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'Duck to water' or 'fish out of water'? Diversity in the experience of negotiating the transition to university (2019)
Book Chapter
(2019). 'Duck to water' or 'fish out of water'? Diversity in the experience of negotiating the transition to university. In Engaging Student Voices in Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20824-0_10

Winstone and Hulme present a critical discussion of the notion of transition to university. They argue that the common emphasis on the challenging nature of the transition fails to acknowledge the diversity in students’ experiences; for some students... Read More about 'Duck to water' or 'fish out of water'? Diversity in the experience of negotiating the transition to university.

National identification and support for discriminatory policies: The mediating role of beliefs aboutlaïcitéin France (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). National identification and support for discriminatory policies: The mediating role of beliefs aboutlaïcitéin France. European Journal of Social Psychology, 924-937. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2576

In France, laïcité is a legal principle enforcing State secularism. However, research indicates that Modern (vs. traditional) beliefs about laïcité (ML) help legitimate prejudice against minorities. From Social Identity Theory, we hypothesized that M... Read More about National identification and support for discriminatory policies: The mediating role of beliefs aboutlaïcitéin France.

Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory (2019)
Journal Article
Zakrzewski, A. C., Wisniewski, M. G., Williams, H. L., & Berry, J. M. (2019). Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory. PloS one, 14(7), Article e0220526. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220526

Previous work supports an age-specific impairment for recognition memory of pairs of words and other stimuli. The present study tested the generalization of an associative deficit across word, name, and nonword stimulus types in younger and older adu... Read More about Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory.

Humor Styles in Younger Children (2019)
Book Chapter
James, L. A., & Fox, C. L. (2019). Humor Styles in Younger Children. In Research on Young Children’s Humor. (1). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15202-4_4

The humor styles approach assumes that humor can be adaptive and maladaptive, with four main styles of humor reflecting how we use humor in every-day life: Affiliative, Self-enhancing, Self-defeating, and Aggressive. Through a series of studies, the... Read More about Humor Styles in Younger Children.

Humor Styles in Younger Children (2019)
Book Chapter
James, L. A., & Louise Fox, C. (2019). Humor Styles in Younger Children. In Research on Young Children’s Humor. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15202-4_4

The humor styles approach assumes that humor can be adaptive and maladaptive, with four main styles of humor reflecting how we use humor in every-day life: Affiliative, Self-enhancing, Self-defeating, and Aggressive. Through a series of studies, the... Read More about Humor Styles in Younger Children.

An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being (2019)
Journal Article
Lamont. (2019). An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being. Music & Science, 205920431986171 - 205920431986171. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204319861719

<jats:p> Research on choirs and other forms of group singing has been conducted for several decades and there has been a recent focus on the potential health and well-being benefits, particularly in amateur singers. Experimental, quantitative, and qu... Read More about An Agenda for Best Practice Research on Group Singing, Health, and Well-Being.

Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making (2019)
Journal Article
Francis, K., Gummerum, M., Ganis, G., Howard, I. S., & Terbeck, S. (2019). Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making. Psychopharmacology, 236, 3477 - 3496. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-019-05314-z

Rationale
Hypothetical moral dilemmas, pitting characteristically utilitarian and non-utilitarian outcomes against each other, have played a central role in investigations of moral decision-making. Preferences for utilitarian over non-utilitarian re... Read More about Alcohol, empathy, and morality: acute effects of alcohol consumption on affective empathy and moral decision-making.

Some thoughts on qualitative research in psychology in Europe (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Some thoughts on qualitative research in psychology in Europe. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 508 - 512. https://doi.org/10.1080/14780887.2019.1605279

This short commentary reflects upon some of the current debates about qualitative methods within European psychology. It notes that the rebirth of qualitative methods towards the end of the twentieth century often coupled an epistemological challenge... Read More about Some thoughts on qualitative research in psychology in Europe.

A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language (2019)
Journal Article
Hansen, N., Porter, J., & Francis, K. (2019). A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language. Episteme, 18, 242-268. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2019.15

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>We investigate claims about the frequency of “know” made by philosophers. Our investigation has several overlapping aims. First, we aim to show what is required to confirm or disconfirm philosophers’ claims ab... Read More about A Corpus Study of “Know”: On The Verification of Philosophers’ Frequency Claims about Language.

“We’re not just sat at home in our pyjamas!”: a thematic analysis of the social lives of home educated adolescents in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). “We’re not just sat at home in our pyjamas!”: a thematic analysis of the social lives of home educated adolescents in the UK. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 501-516. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-018-0398-5

A common perception of home education is that despite potential beneficial educational outcomes, children who are home educated lack social experiences and therefore show poor social development. However, previous research in this area suggests that... Read More about “We’re not just sat at home in our pyjamas!”: a thematic analysis of the social lives of home educated adolescents in the UK.

Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of celebrities on children’s and young adults’ explicit and implicit attitudes to brands (2019)
Thesis
Gilman, H. (2019). Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of celebrities on children’s and young adults’ explicit and implicit attitudes to brands. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413774

Research suggests that as children develop so too does their ability to identify the persuasive intent of advertising, but research examining whether implicit cognitive processes play a part in children’s response to advertising has been neglected, a... Read More about Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of celebrities on children’s and young adults’ explicit and implicit attitudes to brands.

A survey of knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus among healthcare professionals across the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Sherman, S., Cohen, C., Denison, H., Bromhead, C., & Patel, H. (2019). A survey of knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus among healthcare professionals across the UK. European Journal of Public Health, 30(1), 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckz113

Background
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection implicated in 5% of cancers worldwide including most cervical cancer cases. In the UK, the HPV vaccine has been offered routinely to girls aged 11-13 since 2008 while c... Read More about A survey of knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus among healthcare professionals across the UK.

The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching: a diffusion model analysis. (2019)
Journal Article
Grange. (2019). The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching: a diffusion model analysis. Psychological Research, 1965-1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01206-1

Inhibition in task switching is inferred from [Formula: see text] task repetition costs: slower response times and poorer accuracy for ABA task switching sequences compared to CBA sequences, thought to reflect the persisting inhibition of task A acro... Read More about The effect of episodic retrieval on inhibition in task switching: a diffusion model analysis..

Independent Recollection-Familiarity Ratings: Similar Effects of Levels-of-Processing Whether Amount or Confidence is Rated (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, H., & Bodner, G. E. (2019). Independent Recollection-Familiarity Ratings: Similar Effects of Levels-of-Processing Whether Amount or Confidence is Rated. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(2), 94-99. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000161

Independent recollection-familiarity (RF) ratings are sometimes collected to measure subjective experiences of recollection and familiarity during recognition. Although the RF ratings task purports to measure the ‘degree’ to which each recognition st... Read More about Independent Recollection-Familiarity Ratings: Similar Effects of Levels-of-Processing Whether Amount or Confidence is Rated.

Hearing Loss Affects Infants’ Visual Processing and Cognitive Development (2019)
Journal Article
Monroy, C. (2019). Hearing Loss Affects Infants’ Visual Processing and Cognitive Development. Hearing Journal, 72(5), 26. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.hj.0000559501.44308.ce

Hearing loss affects up to three of every 1,000 live births in the United States.1 Recent research has shown that hearing loss from birth has cascading effects on development that extend beyond the auditory system. Deaf children exhibit poorer perfor... Read More about Hearing Loss Affects Infants’ Visual Processing and Cognitive Development.

Different Definitions of the Non-recollection-based Response Option(s) Change how People use the “Remember” Response in the Remember/Know Paradigm (2019)
Journal Article
Williams, H., & Lindsay, D. S. (2019). Different Definitions of the Non-recollection-based Response Option(s) Change how People use the “Remember” Response in the Remember/Know Paradigm. Memory and Cognition, 47, 1359-1374. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00938-0

In the Remember/Know paradigm, a Know response can be defined to participants as a high-confidence state of certainty or as a low-confidence state based on a feeling of familiarity. To examine the effects of definition on use of responses, in two exp... Read More about Different Definitions of the Non-recollection-based Response Option(s) Change how People use the “Remember” Response in the Remember/Know Paradigm.