Psychology publications 2016

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The papers listed below and adjacent have been published in 2016. Where possible a link has been shown to an online version, but for further details please contact one of the authors. Updated 23rd February 2017.

Anderson, A. G., Grose, J., Pahl, S., Thompson, R. C., & Wyles, K. J. (2016). Microplastics in personal care products: Exploring perceptions of environmentalists, beauticians and students. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 113(1–2), 454–460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2016.10.048

Andrade, J., Khalil, M., Dickson, J., May, J. & Kavanagh, D.J. (2016). Functional Imagery Training to reduce snacking: Testing a novel motivational intervention based on Elaborated Intrusion theory. Appetite, 100, 256-262, DOI 10.1016/j.appet.2016.02.015

Auburn, T., Smart, C., Santos, G. H., Annison, J., & Gilling, D. (2016). Discovering Mental Ill Health:‘Problem-Solving’in an English Magistrates’ Court. In The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health (pp. 633-652). Palgrave Macmillan UK. 

Bacon, A. M., & Regan, L. (2016). Manipulative relational behaviour and delinquency: sex differences and links with emotional intelligence. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 1-18. DOI: 10.1080/14789949.2015.1134625

Barnes, A. J., Hanoch, Y., & Rice, T. (2016). Can Plan Recommendations Improve the Coverage Decisions of Vulnerable Populations in Health Insurance Marketplaces? Plos One, 11(3), e0151095. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0151095

Battaglini, L., Casco, C., Isaacs, B. R., Bridges, D., & Ganis, G. (2016). Electrophysiological correlates of motion extrapolation: An investigation on the CNV. Neuropsychologia, 95, 86–93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.12.019

Bialek, M., & Terbeck, S. (2016). Can cognitive psychological research on reasoning enhance the discussion around moral judgments? Cognitive Processing, 17(3), 329–335. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-016-0760-y

Blackmore, S. (2016). Memes and the evolution of religion: We need memetics, too. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, 22–23. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15000357

Blackmore, S. (2016). What if consciousness has no function? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, e171. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X15002010

Boomsma, C., Goodhew, J., Goodhew, S., & Pahl, S. (2016). Improving the visibility of energy use in home heating in England: Thermal images and the role of visual tailoring. Energy Research & Social Science, 14, 111–121. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.01.005

Boomsma, C., Goodhew, J., Pahl, S., & Jones, R. V. (2016). The feasibility of saving energy in challenging organisational contexts: Testing energy visualisation in a social services office in the United Kingdom. Energy Research & Social Science, 15, 58–74. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2016.02.004

Boomsma, C., Pahl, S., & Andrade, J. (2016). Imagining Change: An Integrative Approach toward Explaining the Motivational Role of Mental Imagery in Pro-environmental Behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1780. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01780

Bousquet, J., Farrell, J., Crooks, G., Hellings, P., Bel, E. H., Bewick, M., … Mercier, J. (2016). Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5). Clinical and Translational Allergy, 6, 29. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13601-016-0116-9

Carpenter, K. L., Wills, A. J., Benattayallah, A., & Milton, F. (2016). A Comparison of the neural correlates that underlie rule-based and information-integration category learning. Human Brain Mapping, 37(10), 3557–3574. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.23259

Cracknell, D., White, M. P., Pahl, S., Nichols, W. J., & Depledge, M. H. (2016). Marine Biota and Psychological Well-Being: A Preliminary Examination of Dose-Response Effects in an Aquarium Setting. Environment and Behavior, 48(10), 1242–1269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916515597512

Denham, S. L., Coath, M., Haden, G. P., Murray, F., & Winkler, I. (2016). Relative Pitch Perception and the Detection of Deviant Tone Patterns. In P. VanDijk, D. Baskent, E. Gaudrain, E. DeKleine, A. Wagner, & C. Lanting (Eds.), Physiology, Psychoacoustics and Cognition in Normal and Impaired Hearing (Vol. 894, pp. 409–417).

