come with a set of systematic biases that sway the judgment. This pessimistic view stands in contrast to research showing that people make informed decisions... Read More about ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors..

Introducing a compendium of psychological literacy case studies: reflections on psychological literacy in practice (2015)
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(2015). Introducing a compendium of psychological literacy case studies: reflections on psychological literacy in practice. Psychology Teaching Review, 25 -34

This article introduces a set of case studies that were submitted to us following requests in psychology learning and teaching conferences and publications, and through professional networks at the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Higher E... Read More about Introducing a compendium of psychological literacy case studies: reflections on psychological literacy in practice.

Giving psychology away: How George Miller's vision is being realised by psychological literacy (2015)
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(2015). Giving psychology away: How George Miller's vision is being realised by psychological literacy. Psychology Teaching Review, 93 - 101 (8)

In George Miller’s famous address to the APA he explored the aims and future direction of psychology. Psychology could develop as a professional elite that develops specialised knowledge that experts can hold on to or it could aim to “give psychology... Read More about Giving psychology away: How George Miller's vision is being realised by psychological literacy.

Awareness of Risk Factors for Breast, Lung and Cervical Cancer in a UK Student Population (2015)
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Sherman, S., & Lane, E. (2015). Awareness of Risk Factors for Breast, Lung and Cervical Cancer in a UK Student Population. Journal of Cancer Education, 660 -663

The objective of this study is to identify levels of risk awareness for breast, lung and cervical cancer, in a UK student population. A sample of male (N=62) and female (N=58) university students, mean age 21.62 years completed a questionnaire identi... Read More about Awareness of Risk Factors for Breast, Lung and Cervical Cancer in a UK Student Population.

Associations between child maltreatment, PTSD, and internet addiction among Taiwanese students (2015)
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Huang. (2015). Associations between child maltreatment, PTSD, and internet addiction among Taiwanese students. Computers in Human Behavior, 209 - 214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.048

This study examines (1) the associations between multiple types of child maltreatment and Internet addiction, and (2) the mediating effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on these associations. We collected data from a national proportionat... Read More about Associations between child maltreatment, PTSD, and internet addiction among Taiwanese students.

Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value (2015)
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(2015). Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value. Journal of Marketing Management, 652-672. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2015.1117517

Teenage mothers find themselves caught between two discourses: the irresponsibility of youth and the responsibility of motherhood. We unravel some of the complexities surrounding the performance of socially approved ‘good mothering’, from a social po... Read More about Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value.

Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999) (2015)
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Stott, C. (2016). Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999). Policing and Society, 26(1), 114-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1107297

As a field of social science research, policing has been fortunate to have a number of influential academic researchers and a rich history of significant writing. This is something to be celebrated. Our Revisiting the Classics series aims to bring to... Read More about Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999).