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[5.9] Radio 4 -Womens hour interview (2015)
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Sherman. (2015). [5.9] Radio 4 -Womens hour interview

Impact REF21 - Interview on Cervical Cancer and smear tests in women over 50.

Cervical cancer is not just a young woman's disease (2015)
Journal Article
Redman, C., Sherman, S., Castanon, A., & Moss, E. (2015). Cervical cancer is not just a young woman's disease. BMJ, h2729 -?. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h2729

Cervical screening programmes in many countries stop at around the age of 65 and much of the focus is often on younger women. For example, recent media campaigns in England and Wales have centred on lowering the age at first screening. Comparatively... Read More about Cervical cancer is not just a young woman's disease.

How collective participation impacts social identity: a longitudinal study from India (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). How collective participation impacts social identity: a longitudinal study from India. Political Psychology, 309-325. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12260

A key issue for political psychology concerns the processes whereby people come to invest psychologically in socially and politically significant group identities. Since Durkheim, it has been assumed that participation in group-relevant collective ev... Read More about How collective participation impacts social identity: a longitudinal study from India.

Children’s trust and the development of prosocial behavior (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Children’s trust and the development of prosocial behavior. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 262-270. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025415584628

This study examined the role of children’s trust beliefs and trustworthiness in the development of prosocial behavior using data from four waves of a longitudinal study in a large, ethnically-diverse sample of children in Switzerland (mean age = 8.11... Read More about Children’s trust and the development of prosocial behavior.

Examining experiences of transition, instability and coping for young offenders in the community: A qualitative analysis. (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Examining experiences of transition, instability and coping for young offenders in the community: A qualitative analysis. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 224-239. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104515581715

This article explores experiences of transition, instability and coping using a qualitative approach with young offenders within a specialist forensic child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS). Participants were four young people (aged 14–17... Read More about Examining experiences of transition, instability and coping for young offenders in the community: A qualitative analysis..

Explaining effervescence: investigating the relationship between shared social identity and positive experience in crowds (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Explaining effervescence: investigating the relationship between shared social identity and positive experience in crowds. Cognition and Emotion, 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1015969

We investigated the intensely positive emotional experiences arising from participation in a large-scale collective event. We predicted such experiences arise when those attending a collective event are (1) able to enact their valued collective ident... Read More about Explaining effervescence: investigating the relationship between shared social identity and positive experience in crowds.

Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last (2015)
Journal Article
Antaki, C., & Kent, A. (2015). Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last. Journal of Pragmatics, 25 -38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.01.004

In a corpus of c. 250 h of recorded interactions between young children and adults in USA and UK households, we found that children could be directed to change their course of action by three syntactic formats that offered alternatives: an imperative... Read More about Offering alternatives as a way of issuing directives to children: Putting the worse option last.

Narrative health psychology: once more unto the breach (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Narrative health psychology: once more unto the breach. Journal of Health Psychology, 239 -245. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314566616

In this editorial, we position narrative health psychology as a variety of narrative psychology, a form of qualitative research in health psychology, and a psychological perspective that falls under the interdisciplinary term narrative health researc... Read More about Narrative health psychology: once more unto the breach.

The narrative psychology of community health workers. (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). The narrative psychology of community health workers. Journal of Health Psychology, 338 - 349. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105314566615

Community health psychology is an approach which promotes community mobilisation as a means of enhancing community capacity and well-being and challenging health inequalities. Much of the research on this approach has been at the more strategic and p... Read More about The narrative psychology of community health workers..

Tackling transition in STEM disciplines: Supporting the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics student journey into higher education in England and Wales (2015)
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(2015). Tackling transition in STEM disciplines: Supporting the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics student journey into higher education in England and Wales

This report is a result of a series of events run by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) team during the academic year 2013-14. Tackling transition in STEM disciplines project engaged a total of... Read More about Tackling transition in STEM disciplines: Supporting the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics student journey into higher education in England and Wales.

Disentangling the effects of spatial inconsistency of targets and distractors when searching in realistic scenes. (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Disentangling the effects of spatial inconsistency of targets and distractors when searching in realistic scenes. Journal of Vision, https://doi.org/10.1167/15.2.12

Previous research has suggested that correctly placed objects facilitate eye guidance, but also that objects violating spatial associations within scenes may be prioritized for selection and subsequent inspection. We analyzed the respective eye guida... Read More about Disentangling the effects of spatial inconsistency of targets and distractors when searching in realistic scenes..

Police officers' trust beliefs in the police and their psychological adjustment (2015)
Journal Article
(2015). Police officers' trust beliefs in the police and their psychological adjustment. Policing and Society, 627 -641. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2014.1000324

The public's trust in the police has been the focus of extensive investigation. By contrast, there is a scarcity of research examining police officers' trust in the police. The purpose of the current study was to fill that gap in our knowledge. This... Read More about Police officers' trust beliefs in the police and their psychological adjustment.

Choosing to Hear Music: Motivation, Process, and Effect (2015)
Book
Lamont, A., Greasley, A., & Sloboda, J. (2016). S. Hallam, I. Cross, & M. Thaut (Eds.), Choosing to Hear Music: Motivation, Process, and Effect. (2). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198722946.013.42

This chapter provides an overview of research on self-chosen music listening experiences, both recorded and live. The material is organized into the functional niches that music is chosen to be part of travel, brain work, body work, emotional work, a... Read More about Choosing to Hear Music: Motivation, Process, and Effect.

A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation (2015)
Journal Article
Vadillo, M. A., Street, C. N. H., Beesley, T., & Shanks, D. R. (2015). A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation. Behavior Research Methods, 47(4), 1365-1376. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-014-0544-1

Poor calibration and inaccurate drift correction can pose severe problems for eye-tracking experiments requiring high levels of accuracy and precision. We describe an algorithm for the offline correction of eye-tracking data. The algorithm conducts a... Read More about A simple algorithm for the offline recalibration of eye-tracking data through best-fitting linear transformation.

Know versus Familiar: Differentiating states of awareness in others' subjective reports of recognition (2015)
Journal Article
Williams, H., & Moulin, C. J. (2015). Know versus Familiar: Differentiating states of awareness in others' subjective reports of recognition. Memory, 23(7), 981 -990. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2014.945460

In the Remember-Know paradigm whether a Know response is defined as a high-confidence state of certainty or a low-confidence state based on familiarity varies across researchers and can influence participants' responses. The current experiment was de... Read More about Know versus Familiar: Differentiating states of awareness in others' subjective reports of recognition.

What else can music preferences do?: a commentary on Clark and Giacomantonio (2015)
Journal Article
Lamont, A. (2015). What else can music preferences do?: a commentary on Clark and Giacomantonio. Empirical Musicology Review, 66-70. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v10i1-2.4585

This commentary considers the uses to which information about music preferences can be put, considering the findings from Clark and Giacomantonio (2015) and other related studies of music preferences. It focuses on three areas. Firstly, the ways in... Read More about What else can music preferences do?: a commentary on Clark and Giacomantonio.