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Tolerating uncertainty: Perceptions of the future for ageing parent-carers and their adult children with intellectual disabilities (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Tolerating uncertainty: Perceptions of the future for ageing parent-carers and their adult children with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/jar.12221

Background Improved life expectancy means that more adults with intellectual disabilities are now living with ageing parents. This study explored older families' perceptions of the future. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with n... Read More about Tolerating uncertainty: Perceptions of the future for ageing parent-carers and their adult children with intellectual disabilities.

Awareness and knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer in female students: A survey (with a cautionary note) (2015)
Journal Article
Minshall, C., Coombes, R., Cooper, J., Redman, C., Sherman, S., & Nailer, E. (2015). Awareness and knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer in female students: A survey (with a cautionary note). Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 76 -80. https://doi.org/10.3109/01443615.2015.1041886

We conducted a survey to explore levels of awareness and knowledge of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer in 170 female students and whether mode of data collection (online vs. paper) affected the results. 27% of women named HPV as a cause... Read More about Awareness and knowledge of HPV and cervical cancer in female students: A survey (with a cautionary note).

The relation between bulimic symptoms and the social withdrawal syndrome during early adolescence (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The relation between bulimic symptoms and the social withdrawal syndrome during early adolescence. Eating Behaviors, 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2015.09.008

Objective The short-term longitudinal study tested the hypothesis that there was a prospective relation between the social withdrawal syndrome and Bulimic symptoms during early adolescence. Method Ninety-six adolescents (47 males, mean age = 13... Read More about The relation between bulimic symptoms and the social withdrawal syndrome during early adolescence.

Feedback to the Future (2015)
Presentation / Conference
(2015, September). Feedback to the Future. Presented at Feedback to the Future, Keele University

‘Assessment and feedback’ are the experiences with which students report least satisfaction in the National Student Survey. University tutors are keen to find methods of delivering good feedback which helps students to learn; however, with increased... Read More about Feedback to the Future.

“Please, I need help, please!”: Reflections on Involving Undergraduate Psychology Students in a Conversation Analytic Study of 999 and 101 Police Calls (2015)
Journal Article
Kent, A., Melia, C., Marok, P., & Waterman, C. (2015). “Please, I need help, please!”: Reflections on Involving Undergraduate Psychology Students in a Conversation Analytic Study of 999 and 101 Police Calls. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin,

This paper describes a summer Research Assistantship Scheme undertaken by three undergraduate students in the School of Psychology at Keele University. The research used a conversation analytic approach to explore interactions during emergency and no... Read More about “Please, I need help, please!”: Reflections on Involving Undergraduate Psychology Students in a Conversation Analytic Study of 999 and 101 Police Calls.

The influence of teacher feedback on children's perceptions of student-teacher relationships. (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The influence of teacher feedback on children's perceptions of student-teacher relationships. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 276 - 288. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12070

BACKGROUND: Teachers can deliver feedback using person ('you are clever') or process terms ('you worked hard'). Person feedback can lead to negative academic outcomes, but there is little experimental research examining the impact of feedback on chil... Read More about The influence of teacher feedback on children's perceptions of student-teacher relationships..

Development of the attitudes to domestic violence questionnaire for children and adolescents (2015)
Journal Article
Fox, C., Gadd, D., & Sim, J. (2015). Development of the attitudes to domestic violence questionnaire for children and adolescents. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2506 - 2525. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260514553115

To provide a more robust assessment of the effectiveness of a domestic abuse prevention education program, a questionnaire was developed to measure children's attitudes to domestic violence. The aim was to develop a short questionnaire that would be... Read More about Development of the attitudes to domestic violence questionnaire for children and adolescents.

That's my teacher! Children's ability to recognize personally familiar and unfamiliar faces improves with age (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). That's my teacher! Children's ability to recognize personally familiar and unfamiliar faces improves with age. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 704. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.12.704

Adults’ ability to recognize unfamiliar faces across images that capture within-person variability is poor, whereas their familiar face recognition is extremely good (Jenkins, White, Van Montford & Burton, 2011). Very little is known about children’s... Read More about That's my teacher! Children's ability to recognize personally familiar and unfamiliar faces improves with age.

