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Does Being Born Deaf Affect How We See? (2020)
Journal Article
Monroy, C., Freeman, J., & Houston, D. (2020). Does Being Born Deaf Affect How We See?. Frontiers for Young Minds, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.00082

Have you ever heard someone say that if you are born deaf, you have better vision to make up for it? People often think so, but is that actually true? We know that what babies hear, see, and touch determines how their brains develop. When you are gro... Read More about Does Being Born Deaf Affect How We See?.

How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities (2020)
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Stott, & Radburn. (2020). How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities. Criminology and Criminal Justice, https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895820933912

Despite widespread empirical support for Procedural Justice Theory, understanding the role of police psychology in shaping encounters with ‘citizens’ is relatively opaque. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring how offi... Read More about How do police officers talk about their encounters with ‘the public’? Group interaction, procedural justice and officer constructions of policing identities.

The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures. (2020)
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Kapitany. (2020). The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234142

To what extent do children believe in real, unreal, natural and supernatural figures relative to each other, and to what extent are features of culture responsible for belief? Are some figures, like Santa Claus or an alien, perceived as more real tha... Read More about The child's pantheon: Children's hierarchical belief structure in real and non-real figures..

Applying Hierarchy of Expert Performance (HEP) to investigative interview evaluation: strengths, challenges and future directions (2020)
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Huang. (2020). Applying Hierarchy of Expert Performance (HEP) to investigative interview evaluation: strengths, challenges and future directions. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1770634

The purpose of this paper is to systematically examine the research literature on the decision of expert interviewers within the theoretical framework of the Hierarchy of Expert Performance (HEP). After providing an overview of the HEP framework, exi... Read More about Applying Hierarchy of Expert Performance (HEP) to investigative interview evaluation: strengths, challenges and future directions.

COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. (2020)
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Stott. (2020). COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12393

Notions of psychological frailty have been at the forefront of debates around the public response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, there is the argument that collective selfishness, thoughtless behaviour, and over-reaction would make the effe... Read More about COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology..

COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. (2020)
Journal Article
Stott. (2020). COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 686 - 693. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12393

Notions of psychological frailty have been at the forefront of debates around the public response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, there is the argument that collective selfishness, thoughtless behaviour, and over-reaction would make the effe... Read More about COVID-19 in context: Why do people die in emergencies? It's probably not because of collective psychology..

Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion. (2020)
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Kapitany. (2020). Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion. Frontiers in Psychology, 1172 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01172

A growing body of evidence suggests that two distinct forms of group alignment are possible: identification and fusion (the former asserts that group and personal identity are distinct, while the latter asserts group and personal identities are funct... Read More about Exploring the Pathways Between Transformative Group Experiences and Identity Fusion..

The moral foreign language effect is stable across presentation modalities (2020)
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Muda, R., Pieńkosz, D., Francis, K., & Białek, M. (2020). The moral foreign language effect is stable across presentation modalities. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1930 - 1938. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820935072

People’s judgements and decisions often change when made in their foreign language. Existing research testing this foreign language effect has predominantly used text-based stimuli with little research focusing on the impact of listening to audio st... Read More about The moral foreign language effect is stable across presentation modalities.

Why disadvantaged older adults engage in community consultation: a world café study (2020)
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Wright Bevans, K., Walker, A., & Vosper, E. (2020). Why disadvantaged older adults engage in community consultation: a world café study. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 30(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2467

Community consultation is increasingly favoured as a means of ensuring that health services adequately meet population needs, yet research, has highlighted the frequency of inadequate and tokenistic consultation. Our aim was to address the gap in und... Read More about Why disadvantaged older adults engage in community consultation: a world café study.

Student anti-bullying and harassment policies at UK universities (2020)
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(2020). Student anti-bullying and harassment policies at UK universities. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/1360080X.2020.1767353

This article provides the first analysis of all available UK university anti-bullying policies, summarising, comparing, and contrasting the content of policies acquired from university websites. The importance of anti-bullying policies is known from... Read More about Student anti-bullying and harassment policies at UK universities.

