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Contemporary understanding of riots: classical crowd psychology, ideology and the social identity approach (2016)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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.

Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father (2016)
Book Chapter
Locke, A. (2016). Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father. In Pops in Pop Culture. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57767-2_11

On February 17, 2009, the then leader of one of the opposition parties in the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg, was quoted as saying that the recession—the “mancession” as it has been called in some quarters—and the resulting large-scale unemployment, gave... Read More about Masculinity, Subjectivities, and caregiving in the British press: The case of the stay-at-home father.

Humor style similarity and difference in friendship dyads (2016)
Journal Article
(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.

Musical Preferences (2016)
Book Chapter
Greasley, A., & Lamont, A. (2016). Musical Preferences. In S. Hallam, I. Cross, & M. Thaut (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology. (2nd edn). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198722946.013.58

This chapter critically discusses current understanding of the psychology of musical preferences. The first section explores the styles of music people prefer, and the ways in which specific musical characteristics influence preference. The second se... Read More about Musical Preferences.