When group members forgive: Antecedents and consequences (2015)
Journal Article
Noor. (2015). When group members forgive: Antecedents and consequences. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 577 - 588. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430215586605

Whether forgiveness is essential for intergroup reconciliation may be disputable, but its potential ability to repair human relationships following offenses committed based on group membership remains of considerable importance. The primary focus of... Read More about When group members forgive: Antecedents and consequences.

Peace vision and its socio-emotional antecedents: The role of forgiveness, trust and inclusive victim perceptions (2015)
Journal Article
Noor. (2015). Peace vision and its socio-emotional antecedents: The role of forgiveness, trust and inclusive victim perceptions. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 644 - 654. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430215586604

The present study conceptualized peace vision as the view of peace as desirable, feasible, and requiring substantial concessions by both parties and examined the social-emotional factors contributing to its endorsement among Israeli Jews (N = 400). I... Read More about Peace vision and its socio-emotional antecedents: The role of forgiveness, trust and inclusive victim perceptions.

An Evaluation of an Intervention to Change First-Year Psychology Students’ Theory of Intelligence (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). An Evaluation of an Intervention to Change First-Year Psychology Students’ Theory of Intelligence. Psychology Teaching Review,

Some people hold an entity theory of intelligence, they think of intelligence as innate. In contrast, others hold an incremental theory, believing that intelligence can be changed. Previous research has shown that an incremental theory is associate... Read More about An Evaluation of an Intervention to Change First-Year Psychology Students’ Theory of Intelligence.

Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science (2015)
Journal Article
Grange, J., & Lewis, A. M. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aac4716

Reproducibility is a defining feature of science, but the extent to which it characterizes current research is unknown. We conducted replications of 100 experimental and correlational studies published in three psychology journals using high-powered... Read More about Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science.

Cerebellar BOLD signal during the acquisition of a new lexicon predicts its early consolidation. (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Cerebellar BOLD signal during the acquisition of a new lexicon predicts its early consolidation. Brain and Language, 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2015.07.005

Cerebellar contributions to language are presently poorly understood, but it has been argued that the cerebellar role in motor learning can be extended to learning in cognitive and linguistic domains. Here, we used fMRI to investigate whether the cer... Read More about Cerebellar BOLD signal during the acquisition of a new lexicon predicts its early consolidation..

flankr: An R package implementing computational models of attentional selectivity. (2015)
Journal Article
Grange. (2015). flankr: An R package implementing computational models of attentional selectivity. Behavior Research Methods, 528-541. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0615-y

The Eriksen flanker task (Eriksen and Eriksen, Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143-149, 1974) is a classic test in cognitive psychology of visual selective attention. Two recent computational models have formalised the dynamics of the apparent increa... Read More about flankr: An R package implementing computational models of attentional selectivity..

The relationship between peer victimization and children's humor styles: it's no laughing matter! (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The relationship between peer victimization and children's humor styles: it's no laughing matter!. Social Development, 443 - 461. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12099

This study assessed the concurrent and prospective (fall to spring) associations between peer victimization and four humor styles, two of which are adaptive (affiliative and self-enhancing) and two maladaptive (aggressive and self-defeating). Partici... Read More about The relationship between peer victimization and children's humor styles: it's no laughing matter!.

Evidence of an amnesia-like cued-recall memory impairment in nondementing idiopathic Parkinson's disease. (2015)
Journal Article
Edelstyn, N. M., John, C. M., Shepherd, T. A., Drakeford, J. L., Clark-Carter, D., Ellis, S. J., & Mayes, A. R. (2015). Evidence of an amnesia-like cued-recall memory impairment in nondementing idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Cortex, 71, 85-101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.06.021

Medicated, non-dementing mild-to-moderate Parkinson's disease (PD) patients usually show recall/recollection impairments but have only occasionally shown familiarity impairments. We aimed to assess two explanations of this pattern of impairment. Reco... Read More about Evidence of an amnesia-like cued-recall memory impairment in nondementing idiopathic Parkinson's disease..