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Action prediction during real-time social interactions in infancy (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Monroy, C., Chen, C., & Houston, D. (2019). Action prediction during real-time social interactions in infancy.

Developmental theory considers action prediction as one of several processes involved in determining how infants come to perceive and understand social events (Gredebäck & Daum, 2015). Action prediction is observed from early in life and is considere... Read More about Action prediction during real-time social interactions in infancy.

Shared Social Identification in Mass Gatherings Lowers Health Risk Perceptions via Lowered Disgust (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Shared Social Identification in Mass Gatherings Lowers Health Risk Perceptions via Lowered Disgust. British Journal of Social Psychology, 839-856. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12362

Previous research concerning mass gathering-associated health risks has focused on physical factors while largely neglecting the role of psychological factors. The present research examined the effect of experiencing shared social identification on p... Read More about Shared Social Identification in Mass Gatherings Lowers Health Risk Perceptions via Lowered Disgust.

Artistic representations of infectious disease. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Artistic representations of infectious disease. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 1 - 5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2019.1705991

Artistic representations of disease are widespread yet largely ignored in health psychology research. In this paper we use two infectious diseases, tuberculosis and the plague, as tracers to study how infectious diseases are represented in novels, fi... Read More about Artistic representations of infectious disease..

Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel (2019)
Journal Article
Cakal, H. (2019). Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 136843021988516 - 136843021988516. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219885163

Three studies investigated the effect of intergroup contact and social identification on social change among three advantaged groups in Cyprus, Romania, and Israel. In Study 1 (n = 340, Turkish Cypriots), intergroup contact with disadvantaged immigra... Read More about Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel.

A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots (2019)
Journal Article
Stott. (2019). A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2650

Previous research has shown that riots spread across multiple locations, but has not explained underlying psychological processes. We examined rioting in three locations during the August 2011 disorders in England to test a social identity model of r... Read More about A social identity model of riot diffusion: From injustice to empowerment in the 2011 London riots.

Examining teachers' ratings of feedback following success and failure: a study of Chinese English teachers. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Examining teachers' ratings of feedback following success and failure: a study of Chinese English teachers. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 804-817. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12261

BACKGROUND: Previous research has explored the impact of different types of praise and criticism on how children experience success and failure. However, less is known about how teachers choose to deliver feedback and specifically whether they delive... Read More about Examining teachers' ratings of feedback following success and failure: a study of Chinese English teachers..

Who controls the city?: a micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011 (2019)
Journal Article
Ball, R., Stott, C., Drury, J., Neville, F., Reicher, S., & Choudhury, S. (2019). Who controls the city?: a micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011. City, https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2019.1685283

In August 2011, over four days, rioting spread across several cities in England. Previous accounts of these riots have indicated the roles of police racism, class disadvantage, and spatial affordance. However what remains unclear is how these structu... Read More about Who controls the city?: a micro-historical case study of the spread of rioting across North London in August 2011.

Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults' explicit and implicit attitudes to brands and brand choice (2019)
Journal Article
Sherman, S., Rowley, M., & Gilman, H. (2019). Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults' explicit and implicit attitudes to brands and brand choice. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 402-409. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000199

Celebrities are used within advertisements in an attempt to impact positively on consumers’ attitudes towards brands, purchase intentions, and ad believability. However, the findings from previous research on the effects of celebrity liking on brand... Read More about Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults' explicit and implicit attitudes to brands and brand choice.

Internally displaced persons and the Cyprus peace process (2019)
Journal Article
Cakal, H. (2019). Internally displaced persons and the Cyprus peace process. International Political Science Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/0192512119872057

The article focuses on Greek Cypriot internally displaced persons and their attitudes towards the island’s reunification talks. We utilize quantitative data from two representative sample surveys, conducted in 2016–2017, which probed respondents on t... Read More about Internally displaced persons and the Cyprus peace process.

Towards Automatic Screening of Typical and Atypical Behaviors in Children With Autism (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Cook, A., Mandal, B., Berry, D., & Johnson, M. (2019, October). Towards Automatic Screening of Typical and Atypical Behaviors in Children With Autism. Paper presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), Washington, DC, USA

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) impact the cognitive, social, communicative and behavioral abilities of an individual. The development of new clinical decision support systems is of importance in reducing the delay between presentation of symptoms an... Read More about Towards Automatic Screening of Typical and Atypical Behaviors in Children With Autism.

Psychology (2019)
Book Chapter
(2019). Psychology. In A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: 5th Edition

Psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate degree courses around the world. Pathways through psychology vary somewhat depending on the national context; for example, in the UK, students study a general undergraduate degree, usually accredite... Read More about Psychology.

