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Contact, Political Solidarity and Collective Action: An Indian Case Study of Relations between Historically Disadvantaged Communities (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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.

Using social identity to promote health: The impact of group memberships on health in the context of obesity (2016)
Book Chapter
(2016). Using social identity to promote health: The impact of group memberships on health in the context of obesity. In Addiction, Behavioural Change and Social Identity: The path to resilience and recovery (52-70)

Patient experiences of a bariatric group programme for managing obesity: A qualitative interview study (2016)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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.

Sleeping beauties in psychology (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Sleeping beauties in psychology. Scientometrics, 301-305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2174-0

A ‘Sleeping beauty’ is a term used to describe a research article that has remained relatively uncited for several years and then suddenly blossoms forward. New technology now allows us to detect such articles more easily than before, and sleeping be... Read More about Sleeping beauties in psychology.

The biographical consequences of protest and activism: a systematic review and a new typology (2016)
Journal Article
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.

How do Lawyers Examine and Cross-Examine Children in Scotland?: Questioning Children in Scottish Courts (2016)
Journal Article
Andrews, S. J., & Lamb, M. E. (2016). How do Lawyers Examine and Cross-Examine Children in Scotland?: Questioning Children in Scottish Courts. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 30(6), 953-971. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3286

Evaluation of a motivational pre-exercise music intervention (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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.

The development of a humor styles questionnaire for younger children (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The development of a humor styles questionnaire for younger children. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2016-0042

Despite the adaptation of the humor styles questionnaire for older children a measure suitable for children below the age of eleven was needed. The current research involved three separate studies leading to the creation of the humor styles questionn... Read More about The development of a humor styles questionnaire for younger children.

Who Gets Protection? A National Study of Multiple Victimization and Child Protection Among Taiwanese Children (2016)
Journal Article
Shen, A. C., Feng, J. Y., Feng, J., Wei, H., Hsieh, Y., Huang, S. C., & Hwa, H. (2019). Who Gets Protection? A National Study of Multiple Victimization and Child Protection Among Taiwanese Children. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 34(17), 3737-3761. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260516670885

Suffering need not beget suffering: Why we forgive (2016)
Journal Article
Noor. (2016). Suffering need not beget suffering: Why we forgive. Current Opinion in Psychology, 100 - 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2016.06.013

The concept of intergroup forgiveness has gained a research momentum. Here, I examine its utility as a viable conflict resolution strategy. After advancing a more refined definition of intergroup forgiveness than had been previously proposed by resea... Read More about Suffering need not beget suffering: Why we forgive.

When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing (2016)
Journal Article
Stott. (2016). When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing. Policing and Society, 647-664. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2016.1234470

Procedural justice theory (PJT) is now a widely utilised theoretical perspective in policing research that acknowledges the centrality of police ‘fairness’. Despite its widespread acceptance this paper asserts that there are conceptual limitations th... Read More about When is policing fair?: groups, identity and judgements of the procedural justice of coercive crowd policing.

Are two authors better than one?: Can writing on pairs affect the readability of academic blogs? (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Are two authors better than one?: Can writing on pairs affect the readability of academic blogs?. Scientometrics, 2119 -2122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2116-x

The literature on academic writing suggests that writing in pairs leads to more readable papers than writing alone. We wondered whether academic blog posts written alone or in pairs would vary in style. We collected a corpus of 104 posts published wi... Read More about Are two authors better than one?: Can writing on pairs affect the readability of academic blogs?.

The development of a humor styles questionnaire for younger children (2016)
Journal Article
James, L., & Fox, C. (in press). The development of a humor styles questionnaire for younger children. HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1515/humor-2016-0042

Despite the adaptation of the humor styles questionnaire for older children a measure suitable for children below the age of eleven was needed. The current research involved three separate studies leading to the creation of the humor styles questionn... Read More about The development of a humor styles questionnaire for younger children.

The impact of a selective entry examination on children's feelings as they approach the transition to secondary school (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). The impact of a selective entry examination on children's feelings as they approach the transition to secondary school. British Educational Research Journal, 945-961. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3242

In the current study we examined how different experiences of a selective entry examination influenced children's feelings about themselves, school and intelligence as they approached transition to secondary school. Children were recruited from three... Read More about The impact of a selective entry examination on children's feelings as they approach the transition to secondary school.

Bowel cancer screening and people with intellectual disabilities: working in co-production and establishing principles for good practice initiatives (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Bowel cancer screening and people with intellectual disabilities: working in co-production and establishing principles for good practice initiatives. Learning Disability Practice, 33-39. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2016.e1766

Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in England, and with one in 20 people developing the condition, it is the second highest cause of cancer deaths. If diagnosed early, treatment can be more effective and bowel cancer screening programmes c... Read More about Bowel cancer screening and people with intellectual disabilities: working in co-production and establishing principles for good practice initiatives.

Longitudinal Associations between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Longitudinal Associations between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 377-389. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1065

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective associations between psychosocial adjustment and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating). Participants were 1,234 a... Read More about Longitudinal Associations between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence.