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Shared Flashbulb Memories Lead to Identity Fusion: Recalling the Defeat in the Brexit Referendum Produces Strong Psychological Bonds Among Remain Supporters (2021)
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Kapitany. (2021). Shared Flashbulb Memories Lead to Identity Fusion: Recalling the Defeat in the Brexit Referendum Produces Strong Psychological Bonds Among Remain Supporters. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.10.005

Identity fusion—a visceral feeling of oneness with a group—is thought to result from the sharing of emotional, often dysphoric, experiences. In this pre-registered longitudinal study, we address the impact of flashbulb memories of learning about the... Read More about Shared Flashbulb Memories Lead to Identity Fusion: Recalling the Defeat in the Brexit Referendum Produces Strong Psychological Bonds Among Remain Supporters.

Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness. (2021)
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Stott. (2021). Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness. Law and Human Behavior, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000465

OBJECTIVE: We conducted an exploratory study testing procedural justice theory with a novel population. We assessed the extent to which police procedural justice, effectiveness, legitimacy, and perceived risk of sanction predict compliance with the l... Read More about Relational and instrumental perspectives on compliance with the law among people experiencing homelessness..

Improving research quality: The view from the UK Reproducibility Network institutional leads for research improvement (2021)
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Grange. (2021). Improving research quality: The view from the UK Reproducibility Network institutional leads for research improvement. BMC Research Notes, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05883-3

The adoption and incentivisation of open and transparent research practices is critical in addressing issues around research reproducibility and research integrity. These practices will require training and funding. Individuals need to be incentivise... Read More about Improving research quality: The view from the UK Reproducibility Network institutional leads for research improvement.

Improving Sleep Quality Leads to Better Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials (2021)
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Scott, A., Webb, T., Martyn-St James, M., Rowse, G., & Weich, S. (2021). Improving Sleep Quality Leads to Better Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials. Sleep Medicine Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2021.101556

Summary The extent to which sleep is causally related to mental health is unclear. One way to test the causal link is to evaluate the extent to which interventions that improve sleep quality also improve mental health. We conducted a meta-analysis of... Read More about Improving Sleep Quality Leads to Better Mental Health: A Meta-Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials.

Automaticity of taxonomic and functional knowledge activation during real-world visual scene processing (2021)
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Ciesielski, K., Webb, A., & Spotorno, S. (2021). Automaticity of taxonomic and functional knowledge activation during real-world visual scene processing. Perception, 173 - 174. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211059887

Although vision guides our everyday actions, the role of functional (action-based) knowledge in understanding real-world visual scenes has long been neglected. Typically, research has focused on taxonomic knowledge, related to the scene’s context and... Read More about Automaticity of taxonomic and functional knowledge activation during real-world visual scene processing.

EXPRESS: Age-related differences when searching in a real environment: The use of semantic contextual guidance and incidental object encoding. (2021)
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(2021). EXPRESS: Age-related differences when searching in a real environment: The use of semantic contextual guidance and incidental object encoding. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211064887

Visual search is a crucial, everyday activity that declines with aging. Here, referring to the environmental support account, we hypothesized that semantic contextual associations between the target and the neighboring objects (e.g., a teacup near a... Read More about EXPRESS: Age-related differences when searching in a real environment: The use of semantic contextual guidance and incidental object encoding..

Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices (2021)
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Monroy, C., Domínguez-Martínez, E., Taylor, B., Marin, O. P., Parise, E., & Reid, V. M. (2021). Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices. Developmental Psychobiology, 63(8), Article e22217. https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.22217

The current study examined the effects of variability on infant event-related potential (ERP) data editing methods. A widespread approach for analyzing infant ERPs is through a trial-by-trial editing process. Researchers identify electroencephalogram... Read More about Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices.

Criteria‐Based Content Analysis in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective (2021)
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Cacuci, S., Bull, R., Huang, C., & Visu‐Petra, L. (2021). Criteria‐Based Content Analysis in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective. Child Abuse Review, 30(6), 520-535. https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2733

Statement validity assessment (SVA) was created to evaluate children's accounts in alleged sexual abuse cases and it is the most popular instrument currently used to assess the veracity of their verbal declarations. The core of this method lies in th... Read More about Criteria‐Based Content Analysis in Child Sexual Abuse Cases: A Cross‐Cultural Perspective.

COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
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Blackburn, A. M., & Vestergren, S. (2021). COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/428pz

During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals’ experiences related to the crisis. A year later, we extended this line of research by launching a new... Read More about COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

Past and Present Intergroup Contact and Conflict Among Inhabitants of Former Mixed Villages of Cyprus: The Role of Individual and Collective Experiences in Predicting Attitudes and Trust (2021)
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Kende, J., Psaltis, C., Reiter, J., Fousiani, K., Cakal, H., & Green, E. G. T. (2021). Past and Present Intergroup Contact and Conflict Among Inhabitants of Former Mixed Villages of Cyprus: The Role of Individual and Collective Experiences in Predicting Attitudes and Trust. Political Psychology, 43(4), 751-768. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12791

Positive attitudes and trust towards former adversaries facilitate reconciliation and peacebuilding. Both historical and current intergroup experiences such as intergroup contact and conflict predict intergroup attitudes and trust but no previous res... Read More about Past and Present Intergroup Contact and Conflict Among Inhabitants of Former Mixed Villages of Cyprus: The Role of Individual and Collective Experiences in Predicting Attitudes and Trust.

