All Outputs (65)

Evaluation of a gamified intervention for eco-driving: A pilot study (2024)
Journal Article
Stephens, R. (2024). Evaluation of a gamified intervention for eco-driving: A pilot study. BPA Applied Psychology Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.26387/bpa.2024.00006

ᴥ ABSTRACT. L'eco-driving è uno stile di guida del veicolo che riduce il consumo di energia, mentre la gamification si riferisce all'uso di tecniche di gioco in contesti non di gioco per motivare il coinvolgimento dell'utente. In questo studio è stat... Read More about Evaluation of a gamified intervention for eco-driving: A pilot study.

Meeting of minds: Skinner and Michotte at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, 1951 (2024)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (in press). Meeting of minds: Skinner and Michotte at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, 1951. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1002/jeab.4208

This note discusses the apparently unpublished correspondence between B. F. Skinner and the Belgian psychologist Albert Michotte, preceding Skinner's visit to the Thirteenth International Congress of Psychology in Stockholm in 1951. Skinner's letters... Read More about Meeting of minds: Skinner and Michotte at the International Congress of Psychology, Stockholm, 1951.

Using hybrid qualitative analysis to explore lived experience of motherhood and postnatal depression: A thematic-dialogical approach (2024)
Journal Article
Akhtar, A., Sullivan, P., Alam, Y., & Locke, A. (2024). Using hybrid qualitative analysis to explore lived experience of motherhood and postnatal depression: A thematic-dialogical approach. Methods in Psychology, 11, Article 100161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100161

This paper illustrates a novel hybrid approach to analysis which offers unique insights into the experience of postnatal depression in British Pakistani-Muslim women, through the prioritising of voice. To do so, we combine thematic and dialogical ana... Read More about Using hybrid qualitative analysis to explore lived experience of motherhood and postnatal depression: A thematic-dialogical approach.

Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research (2024)
Journal Article
Borg, J. M., Buskell, A., Kapitany, R., Powers, S. T., Reindl, E., & Tennie, C. (2024). Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research. Artificial Life, 30(3), 417-438. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00406

The goal of Artificial Life research, as articulated by Chris Langton, is “to contribute to theoretical biology by locating life-as-we-know-it within the larger picture of life-as-it-could-be.” The study and pursuit of open-ended evolution in artific... Read More about Evolved Open-Endedness in Cultural Evolution: A New Dimension in Open-Ended Evolution Research.

Socratic Questionnaires (2024)
Book Chapter
Hansen, N., Francis, K., & Greening, H. (in press). Socratic Questionnaires. In Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. (Vol. 5). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198918905.003.0014

When experimental participants are given the chance to reflect and revise their initial judgments in a dynamic conversational context, do their responses to philosophical scenarios differ from responses to those same scenarios presented in a traditio... Read More about Socratic Questionnaires.

The psychology of Olympians and how they master their minds to perform (2024)
Digital Artefact
McGreary, M. (2024). The psychology of Olympians and how they master their minds to perform. [Blog Style Article]

The Early Work of Paul Fraisse: The Timing of ‘Spontaneous’ Rhythms (2024)
Journal Article
Wearden, J. H. (2024). The Early Work of Paul Fraisse: The Timing of ‘Spontaneous’ Rhythms. Timing and Time Perception, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-bja10113

The article discusses Paul Fraisse’s early study of the timing of what he called ‘spontaneous’ rhythms, where people were required to perform a specified sequence of spaced taps on a response key without the times between the responses being controll... Read More about The Early Work of Paul Fraisse: The Timing of ‘Spontaneous’ Rhythms.

Implementing constraint-induced movement therapy into practice in sub-acute stroke: Experiences and perceptions of stroke survivors and therapists (2024)
Journal Article
Jarvis, K., Edelstyn, N., & Hunter, S. (2024). Implementing constraint-induced movement therapy into practice in sub-acute stroke: Experiences and perceptions of stroke survivors and therapists. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, https://doi.org/10.1177/03080226241261183

Introduction:
Constraint-induced movement therapy has been shown to be effective in a sub-group of sub-acute stroke survivors but has not been widely implemented in the United Kingdom. This study explored therapist and stroke survivor perceptions an... Read More about Implementing constraint-induced movement therapy into practice in sub-acute stroke: Experiences and perceptions of stroke survivors and therapists.

