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'I didn't realise I was such a sausage': men's accounts of whole-body scanning, body image, and expected changes in health-related behaviours. (2019)
Journal Article
Grogan, S., O’Brien, D., Brownbridge, K., Gill, S., Cole, J., & Armitage, C. J. (2019). 'I didn't realise I was such a sausage': men's accounts of whole-body scanning, body image, and expected changes in health-related behaviours. Psychology and Health, 550 - 568. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1549326

OBJECTIVE: Whole-body scanning is now available in stores to assist buyers in choosing well-fitting clothes. This study was designed to investigate men's accounts of scanning, body image and expectations of behaviour change. DESIGN: Ten men aged 18-3... Read More about 'I didn't realise I was such a sausage': men's accounts of whole-body scanning, body image, and expected changes in health-related behaviours..

The Dark Triad and Facebook Surveillance: How Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, But Not Narcissism Predict Using Facebook To Spy On Others (2019)
Journal Article
Stiff, C. (2019). The Dark Triad and Facebook Surveillance: How Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, But Not Narcissism Predict Using Facebook To Spy On Others. Computers in Human Behavior, 62-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2018.12.044

The Dark Triad of personality – Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy – has been shown to influence a variety of behaviours. Typically, high levels of these traits predict engaging in behaviour at the periphery of what is considered socially... Read More about The Dark Triad and Facebook Surveillance: How Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, But Not Narcissism Predict Using Facebook To Spy On Others.

Taboo gesticulations as a response to pain (2019)
Journal Article
Jacobs, M., van Beest, I., & Stephens, R. (2019). Taboo gesticulations as a response to pain. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 397-406. https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2018-0321

Prior research indicates that swearing increases pain tolerance and decreases pain perception in a cold pressor task. In two experiments, we extend this research by testing whether taboo hand gesticulations have a similar effect. Study 1 focused on m... Read More about Taboo gesticulations as a response to pain.

‘I Have Seen the Opportunities that Science Brings’: An Evaluation of an Intervention to Encourage Girls to Persist in Science Subjects (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). ‘I Have Seen the Opportunities that Science Brings’: An Evaluation of an Intervention to Encourage Girls to Persist in Science Subjects. Educational Forum, 199-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131725.2019.1576820

Women are underrepresented in science careers. To overcome this, it is important to explore how to encourage girls to continue to study science. This intervention involved girls aged 12–14 attending interactive science sessions at a university. Girls... Read More about ‘I Have Seen the Opportunities that Science Brings’: An Evaluation of an Intervention to Encourage Girls to Persist in Science Subjects.

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Effects of Empathy and Responsibility in Muslim Leaders’ Mediated Responses to Extremist Attacks (2019)
Journal Article
Noor, M. (2019). Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Effects of Empathy and Responsibility in Muslim Leaders’ Mediated Responses to Extremist Attacks. Media Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2019.1584570

Muslim American leaders are often called upon to publicly respond to violent attacks carried out by Muslim extremists. Yet it is unclear what types of responses are most likely to satisfy non-Muslim Americans and ultimately improve attitudes toward M... Read More about Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: Effects of Empathy and Responsibility in Muslim Leaders’ Mediated Responses to Extremist Attacks.

Opium of the People? National Identification Predicts Wellbeing Over Time (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Opium of the People? National Identification Predicts Wellbeing Over Time. British Journal of Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12398

Social group membership and its social-relational corollaries – e.g., social contact, trust, and support – is prophylactic for health. Research has tended to focus on how direct social interactions between members of small-scale groups (i.e., a local... Read More about Opium of the People? National Identification Predicts Wellbeing Over Time.

The influence of values on environmental behaviour: an evaluation of a segmentation approach (2019)
Thesis
Bosworth, G. J. (2019). The influence of values on environmental behaviour: an evaluation of a segmentation approach. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/413131

It is in human interest to protect planet Earth by engaging in pro-environmental behaviour (PEB), yet many people are not doing so. Although the values we endorse are thought to influence PEB, relatively little research has considered the impact of e... Read More about The influence of values on environmental behaviour: an evaluation of a segmentation approach.

Relationships between Parent-Reported Parenting, Child-Perceived Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health in Taiwanese Children (2019)
Journal Article
Huang. (2019). Relationships between Parent-Reported Parenting, Child-Perceived Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health in Taiwanese Children. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16061049

The current study examines the relationship between parents’ and children’s reports of parenting and their effects on children’s mental health symptoms. Six hundred and sixty-six parent-child dyads in Taiwan participated in this study. The parents an... Read More about Relationships between Parent-Reported Parenting, Child-Perceived Parenting, and Children’s Mental Health in Taiwanese Children.

