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Can Raising Awareness about the Psychological Causes of Obesity Reduce Obesity Stigma? (2017)
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(2017). Can Raising Awareness about the Psychological Causes of Obesity Reduce Obesity Stigma?. Health Communication, 585-592. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2017.1283566

Obesity stigma largely remains a socially acceptable bias with harmful outcomes for its victims. While many accounts have been put forward to explain the bias, the role of obesity etiology beliefs has received little scrutiny. The research examined t... Read More about Can Raising Awareness about the Psychological Causes of Obesity Reduce Obesity Stigma?.

To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members? (2017)
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Noor. (2017). To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members?. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3 - 10. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12148

The present research seeks to answer the question of what determines an uninvolved third party's forgiveness attitudes toward conflicting groups' violent partisan members. Specifically, Bangladeshi participants read a fictitious interview with a radi... Read More about To connect is to be influenced: What determines a third-party's forgiveness attitudes to conflicting groups' violent partisan members?.

Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion (2017)
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Kapitany. (2017). Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 134 - 155. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-017-0059-y

Many diverse species yawn, suggesting ancient evolutionary roots. While yawning is widespread, the observation of contagious yawning is most often limited to apes and other mammals with sophisticated social cognition. This has led to speculation on t... Read More about Are Yawns really Contagious? A Critique and Quantification of Yawn Contagion.

The structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts (2017)
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Andrews, S. J., & Lamb, M. E. (2017). The structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts. Child Abuse and Neglect, 65, 182-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.01.022

In the first study to systematically assess the structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions of children in Scotland, we examined 56 trial transcripts of 5- to 17-year-old children testifying as alleged victims of sexual abuse. Complexity w... Read More about The structural linguistic complexity of lawyers’ questions and children’s responses in Scottish criminal courts.

The delights, discomforts, and downright furies of the manuscript submission process (2017)
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(2017). The delights, discomforts, and downright furies of the manuscript submission process. Learned Publishing, 162-172. https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1092

Instructions to authors about submitting papers for publication vary hugely – from none at all to whole handbooks. Online submission systems have not reduced the complexity of submission and may have increased the work of authors. Electronic su... Read More about The delights, discomforts, and downright furies of the manuscript submission process.

Awareness of HPV infection and attitudes toward HPV vaccination among Latvian adolescents (2017)
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Patel, H., Pčolkina, K., Rezeberga, D., Moss, E., Strazdina, K., Viberga, I., …Redman, C. (2017). Awareness of HPV infection and attitudes toward HPV vaccination among Latvian adolescents. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 138-144. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.12117

Objective To evaluate awareness of HPV and its vaccine among Latvian adolescents. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a 2-week period in September 2015 among 270 adolescents attending a secondary school in Riga, Latvia. All student... Read More about Awareness of HPV infection and attitudes toward HPV vaccination among Latvian adolescents.

Assessing Music Perception in Young Children: Evidence for and Psychometric Features of the M-Factor (2017)
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Lamont. (2017). Assessing Music Perception in Young Children: Evidence for and Psychometric Features of the M-Factor. Frontiers in Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2017.00018

Given the relationship between language acquisition and music processing, musical perception (MP) skills have been proposed as a tool for early diagnosis of speech and language difficulties; therefore, a psychometric instrument is needed to assess mu... Read More about Assessing Music Perception in Young Children: Evidence for and Psychometric Features of the M-Factor.

How does a newly encountered face become familiar? The effect of within-person variability on adults' and children's perception of identity (2017)
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(2017). How does a newly encountered face become familiar? The effect of within-person variability on adults' and children's perception of identity. Cognition, 19-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.12.012

Adults and children aged 6 years and older easily recognize multiple images of a familiar face, but often perceive two images of an unfamiliar face as belonging to different identities. Here we examined the process by which a newly encountered face b... Read More about How does a newly encountered face become familiar? The effect of within-person variability on adults' and children's perception of identity.

What do national flags stand for?: an exploration of associations across 11 countries (2017)
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(2017). What do national flags stand for?: an exploration of associations across 11 countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 335-352. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022116687851

We examined the concepts and emotions people associate with their national flag, and how these associations are related to nationalism and patriotism across 11 countries. Factor analyses indicated that the structures of associations differed across c... Read More about What do national flags stand for?: an exploration of associations across 11 countries.

