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F@#$ pain! A mini-review of the hypoalgesic effects of swearing (2024)
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Hay, C. M., Sills, J. L., Shoemake, J. M., Ballmann, C. G., Stephens, R., & Washmuth, N. B. (in press). F@#$ pain! A mini-review of the hypoalgesic effects of swearing. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1416041. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1416041

Swearing, or the use of taboo language, has been repeatedly shown to induce hypoalgesia. While reliable hypoalgesic effects have been observed across studies, the mechanisms by which swearing influences pain and the optimal dosage of swearing remain... Read More about F@#$ pain! A mini-review of the hypoalgesic effects of swearing.

Minding some animals but not others: Strategic attributions of mental capacities and moral worth to animals used for food in pescatarians, vegetarians, and omnivores (2024)
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Ioannidou, M., Francis, K. B., Stewart-Knox, B., & Lesk, V. (2024). Minding some animals but not others: Strategic attributions of mental capacities and moral worth to animals used for food in pescatarians, vegetarians, and omnivores. Appetite, 200, Article 107559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107559

While moral concern for animals has become increasingly important for both consumer food choice and food policy makers, previous research demonstrated that meat eaters attribute lower moral status and mental capacities to animals raised for meat comp... Read More about Minding some animals but not others: Strategic attributions of mental capacities and moral worth to animals used for food in pescatarians, vegetarians, and omnivores.

Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted (2024)
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Levine, T. R., & Street, C. N. H. (in press). Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted. Communication Theory, Article qtae008. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae008

Two contemporary theoretical perspectives explain when and how people make lie–truth judgments. The adaptive lie detector account (ALIED) and truth-default theory (TDT) are described, compared, and contrasted. ALIED and TDT come from different schola... Read More about Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted.

Emergency or Not? Dealing with Borderline Cases in Emergency Police Calls (2024)
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Kent, A., & Kevoe-Feldman, H. (2024). Emergency or Not? Dealing with Borderline Cases in Emergency Police Calls. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 57(2), 151-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2024.2340407

We examine occasions when callers phone emergency services yet preface their reason for calling as ‘not an emergency’. Data are phone calls to US (911) and UK (999) emergency lines and UK (101) non-emergency police lines. Data has been transcribed us... Read More about Emergency or Not? Dealing with Borderline Cases in Emergency Police Calls.

“System change, not climate change”: Effective environmental policies and state repression moderate the relationship between psychological predictors and environmental collective action (2024)
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Vestergren, S., Sefa Uysal, M., Varela, M., & Lindner, C. (2024). “System change, not climate change”: Effective environmental policies and state repression moderate the relationship between psychological predictors and environmental collective action. Global Environmental Psychology, 2, https://doi.org/10.5964/gep.11259

Social psychological research on environmental collective action often overlooks the facilitating or hindering impact of a country's context. Governments' institutional attitudes toward environmental issues may have crucial roles in mobilizing enviro... Read More about “System change, not climate change”: Effective environmental policies and state repression moderate the relationship between psychological predictors and environmental collective action.

EXPRESS: Parent-child sensorimotor coordination in toddlers with and without hearing loss. (2024)
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Monroy, C., Yu, C., & Houston, D. (in press). EXPRESS: Parent-child sensorimotor coordination in toddlers with and without hearing loss. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218241253277. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241253277

Infants experience the world through their actions with objects and their interactions with other people, especially their parents. Prior research has shown that school-age children with hearing loss experience poorer quality interactions with typica... Read More about EXPRESS: Parent-child sensorimotor coordination in toddlers with and without hearing loss..

Predictive processing of music and language in autism: Evidence from Mandarin and English speakers (2024)
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Zhao, C., Ong, J. H., Veic, A., Patel, A. D., Jiang, C., Fogel, A. R., …Liu, F. (in press). Predictive processing of music and language in autism: Evidence from Mandarin and English speakers. Autism Research, https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3133

Atypical predictive processing has been associated with autism across multiple domains, based mainly on artificial antecedents and consequents. As structured sequences where expectations derive from implicit learning of combinatorial principles, lang... Read More about Predictive processing of music and language in autism: Evidence from Mandarin and English speakers.

The efficacy of the Self‐Administered Interview: A systematic review (2024)
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Bird, E., Wiener, J., Huang, C., & Attard‐Johnson, J. (in press). The efficacy of the Self‐Administered Interview: A systematic review. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, Article e1632. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1632

Obtaining accurate information from eyewitnesses is a crucial element in criminal investigations. Interview strategies such as the Cognitive Interview (CI) and the Self‐Administered Interview (SAI) have been developed and implemented to minimise inac... Read More about The efficacy of the Self‐Administered Interview: A systematic review.

To beckon or not to beckon: Testing a causal-evaluative modelling approach to moral judgment: A registered report (2024)
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McHugh, C., Francis, K. B., Everett, J. A., & Timmons, S. (2024). To beckon or not to beckon: Testing a causal-evaluative modelling approach to moral judgment: A registered report. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 113, Article 104616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104616

Moral judgments are increasingly being understood as showing context dependent variability. A growing literature has identified a range of specific contextual factors (e.g., emotions, intentions) that can influence moral judgments in predictable ways... Read More about To beckon or not to beckon: Testing a causal-evaluative modelling approach to moral judgment: A registered report.

UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for administration (2024)
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Sherman, S. M., Allerton-Price, C., Lingley-Heath, N., Lai, J., & Bedford, H. (2024). UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for administration. Vaccine, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.03.002

Background Varicella (chickenpox) is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Although typically mild, varicella can cause complications leading to severe illness and even death. Safe and effective varicella vaccines are ava... Read More about UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for administration.

UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for delivery (2024)
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Sherman, S. M., Allerton-Price, C., Lingley-Heath, N., Lai, J., & Bedford, H. (2024). UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for delivery. Vaccine, 42(10), 2621-2627. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.03.002

Background Varicella (chickenpox) is a highly contagious disease caused by the varicella-zoster virus. Although typically a mild disease, varicella can cause complications leading to severe illness and even death. Safe and effective varicella vaccine... Read More about UK healthcare professionals’ attitudes towards the introduction of varicella vaccine into the routine childhood vaccination schedule and their preferences for delivery.

The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus (2024)
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Ünver‐Aba, H., & Çakal, H. (in press). The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3044

The present research focuses on the secondary transfer effect of contact, a relatively less researched dimension of intergroup contact, on reconciliation in the context of one of the most intractable and longest surviving interethnic conflicts in Eur... Read More about The secondary transfer effects of contact in facilitating peace in a frozen conflict: The case of Turkish immigrants in Cyprus.

Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy (2024)
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Goodman, S., & Locke, A. (in press). Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy. Discourse Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/14614456231225448

Online hate is a serious problem affecting a range of minoritised people. Existing theories suggest that poor behaviour online is due to anonymity but fail to explore how such discussions unfold. This is where a discursive and rhetorical psychologica... Read More about Supporting and challenging hate in an online discussion of a controversial refugee policy.

Mood moderates the effects of prefrontal tDCS on executive functions: A meta-analysis testing the affective state-dependency hypothesis. (2024)
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Di Rosa, E., Masina, F., Pastorino, A., Galletti, E., Gambarota, F., Altoè, G., …Mapelli, D. (2024). Mood moderates the effects of prefrontal tDCS on executive functions: A meta-analysis testing the affective state-dependency hypothesis. Journal of Affective Disorders, 351, 920-930. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.02.009

In recent decades, numerous studies have investigated the effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on cognitive functioning. However, results of these studies frequently display inconsistency and pose challenges regarding replicabili... Read More about Mood moderates the effects of prefrontal tDCS on executive functions: A meta-analysis testing the affective state-dependency hypothesis..

Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart in Photograph Form: The Keele Photo Stimulus Set (KPSS) (2024)
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Adams, J., Sherman, S., & Williams, H. L. (2024). Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart in Photograph Form: The Keele Photo Stimulus Set (KPSS). Behavior Research Methods, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02351-1

Over the last 40 years, object recognition studies have moved from using simple line-drawings, to more detailed illustrations, to more ecologically valid photographic representations. Researchers now have access to various stimuli sets, however, exis... Read More about Revisiting Snodgrass and Vanderwart in Photograph Form: The Keele Photo Stimulus Set (KPSS).

Think aloud research in sport and exercise psychology: A focused mapping review and synthesis. (2024)
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McGreary, M., Jackman, P. C., Eccles, D. W., & Whitehead, A. (2024). Think aloud research in sport and exercise psychology: A focused mapping review and synthesis. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000343

Use of Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) think aloud (TA) method within sport and exercise psychology research has increased in recent years. The purpose of this review was to map current research that has used the TA method with athletes and exerciser... Read More about Think aloud research in sport and exercise psychology: A focused mapping review and synthesis..

Happy parents, happy kids: Marital happiness, parenting styles, and children's behavioral outcomes in Chinese societies (2024)
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Huang, C., Shen, A. C., Li, X., & Feng, J. Y. (in press). Happy parents, happy kids: Marital happiness, parenting styles, and children's behavioral outcomes in Chinese societies. Family Relations, https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12997

Objective We examine the impacts of parental marital happiness on child outcomes. We also examine the potential mediating role of parenting styles in the relationship between marital happiness and children's behavioral outcomes. Background Paren... Read More about Happy parents, happy kids: Marital happiness, parenting styles, and children's behavioral outcomes in Chinese societies.

The dynamics of statistical learning in visual search and its interaction with salience processing: An EEG study (2024)
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Dolci, C., Rashal, E., Santandrea, E., Hamed, S. B., Chelazzi, L., Macaluso, E., & Boehler, C. N. (2024). The dynamics of statistical learning in visual search and its interaction with salience processing: An EEG study. NeuroImage, 286, Article 120514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120514

Visual attention can be guided by statistical regularities in the environment, that people implicitly learn from past experiences (statistical learning, SL). Moreover, a perceptually salient element can automatically capture attention, gaining proces... Read More about The dynamics of statistical learning in visual search and its interaction with salience processing: An EEG study.

Single versus multiple firesetting: an examination of demographic, behavioural and psychological factors (2024)
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Sambrooks, K., Tyler, N., & Gannon, T. A. (in press). Single versus multiple firesetting: an examination of demographic, behavioural and psychological factors. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2023.2272904

Deliberate firesetting is a prevalent issue. While a number of psychological treatment needs have been identified for adults who set fires, their association with multiple firesetting has received limited attention. This study examined whether demogr... Read More about Single versus multiple firesetting: an examination of demographic, behavioural and psychological factors.

Humor Styles in the Classroom: Students’ Perceptions of Lecturer Humor (2024)
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James, L., & Fox, C. (2024). Humor Styles in the Classroom: Students’ Perceptions of Lecturer Humor. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 37(1), 109-123. https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2023-0061

Previous research has shown that humor can have an impact on people’s interpersonal relationships and the way they are perceived by others. In addition, it has been suggested that use of humor by teachers can be positive, but also negative. The aim o... Read More about Humor Styles in the Classroom: Students’ Perceptions of Lecturer Humor.