Effects of extreme ritual practices on psychophysiological well-being (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Effects of extreme ritual practices on psychophysiological well-being. Current Anthropology, 699-707. https://doi.org/10.1086/705665

Extreme ritual practices involving pain and suffering pose significant risks such as injury, trauma, or infection. Nonetheless, they are performed by millions of people around the world, and are often culturally prescribed remedies for a variety of m... Read More about Effects of extreme ritual practices on psychophysiological well-being.

The digital divide: Examining socio-demographic factors associated with health literacy, access and use of internet to seek health information (2019)
Journal Article
Protheroe. (2019). The digital divide: Examining socio-demographic factors associated with health literacy, access and use of internet to seek health information. Journal of Health Psychology, 1668-1675. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317695429

This article aims to examine the socio-demographic characteristics associated with access and use of Internet for health-related purposes and its relationship with health literacy. Data were drawn from a health literacy survey (N?=?1046) and analysed... Read More about The digital divide: Examining socio-demographic factors associated with health literacy, access and use of internet to seek health information.

Barriers and motivators for uptake of cervical cancer prevention strategies in Eastern Europe: Perspective from Latvia (2019)
Journal Article
Pčolkina, K., Sherman, S., MOSS, E., Redman, C., Zodzika, J., Rezeberga, D., …Viberga, I. (2019). Barriers and motivators for uptake of cervical cancer prevention strategies in Eastern Europe: Perspective from Latvia. https://doi.org/10.15570/actaapa.2019.27

Introduction The incidence of cervical cancer in Eastern European countries is high, however uptake of available prevention strategies is suboptimal. We explored the knowledge, behaviours and attitudes towards cervical cancer prevention strategie... Read More about Barriers and motivators for uptake of cervical cancer prevention strategies in Eastern Europe: Perspective from Latvia.

Awareness of and attitudes towards cervical cancer prevention among migrant Eastern European women in England (2019)
Journal Article
Sherman, S., Tincello, D., Moss, E., & Patel, H. (2019). Awareness of and attitudes towards cervical cancer prevention among migrant Eastern European women in England. Journal of Medical Screening, 27(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/0969141319869957

Objectives It has been hypothesized that, in England, the rise in incidence of cervical cancer and the fall in screening coverage might be attributable in part to the effect of migration of Eastern European born women. We explored the attitudes and... Read More about Awareness of and attitudes towards cervical cancer prevention among migrant Eastern European women in England.

Deficits in prospective memory following damage to the medial subdivision of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus. (2019)
Journal Article
Cona, G., Laera, G., Edelstyn, N., & Bisiacchi, P. S. (2019). Deficits in prospective memory following damage to the medial subdivision of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus. Journal of Neuropsychology, 398-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12154

Identifying the neurocognitive mechanisms that lead individuals remembering to execute an intention at the right moment (prospective memory, PM) and how such mechanisms are influenced by the features of that intention is a fundamental theoretical cha... Read More about Deficits in prospective memory following damage to the medial subdivision of the mediodorsal thalamic nucleus..

The Social Psychological Processes of ‘Procedural Justice’: Concepts, Critiques and Opportunities (2019)
Journal Article
Stott. (2019). The Social Psychological Processes of ‘Procedural Justice’: Concepts, Critiques and Opportunities. Criminology and Criminal Justice, 421-438. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748895818780200

Contemporary research on policing and procedural justice theory (PJT) emphasises large-scale survey data to link a series of interlocking concepts, namely perceptions of procedural fairness, police legitimacy and normative compliance. In this paper w... Read More about The Social Psychological Processes of ‘Procedural Justice’: Concepts, Critiques and Opportunities.

A longitudinal study of the effects of internet use on subjective well-being (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). A longitudinal study of the effects of internet use on subjective well-being. Media Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1624177

This study examined how internet use is related to subjective well-being, using longitudinal data from 19 nations with representative online samples stratified for age, gender, and region (N = 7122, 51.43% women, Mage = 45.26). Life satisfaction and... Read More about A longitudinal study of the effects of internet use on subjective well-being.

A test of the micro‐expressions training tool: Does it improve lie detection? (2019)
Journal Article
Jordan, S., Brimbal, L., Wallace, D. B., Kassin, S. M., Hartwig, M., & Street, C. N. (2019). A test of the micro‐expressions training tool: Does it improve lie detection?. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 16(3), 222-235. https://doi.org/10.1002/jip.1532

The purpose of the study was to examine the effectiveness of the micro-expressions training tool (METT) in identifying and using micro-expressions to improve lie detection. Participants (n = 90) were randomly assigned to receive training in micro-exp... Read More about A test of the micro‐expressions training tool: Does it improve lie detection?.