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Student Pro-sociality: Measuring Institutional and Individual Factors that Predict Pro-social Behaviour at University (2019)
Journal Article
Stiff, C., Rosenthal-Stott, H. E., Wake, S., & Woodward, A. (2019). Student Pro-sociality: Measuring Institutional and Individual Factors that Predict Pro-social Behaviour at University. Current Psychology, 920-930. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00256-3

Students operate within a bounded social context and often face decisions regarding whether to pursue selfish or group-level benefit. Yet little work has examined what predicts their behaviour towards fellow students. This work addresses this gap b... Read More about Student Pro-sociality: Measuring Institutional and Individual Factors that Predict Pro-social Behaviour at University.

'Duck to water' or 'fish out of water'? Diversity in the experience of negotiating the transition to university (2019)
Book Chapter
(2019). 'Duck to water' or 'fish out of water'? Diversity in the experience of negotiating the transition to university. In Engaging Student Voices in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20824-0_10

Winstone and Hulme present a critical discussion of the notion of transition to university. They argue that the common emphasis on the challenging nature of the transition fails to acknowledge the diversity in students’ experiences; for some students... Read More about 'Duck to water' or 'fish out of water'? Diversity in the experience of negotiating the transition to university.

National identification and support for discriminatory policies: The mediating role of beliefs aboutlaïcitéin France (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). National identification and support for discriminatory policies: The mediating role of beliefs aboutlaïcitéin France. European Journal of Social Psychology, 924-937. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2576

In France, laïcité is a legal principle enforcing State secularism. However, research indicates that Modern (vs. traditional) beliefs about laïcité (ML) help legitimate prejudice against minorities. From Social Identity Theory, we hypothesized that M... Read More about National identification and support for discriminatory policies: The mediating role of beliefs aboutlaïcitéin France.

Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory (2019)
Journal Article
Zakrzewski, A. C., Wisniewski, M. G., Williams, H. L., & Berry, J. M. (2019). Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory. PloS one, 14(7), Article e0220526. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220526

Previous work supports an age-specific impairment for recognition memory of pairs of words and other stimuli. The present study tested the generalization of an associative deficit across word, name, and nonword stimulus types in younger and older adu... Read More about Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory.

Humor Styles in Younger Children (2019)
Book Chapter
James, L. A., & Fox, C. L. (2019). Humor Styles in Younger Children. In Research on Young Children’s Humor. (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15202-4_4

The humor styles approach assumes that humor can be adaptive and maladaptive, with four main styles of humor reflecting how we use humor in every-day life: Affiliative, Self-enhancing, Self-defeating, and Aggressive. Through a series of studies, the... Read More about Humor Styles in Younger Children.

Humor Styles in Younger Children (2019)
Book Chapter
James, L. A., & Louise Fox, C. (2019). Humor Styles in Younger Children. In Research on Young Children’s Humor. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15202-4_4

The humor styles approach assumes that humor can be adaptive and maladaptive, with four main styles of humor reflecting how we use humor in every-day life: Affiliative, Self-enhancing, Self-defeating, and Aggressive. Through a series of studies, the... Read More about Humor Styles in Younger Children.

An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being (2019)
Journal Article
Lamont. (2019). An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being. Music & Science, 205920431986171 - 205920431986171. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204319861719

<jats:p> Research on choirs and other forms of group singing has been conducted for several decades and there has been a recent focus on the potential health and well-being benefits, particularly in amateur singers. Experimental, quantitative, and qu... Read More about An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being.

Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making (2019)
Journal Article
Francis, K., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., Howard, I. S., & Terbeck, S. (2019). Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making. Psychopharmacology, 236, 3477 - 3496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05314-z

Rationale
Hypothetical moral dilemmas, pitting characteristically utilitarian and non-utilitarian outcomes against each other, have played a central role in investigations of moral decision-making. Preferences for utilitarian over non-utilitarian re... Read More about Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making.

Some thoughts on qualitative research in psychology in Europe (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Some thoughts on qualitative research in psychology in Europe. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 508 - 512. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2019.1605279

This short commentary reflects upon some of the current debates about qualitative methods within European psychology. It notes that the rebirth of qualitative methods towards the end of the twentieth century often coupled an epistemological challenge... Read More about Some thoughts on qualitative research in psychology in Europe.