Dominey, T., Newman, C., Carroll, C., Noad, R., Appleyard, B., Deeprose, C., & Hall, S. (2016). PD-TAP: AN OBJECTIVE AND AUTOMATED MEASURE OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE SEVERITY. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 87(12). https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp-2016-315106.97

Evans, J. S. B. T. (2016). Reasoning, biases and dual processes: The lasting impact of Wason (1960). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(10), 2076–2092. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.914547

Farkas, D., Denham, S. L., Bendixen, A., Toth, D., Kondo, H. M., & Winkler, I. (2016). Auditory Multi-Stability: Idiosyncratic Perceptual Switching Patterns, Executive Functions and Personality Traits. Plos One, 11(5), e0154810. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154810

Farkas, D., Denham, S. L., Bendixen, A., & Winkler, I. (2016). Assessing the validity of subjective reports in the auditory streaming paradigm. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(4), 1762-1772. DOI: 10.1121/1.4945720

Floccia, C., Keren-Portnoy, T., DePaolis, R., Duffy, H., Delle Luche, C., Durrant, S., ... & Vihman, M. (2016). British English infants segment words only with exaggerated infant-directed speech stimuli. Cognition, 148, 1-9. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.12.004

Francis, K., Howard, C., Howard, I., Gummerum, M, Ganis, G. & Terbeck, S (2010). Virtual morality: Transitioning from moral judgment to moral action?. Plos One. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164374

Gamble, T., & May, J. (2016). Transitions in Interface Objects: Searching Databases. Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, doi:10.1155/2016/5916843

Ganis, G., Bridges, D., & Schendan, H. E. (2016). Is anterior N2 enhancement a reliable electrophysiological index of concealed information? NeuroImage. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.08.042

Gibson, H., Stewart, I. S., Pahl, S., & Stokes, A. (2016). A ‘mental models’ approach to the communication of subsurface hydrology and hazards. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 20(5), 1737–1749. http://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1737-2016

Gummerum, M., Lopez-Perez, B., Ambrona, T., Rodriguez-Cano, S., Dellaria, G., Smith, G., & Wilson, E. (2016). Children’s Moral Emotion Attribution in the Happy Victimizer Task: The Role of Response Format. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 177(1), 1–16. http://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2015.1103694

Gummerum, M., Van Dillen, L. F., Van Dijk, E., & Lopez-Perez, B. (2016). Costly third-party interventions: The role of incidental anger and attention focus in punishment of the perpetrator and compensation of the victim. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 65, 94–104. DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.04.004

Hasanain, B., Boyd, A. D., Edworthy, J., & Bolton, M. L. (2017). A formal approach to discovering simultaneous additive masking between auditory medical alarms. Applied Ergonomics, 58, 500–514.

Hollins, T. J., Lange, N., Berry, C. &, Dennis, I. (2016). Giving and stealing ideas in memory: source errors in recall are influenced by both early-selection and late-correction retrieval processes. Journal of Memory and Language, 88, 87-103. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2016.01.004

Hollins, T. J., Lange, N., Dennis, I. & Longmore, C. (2016). Social influences on unconscious plagiarism and anti-plagiarism. Memory, 24(7): 884-902. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2015.1059857

Howarth, S., Handley, S. J., & Walsh, C. (2015). The logic-bias effect: The role of effortful processing in the resolution of belief–logic conflict. Memory & cognition, 1-20. doi; 10.3758/s13421-015-0555-x

Hudson, M., & Skarratt, P. A. (2016). Peripheral cues and gaze direction jointly focus attention and inhibition of return. Cognitive Neuroscience, 7(1–4), 67–73. http://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2015.1053444

Hyland, M. E., Halpin, D. M. G., Blake, S., Seamark, C., Pinnuck, M., Ward, D., … Seamark, D. (2016). Preference for different relaxation techniques by COPD patients: comparison between six techniques. International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 11.

Jones, R. V., Fuertes, A., Boomsma, C., & Pahl, S. (2016). Space heating preferences in UK social housing: A socio-technical household survey combined with building audits. Energy and Buildings, 127, 382–398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.06.006

Jones, R. C., Price, D., Chavannes, N. H., Lee, A. J., Hyland, M. E., Ställberg, B., ... & Tsiligianni, I. (2016). Multi-component assessment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: an evaluation of the ADO and DOSE indices and the global obstructive lung disease categories in international primary care data sets. NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 26, 16010 doi: 10.1038/npjpcrm.2016.10

Kristensen, M., Edworthy, J., & Özcan, E. (2016). Alarm fatigue in the ward: An acoustical problem?. SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience, 6(1), 88-104. 

Kuyken, W., Warren, F. C., Taylor, R. S., & et al. (2016). Efficacy of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in prevention of depressive relapse: An individual patient data meta-analysis from randomized trials. JAMA Psychiatry. 

