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Obesity and the Social Withdrawal Syndrome. (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Obesity and the Social Withdrawal Syndrome. Eating Behaviors, 167 - 170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2017.03.006

The relation between obesity and Social Withdrawal Syndrome (SWS) was examined using the data gathered by Rotenberg, Bharathi, Davies, and Finch (2013). One hundred and 35 undergraduates (80 females; Mage=21years-10months) completed standardized scal... Read More about Obesity and the Social Withdrawal Syndrome..

“As a parent you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). “As a parent you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2000-2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0710-z

Bullying at school can be a distressing experience for children. It is also likely to be distressing for their parents. In spite of this, research in the field of school bullying and peer victimisation has tended to overlook the experience of parents... Read More about “As a parent you become a tiger”: Parents talking about bullying at school.

The careful stone-turner: Thinking about ethical tensions arising in an autoethnography of childhood emotional neglect (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The careful stone-turner: Thinking about ethical tensions arising in an autoethnography of childhood emotional neglect. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 48-54

Autoethnographic research combines elements of autobiography and ethnography, and examines a phenomenon or experience in its social and historical contexts. My research aim is to increase understanding of childhood emotional neglect using autoethnogr... Read More about The careful stone-turner: Thinking about ethical tensions arising in an autoethnography of childhood emotional neglect.

Integrative Disciplinary Concepts: The Case of Psychological Literacy (2017)
Book Chapter
(2017). Integrative Disciplinary Concepts: The Case of Psychological Literacy. In Pedagogic Frailty and Resilience in the University (93 -107)

Formal education systems tend to emphasize the acquisition of knowledge to the detriment of other types of learning, but it is vital now to conceive education in a more encompassing fashion. (Learning: The Treasure Within, UNESCO, 1996) In 1996, a UN... Read More about Integrative Disciplinary Concepts: The Case of Psychological Literacy.

Low Emotional Trust in Mothers Is Associated With Increased Suicide Attempts in Inpatient Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Low Emotional Trust in Mothers Is Associated With Increased Suicide Attempts in Inpatient Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 221 -237. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2017.36.3.221

Emotional trust is conceptualized as an individual's belief that others are not critical of personal disclosures and will maintain their confidentiality. Accordingly, adolescents who hold high emotional trust in their parents are inclined to disclose... Read More about Low Emotional Trust in Mothers Is Associated With Increased Suicide Attempts in Inpatient Adolescents With Depressive Symptoms.

Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover? (2017)
Journal Article
Stephens, R., Holloway, K., Grange, J., Kruisselbrink, D., Owen, L., & Jones, K. (2017). Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover?. Psychopharmacology, 1795-1802. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-017-4585-x

Aims Positive family history of alcohol use disorder (FHP), a variable associated with propensity for alcohol use disorder (AUD), has been linked with elevated hangover frequency and severity, after controlling for alcohol use. This implies that han... Read More about Does familial risk for alcohol use disorder predict alcohol hangover?.

The Role of Feedback in Young People’s Academic Choices (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The Role of Feedback in Young People’s Academic Choices. International Journal of Science Education, 453-467. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2017.1294783

Women are underrepresented in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects with more girls leaving these subjects at every stage in education. The current research used a scenario methodology to examine the impact of teacher feedback on... Read More about The Role of Feedback in Young People’s Academic Choices.

Psychologies of Ageing: Research, policy and practice (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Psychologies of Ageing: Research, policy and practice. Working with Older People, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1108/wwop-12-2016-0035

A frequent concern of older people and of those who work with older people is that research is often divorced from reality and does not inform everyday practice. For many years, psychology and related disciplines have investigated the social and psyc... Read More about Psychologies of Ageing: Research, policy and practice.

Promoting writing amongst peers: establishing a community of writing practice for early career academics (2017)
Journal Article
Skipper, Y., Williams, H., Kent, A., Berry, D. M., & Budds, K. (2017). Promoting writing amongst peers: establishing a community of writing practice for early career academics. Higher Education Research and Development, 36(6), 1194-1207. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2017.1300141

In the current research-focused climate, academics are facing increasing pressure to produce research outputs. This pressure can prove particularly daunting for early career (EC) academics, who are simultaneously attempting to master new teaching and... Read More about Promoting writing amongst peers: establishing a community of writing practice for early career academics.

The pre-history of health psychology in the UK: From natural science and psychoanalysis to social science, social cognition and beyond (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The pre-history of health psychology in the UK: From natural science and psychoanalysis to social science, social cognition and beyond. Journal of Health Psychology, 472-791. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317705879

Health psychology formally came of age in the United Kingdom in the 1980s, but it was prefigured by much discussion about challenges to the dominance of biomedicine in healthcare and debates. This articles focuses on what could be termed the pre-hist... Read More about The pre-history of health psychology in the UK: From natural science and psychoanalysis to social science, social cognition and beyond.

Who woke the sleeping beauties in psychology? (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Who woke the sleeping beauties in psychology?. Scientometrics, 1065-1068. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2326-x

In an earlier paper we identified three ‘sleeping beauties’ in Psychology, that is three important papers that were not cited by others for many years before becoming much later citation classics. In this paper we identify the ‘princes’ that alerted... Read More about Who woke the sleeping beauties in psychology?.

The decline and fall of book reviews in psychology: a bibliometric analysis (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). The decline and fall of book reviews in psychology: a bibliometric analysis. Scientometrics, 665- 657. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2256-7

Book reviews have been published in psychology journals since 1900—and possibly before then. Approximately 200 such reviews were published each year until the 1950s and this number increased to nearly 600 before 1990. However, since then, the number... Read More about The decline and fall of book reviews in psychology: a bibliometric analysis.

Impact of Pre-War and Post-War Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Relations and Mental Health: Evidence From a Bosnian Sample (2017)
Journal Article
Cakal, H. (2017). Impact of Pre-War and Post-War Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Relations and Mental Health: Evidence From a Bosnian Sample. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 250-259. https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000222

Using a sample of Bosnian adults (N = 381) we investigated the association between intergroup contact, measures of intergroup relations, and mental health. Structural equation models with latent variables showed that postwar contact had beneficial ef... Read More about Impact of Pre-War and Post-War Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Relations and Mental Health: Evidence From a Bosnian Sample.

Can Raising Awareness about the Psychological Causes of Obesity Reduce Obesity Stigma? (2017)
Journal Article
(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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
(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.