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Knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus among health professionals in New Zealand (2018)
Journal Article
Sherman, S., Bartholomew, K., Denison, H., Patel, H., MOSS, E., Douwes, J., & Bromhead, C. (2018). Knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus among health professionals in New Zealand. PloS one, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0197648

Background
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a common sexually transmitted infection that is implicated in 99.7% of cervical cancers and several other cancers that affect both men and women. Despite the role that HPV plays in an estimated 5% of all canc... Read More about Knowledge, attitudes and awareness of the human papillomavirus among health professionals in New Zealand.

Finding myself: a lonely separation in childhood and the pain of being lonely all alone. A heuristic inquiry into my experience of loneliness (2018)
Thesis
Ferris, S. P. (2018). Finding myself: a lonely separation in childhood and the pain of being lonely all alone. A heuristic inquiry into my experience of loneliness. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/412306

In this study, I explore my personal experience of loneliness. I am seeking to uncover and make sense of this experience for my personal growth as well as to inform my professional work as a counsellor. I also want to make an original contribution to... Read More about Finding myself: a lonely separation in childhood and the pain of being lonely all alone. A heuristic inquiry into my experience of loneliness.

Cognitive inhibition in task switching: Exploring the n–2 repetition cost (2018)
Thesis
Kowalczyk, A. W. (2018). Cognitive inhibition in task switching: Exploring the n–2 repetition cost. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/412319

The current thesis provides novel insights into the n–2 repetition cost, a task-switching behavioural effect thought to reflect cognitive inhibition. The n–2 repetition cost is widely used as a measure of group and individual differences in inhibitor... Read More about Cognitive inhibition in task switching: Exploring the n–2 repetition cost.

Playing in the UEFA Europa League Does Not Adversely Affect English Premier League or La Liga Performance (2018)
Journal Article
Stephens, R., Bosworth, G., & Shepherd, T. A. (2018). Playing in the UEFA Europa League Does Not Adversely Affect English Premier League or La Liga Performance. Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 4(1 (Special Issue Sport Psychology)), https://doi.org/10.3390/jfmk4010002

Purpose:
This article presents data challenging the widely held but untested view that concurrently playing mid-week Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Europa League matches adversely affects domestic league performance.

Method:
Over... Read More about Playing in the UEFA Europa League Does Not Adversely Affect English Premier League or La Liga Performance.

The value of Supporter Liaison Officers (SLOs) in fan dialogue, conflict, governance and football crowd management in Sweden (2018)
Journal Article
Stott. (2018). The value of Supporter Liaison Officers (SLOs) in fan dialogue, conflict, governance and football crowd management in Sweden. Soccer and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/14660970.2018.1553777

Evidence of the value of increased supporter involvement in football governance is limited and existing work focuses primarily on the boardroom, rather than on managing problems associated with fan behaviour (e.g. violence, pyrotechnics). Moreover, r... Read More about The value of Supporter Liaison Officers (SLOs) in fan dialogue, conflict, governance and football crowd management in Sweden.

Dopaminergic neurotransmission in patients with Parkinson’s disease and impulse control disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of PET and SPECT studies (2018)
Journal Article
Martini, A., Dal Lago, D., Edelstyn, N., Salgarello, M., Lugoboni, F., & Tamburin, S. (2018). Dopaminergic neurotransmission in patients with Parkinson’s disease and impulse control disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of PET and SPECT studies. Frontiers in Neurology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2018.01018

Background
Around 30% Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients develop impulse control disorders (ICDs) to D2/3 dopamine agonists and, to a lesser extent, levodopa. We aim to investigate striatal dopaminergic function in PD patients with and without ICD.... Read More about Dopaminergic neurotransmission in patients with Parkinson’s disease and impulse control disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis of PET and SPECT studies.

Can we forgive a militant outgroup member?: The role of perspective-taking (2018)
Journal Article
Noor. (2018). Can we forgive a militant outgroup member?: The role of perspective-taking. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 246-255. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajsp.12328

Whereas previous research has commonly studied the effects of perspective-taking for harmless targets, we examined whether the effect of perspective-taking might extend to a violent outgroup target. That is, our target not only held members of the ad... Read More about Can we forgive a militant outgroup member?: The role of perspective-taking.

Longitudinal associations between younger children's humour styles and psychosocial adjustment (2018)
Journal Article
James, L. A., & Fox, C. L. (2018). Longitudinal associations between younger children's humour styles and psychosocial adjustment. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(4), 589-605. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12244

Whilst a multitude of studies have examined links between different styles of humour and aspects of adjustment, longitudinal research is noticeably lacking. Following a study which identified bidirectional associations between humour styles and psych... Read More about Longitudinal associations between younger children's humour styles and psychosocial adjustment.

An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures. (2018)
Journal Article
Kapitany, R. (2018). An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures. PloS one, e0206884 - ?. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206884

Ritualized actions are common in daily life, and prevalent across cultures. Adults have been shown, under experimental conditions, to treat objects subjected to ritualized action as special and different relative to objects subjected to non-ritualize... Read More about An experimental examination of object-directed ritualized action in children across two cultures..

