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HPV Primary Cervical Screening in England: Women’s Awareness and Attitudes (2018)
Journal Article
Moss, E., Patel, H., & Sherman, S. (2018). HPV Primary Cervical Screening in England: Women’s Awareness and Attitudes. Psycho-Oncology, 1559-1564. https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.4694

Background Primary HPV cervical screening is due to be implemented in England within the next 2 years however, the acceptability of HPV testing as the primary screening test is unclear. This study explores women’s awareness and attitudes towards HPV... Read More about HPV Primary Cervical Screening in England: Women’s Awareness and Attitudes.

Attending to identity cues reduces the own-age but not the own-race recognition advantage (2018)
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Proietti, V., Laurence, S., Matthews, C. M., Zhou, X., & Mondloch, C. J. (2019). Attending to identity cues reduces the own-age but not the own-race recognition advantage. Vision Research, 157, 184-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2017.11.010

Adults’ ability to recognize individual faces is shaped by experience. Young adults recognize own-age and own-race faces more accurately than other-age and other-race faces. The own-age and own-race biases have been attributed to differential percept... Read More about Attending to identity cues reduces the own-age but not the own-race recognition advantage.

Doing histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y?ies} (2018)
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(2018). Doing histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y?ies}. 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 of... Read More about Doing histor{y/ies} of health psycholog{y?ies}.

Publication trends in high impact journal: the case of World Psychiatry (2018)
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(2018). Publication trends in high impact journal: the case of World Psychiatry. Library Hi Tech News, 25-30. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-08-2017-0060

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the bibliometric characteristics of papers published in a high impact journal World Psychiatry during the period 2006-2015. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study were obtained from Th... Read More about Publication trends in high impact journal: the case of World Psychiatry.

Health Psychology in Autobiography: Three Canadian Critical Narratives (2018)
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(2018). Health Psychology in Autobiography: Three Canadian Critical Narratives. Journal of Health Psychology, 506-523. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318755409

Three Canadian colleagues in health psychology recount their careers in a field of research and practice whose birth they witnessed and whose developments they have critiqued. By placing the development of health psychology in Canada in a context tha... Read More about Health Psychology in Autobiography: Three Canadian Critical Narratives.

Effect of swearing on strength and power performance (2018)
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Stephens, R., Spierer, D., & Katehis, E. (2018). Effect of swearing on strength and power performance. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 111-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2017.11.014

Objectives: Swearing aloud increases pain tolerance. The hypothesis that this response may be owed to an increase in sympathetic drive raises the intriguing question as to whether swearing results in an improvement in strength and power. Design:... Read More about Effect of swearing on strength and power performance.

Justify your alpha (2018)
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Grange, J. (2018). Justify your alpha. Nature Human Behaviour, 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0311-x

In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to P = 0.005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when designing a study, including the alpha level.

How to understand it: Neuropsychological testing (2018)
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(2018). How to understand it: Neuropsychological testing. Practical Neurology, 227-237. https://doi.org/10.1136/practneurol-2017-001743

Neuropsychological testing is a key diagnostic tool for assessing people with dementia and mild cognitive impairment, but can also help in other neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury a... Read More about How to understand it: Neuropsychological testing.

Risky Decision-Making And Affective Features Of Impulse Control Disorders In Parkinson’s Disease (2018)
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Martini, A., Ellis, S. J., Grange, J. A., Tamburin, S., Dal Lago, D., Vianello, G., & Edelstyn, N. M. (2018). Risky Decision-Making And Affective Features Of Impulse Control Disorders In Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of Neural Transmission, 131-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00702-017-1807-7

Background. Impulse Control Disorders (ICDs) in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are considered dopaminergic treatment side effects. Cognitive and affective factors may increase the risk of ICD in PD. Aims. To investigate risky decision-making and associate... Read More about Risky Decision-Making And Affective Features Of Impulse Control Disorders In Parkinson’s Disease.

Translating visual information into action predictions: Statistical learning in action and nonaction contexts (2018)
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Monroy, C. D., Gerson, S. A., & Hunnius, S. (2018). Translating visual information into action predictions: Statistical learning in action and nonaction contexts. Memory and Cognition, 46(4), 600-613. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0788-6

Humans are sensitive to the statistical regularities in action sequences carried out by others. In the present eyetracking study, we investigated whether this sensitivity can support the prediction of upcoming actions when observing unfamiliar action... Read More about Translating visual information into action predictions: Statistical learning in action and nonaction contexts.

Assessing How Child Witnesses Are Questioned in Forensic Contexts Using Quantitative Linguistic Transcript Analysis (2018)
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Andrews, S. J. (2018). Assessing How Child Witnesses Are Questioned in Forensic Contexts Using Quantitative Linguistic Transcript Analysis. SAGE Publications Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526444189

Quantitative linguistic transcript analysis is a popular research method used in the field of forensic interviewing. The present case study describes the use of this method in the context of forensically questioning children about alleged child sexua... Read More about Assessing How Child Witnesses Are Questioned in Forensic Contexts Using Quantitative Linguistic Transcript Analysis.

Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories: The effect of memory specificity (2018)
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Dewhurst, S. A., Anderson, R. J., Berry, D. M., & Garner, S. R. (2018). Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories: The effect of memory specificity. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(7), 1637-1644. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1345961

Previous research has highlighted the wide individual variability in susceptibility to the false memories produced by the Deese/Roediger–McDermott (DRM) procedure. This study investigated whether susceptibility to false memories is influenced by indi... Read More about Individual differences in susceptibility to false memories: The effect of memory specificity.

Cross-examining young alleged complainers in Scottish criminal courts (2018)
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Andrews, S. J. (2018). Cross-examining young alleged complainers in Scottish criminal courts. Criminal Law Review, 34-57

Presents the results of research into lawyers’ questioning techniques of children in cases of alleged sexual offences. A sample of 36 Scottish court transcripts was drawn, involving 56 children between the ages of five and 17. The analysis indicates... Read More about Cross-examining young alleged complainers in Scottish criminal courts.

Social Representations of Colonialism in Africa and in Europe: Structure and Relevance for Contemporary Intergroup Relations (2018)
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(2018). Social Representations of Colonialism in Africa and in Europe: Structure and Relevance for Contemporary Intergroup Relations. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 68-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.05.004

European colonial powers invaded and then dominated a large part of the African continent from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. The influence of colonialism did not cease after independence as it still impregnates the cultures and identities o... Read More about Social Representations of Colonialism in Africa and in Europe: Structure and Relevance for Contemporary Intergroup Relations.

Our gift to all of Us: GA(Y)AM: Preface (2017)
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Loesche, F., Łucznik, K., Denham, S. L., Drayson, H., Francis, K. B., Maranan, D. S., & Punt, M. (2017). Our gift to all of Us: GA(Y)AM: Preface. Avant, 8(Special Issue), 13-16. https://doi.org/10.26913/80s02017.0111.0001

This special issue of AVANT is all about Cognitive Innovation. It is not about CogNovo, the interdisciplinary and international doctoral training programme that produced three different Off the Lip events. It is not about Off the Lip 2017, the novel... Read More about Our gift to all of Us: GA(Y)AM: Preface.