Data-driven region-of-interest selection without inflating Type I error rate (2017)
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Brooks, J., Zoumpoulaki, A., & Bowman, H. (2017). Data-driven region-of-interest selection without inflating Type I error rate. Psychophysiology, 54(1), 100 -113. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12682

In ERP and other large multidimensional neuroscience data sets, researchers often select regions of interest (ROIs) for analysis. The method of ROI selection can critically affect the conclusions of a study by causing the researcher to miss effects i... Read More about Data-driven region-of-interest selection without inflating Type I error rate.

Contact, Political Solidarity and Collective Action: An Indian Case Study of Relations between Historically Disadvantaged Communities (2016)
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Cakal, H. (2016). Contact, Political Solidarity and Collective Action: An Indian Case Study of Relations between Historically Disadvantaged Communities. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 83-95. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2296

Research on the contact hypothesis has highlighted the role of contact in improving intergroup relations. Most of this research has addressed the problem of transforming the prejudices of historically advantaged communities, thereby eroding wider pat... Read More about Contact, Political Solidarity and Collective Action: An Indian Case Study of Relations between Historically Disadvantaged Communities.

Prejudice in the pub: How alcohol and ideology loosen the tongue. (2016)
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Noor, M. (2016). Prejudice in the pub: How alcohol and ideology loosen the tongue. Journal of Social Psychology, 673-679. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2016.1270890

This study (N = 124) tested the main and interactive effects of alcohol consumption, egalitarianism, and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) in relation to prejudice suppression in the natural environment of a British Public House (pub). Employing a qu... Read More about Prejudice in the pub: How alcohol and ideology loosen the tongue..

Highly cited publications in World War II: a bibliometric analysis (2016)
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(2016). Highly cited publications in World War II: a bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics, 1065- 1075. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2199-4

What are the characteristics of scientific papers published in World War II, and what papers from World War II, if any, are highly cited today? This paper reports that 3767 publications from World War II have been cited at least 100 times since 1939–... Read More about Highly cited publications in World War II: a bibliometric analysis.

Patient experiences of a bariatric group programme for managing obesity: A qualitative interview study (2016)
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(2016). Patient experiences of a bariatric group programme for managing obesity: A qualitative interview study. British Journal of Health Psychology, 77-93. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12218

Objectives People with obesity experience a range of physical and psychological ill-health outcomes. This study examined patients’ experiences of a group-based programme for the management of morbid obesity delivered within the UK National Health Se... Read More about Patient experiences of a bariatric group programme for managing obesity: A qualitative interview study.

Music Use in Exercise: A Questionnaire Study (2016)
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Lamont. (2016). Music Use in Exercise: A Questionnaire Study. Media Psychology, 658-684. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2016.1247716

Although there is much research looking at music’s effects on sport and exercise performance, little is known about exercisers’ own application of music during workouts. An online questionnaire exploring its relationship with gender, formal music tra... Read More about Music Use in Exercise: A Questionnaire Study.

The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology (2016)
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Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2016). The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology. Social Movement Studies, 16(2), 203 - 221. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2016.1252665

Most research on activist participation has aimed to explain motives to engage in protest and collective action or becoming an activist. The outcomes, for the individual, have been neglected. Therefore, we set out to systematically document and organ... Read More about The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology.

Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention (2016)
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Hallett, R., & Lamont, A. (2019). Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention. Journal of Health Psychology, 24(3), 309-320. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105316674267

While music has been found to motivate exercisers during workouts, its potential as a pre-exercise motivator has rarely been investigated. This study evaluated a self-selected, pre-exercise music intervention against implementation intentions (writin... Read More about Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention.

Look: No hands! Driving on the motorway (2016)
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(2016). Look: No hands! Driving on the motorway. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 558-561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2016.09.026

How drivers hold their steering wheels when they are driving has been studied in restricted ways for many years. Here I describe the advantages (and disadvantages) of a more naturalistic way of studying this phenomenon, and present the results from t... Read More about Look: No hands! Driving on the motorway.