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How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign (2018)
Journal Article
Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2018). How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57(4), 855-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12270

Previous research on collective action has suggested that both intra- and intergroup interactions are important in producing psychological change. In this study, we examine how these two forms of interaction relate to each other over time. We present... Read More about How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign.

The drama of becoming an autoethnographer (2018)
Book Chapter
(2018). The drama of becoming an autoethnographer. In How Do We Belong? Researcher Positionality Within Qualitative Inquiry: Proceedings of 4th Annual Qualitative Research Symposium, at the University of Bath (84 - 93)

A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV (2018)
Journal Article
Madill, A., Flowers, P., Frost, N., & Locke, A. (2018). A meta-methodology to enhance pluralist qualitative research: One man’s use of socio-sexual media and midlife adjustment to HIV. Psychology & Health, 33(10), 1209-1228. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1475670

Our aim is to offer and illustrate a novel meta-methodology to enhance the rigour of method selection and understanding of results in pluralist qualitative research (PQR).

Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults’ implicit and explicit responses to brands (2018)
Journal Article
Rowley, M., Gilman, H., & Sherman, S. (2018). Investigating the celebrity effect: the influence of well-liked celebrities on adults’ implicit and explicit responses to brands. 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’ implicit and explicit responses to brands.

Intra-Individual Variability of Error Awareness and Post-error Slowing in Three Different Age-Groups (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Intra-Individual Variability of Error Awareness and Post-error Slowing in Three Different Age-Groups. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00902

Background: Error awareness (EA) and post-error slowing (PES) are two crucial components of an adequate performance monitoring because, respectively, they allow being aware of an error and triggering performance adjustments following unexpected event... Read More about Intra-Individual Variability of Error Awareness and Post-error Slowing in Three Different Age-Groups.

Posting Selfies and Body Image in Young Adult Women: The Selfie Paradox (2018)
Journal Article
Grogan, S., Rothery, L., Cole, J., & Hall, M. (2018). Posting Selfies and Body Image in Young Adult Women: The Selfie Paradox

This exploratory study was designed to investigate how young women make sense of their decision to post selfies, and perceived links between selfie posting and body image. Eighteen 19-22 year old British women were interviewed about their experiences... Read More about Posting Selfies and Body Image in Young Adult Women: The Selfie Paradox.

The Effects of Peer Victimization on Children’s Internet Addiction and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Roles of Emotional and Social Intelligence (2018)
Journal Article
Hsieh, Y., Wei, H., Hwa, H., Shen, A. C., Feng, J., & Huang, C. (2019). The Effects of Peer Victimization on Children’s Internet Addiction and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Roles of Emotional and Social Intelligence. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(9), 2487-2498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-018-1120-6

This study examines the moderating effects of both emotional intelligence and social intelligence (social awareness and social information processing) on the relationship between peer victimization and internet addiction, and on the association betwe... Read More about The Effects of Peer Victimization on Children’s Internet Addiction and Psychological Distress: The Moderating Roles of Emotional and Social Intelligence.

Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching (2018)
Journal Article
Grange, J. (2018). Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching. Psychological Research, 1703-1721. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1025-4

Task inhibition is considered to facilitate switching to a new task and is assumed to decay slowly over time. Hence, more persisting inhibition needs to be overcome when returning to a task after one intermediary trial (ABA task sequence) than when r... Read More about Increased cognitive control after task conflict? Investigating the N-3 effect in task switching.

Empowering women through the positive birth movement (2018)
Journal Article
Hallam, J., Howard, C., Locke, A., & Thomas, M. (2019). Empowering women through the positive birth movement. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(3), 330-341. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2018.1469972

Childbirth has been positioned as a life changing event that has profound long-term psychological effects upon women. This paper adopts a community psychology approach to explore the role that the Positive Birth Movement (PBM) may have in tackling ne... Read More about Empowering women through the positive birth movement.

Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers. Child and Family Social Work, 239 -247. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12410

This research aimed to develop the children's trust in general social workers (CTGSW) scale. Psychometric properties, structural validity, construct, and concurrent validity of the scale were evaluated. Both linear and quadratic patterns between chil... Read More about Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations to Children's engagement with social workers.

Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations with children's engagement with social workers (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations with children's engagement with social workers. Child and Family Social Work, 239-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/cfs.12410

This research aimed to develop the children's trust in general social workers (CTGSW) scale. Psychometric properties, structural validity, construct, and concurrent validity of the scale were evaluated. Both linear and quadratic patterns between chil... Read More about Children's trust in social workers: Scale development and relations with children's engagement with social workers.

Singing in later life: the anatomy of a community choir (2018)
Journal Article
Lamont, A., Murray, M., Hale, R., & Wright-Bevans, K. (2018). Singing in later life: the anatomy of a community choir. Psychology of Music, 46(3), 424-439. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735617715514

Previous research has highlighted the individual and social benefits of participation in arts activities for physical, psychological and social well-being. However, less is known about the transformative community aspects of the arts and very few stu... Read More about Singing in later life: the anatomy of a community choir.

Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory. (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1365 - 1383. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000522

It is well established that visual working memory (WM) for face identity is enhanced when faces display threatening versus nonthreatening expressions. During social interaction, it is also important to bind person identity with location information i... Read More about Remembering who was where: A happy expression advantage for face identity-location binding in working memory..

Attitudes towards and knowledge about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV vaccination in parents of teenage boys in the UK (2018)
Journal Article
Sherman, S., & Nailer, E. (2018). Attitudes towards and knowledge about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV vaccination in parents of teenage boys in the UK. PloS one, e0195801 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195801

The incidence of cancers attributable to Human Papillomavirus (HPV) that affect males is on the rise. Currently in the UK teenage boys are not vaccinated against HPV while teenage girls are. The rationale for not vaccinating boys is that vaccinating... Read More about Attitudes towards and knowledge about Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and the HPV vaccination in parents of teenage boys in the UK.

System justification enhances well-being: A longitudinal analysis of the palliative function of system justification in 18 countries. (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). System justification enhances well-being: A longitudinal analysis of the palliative function of system justification in 18 countries. British Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12254

According to the palliative function of ideology hypothesis proposed by System Justification Theory, endorsing system-justifying beliefs is positively related to general psychological well-being, because this fulfils existential, epistemic, and relat... Read More about System justification enhances well-being: A longitudinal analysis of the palliative function of system justification in 18 countries..

Special issue on some histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y/ies}: an introduction (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Special issue on some histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y/ies}: an introduction. Journal of Health Psychology, 361-371. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317753627

Academic (sub-)disciplines develop in time and place when particular ideas/practices are nurtured within social, gendered, cultural, community, economic and political contexts. Different histories employ different analyses, some with external views o... Read More about Special issue on some histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y/ies}: an introduction.

Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study (2018)
Journal Article
Protheroe. (2018). Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study. Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318763494

Parents play a vital role in promoting children’s health. The parental health literacy skills are important since the decisions they make can have an impact on other family members’ health and well-being. Using an assets-based approach, this project... Read More about Celebrating the health literacy skills and capabilities of parents in Stoke-on-Trent: A Photovoice Study.