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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..

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.

Introducing a compendium of psychological literacy case studies: reflections on psychological literacy in practice (2015)
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(2015). Introducing a compendium of psychological literacy case studies: reflections on psychological literacy in practice. Psychology Teaching Review, 25 -34

This article introduces a set of case studies that were submitted to us following requests in psychology learning and teaching conferences and publications, and through professional networks at the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Higher E... Read More about Introducing a compendium of psychological literacy case studies: reflections on psychological literacy in practice.

Giving psychology away: How George Miller's vision is being realised by psychological literacy (2015)
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(2015). Giving psychology away: How George Miller's vision is being realised by psychological literacy. Psychology Teaching Review, 93 - 101 (8)

In George Miller’s famous address to the APA he explored the aims and future direction of psychology. Psychology could develop as a professional elite that develops specialised knowledge that experts can hold on to or it could aim to “give psychology... Read More about Giving psychology away: How George Miller's vision is being realised by psychological literacy.

Awareness of Risk Factors for Breast, Lung and Cervical Cancer in a UK Student Population (2015)
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Sherman, S., & Lane, E. (2015). Awareness of Risk Factors for Breast, Lung and Cervical Cancer in a UK Student Population. Journal of Cancer Education, 660 -663

The objective of this study is to identify levels of risk awareness for breast, lung and cervical cancer, in a UK student population. A sample of male (N=62) and female (N=58) university students, mean age 21.62 years completed a questionnaire identi... Read More about Awareness of Risk Factors for Breast, Lung and Cervical Cancer in a UK Student Population.

Associations between child maltreatment, PTSD, and internet addiction among Taiwanese students (2015)
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Huang. (2015). Associations between child maltreatment, PTSD, and internet addiction among Taiwanese students. Computers in Human Behavior, 209 - 214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.048

This study examines (1) the associations between multiple types of child maltreatment and Internet addiction, and (2) the mediating effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on these associations. We collected data from a national proportionat... Read More about Associations between child maltreatment, PTSD, and internet addiction among Taiwanese students.

Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value (2015)
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(2015). Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value. Journal of Marketing Management, 652-672. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2015.1117517

Teenage mothers find themselves caught between two discourses: the irresponsibility of youth and the responsibility of motherhood. We unravel some of the complexities surrounding the performance of socially approved ‘good mothering’, from a social po... Read More about Becoming respectable: low-income young mothers, consumption and the pursuit of value.

Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999) (2015)
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Stott, C. (2016). Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999). Policing and Society, 26(1), 114-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2015.1107297

As a field of social science research, policing has been fortunate to have a number of influential academic researchers and a rich history of significant writing. This is something to be celebrated. Our Revisiting the Classics series aims to bring to... Read More about Revisiting the Classics: policing coercion and liberty: a review of P.A.J. Waddington's Liberty and Order (1994) and Policing Citizens (1999).

The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching. (2015)
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Grange. (2015). The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching. Acta psychologica, 14 -25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.11.003

Inhibition in set switching is inferred from so-called n-2 repetition costs: slower response times to ABA sequences compared to CBA sequences (where A, B, and C are arbitrary labels for different tasks). These costs are thought to reflect the persist... Read More about The effect of practice on n-2 repetition costs in set switching..

Causal evidence that intrinsic beta frequency is relevant for enhanced signal propagation in the motor system as shown through rhythmic TMS (2015)
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Romei, V., Bauer, M., Brooks, J. L., Economides, M., Penny, W., Thut, G., …Bestmann, S. (2016). Causal evidence that intrinsic beta frequency is relevant for enhanced signal propagation in the motor system as shown through rhythmic TMS. NeuroImage, 126, 120 -130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.11.020

Correlative evidence provides support for the idea that brain oscillations underpin neural computations. Recent work using rhythmic stimulation techniques in humans provide causal evidence but the interactions of these external signals with intrinsic... Read More about Causal evidence that intrinsic beta frequency is relevant for enhanced signal propagation in the motor system as shown through rhythmic TMS.

Children's humor types and psychosocial adjustment (2015)
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(2015). Children's humor types and psychosocial adjustment. Personality and Individual Differences, 86 - 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2015.09.047

Attempting to understand how humor styles relate to psychological adjustment by correlating these two constructs fails to address the emerging understanding that individuals use combinations of humor styles, and that different combinations may be dif... Read More about Children's humor types and psychosocial adjustment.

Language complexity modulates 8- and 10-year-olds’ success at using their theory of mind abilities in a communication task (2015)
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(2015). Language complexity modulates 8- and 10-year-olds’ success at using their theory of mind abilities in a communication task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 62-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.006

Basic competence in theory of mind is acquired during early childhood. Nonetheless, evidence suggests that the ability to take others’ perspectives in communication improves continuously from middle childhood to the late teenage years. This indicates... Read More about Language complexity modulates 8- and 10-year-olds’ success at using their theory of mind abilities in a communication task.

Making a difference with psychology: reporting on a module to develop psychological literacy in final year undergraduates (2015)
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Kent, A., & Skipper, Y. (2015). Making a difference with psychology: reporting on a module to develop psychological literacy in final year undergraduates. Psychology Teaching Review, 35-47

Improving students' psychological literacy has become a key part of the new British Psychological Society accreditation. This is fuelling an emphasis on helping students to apply their degree knowledge critically and innovatively, both to enhance the... Read More about Making a difference with psychology: reporting on a module to develop psychological literacy in final year undergraduates.

Tolerating uncertainty: Perceptions of the future for ageing parent-carers and their adult children with intellectual disabilities (2015)
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(2015). Tolerating uncertainty: Perceptions of the future for ageing parent-carers and their adult children with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12221

Background Improved life expectancy means that more adults with intellectual disabilities are now living with ageing parents. This study explored older families' perceptions of the future. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with n... Read More about Tolerating uncertainty: Perceptions of the future for ageing parent-carers and their adult children with intellectual disabilities.

The relation between bulimic symptoms and the social withdrawal syndrome during early adolescence (2015)
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(2015). The relation between bulimic symptoms and the social withdrawal syndrome during early adolescence. Eating Behaviors, 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.09.008

Objective The short-term longitudinal study tested the hypothesis that there was a prospective relation between the social withdrawal syndrome and Bulimic symptoms during early adolescence. Method Ninety-six adolescents (47 males, mean age = 13... Read More about The relation between bulimic symptoms and the social withdrawal syndrome during early adolescence.

Awareness and knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer in female students: A survey (with a cautionary note) (2015)
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Minshall, C., Coombes, R., Cooper, J., Redman, C., Sherman, S., & Nailer, E. (2015). Awareness and knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer in female students: A survey (with a cautionary note). Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 76 -80. https://doi.org/10.3109/01443615.2015.1041886

We conducted a survey to explore levels of awareness and knowledge of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer in 170 female students and whether mode of data collection (online vs. paper) affected the results. 27% of women named HPV as a cause... Read More about Awareness and knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer in female students: A survey (with a cautionary note).