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Evidence for view-invariant face recognition units in unfamiliar face learning (2017)
Journal Article
Etchells, D. B., Brooks, J. L., & Johnston, R. A. (2017). Evidence for view-invariant face recognition units in unfamiliar face learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(5), 874 -889. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1248453

Many models of face recognition incorporate the idea of a face recognition unit (FRU), an abstracted representation formed from each experience of a face which aids recognition under novel viewing conditions. Some previous studies have failed to find... Read More about Evidence for view-invariant face recognition units in unfamiliar face learning.

Associations Between Parenting Styles and Perceived Child Effortful Control Within Chinese Families in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan (2017)
Journal Article
Lambie, & Huang. (2017). Associations Between Parenting Styles and Perceived Child Effortful Control Within Chinese Families in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 795 - 812. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022117706108

The current study examined the associations between parentally perceived child effortful control (EC) and the parenting styles of 122 Chinese mothers (36 first-generation Chinese immigrants in the United Kingdom, 40 first-generation Chinese immigrant... Read More about Associations Between Parenting Styles and Perceived Child Effortful Control Within Chinese Families in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan.

Children's Uncertain Responses when Testifying about Alleged Sexual Abuse in Scottish Courts: Children's uncertain responses in court (2017)
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Andrews, S. J., Ahern, E. C., & Lamb, M. E. (2017). Children's Uncertain Responses when Testifying about Alleged Sexual Abuse in Scottish Courts: Children's uncertain responses in court. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 35(3), 204-224. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2286

This study examined the uncertain responses of 56 alleged sexual abuse victims, aged 5–17 years, testifying in Scottish criminal court trials. Don't know/remember ground rules were explained to 38% of the children and each child reported uncertainty... Read More about Children's Uncertain Responses when Testifying about Alleged Sexual Abuse in Scottish Courts: Children's uncertain responses in court.

“As a parent, you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school (2017)
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(2017). “As a parent, you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2000-2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0710-z

Bullying at school can be a distressing experience for children. It is also likely to be distressing for their parents. In spite of this, research in the field of school bullying and peer victimisation has tended to overlook the experience of parents... Read More about “As a parent, you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school.

The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching (2017)
Journal Article
Grange. (2017). The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1568-1583. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000411

Inhibition in task switching is inferred from n–2 repetition costs: the observation that ABA task switching sequences are responded to slower than CBA sequences. This is thought to reflect the persisting inhibition of Task A, which slows reactivation... Read More about The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching.

Obesity and the Social Withdrawal Syndrome. (2017)
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(2017). Obesity and the Social Withdrawal Syndrome. Eating Behaviors, 167 - 170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2017.03.006

The relation between obesity and Social Withdrawal Syndrome (SWS) was examined using the data gathered by Rotenberg, Bharathi, Davies, and Finch (2013). One hundred and 35 undergraduates (80 females; Mage=21years-10months) completed standardized scal... Read More about Obesity and the Social Withdrawal Syndrome..

“As a parent you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). “As a parent you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2000-2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0710-z

Bullying at school can be a distressing experience for children. It is also likely to be distressing for their parents. In spite of this, research in the field of school bullying and peer victimisation has tended to overlook the experience of parents... Read More about “As a parent you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school.

The careful stone-turner: Thinking about ethical tensions arising in an autoethnography of childhood emotional neglect (2017)
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(2017). The careful stone-turner: Thinking about ethical tensions arising in an autoethnography of childhood emotional neglect. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 48-54

Autoethnographic research combines elements of autobiography and ethnography, and examines a phenomenon or experience in its social and historical contexts. My research aim is to increase understanding of childhood emotional neglect using autoethnogr... Read More about The careful stone-turner: Thinking about ethical tensions arising in an autoethnography of childhood emotional neglect.

Low Emotional Trust in Mothers Is Associated With Increased Suicide Attempts in Inpatient Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms (2017)
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(2017). Low Emotional Trust in Mothers Is Associated With Increased Suicide Attempts in Inpatient Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 221 -237. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2017.36.3.221

Emotional trust is conceptualized as an individual's belief that others are not critical of personal disclosures and will maintain their confidentiality. Accordingly, adolescents who hold high emotional trust in their parents are inclined to disclose... Read More about Low Emotional Trust in Mothers Is Associated With Increased Suicide Attempts in Inpatient Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms.

Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover? (2017)
Journal Article
Stephens, R., Holloway, K., Grange, J., Kruisselbrink, D., Owen, L., & Jones, K. (2017). Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover?. Psychopharmacology, 1795-1802. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-017-4585-x

Aims Positive family history of alcohol use disorder (FHP), a variable associated with propensity for alcohol use disorder (AUD), has been linked with elevated hangover frequency and severity, after controlling for alcohol use. This implies that han... Read More about Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover?.

The Role of Feedback in Young People’s Academic Choices (2017)
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(2017). The Role of Feedback in Young People’s Academic Choices. International Journal of Science Education, 453-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1294783

Women are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects with more girls leaving these subjects at every stage in education. The current research used a scenario methodology to examine the impact of teacher feedback on... Read More about The Role of Feedback in Young People’s Academic Choices.

Psychologies of Ageing: Research, policy and practice (2017)
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(2017). Psychologies of Ageing: Research, policy and practice. Working with Older People, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/wwop-12-2016-0035

A frequent concern of older people and of those who work with older people is that research is often divorced from reality and does not inform everyday practice. For many years, psychology and related disciplines have investigated the social and psyc... Read More about Psychologies of Ageing: Research, policy and practice.

Promoting writing amongst peers: establishing a community of writing practice for early career academics (2017)
Journal Article
Skipper, Y., Williams, H., Kent, A., Berry, D. M., & Budds, K. (2017). Promoting writing amongst peers: establishing a community of writing practice for early career academics. Higher Education Research and Development, 36(6), 1194-1207. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1300141

In the current research-focused climate, academics are facing increasing pressure to produce research outputs. This pressure can prove particularly daunting for early career (EC) academics, who are simultaneously attempting to master new teaching and... Read More about Promoting writing amongst peers: establishing a community of writing practice for early career academics.

The pre-history of health psychology in the UK: From natural science and psychoanalysis to social science, social cognition and beyond (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The pre-history of health psychology in the UK: From natural science and psychoanalysis to social science, social cognition and beyond. Journal of Health Psychology, 472-791. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317705879

Health psychology formally came of age in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, but it was prefigured by much discussion about challenges to the dominance of biomedicine in healthcare and debates. This articles focuses on what could be termed the pre-hist... Read More about The pre-history of health psychology in the UK: From natural science and psychoanalysis to social science, social cognition and beyond.

Who woke the sleeping beauties in psychology? (2017)
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(2017). Who woke the sleeping beauties in psychology?. Scientometrics, 1065-1068. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2326-x

In an earlier paper we identified three ‘sleeping beauties’ in Psychology, that is three important papers that were not cited by others for many years before becoming much later citation classics. In this paper we identify the ‘princes’ that alerted... Read More about Who woke the sleeping beauties in psychology?.

The decline and fall of book reviews in psychology: a bibliometric analysis (2017)
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(2017). The decline and fall of book reviews in psychology: a bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics, 665- 657. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2256-7

Book reviews have been published in psychology journals since 1900—and possibly before then. Approximately 200 such reviews were published each year until the 1950s and this number increased to nearly 600 before 1990. However, since then, the number... Read More about The decline and fall of book reviews in psychology: a bibliometric analysis.

Impact of Pre-War and Post-War Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Relations and Mental Health: Evidence From a Bosnian Sample (2017)
Journal Article
Cakal, H. (2017). Impact of Pre-War and Post-War Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Relations and Mental Health: Evidence From a Bosnian Sample. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 250-259. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000222

Using a sample of Bosnian adults (N = 381) we investigated the association between intergroup contact, measures of intergroup relations, and mental health. Structural equation models with latent variables showed that postwar contact had beneficial ef... Read More about Impact of Pre-War and Post-War Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Relations and Mental Health: Evidence From a Bosnian Sample.