Impact of Cognitive Profile on Impulse Control Disorders Presence and Severity in Parkinson's Disease (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Impact of Cognitive Profile on Impulse Control Disorders Presence and Severity in Parkinson's Disease. Frontiers in Neurology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2019.00266

Background
Impulse control disorders (ICDs) and related behaviors are frequent in Parkinson's disease (PD). Mild cognitive impairment (PD-MCI) and dementia (PDD), both characterized by heterogeneous cognitive phenotypes, are also commonly reported i... Read More about Impact of Cognitive Profile on Impulse Control Disorders Presence and Severity in Parkinson's Disease.

'You're in this world now': Students', teachers', and parents' experiences of school transition and how they feel it can be improved. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). 'You're in this world now': Students', teachers', and parents' experiences of school transition and how they feel it can be improved. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 206-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12273

BACKGROUND: Primary-secondary school transition is a major life event for 11-year-old children in the United Kingdom and can also be a stressful period for parents and teachers. However, most research focuses on the impact of transition on children's... Read More about 'You're in this world now': Students', teachers', and parents' experiences of school transition and how they feel it can be improved..

Police call-takers' first substantive question projects the outcome of the call (2019)
Journal Article
Kent, A., & Antaki, C. (2019). Police call-takers' first substantive question projects the outcome of the call. Applied Linguistics, 640-661. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amz002

Police call-takers need to gather as much data as is needed, as quickly as possible, to determine whether and what action should be taken. On analysing 514 calls to a UK centre handling emergency (999) and non-emergency (101) calls, we find that th... Read More about Police call-takers' first substantive question projects the outcome of the call.

Childhood poly-victimization and children’s health: A nationally representative study (2019)
Journal Article
Feng, J., Hsieh, Y., Hwa, H., Huang, C., Wei, H., & Shen, A. C. (2019). Childhood poly-victimization and children’s health: A nationally representative study. Child Abuse and Neglect, 91, 88-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.02.013

Although research on the negative effects of childhood poly-victimization is substantial, few studies have examined the relationship between poly-victimization and younger children’s physical health and diseases.

Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering (2019)
Journal Article
Lazard, L., Capdevila, R., Dann, C., Locke, A., & Roper, S. (2019). Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13(4), Article ARTN e12443. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12443

The coming together of parenting and routine posting on social networking sites has become a visible and recognisable theme, and the term “sharenting” has found a place in everyday talk to describe some forms of parental digital sharing practices. Ho... Read More about Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering.

Making a difference with psychology: case study (2019)
Book Chapter
Skipper, Y., Hulme, J., Stanyard, R., & Kent, A. (2019). Making a difference with psychology: case study. In Developing your teaching: ideas, insight and action. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

The effect of aging on response congruency in task switching: a meta-analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Grange. (2019). The effect of aging on response congruency in task switching: a meta-analysis. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 389-396. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx122

Objectives:
Response congruency effects in task switching are the observed slowing of response times for incongruent targets which afford more than one response (depending on task) in comparison to congruent stimuli that afford just one response re... Read More about The effect of aging on response congruency in task switching: a meta-analysis.

The Impact of Exposure to Media Coverage of the 2012 Paralympic Games on Mixed Physical Ability Interactions (2019)
Journal Article
Noor. (2019). The Impact of Exposure to Media Coverage of the 2012 Paralympic Games on Mixed Physical Ability Interactions. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 104-120. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2387

The current work assessed the impact of the 2012 Paralympic Games on psychological factors operating during interactions between physically disabled and nondisabled group members. In a two-wave longitudinal design, the pre- to post-Paralympic increas... Read More about The Impact of Exposure to Media Coverage of the 2012 Paralympic Games on Mixed Physical Ability Interactions.

Examining children in English High Courts with and without implementation of reforms authorized in Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (2019)
Journal Article
Andrews, S. J. (2019). Examining children in English High Courts with and without implementation of reforms authorized in Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 252-264. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3472

This study examined whether the implementation of Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act (1999) improved lawyers' questioning strategies when examining child witnesses in England. The government's Section 28 pilot study involved ju... Read More about Examining children in English High Courts with and without implementation of reforms authorized in Section 28 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act.

Transition and adaptability in educational and organizational contexts (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Transition and adaptability in educational and organizational contexts. Psychology Teaching Review,

The Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology (DART-P) hosted a symposium at the British Psychological Society’s Annual Conference 2018, at which the concepts of transition and adaptability were explored within the context of high... Read More about Transition and adaptability in educational and organizational contexts.