Reciprocal semantic predictions drive categorization of scene contexts and objects even when they are separate (2020)
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(2020). Reciprocal semantic predictions drive categorization of scene contexts and objects even when they are separate. Scientific reports, 8447 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65158-y

Visual categorization improves when object-context associations in scenes are semantically consistent, thus predictable from schemas stored in long-term memory. However, it is unclear whether this is due to differences in early perceptual processing,... Read More about Reciprocal semantic predictions drive categorization of scene contexts and objects even when they are separate.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Eyewitness Identification Practice in Police Officers – A Self-Report Survey Study (2020)
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Huang, C., & Shih, C. (2020). The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Eyewitness Identification Practice in Police Officers – A Self-Report Survey Study. Psychology, Crime and Law, 26(10), https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2020.1744602

Witness identification practice of the police plays a critical role in the criminal proceedings. The current study examines police officers' knowledge regarding factors affecting witness memory as well as witness interview and identification practi... Read More about The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Eyewitness Identification Practice in Police Officers – A Self-Report Survey Study.

Theta Phase-Dependent Modulation of Perception by Concurrent tACS and Periodic Visual Stimulation (2020)
Journal Article
Somer, E., Allen, J., Brooks, J. L., Buttrill, V., & Javadi, A. (2020). Theta Phase-Dependent Modulation of Perception by Concurrent tACS and Periodic Visual Stimulation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(6), 1142-1152. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01539

Sensory perception can be modulated by the phase of neural oscillations, especially in the theta and alpha ranges. Oscillatory activity in the visual cortex can be entrained by transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) as well as periodic v... Read More about Theta Phase-Dependent Modulation of Perception by Concurrent tACS and Periodic Visual Stimulation.

Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words (2020)
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Stephens, R., & Robertson, O. (2020). Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00723

Previous research showing that swearing alleviates pain is extended by addressing emotion arousal and distraction as possible mechanisms. We assessed the effects of a conventional swear word (“fuck”) and two new “swear” words identified as both emoti... Read More about Swearing as a Response to Pain: Assessing Hypoalgesic Effects of Novel “Swear” Words.

A simple checklist, that is all it takes: a cluster randomized controlled field trial on improving the treatment of suspected terrorists by the police (2020)
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(2020). A simple checklist, that is all it takes: a cluster randomized controlled field trial on improving the treatment of suspected terrorists by the police. Journal of Experimental Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-020-09428-9

When it comes to interviewing suspected terrorists, global evidence points to harsh interrogation procedures, despite the likelihood of false positives. How can the state maintain an effective counterterrorism policy while simultaneously protecting c... Read More about A simple checklist, that is all it takes: a cluster randomized controlled field trial on improving the treatment of suspected terrorists by the police.

Policing the Coronavirus Outbreak: Processes and Prospects for Collective Disorder (2020)
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Stott. (2020). Policing the Coronavirus Outbreak: Processes and Prospects for Collective Disorder. Policing, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paaa014

This briefing is divided into three parts. First, we outline the factors which lead to incidents of collective disorder (or riots). Secondly, we consider how the overall response to the coronavirus outbreak and the role of the police within this resp... Read More about Policing the Coronavirus Outbreak: Processes and Prospects for Collective Disorder.

Making Connections: Social Identification with New Treatment Groups for Lifestyle Management of Severe Obesity (2020)
Journal Article
(2020). Making Connections: Social Identification with New Treatment Groups for Lifestyle Management of Severe Obesity. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2454

Groups are regularly used to deliver healthcare services, including the management of obesity, and there is growing evidence that patients’ experiences of such groups fundamentally shape treatment effects. This study investigated factors related to p... Read More about Making Connections: Social Identification with New Treatment Groups for Lifestyle Management of Severe Obesity.