Making a Difference with Music Psychology Research: Strategy, Serendipity, and Surviving a Global Pandemic (2021)
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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.

Identity, Legitimacy and Cooperation With Police: Comparing General-Population and Street-Population Samples From London (2021)
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Stott, C., & Radburn, M. (2021). Identity, Legitimacy and Cooperation With Police: Comparing General-Population and Street-Population Samples From London. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 492 - 508. https://doi.org/10.1037/law0000312

Social identity is a core aspect of procedural justice theory, which predicts that fair treatment at the hands of power holders such as police expresses, communicates, and generates feelings of inclusion, status, and belonging within salient social c... Read More about Identity, Legitimacy and Cooperation With Police: Comparing General-Population and Street-Population Samples From London.

“We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States (2021)
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(2021). “We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1476-1485. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550620987672

Collective action is a key driver of social and political change within societies. So far, the main factor mobilizing individuals into collective action remains the extent to which they feel identified with a protesting group (i.e., social identific... Read More about “We Shall Overcome”: First-Person Plural Pronouns From Search Volume Data Predict Protest Mobilization Across the United States.

Cognitive ability in former professional football (soccer) players is associated with estimated heading frequency (2021)
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Bruno, D., & Rutherford, A. (2022). Cognitive ability in former professional football (soccer) players is associated with estimated heading frequency. Journal of Neuropsychology, 16(2), 434-443. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12264

Objectives The link between football (soccer) headings and dementia risk is a concern given the popularity of this sport worldwide. To assess this link, the cognitive ability of former professional players was tested and self-reported estimates on he... Read More about Cognitive ability in former professional football (soccer) players is associated with estimated heading frequency.

Marc Richelle (1930–2021) and the Study of Temporal Regulation of Behaviour in Animals (2021)
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(2021). Marc Richelle (1930–2021) and the Study of Temporal Regulation of Behaviour in Animals. Psychologica Belgica, 298 - 305. https://doi.org/10.5334/pb.1095

This article discusses the contribution of Marc Richelle to the study of temporal regulation of behaviour in animals. Richelle was a pioneer of behavioural pharmacology in Europe in the 1960s, and some of his early pharmacological experiments, partic... Read More about Marc Richelle (1930–2021) and the Study of Temporal Regulation of Behaviour in Animals.

Culture and Leadership: a Lewinian Perspective of Organizational Problem Solving (2021)
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Freiherr von Fircks, E. (2024). Culture and Leadership: a Lewinian Perspective of Organizational Problem Solving. Human Arenas, 7(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42087-021-00256-5

Leadership is inherently social. Being grounded in the Lewinian framework of field theory, I am instancing the diverse understanding of social leadership: Uncertainty reduction, making choices, assuming responsibility, and contributing to an orchestr... Read More about Culture and Leadership: a Lewinian Perspective of Organizational Problem Solving.

COVID-19 vaccination acceptability in the UK at the start of the vaccination programme: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey (CoVAccS – wave 2) (2021)
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Sherman, S., Sim, J., Cutts, M., Rubin, G., Sevdalis, N., Smith, L., …Amlôt, R. (2022). COVID-19 vaccination acceptability in the UK at the start of the vaccination programme: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey (CoVAccS – wave 2). Public Health, 202, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.10.008

Objectives: To investigate factors associated with intention to have the COVID-19 vaccination following initiation of the UK national vaccination programme. Study Design: 1,500 adults completed an online cross-sectional survey (13th–15th January 2021... Read More about COVID-19 vaccination acceptability in the UK at the start of the vaccination programme: a nationally representative cross-sectional survey (CoVAccS – wave 2).

How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway (2021)
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Drury, J., Stott, C., Ball, R., Barr, D., Bell, L., Reicher, S., & Neville, F. (2022). How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway. Political Psychology, 43(4), 651-669. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12786

Waves of riots are politically and psychologically significant national events. The role of police perceptions and practices in spreading unrest between cities has been neglected in previous research, even though the police are significant actors in... Read More about How Riots Spread Between Cities: Introducing the Police Pathway.

Trust Beliefs in Significant Others, Interpersonal Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology of Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders. (2021)
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(2021). Trust Beliefs in Significant Others, Interpersonal Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology of Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01255-x

This study examined relations between trust beliefs in significant others (TBSO), interpersonal stress, and internalizing psychopathology for adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Two hundred and thirty-four adolescents from an acute inpatient unit... Read More about Trust Beliefs in Significant Others, Interpersonal Stress, and Internalizing Psychopathology of Adolescents with Psychiatric Disorders..

Body Mass Index and Body Satisfaction: Does Availability of Well-Fitting Clothes Matter? (2021)
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Grogan, S., Gill, S., Brownbridge, K., McChesney, G., Wren, P., Cole, J., …Armitage, C. J. (2021). Body Mass Index and Body Satisfaction: Does Availability of Well-Fitting Clothes Matter?. Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, 251 - 263. https://doi.org/10.1177/0887302X20915528

Relatively little is known about the factors that mediate the relationship between high body mass index (BMI) and reduced body satisfaction. This is the first study to investigate whether availability of well-fitting clothes mediates this relationsh... Read More about Body Mass Index and Body Satisfaction: Does Availability of Well-Fitting Clothes Matter?.