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The Effects of Peer Victimization on Children’s Internet Addiction and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Roles of Emotional and Social Intelligence (2018)
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Hsieh, Y., Wei, H., Hwa, H., Shen, A. C., Feng, J., & Huang, C. (2019). The Effects of Peer Victimization on Children’s Internet Addiction and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Roles of Emotional and Social Intelligence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(9), 2487-2498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1120-6

This study examines the moderating effects of both emotional intelligence and social intelligence (social awareness and social information processing) on the relationship between peer victimization and internet addiction, and on the association betwe... Read More about The Effects of Peer Victimization on Children’s Internet Addiction and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Roles of Emotional and Social Intelligence.

Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching (2018)
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Grange, J. (2018). Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching. Psychological Research, 1703-1721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1025-4

Task inhibition is considered to facilitate switching to a new task and is assumed to decay slowly over time. Hence, more persisting inhibition needs to be overcome when returning to a task after one intermediary trial (ABA task sequence) than when r... Read More about Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching.

Empowering women through the positive birth movement (2018)
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Hallam, J., Howard, C., Locke, A., & Thomas, M. (2019). Empowering women through the positive birth movement. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(3), 330-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2018.1469972

Childbirth has been positioned as a life changing event that has profound long-term psychological effects upon women. This paper adopts a community psychology approach to explore the role that the Positive Birth Movement (PBM) may have in tackling ne... Read More about Empowering women through the positive birth movement.

Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers (2018)
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(2018). Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers. Child and Family Social Work, 239 -247. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12410

This research aimed to develop the children's trust in general social workers (CTGSW) scale. Psychometric properties, structural validity, construct, and concurrent validity of the scale were evaluated. Both linear and quadratic patterns between chil... Read More about Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers.

Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations with children's engagement with social workers (2018)
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(2018). Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations with children's engagement with social workers. Child and Family Social Work, 239-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12410

This research aimed to develop the children's trust in general social workers (CTGSW) scale. Psychometric properties, structural validity, construct, and concurrent validity of the scale were evaluated. Both linear and quadratic patterns between chil... Read More about Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations with children's engagement with social workers.

Singing in later life: the anatomy of a community choir (2018)
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Lamont, A., Murray, M., Hale, R., & Wright-Bevans, K. (2018). Singing in later life: the anatomy of a community choir. Psychology of Music, 46(3), 424-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735617715514

Previous research has highlighted the individual and social benefits of participation in arts activities for physical, psychological and social well-being. However, less is known about the transformative community aspects of the arts and very few stu... Read More about Singing in later life: the anatomy of a community choir.

Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory. (2018)
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(2018). Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1365 - 1383. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000522

It is well established that visual working memory (WM) for face identity is enhanced when faces display threatening versus nonthreatening expressions. During social interaction, it is also important to bind person identity with location information i... Read More about Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory..

Attitudes towards and knowledge about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV vaccination in parents of teenage boys in the UK (2018)
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Sherman, S., & Nailer, E. (2018). Attitudes towards and knowledge about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV vaccination in parents of teenage boys in the UK. PloS one, e0195801 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195801

The incidence of cancers attributable to Human Papillomavirus (HPV) that affect males is on the rise. Currently in the UK teenage boys are not vaccinated against HPV while teenage girls are. The rationale for not vaccinating boys is that vaccinating... Read More about Attitudes towards and knowledge about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV vaccination in parents of teenage boys in the UK.

System justification enhances well-being: A longitudinal analysis of the palliative function of system justification in 18 countries. (2018)
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(2018). System justification enhances well-being: A longitudinal analysis of the palliative function of system justification in 18 countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12254

According to the palliative function of ideology hypothesis proposed by System Justification Theory, endorsing system-justifying beliefs is positively related to general psychological well-being, because this fulfils existential, epistemic, and relat... Read More about System justification enhances well-being: A longitudinal analysis of the palliative function of system justification in 18 countries..

Special issue on some histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y/ies}: an introduction (2018)
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(2018). Special issue on some histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y/ies}: an introduction. Journal of Health Psychology, 361-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317753627

Academic (sub-)disciplines develop in time and place when particular ideas/practices are nurtured within social, gendered, cultural, community, economic and political contexts. Different histories employ different analyses, some with external views o... Read More about Special issue on some histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y/ies}: an introduction.

Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study (2018)
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Protheroe. (2018). Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study. Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318763494

Parents play a vital role in promoting children’s health. The parental health literacy skills are important since the decisions they make can have an impact on other family members’ health and well-being. Using an assets-based approach, this project... Read More about Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study.

HPV Primary Cervical Screening in England: Women’s Awareness and Attitudes (2018)
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Moss, E., Patel, H., & Sherman, S. (2018). HPV Primary Cervical Screening in England: Women’s Awareness and Attitudes. Psycho-Oncology, 1559-1564. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4694

Background Primary HPV cervical screening is due to be implemented in England within the next 2 years however, the acceptability of HPV testing as the primary screening test is unclear. This study explores women’s awareness and attitudes towards HPV... Read More about HPV Primary Cervical Screening in England: Women’s Awareness and Attitudes.

Attending to identity cues reduces the own-age but not the own-race recognition advantage (2018)
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Proietti, V., Laurence, S., Matthews, C. M., Zhou, X., & Mondloch, C. J. (2019). Attending to identity cues reduces the own-age but not the own-race recognition advantage. Vision Research, 157, 184-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.11.010

Adults’ ability to recognize individual faces is shaped by experience. Young adults recognize own-age and own-race faces more accurately than other-age and other-race faces. The own-age and own-race biases have been attributed to differential percept... Read More about Attending to identity cues reduces the own-age but not the own-race recognition advantage.

Doing histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y?ies} (2018)
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(2018). Doing histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y?ies}. Journal of Health Psychology, 361-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317753627

Academic (sub)disciplines develop in time and place when particular ideas/practices are nurtured within social, gendered, cultural, community, economic and political contexts. Different histories employ different analyses, some with external views of... Read More about Doing histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y?ies}.

Publication trends in high impact journal: the case of World Psychiatry (2018)
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(2018). Publication trends in high impact journal: the case of World Psychiatry. Library Hi Tech News, 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-08-2017-0060

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the bibliometric characteristics of papers published in a high impact journal World Psychiatry during the period 2006-2015. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study were obtained from Th... Read More about Publication trends in high impact journal: the case of World Psychiatry.

Health Psychology in Autobiography: Three Canadian Critical Narratives (2018)
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(2018). Health Psychology in Autobiography: Three Canadian Critical Narratives. Journal of Health Psychology, 506-523. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318755409

Three Canadian colleagues in health psychology recount their careers in a field of research and practice whose birth they witnessed and whose developments they have critiqued. By placing the development of health psychology in Canada in a context tha... Read More about Health Psychology in Autobiography: Three Canadian Critical Narratives.

Effect of swearing on strength and power performance (2018)
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Stephens, R., Spierer, D., & Katehis, E. (2018). Effect of swearing on strength and power performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 111-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.11.014

Objectives: Swearing aloud increases pain tolerance. The hypothesis that this response may be owed to an increase in sympathetic drive raises the intriguing question as to whether swearing results in an improvement in strength and power. Design:... Read More about Effect of swearing on strength and power performance.

Justify your alpha (2018)
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Grange, J. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x

In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to P = 0.005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.