Combining individuating and context-general cues in lie detection (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Peebles, D. (2024, July). Combining individuating and context-general cues in lie detection. Presented at 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands

To date, no account of lie-truth judgement formation has been capable of explaining how core cognitive mechanisms such as memory encoding and retrieval are employed to reach a judgement of either truth or lie. One account, the Adaptive Lie Detector t... Read More about Combining individuating and context-general cues in lie detection.

Gender Differences in the Relationship Between PTSD and Youth Alcohol Use (2024)
Journal Article
Yang, C.-Y., Shen, A. C.-T., Hsieh, Y.-P., & Huang, C.-Y. (in press). Gender Differences in the Relationship Between PTSD and Youth Alcohol Use. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-024-01368-z

It has been established that post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD) contribute to an increased risk of alcohol use and alcohol use disorders. Research has shown that this is particularly true for adult females. However, limited research exists regard... Read More about Gender Differences in the Relationship Between PTSD and Youth Alcohol Use.

Workplace stressor factors, profiles and the relationship to career stage in UK veterinarians, veterinary nurses and students (2024)
Journal Article
Spendelow, J., Cripwell, C., Stott, R., Francis, K., Powell, J., Cavanagh, K., & Corbett, R. (2024). Workplace stressor factors, profiles and the relationship to career stage in UK veterinarians, veterinary nurses and students. Veterinary Medicine and Science, 10(4), Article e1547. https://doi.org/10.1002/vms3.1547

Background: Veterinary professionals experience higher psychological distress and lower wellbeing compared with the general population. Identifying workplace stressors is key to understanding and alleviating these difficulties. Objective: Identify th... Read More about Workplace stressor factors, profiles and the relationship to career stage in UK veterinarians, veterinary nurses and students.

The Changing Moral Environment—A Three-Wave Study Testing Four Moral Theories and the Fear of COVID-19 in Predicting Compliance with Behavioral Guidelines on COVID-19, Moralization Toward Non-Compliance, and Vaccination (2024)
Journal Article
Kunnari, A., Francis, K. B., Sundvall, J., & Laakasuo, M. (2024). The Changing Moral Environment—A Three-Wave Study Testing Four Moral Theories and the Fear of COVID-19 in Predicting Compliance with Behavioral Guidelines on COVID-19, Moralization Toward Non-Compliance, and Vaccination. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2024.2373150

Governments across the globe imposed behavioral restrictions to halt the spread of the COVID-19. These preventive behaviors became a moralized issue and engagement in those behaviors varied. In moral psychology, there are various theoretical framewor... Read More about The Changing Moral Environment—A Three-Wave Study Testing Four Moral Theories and the Fear of COVID-19 in Predicting Compliance with Behavioral Guidelines on COVID-19, Moralization Toward Non-Compliance, and Vaccination.

Exploring the Religious Practice of Langar as a Route to Health Promotion in the Sikh Community in Northern England: A Qualitative Study (2024)
Journal Article
Daffu-O’Reilly, A., Bharj, K., Horne, M., O’Connor, D., Conner, M., & Astin, F. (in press). Exploring the Religious Practice of Langar as a Route to Health Promotion in the Sikh Community in Northern England: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Religion and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-024-02077-6

Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are prevalent among UK South Asians. Langar is a Sikh religious food practice that could be important in dietary health promotion. This study explored perceptions of langar, its role in health, readiness and... Read More about Exploring the Religious Practice of Langar as a Route to Health Promotion in the Sikh Community in Northern England: A Qualitative Study.

