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Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms (2021)
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Rilanto, T., Viidu, D.-A., Kaart, T., Orro, T., Viltrop, A., Emanuelson, U., …Mõtus, K. (2022). Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms. Research in Veterinary Science, 142, 31-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2021.11.006

The farmer has the central role in determining cow culling policies on their farm and thus affecting cow longevity. The present study aimed to examine farm managers´ satisfaction, attitudes, personality traits and analyse the associations with dairy... Read More about Attitudes and personality of farm managers and association with cow culling rates and longevity in large-scale commercial dairy farms.

Social context facilitates visuomotor synchrony and bonding in children and adults (2021)
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Howard, E. M., Ropar, D., Newport, R., & Tunçgenç, B. (2021). Social context facilitates visuomotor synchrony and bonding in children and adults. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 22869. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02372-2

Interpersonal synchrony is a fundamental part of human social interaction, with known effects on facilitating social bonding. Moving in time with another person facilitates prosocial behaviour, however, it is unknown if the degree of synchronisation... Read More about Social context facilitates visuomotor synchrony and bonding in children and adults.

Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation (2021)
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Hyde, M. K., Masser, B. M., Edwards, A. R., & Ferguson, E. (2021). Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 31(4), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211046023

Introduction: As many countries change to opt-out systems to address organ shortages, calls for similar reform in Australia persist. Community perspectives on consent systems for donation remain under-researched, therefore Australian perspectives on... Read More about Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Yu, Z., Kausel, L., Boncompte, G., Lanfranco, R. C., Oxner, M., …Chapman, P. (2021). “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures. Perception, 50(12), 1027-1055. https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211055983

The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

Understanding the processes underlying self-harm ideationand behaviors within LGBTQ+ young people: Aqualitative study (2021)
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Williams, A. J., Arcelus, J., Townsend, E., & Michail, M. (2021). Understanding the processes underlying self-harm ideationand behaviors within LGBTQ+ young people: Aqualitative study. Archives of Suicide Research, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2021.2003273

Objective This study aims to understand the processes underlying self-harmful thoughts and behaviors, with and without suicidal intent, among LGBTQ+ young people. Method Nineteen semi-structured interviews took place between October 2019 and May... Read More about Understanding the processes underlying self-harm ideationand behaviors within LGBTQ+ young people: Aqualitative study.

Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation (2021)
Journal Article
Hyde, M. K., Masser, B. M., Edwards, A. R. A., & Ferguson, E. (2021). Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation. Progress in Transplantation, 31(4), 357-367. https://doi.org/10.1177/15269248211046023

Introduction: As many countries change to opt-out systems to address organ shortages, calls for similar reform in Australia persist. Community perspectives on consent systems for donation remain under-researched, therefore Australian perspectives on... Read More about Australian Perspectives on Opt-In and Opt-Out Consent Systems for Deceased Organ Donation.

A social norms approach intervention to address misperceptions of anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs amongst UK parents (2021)
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Cookson, D., Jolley, D., Dempsey, R. C., & Povey, R. (2021). A social norms approach intervention to address misperceptions of anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs amongst UK parents. PLoS ONE, 16(11), Article e0258985. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258985

Anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs among parents can reduce vaccination intentions. Parents’ beliefs in anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are also related to their perceptions of other parents’ conspiracy beliefs. Further, research has shown that parents... Read More about A social norms approach intervention to address misperceptions of anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs amongst UK parents.

The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty (2021)
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Burdett, E. R. R., Whiten, A., & McGuigan, N. (2022). The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, Article 105307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105307

Humans have adapted well to diverse environments in part because of their ability to efficiently acquire information from their social environment. However, we still know very little as to how young children acquire cultural knowledge and in particul... Read More about The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty.

The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words (2021)
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Costley, D., Emerson, A., Ropar, D., & Sheppard, E. (2021). The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words. Education Sciences, 11(11), Article 726. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11110726

Secondary schools are increasingly becoming inclusive of all students whatever their individual needs, but we question whether teachers understand enough about specific needs in order to effectively support all their students. Research indicates that... Read More about The anxiety caused by secondary schools for autistic adolescents: In their own words.

Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats’ gustatory sensory preconditioning (2021)
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Robinson, J., Jones, P. M., & Whitt, E. J. (2021). Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats’ gustatory sensory preconditioning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(7), 1215–1227. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211054981

We report findings from two sensory preconditioning experiments in which rats consumed two flavoured solutions, each with two gustatory components (AX and BY), composed of sweet, bitter, salt, and acid elements. After this pre-exposure, rats were con... Read More about Excitotoxic lesions of the perirhinal cortex leave intact rats’ gustatory sensory preconditioning.