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Longitudinal Associations Between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence. (2016)
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(2016). Longitudinal Associations Between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 377 - 389. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1065

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective associations between psychosocial adjustment and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating). Participants were 1,234 a... Read More about Longitudinal Associations Between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence..

Longitudinal Associations between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Longitudinal Associations between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 377-389. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1065

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective associations between psychosocial adjustment and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating). Participants were 1,234 a... Read More about Longitudinal Associations between Humor Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescence.

Children’s understanding of self-focused humor styles (2016)
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James, L. (2016). Children’s understanding of self-focused humor styles. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 420-433. https://doi.org/10.5964/ejop.v12i3.1067

It has been proposed that four main styles of humor exist, two which are thought to be adaptive (affiliative, self-enhancing) and two which are thought to be maladaptive (aggressive, self-defeating). Whilst the existence of these four humor styles ha... Read More about Children’s understanding of self-focused humor styles.

Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014) (2016)
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(2016). Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014). Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 554-570. https://doi.org/10.5964/jspp.v4i2.603

We contextualise Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj, and Kumar’s (2014) paper within a broader literature on caste and collective mobilisation. Cotterill and colleagues’ paper represents a fresh and timely attempt to make sense of the persistence of caste... Read More about Understanding the Persistence of Caste: A Commentary on Cotterill, Sidanius, Bhardwaj and Kumar (2014).

Aligning Spinoza with Descartes: An informed Cartesian account of the truth bias (2016)
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Street, C. N. H., & Kingstone, A. (2017). Aligning Spinoza with Descartes: An informed Cartesian account of the truth bias. British Journal of Psychology, 108(3), 453-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12210

There is a bias towards believing information is true rather than false. The Spinozan account claims there is an early, automatic bias towards believing. Only afterwards can people engage in an effortful re-evaluation and disbelieve the information.... Read More about Aligning Spinoza with Descartes: An informed Cartesian account of the truth bias.

Can the Unconscious Boost Lie-Detection Accuracy? (2016)
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Street, C. N. H., & Vadillo, M. A. (2016). Can the Unconscious Boost Lie-Detection Accuracy?. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(4), 246-250. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416656348

Recently, a variety of methods have been used to show that unconscious processes can boost lie-detection accuracy. This article considers the latest developments in the context of research into unconscious cognition. Unconscious cognition has been un... Read More about Can the Unconscious Boost Lie-Detection Accuracy?.

Imperative Directives: Orientations to Accountability (2016)
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Kent, A., & Kendrick, K. (2016). Imperative Directives: Orientations to Accountability. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 272-288. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2016.1201737

Our analysis proceeds from the question that if grammar alone is insufficient to identify the action of an imperative (e.g., offering, directing, warning, begging, etc.), how can interlocutors come to recognize the specific action being performed by... Read More about Imperative Directives: Orientations to Accountability.

Just one look: direct gaze briefly disrupts visual working memory (2016)
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(2016). Just one look: direct gaze briefly disrupts visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 393-399. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1097-3

Direct gaze is a salient social cue that affords rapid detection. A body of research suggests that direct gaze enhances performance on memory tasks (e.g., Hood, Macrae, Cole-Davies, & Dias, 2003). Nonetheless, other studies highlight the disruptive e... Read More about Just one look: direct gaze briefly disrupts visual working memory.

Predicting support for collective action in the conflict between Turks and Kurds: Perceived threats as a mediator of intergroup contact and social identity (2016)
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Çakal, H., Hewstone, M., Güler, M., & Heath, A. (2016). Predicting support for collective action in the conflict between Turks and Kurds: Perceived threats as a mediator of intergroup contact and social identity. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 19(6), 732-752. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430216641303

Two studies investigated the role of perceived realistic and symbolic threats in predicting collective action tendencies, and in mediating effects of intergroup contact and social identity on collective action in the context of an intractable conflic... Read More about Predicting support for collective action in the conflict between Turks and Kurds: Perceived threats as a mediator of intergroup contact and social identity.