The benefit of minocycline on negative symptoms of schizophrenia in patients with recent-onset psychosis (BeneMin): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). The benefit of minocycline on negative symptoms of schizophrenia in patients with recent-onset psychosis (BeneMin): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The Lancet Psychiatry, 885-894. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366%2818%2930345-6

Background

The antibiotic minocycline has neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory properties that could prevent or reverse progressive neuropathic changes implicated in recent-onset schizophrenia. In the BeneMin study, we aimed to replicate the bene... Read More about The benefit of minocycline on negative symptoms of schizophrenia in patients with recent-onset psychosis (BeneMin): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

'So many women suffer in silence': a thematic analysis of women's written accounts of coping with endometriosis. (2018)
Journal Article
Grogan, S., Turley, E., & Cole, J. (2018). 'So many women suffer in silence': a thematic analysis of women's written accounts of coping with endometriosis. Psychology and Health, 1364 - 1378. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2018.1496252

OBJECTIVE: To understand women's experiences of coping with endometriosis, and impact on their lives. DESIGN: Women accessed an online questionnaire through a U.K.-based endometriosis charity website. METHODS: Thirty-four women, aged 22-56 years, wit... Read More about 'So many women suffer in silence': a thematic analysis of women's written accounts of coping with endometriosis..

A Longitudinal Investigation of Trust Beliefs in Physicians by Children with Asthma and their Mothers: Relations with Children’s Adherence to Medical Regimes and Quality of Life (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). A Longitudinal Investigation of Trust Beliefs in Physicians by Children with Asthma and their Mothers: Relations with Children’s Adherence to Medical Regimes and Quality of Life. Child: Care, Health and Development, 879-884. https://doi.org/10.1111/cch.12604

Objective
The study examined the relations between trust beliefs in physicians, adherence to prescribed medical regimes, and quality of life for children with asthma and their mothers.

Methods
One hundred and 43 children with asthma (116 males,... Read More about A Longitudinal Investigation of Trust Beliefs in Physicians by Children with Asthma and their Mothers: Relations with Children’s Adherence to Medical Regimes and Quality of Life.

Risk and protective factors for bullying and peer victimisation of children with and without Special Educational Needs and Disability(SEND) (2018)
Thesis
Ralph, N. (2018). Risk and protective factors for bullying and peer victimisation of children with and without Special Educational Needs and Disability(SEND). (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/412017

Children with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) have been found to be at greater risk of experiencing peer victimisation and bullying behaviours than children without SEND (Mishna, 2003). This thesis investigated how individual level fa... Read More about Risk and protective factors for bullying and peer victimisation of children with and without Special Educational Needs and Disability(SEND).

Playing Well With Others: The Role of Opponent and Intergroup Anxiety in the Reduction of Prejudice Through Collaborative Video Game Play (2018)
Journal Article
Stiff, C., & Kedra, P. (2018). Playing Well With Others: The Role of Opponent and Intergroup Anxiety in the Reduction of Prejudice Through Collaborative Video Game Play. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 105-115. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000210

Recent work on the social effects of video gaming has moved away from the view they are detrimental, and has instead demonstrated how they may be a force for good. One example is how collaborative intergroup play can reduce prejudice between groups.... Read More about Playing Well With Others: The Role of Opponent and Intergroup Anxiety in the Reduction of Prejudice Through Collaborative Video Game Play.

Evidence for the Influence of Social Dominance Orientation and Intergroup Relations on the Stigma of Schizophrenia (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Evidence for the Influence of Social Dominance Orientation and Intergroup Relations on the Stigma of Schizophrenia. European Journal of Health Psychology, 133 - 139. https://doi.org/10.1027/2512-8442/a000018

<jats:p> Abstract. The stigma of schizophrenia is an intergroup phenomenon associated with issues of social power. We consider that the concept of stigma power should be extended to include intergroup relations that go beyond the aspect of the relati... Read More about Evidence for the Influence of Social Dominance Orientation and Intergroup Relations on the Stigma of Schizophrenia.

The evolving normative dimensions of 'riot': toward an elaborated social identity explanation (2018)
Journal Article
Stott. (2018). The evolving normative dimensions of 'riot': toward an elaborated social identity explanation. European Journal of Social Psychology, 834-849. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2376

The question of how normative form changes during a riot, and thus how collective behaviour spreads to different targets and locations, has been neglected in previous research, despite its theoretical and practical importance. We begin to address thi... Read More about The evolving normative dimensions of 'riot': toward an elaborated social identity explanation.

An overview of psychological literacy in practice from the UK (2018)
Book Chapter
(2018). An overview of psychological literacy in practice from the UK. In Teaching Psychology Around the World (362 - 379)

This chapter introduces an overview of a set of case studies that have been submitted to us over a four year period following requests in psychology conferences and publications, and through professional networks. The full versions of the case studie... Read More about An overview of psychological literacy in practice from the UK.

Policing football crowds in Sweden (2018)
Journal Article
Stott, C., Havelund, J., & Williams, N. (2018). Policing football crowds in Sweden. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, https://doi.org/10.1080/14043858.2018.1513679

The policing football crowds in Sweden is underpinned by a national coordination approach based upon a set of conflict reducing principles and supported by crowd theory (Reicher et al., 2004). The approach is referred to as the Special Police Tactic... Read More about Policing football crowds in Sweden.

How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign (2018)
Journal Article
Vestergren, S., Drury, J., & Hammar Chiriac, E. (2018). How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign. British Journal of Social Psychology, 57(4), 855-877. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12270

Previous research on collective action has suggested that both intra- and intergroup interactions are important in producing psychological change. In this study, we examine how these two forms of interaction relate to each other over time. We present... Read More about How collective action produces psychological change and how that change endures over time: A case study of an environmental campaign.

Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies (2018)
Journal Article
Parke, H., Michalska, M., Russell, A., Moss, A. C., Holdsworth, C., Ling, J., & Larsen, J. (2018). Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies. Addictive Behaviors Reports, 8, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2018.08.001

Objectives This study reviews qualitative research into the sociocultural meanings and subjective experiences that midlife men in the United Kingdom (UK) associate with their drinking. In the UK, average weekly alcohol consumption is highest among mi... Read More about Understanding drinking among midlife men in the United Kingdom: A systematic review of qualitative studies.