Socratic Questionnaires (2024)
Book Chapter
Hansen, N., Francis, K., & Greening, H. (2024). Socratic Questionnaires. In Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (331-374). (5). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198918905.003.0014

When experimental participants are given the chance to reflect and revise their initial judgments in a dynamic conversational context, do their responses to philosophical scenarios differ from responses to those same scenarios presented in a traditio... Read More about Socratic Questionnaires.

Following the trend or resisting the change? The role of dynamic norms in shaping political attitudes (2024)
Thesis
Eraslan, E. G. (2024). Following the trend or resisting the change? The role of dynamic norms in shaping political attitudes. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/855651

This thesis examines the effects of dynamic norm interventions, which highlight changing societal attitudes and behaviour over time, on political attitudes and behavioural tendencies through twelve experiments (three pilot and nine main experiments).... Read More about Following the trend or resisting the change? The role of dynamic norms in shaping political attitudes.

Changing-state irrelevant speech disrupts visual-verbal but not visual-spatial serial recall. (2024)
Journal Article
Marsh, J. E., Hurlstone, M. J., Marois, A., Ball, L. J., Moore, S. B., Vachon, F., …Bell, R. (in press). Changing-state irrelevant speech disrupts visual-verbal but not visual-spatial serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001360

In an influential article, Jones et al. (1995) provide evidence that auditory distraction by changing relative to repetitive auditory distracters (the changing-state effect) did not differ between a visual-verbal and visual-spatial serial recall task... Read More about Changing-state irrelevant speech disrupts visual-verbal but not visual-spatial serial recall..

Minding some animals but not others: Strategic attributions of mental capacities and moral worth to animals used for food in pescatarians, vegetarians, and omnivores (2024)
Journal Article
Ioannidou, M., Francis, K. B., Stewart-Knox, B., & Lesk, V. (2024). Minding some animals but not others: Strategic attributions of mental capacities and moral worth to animals used for food in pescatarians, vegetarians, and omnivores. Appetite, 200, Article 107559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107559

While moral concern for animals has become increasingly important for both consumer food choice and food policy makers, previous research demonstrated that meat eaters attribute lower moral status and mental capacities to animals raised for meat comp... Read More about Minding some animals but not others: Strategic attributions of mental capacities and moral worth to animals used for food in pescatarians, vegetarians, and omnivores.

F@#$ pain! A mini-review of the hypoalgesic effects of swearing (2024)
Journal Article
Hay, C. M., Sills, J. L., Shoemake, J. M., Ballmann, C. G., Stephens, R., & Washmuth, N. B. (in press). F@#$ pain! A mini-review of the hypoalgesic effects of swearing. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1416041. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1416041

Swearing, or the use of taboo language, has been repeatedly shown to induce hypoalgesia. While reliable hypoalgesic effects have been observed across studies, the mechanisms by which swearing influences pain and the optimal dosage of swearing remain... Read More about F@#$ pain! A mini-review of the hypoalgesic effects of swearing.

Aperiodic and Hurst EEG exponents across early human brain development: A systematic review (2024)
Journal Article
Stanyard, R., Mason, D., Ellis, C., Dickson, H., Short, R., Batalle, D., & Arichi, T. (2024). Aperiodic and Hurst EEG exponents across early human brain development: A systematic review. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 68, Article 101402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2024.101402

In electroencephalographic (EEG) data, power-frequency slope exponents (1/f_β) can provide non-invasive markers of in vivo neural activity excitation-inhibition (E:I) balance. E:I balance may be altered in neurodevelopmental conditions; hence, unders... Read More about Aperiodic and Hurst EEG exponents across early human brain development: A systematic review.

Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted (2024)
Journal Article
Levine, T. R., & Street, C. N. H. (in press). Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted. Communication Theory, Article qtae008. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtae008

Two contemporary theoretical perspectives explain when and how people make lie–truth judgments. The adaptive lie detector account (ALIED) and truth-default theory (TDT) are described, compared, and contrasted. ALIED and TDT come from different schola... Read More about Lie–truth judgments: adaptive lie detector account and truth-default theory compared and contrasted.