Motor versus body awareness: voxel-based lesion analysis in anosognosia for hemiplegia and somatoparaphrenia following right hemisphere stroke (2016)
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Moro, V., Pernigo, S., Tsakiris, M., Avesani, R., Edelstyn, N. M., Jenkinson, P. M., & Fotopoulou, A. (2016). Motor versus body awareness: voxel-based lesion analysis in anosognosia for hemiplegia and somatoparaphrenia following right hemisphere stroke. Cortex, 62-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.07.001

Anosognosia for hemiplegia (AHP) is informative about the neurocognitive basis of motor awareness. However, it is frequently associated with concomitant symptoms, such as hemispatial neglect and disturbances in the sense of body ownership (DSO). Alth... Read More about Motor versus body awareness: voxel-based lesion analysis in anosognosia for hemiplegia and somatoparaphrenia following right hemisphere stroke.

Two-play game: Playing casual video games with outgroup members reduces prejudice towards that outgroup (2016)
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Stiff, & Bowen, T. (2016). Two-play game: Playing casual video games with outgroup members reduces prejudice towards that outgroup. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 912-920. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2016.1212484

Video games have traditionally held a dubious reputation in the media and have been linked to many antisocial behaviors. A large amount of research has borne out some of these concerns, linking video games with addiction and particularly aggression.... Read More about Two-play game: Playing casual video games with outgroup members reduces prejudice towards that outgroup.

Knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus amongst primary care practice nurses: an evaluation of current training in England (2016)
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Patel, H., Austin-Smith, K., Sherman, S., Tincello, D., & Moss, E. (2016). Knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus amongst primary care practice nurses: an evaluation of current training in England. Journal of Public Health, 601-608. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw063

Background The incorporation of Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing into the English cervical screening programme has been met with fear and anxiety. Healthcare professionals need to be adequately informed about HPV to help alleviate patient concerns... Read More about Knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus amongst primary care practice nurses: an evaluation of current training in England.

The Use of Shared Laughter for Amicably Terminating Disagreements within Romantic Relationships (2016)
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(2016). The Use of Shared Laughter for Amicably Terminating Disagreements within Romantic Relationships

In response to escalating divorce rates, considerable research has been conducted surrounding the relationship between couple’s conflict prevalence and relationship satisfaction. Research has consistently argued that conflict and related negative com... Read More about The Use of Shared Laughter for Amicably Terminating Disagreements within Romantic Relationships.

Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile (2016)
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Cakal, H. (2016). Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile. Journal of Social Issues, 355-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12170

In two correlational studies in Mexico (Study 1: N = 152, Mexican Indigenous people) and Chile (Study 2: N = 185, Chilean Indigenous people, Mapuche), we investigated how different dimensions of common ingroup identity (CII) and intergroup contact be... Read More about Intergroup Relations in Latin America: Intergroup Contact, Common Ingroup Identity, and Activism among Indigenous Groups in Mexico and Chile.

Linear and u-shape trends in the development of expressive drawing from pre-schoolers to normative and artistic adults (2016)
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(2016). Linear and u-shape trends in the development of expressive drawing from pre-schoolers to normative and artistic adults. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 309-324. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040294

This study sought to explain the apparently conflicting age-incremental and U-shaped developmental patterns found for the merit of expressive drawing by examining the role of representational realism drawing ability in the observed age patterns. Thir... Read More about Linear and u-shape trends in the development of expressive drawing from pre-schoolers to normative and artistic adults.

The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time (2016)
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Grange, J., Jones, K., Stephens, R., & Owen, L. (2016). The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 654-661. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881116645299

The effect of alcohol hangover on cognitive processing has received little attention. We explored the effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time (RT), a dominant dependent variable (DV) in cognitive research. Prior research of the effect of h... Read More about The effect of alcohol hangover on choice response time.

'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK (2016)
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Budds, K., Locke, A., & Burr, V. (2016). 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Feminism and Psychology, 26(2), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353516639615

Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role c... Read More about 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK.