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The Use of Shared Laughter for Amicably Terminating Disagreements within Romantic Relationships (2016)
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(2016). The Use of Shared Laughter for Amicably Terminating Disagreements within Romantic Relationships

In response to escalating divorce rates, considerable research has been conducted surrounding the relationship between couple’s conflict prevalence and relationship satisfaction. Research has consistently argued that conflict and related negative com... Read More about The Use of Shared Laughter for Amicably Terminating Disagreements within Romantic Relationships.

Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile (2016)
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Cakal, H. (2016). Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile. Journal of Social Issues, 355-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12170

In two correlational studies in Mexico (Study 1: N = 152, Mexican Indigenous people) and Chile (Study 2: N = 185, Chilean Indigenous people, Mapuche), we investigated how different dimensions of common ingroup identity (CII) and intergroup contact be... Read More about Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile.

Linear and u-shape trends in the development of expressive drawing from pre-schoolers to normative and artistic adults (2016)
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(2016). Linear and u-shape trends in the development of expressive drawing from pre-schoolers to normative and artistic adults. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 309-324. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040294

This study sought to explain the apparently conflicting age-incremental and U-shaped developmental patterns found for the merit of expressive drawing by examining the role of representational realism drawing ability in the observed age patterns. Thir... Read More about Linear and u-shape trends in the development of expressive drawing from pre-schoolers to normative and artistic adults.

The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time (2016)
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Grange, J., Jones, K., Stephens, R., & Owen, L. (2016). The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 654-661. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116645299

The effect of alcohol hangover on cognitive processing has received little attention. We explored the effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time (RT), a dominant dependent variable (DV) in cognitive research. Prior research of the effect of h... Read More about The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time.

'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK (2016)
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Budds, K., Locke, A., & Burr, V. (2016). 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Feminism and Psychology, 26(2), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353516639615

Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role c... Read More about 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK.

On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney (2016)
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Stott. (2016). On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney. The British Journal of Criminology: An International Review of Crime and Society, 965-981. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azw036

Theoretical perspectives that give primacy to ideological or structural determinism have dominated criminological analysis of the 2011 English ‘riots’. This paper provides an alternative social psychological perspective through detailed empirical ana... Read More about On the role of a social identity analysis in articulating structure and collective action: the 2011 riots in Tottenham and Hackney.

Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach (2016)
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Stott. (2016). Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach. Public Understanding of Science, 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662516639872

This article explores the origins and ideology of classical crowd psychology, a body of theory reflected in contemporary popularised understandings such as of the 2011 English ‘riots’. This article argues that during the nineteenth century, the crowd... Read More about Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach.

Colposcopists’ experiences of HPV Test of Cure for the follow up of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (2016)
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Sherman. (2016). Colposcopists’ experiences of HPV Test of Cure for the follow up of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 42-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2016.03.023

Objective To survey lead colposcopists in England to explore their views on the recently introduced HPV Test of Cure (TOC) following treatment for cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (CIN) and to determine the extent to which it has impacted their c... Read More about Colposcopists’ experiences of HPV Test of Cure for the follow up of cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia.

Longer-term increased cortisol levels in young people with mental health problems. (2016)
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(2016). Longer-term increased cortisol levels in young people with mental health problems. Psychiatry Research, 98 -104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.12.025

Disturbance of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis activity is commonly reported in a range of mental disorders in blood, saliva and urine samples. This study aimed to look at longer-term cortisol levels and their association with clinical symptoms.... Read More about Longer-term increased cortisol levels in young people with mental health problems..

Temporal Distinctiveness in Task Switching: Assessing the Mixture-Distribution Assumption (2016)
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Grange, J. (2016). Temporal Distinctiveness in Task Switching: Assessing the Mixture-Distribution Assumption. Frontiers in Psychology, 251 -?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00251

In task switching, increasing the response-cue interval has been shown to reduce the switch cost. This has been attributed to a time-based decay process influencing the activation of memory representations of tasks (task-sets). Recently, an alternati... Read More about Temporal Distinctiveness in Task Switching: Assessing the Mixture-Distribution Assumption.

A deficit in familiarity-driven recognition in a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion patient (2016)
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Edelstyn, N., Grange, J. A., Ellis, S. J., & Mayes, A. R. (2016). A deficit in familiarity-driven recognition in a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion patient. Neuropsychology, 213 - 224. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000226

OBJECTIVE: According to a still-controversial view of recognition, projections between the perirhinal cortex and the medial subdivision of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (mMDT) support the mnemonic processes underlying familiarity, whereas a separa... Read More about A deficit in familiarity-driven recognition in a right-sided mediodorsal thalamic lesion patient.

Knowledge of human papillomavirus and the human papillomavirus vaccine in European adolescents: a systematic review. (2016)
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Moss, E., Sherman, S., Patel, H., & Jeve, Y. (2016). Knowledge of human papillomavirus and the human papillomavirus vaccine in European adolescents: a systematic review. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 474-479. https://doi.org/10.1136/sextrans-2015-052341

BACKGROUND: The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is recommended for adolescent girls in many European countries, however there is huge variation in vaccine uptake. METHODS: A mixed methods systematic review to ascertain the level of HPV and HPV vac... Read More about Knowledge of human papillomavirus and the human papillomavirus vaccine in European adolescents: a systematic review..

Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls (2016)
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(2016). Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls. Child Development, 176 -183. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12481

Three hundred and forty-one children (Mage  = 9,0 years) engaged in a series of science tasks in collaborative, same-sex pairs or did not interact. All children who collaborated on the science tasks advanced in basic-level understanding of the releva... Read More about Conceptual Change in Science Is Facilitated Through Peer Collaboration for Boys but Not for Girls.

Humor style similarity and difference in friendship dyads (2016)
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(2016). Humor style similarity and difference in friendship dyads. Journal of Adolescence, 30 - 37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.10.015

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective (fall to spring) associations between four different humor styles to assess the degree to which stable friendships are characterized by similarity, and to assess whether best friends' humor styles in... Read More about Humor style similarity and difference in friendship dyads.

Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions (2015)
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Kapitány, R., & Nielsen, M. (2015). Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions. Cognition, 145, 13-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.08.002

Rituals are a pervasive and ubiquitous aspect of human culture, but when we naïvely observe an opaque set of ritual actions, how do we come to understand its significance? To investigate this, across two experiments we manipulated the degree to which... Read More about Adopting the ritual stance: The role of opacity and context in ritual and everyday actions.

ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors. (2015)
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Street, C. N. H. ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 335-343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.06.002

People make for poor lie detectors. They have accuracy rates comparable to a coin toss, and come with a set of systematic biases that sway the judgment. This pessimistic view stands in contrast to research showing that people make informed decisions... Read More about ALIED: Humans as adaptive lie detectors..