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Making a Difference with Music Psychology Research: Strategy, Serendipity, and Surviving a Global Pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Lamont. (2021). Making a Difference with Music Psychology Research: Strategy, Serendipity, and Surviving a Global Pandemic. Music & Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211050018

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced researchers around the globe in every discipline imaginable into a position, where they have to provide justification for the relevance of their work. This represents a sharp acceleration in an underlying trend towar... Read More about Making a Difference with Music Psychology Research: Strategy, Serendipity, and Surviving a Global Pandemic.

Constructing and negotiating boundaries of morally acceptable alcohol use: A discursive psychology of justifying alcohol consumption (2021)
Journal Article
Melia, C., Kent, A., Meredith, J., & Lamont, A. (2021). Constructing and negotiating boundaries of morally acceptable alcohol use: A discursive psychology of justifying alcohol consumption. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 107057 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.107057

UK society has a complex relationship with alcohol; it is ever-present within social activities, yet alcohol problems are heavily stigmatised. As such, the nuance of acceptability is a key focus for understanding societal perceptions and understandin... Read More about Constructing and negotiating boundaries of morally acceptable alcohol use: A discursive psychology of justifying alcohol consumption.

Watching television in a home environment: effects on children's attention, problem solving and comprehension (2021)
Journal Article
Lamont. (2021). Watching television in a home environment: effects on children's attention, problem solving and comprehension. Media Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2021.1901744

Correlational studies have suggested some harmful effects of television viewing in early childhood, especially for the viewing of fast-paced entertainment programs. However, this has not been consistently supported by experimental studies, many of wh... Read More about Watching television in a home environment: effects on children's attention, problem solving and comprehension.