Laurent, L., Millot, J.-L., Andrieu, P., Camos, V., Floccia, C., & Mathy, F. (2016). Inner speech sustains predictable task switching: direct evidence in adults. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28(5), 585–592. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2016.1164173

Lloyd, H.F., Macdonald, A. and Wilson , L. (2016) Solution-focused brief therapy. In N. Beail (Ed.), Psychological Therapies and People who have Intellectual Disabilities (pp. 61-71). Leicester: British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology.

Le Pelley, M. E., Mitchell, C. J., Beesley, T., George, D. N., & Wills, A. J. (2016). Attention and Associative Learning in Humans: An Integrative Review. Psychological Bulletin, 142(10), 1111–1140. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000064

Lopez-Perez, B., Ambrona, T., & Hanoch, Y. (2016). Influence of the type of patient in the emotional response of nurses and nursing students. Nurse Education in Practice, 19, 7–11. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2016.03.009

Lopez-Perez, B., Sanchez, J., & Gummerum, M. (2016). Children’s and Adolescents’ Conceptions of Happiness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17(6), 2431–2455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-015-9701-1

López-Pérez, B., Wilson, E. L., Dellaria, G., & Gummerum, M. (2016). Developmental differences in children’s interpersonal emotion regulation. Motivation and Emotion, 1–14. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-016-9569-3

Malti, T., Gummerum, M., Ongley, S., Chaparro, M., Nola, M., & Bae, N. Y. (2016). ‘Who is worthy of my generosity?’ Recipient characteristics and the development of children’s sharing. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40(1), 31–40. http://doi.org/10.1177/0165025414567007

Maron, E., Wall, M., Norbury, R., Godlewska, B., Terbeck, S., Cowen, P., & Nutt, D. J. (2016). Effect of short-term escitalopram treatment on neural activation during emotional processing. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 30(1), 33-39. doi: 10.1177/0269881115620462

Norman, A. (2016). A preventable death? A family’s perspective on an adult safeguarding review regarding an adult with traumatic brain injury. The Journal of Adult Protection, 18(6), 341-352.

O’Connell, G., Myers, C. E., Hopkins, R. O., McLaren, R. P., Gluck, M. A., & Wills, A. J. (2016). Amnesic Patients Show Superior Generalization in Category Learning. Neuropsychology, 30(8), 915–919. https://doi.org/10.1037/neu0000301

Pahl, S., Goodhew, J., Boomsma, C., & Sheppard, S. R. (2016). The Role of Energy Visualization in Addressing Energy Use: Insights from the eViz Project. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 92. Doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00092

Robinson, N., Kavanagh, D., Connor, J., May, J., & Andrade, J. (2016). Assessment of motivation to control alcohol use: The motivational thought frequency and state motivation scales for alcohol control. Addictive behaviors, 59, 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2016.02.038 

Seabrooke, T., Hogarth, L., & Mitchell, C. J. (2016). The propositional basis of cue-controlled reward seeking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(12), 2452–2470. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1115885

Schenke, K. C., Wyer, N. A., & Bach, P. (2016). The Things You Do: Internal Models of Others’ Expected Behaviour Guide Action Observation. Plos One, 11(7), e0158910. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158910

Sivakumar, H., Hanoch, Y., Barnes, A., & Federman, A. (2016). Cognition, Health Literacy And Perceived Medicare Knowledge Among Low-Income Beneficiaries. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 64, S252–S252.

Szabo, B. T., Denham, S. L., & Winkler, I. (2016). Computational Models of Auditory Scene Analysis: A Review. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 10, 524. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2016.00524

Terbeck, S. (2016) Noradrenaline effects on social behaviour, intergroup relations, and moral decisions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 66: 54-60. DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2016.03.031

Thaller, M., Hyland, M.E,, Kandasamy, R., & Sadler, M. (2016) Is patient acceptance of the diagnosis of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures linked to symptomatology? Journal of clinical and experimental neuropsychology 38(3), 338-34. doi: 10.1080/13803395.2015.1114072

Trippas, D., Handley, S. J., Verde, M. F., & Morsanyi, K. (2016). Logic Brightens My Day: Evidence for Implicit Sensitivity to Logical Validity. Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition, 42(9), 1448–1457. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000248

Wang, R., Fan, X., Liu, C., & Cai, Z. G. (2014). Cognitive control and word recognition speed influence the Stroop effect in bilinguals. International Journal of Psychology, 51(2), 93-101. doi:10.1002/ijop.12115

