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Profiles
Dr Ben Whalley
Associate Professor
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Dr Ben Whalley can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Psychology
- Mental health
- Applied statistics
- Bayesian statistics
- Case–control studies
- Clinical trials
- Correlation study
- Panel data analysis
- Quantitative research
- Randomised controlled trials
- Rasch Analysis
- Time-series analysis
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
Associate professor in psychology.
Research
Research
Research interests
Shared psychological mechanisms (in particular suggestion/expectancy and motivation) of conventional medical, complementary, and psychological treatments.
Grants & contracts
REFRAMED: REFRActory depression - Mechanisms and Efficacy of Radically Open Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. (Funded by the MRC EME scheme).
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2022) 'Gambling and Gaming in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Lockdown' COVID 2, 187-101 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Does Brief Focused Attention and Open Monitoring Meditation Affect the Attentional Blink?' Mindfulness 12, (10) 2430-2438 , DOI Open access
(2021) '“I can’t skip it”: does free report improve accuracy in false memories?' Memory 29, (3) 353-361 , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Knowledge and attitudes among healthcare workers and patients with total knee and hip replacement towards the use of brief psychological techniques: A qualitative study in UK and Saudi hospitals' The Italian Journal for Interdisciplinary Health and Social Development , DOI Open access
(2021) 'Investigating experiences of the family connections programme for supporters of individuals with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder' Clinical Psychology Forum 2021, (338) 43-50 Open access
(2019) 'Diving and mental health: the potential benefits and risks from a survey of recreational scuba divers' Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine Journal 49, (4) 291-297 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'The best treatment option(s) for adult and elderly patients with chronic primary musculoskeletal pain: a protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis' Systematic Reviews 8, (1) , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Refractory depression – cost-effectiveness of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy: findings of economic evaluation of RefraMED trial' BJPsych Open 5, (05) , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Refractory depression – mechanisms and efficacy of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RefraMED): findings of a randomised trial on benefits and harms' The British Journal of Psychiatry 216, (4) 204-212 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Validation of the person-centred coordinated care experience questionnaire (P3CEQ)' International Journal for Quality in Health Care 31, (7) 506-512 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Radically open dialectical behaviour therapy for refractory depression: the RefraMED RCT' Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation 5, (7) 1-112 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Functional Imagery Training versus Motivational Interviewing for Weight Loss: A randomised controlled trial of brief individual interventions for overweight and obesity' International Journal of Obesity , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Intention insertion: Activating an action's perceptual consequences is sufficient to induce non-willed motor behavior' Journal of Experimental Psychology: General , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease: Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis' European Journal of Preventive Cardiology 2047487317739978-2047487317739978 , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease' Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2021, (2) , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Preference for different relaxation techniques by COPD patients: comparison between six techniques' International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Volume 11, 2315-2319 , DOI Open access
(2016) 'Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in Prevention of Depressive Relapse' JAMA Psychiatry 73, (6) 565-565 , DOI Open access
(2016) '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 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Playing Tetris decreases drug and other cravings in real world settings' Addictive Behaviors Open access
(2015) 'Understanding fear and anxiety in patients at the time of an exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study' JRSM Open 6, (12) 205427041561454-205427041561454 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Refractory depression: mechanisms and evaluation of radically open dialectical behaviour therapy (RO-DBT) [REFRAMED]: protocol for randomised trial' BMJ Open 5, (7) e008857-e008857 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'A qualitative study of the impact of severe asthma and its treatment showing that treatment burden is neglected in existing asthma assessment scales' Qual Life Res 24, (3) 631-639 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease: cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis' Int J Behav Med 21, (1) 109-121 , DOI
(2013) 'Placebo by proxy: the effect of parents' beliefs on therapy for children's temper tantrums' J Behav Med 36, (4) 341-346 , DOI
(2012) 'Frequency of non-asthma GP visits predicts asthma exacerbations: an observational study in general practice' Prim Care Respir J 21, (4) 405-411 , DOI
(2012) 'Beating and insulting children as a risk for adult cancer, cardiac disease and asthma' J Behav Med n/a, (n/a) n/a-n/a , DOI
(2012) 'Beating and insulting children as a risk for adult cancer, cardiac disease and asthma' J Behav Med , DOI
(2011) 'Psychological interventions for coronary heart disease' COCHRANE DATABASE OF SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS (8) , DOI
(2009) 'One size does not fit all: motivational predictors of contextual benefits of therapy' Psychol Psychother 82, (Pt 3) 291-303 , DOI
(2008) 'Motivational concordance: an important mechanism in self-help therapeutic rituals involving inert (placebo) substances' J Psychosom Res 65, (5) 405-413 , DOI
(2007) 'Correlation of psychological and physical symptoms with chronically elevated cytokine levels associated with a common immune dysregulation' Annals of Allergy Asthma & Immunology 99, (4) 348-351
(2007) 'Dispositional predictors of placebo responding: A motivational interpretation of flower essence and gratitude therapy' Journal of Psychosomatic Research 62, (3) 331-340
(2006) 'Chronic fatigue syndrome' Lancet 367, (9522) 1573-1574
Conference Papers
(2016) 'Are clinicians influenced by cognitive biases when investigating chronic heart failure?' 336-336