Ward, L. M., Morison, G., Simpson, W. A., Simmers, A. J., & Shahani, U. (2016). Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to Study Dynamic Stereoscopic Depth Perception. Brain Topography, 29(4), 515–523. DOI: 10.1007/s10548-016-0476-4

White, M. P., Pahl, S., Wheeler, B. W., Fleming, L. E. F., & Depledge, M. H. (2016). The ‘Blue Gym’: What can blue space do for you and what can you do for blue space?. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 96(01), 5-12. Doi: 10.1017/S0025315415002209

Williams, L., & Auburn, T. (2016). Accessible polyvocality and paired talk: how family therapists talk positive connotation into being. Journal of Family Therapy, 38(4), 535–554. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-6427.12096

Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., & Thomas, C. (2016). The format of children’s mental images: Evidence from mental scanning. Cognition, 154, 49–54. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.017

Wimmer, M. C., Maras, K. L., Robinson, E. J., & Thomas, C. (2016). The format of children’s mental images: Penetrability of spatial images. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13(5), 582–593. http://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1132623

Wood, S. A., Liu, P.-J., Hanoch, Y., & Estevez-Cores, S. (2016). Importance of Numeracy as a Risk Factor for Elder Financial Exploitation in a Community Sample. Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 71(6), 978–986. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbv041

Wyer, N. A. (2016). Easier done than undone… by some of the people, some of the time: The role of elaboration in explicit and implicit group preferences.Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 63, 77-85. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.12.006

Wyer, N. A. & Schenke, K. (2016). Just you and I: The role of social exclusion in the formation of interpersonal relationships. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 65: 20-25 doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.02.007

Wyles, K. J., Pahl, S., Thomas, K., & Thompson, R. C. (2016). Factors That Can Undermine the Psychological Benefits of Coastal Environments: Exploring the Effect of Tidal State, Presence, and Type of Litter. Environment and Behavior, 48(9), 1095–1126. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013916515592177

Zanatto, D., Patacchiola, M., Goslin, J., & Cangelosi, A. (2016). Priming Anthropomorphism Can the credibility of humanlike robots be transferred to non-humanlike robots? In 2016 11th Acm/Ieee International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (hri) (pp. 543–544). New York: Ieee.


The papers below have been accepted for publication and are currently 'in press'.

Barnes, A., Hanoch, Y., Miron-Shatz, T., & Ozanne, E. (in press). Tailoring risk communication to improve comprehension: Do patient preferences help or hurt? Health Psychology.

Gibson, S., & Smart, C. A. (2017). Social Influence. In B. Gough (Ed.), Handbook of Critical Social Psychology (Vol.Handbook of Critical Social Psychology). Palgrave MacMillan.

Hollins, T. J. & Weber, N. (in press). Monitoring and regulation of accuracy in eyewitness memory: time to get some control. In J. Dunlosky & S. Tauber (Eds.) Handbook of Metacognition (pp. 171-195), Oxford, Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199336746.013.22.

Hyland, M., Hinton, C., Hill, C., Whalley, B., Jones, R. C. M., Davies, A. F. (in press) Explaining unexplained pain to fibromyalgia patients: finding a narrative that is acceptable to patients and provides a rationale for evidence based interventions. British Journal of Pain.

Roberts, H., Watkins, E., & Wills, A.J. (in press). Does rumination cause "inhibitory" deficits? Psychopathology Review.

Sivakumar, H., Hanoch, Y., Barnes, A., & Federman, A. D. (in press). Cognition, Health Literacy and Actual and Perceived Medicare Knowledge among Inner-City Medicare Beneficiaries. Journal of Health Communication.

Smart, C. A., & Denman, K. (2017).Student and supervisor experiences of learning and teaching CA and DP for autism focused research: a reflective approach. In M. O'Reilly (Ed.), A Practical Guide to social interaction research in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Palgrave MacMillan.

Smart, C. A., & Gibson, S. (2017). Social Influence. Handbook of Critical Social Psychology

Terbeck, S. (2017). Should we cure prejudice? Should we fly? In M. Hauskeller & L. Coyne (Eds.), Moral Enhancement. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Terbeck, S. (in press) The social neuroscience of biases in in-and-out-group face processing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Trippas, D., Handley, S. J., Verde, M. F., & Morsanyi, K. (in press). Logic brightens my day: Evidence for implicit sensitivity to logical validity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.