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Knowing when someone is resilient: Development and validation of a measure of adaptive functioning among war-affected Sri Lankan Tamils (2021)
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O'Neill, A., Jayawickreme, N., Blackie, L. E., Demaske, A., Goonasekera, M. A., & Jayawickreme, E. (2021). Knowing when someone is resilient: Development and validation of a measure of adaptive functioning among war-affected Sri Lankan Tamils. SSM - Mental Health, 1, Article 100026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2021.100026

Current measures of adaptive functioning are typically validated using samples from Western populations, which limit their utility in non-Western populations. The present study examines the development and utility of a locally derived measure of adap... Read More about Knowing when someone is resilient: Development and validation of a measure of adaptive functioning among war-affected Sri Lankan Tamils.

How Does Caffeine Influence Memory? Drug, Experimental, and Demographic Factors (2021)
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Zhang, R. C., & Madan, C. R. (2021). How Does Caffeine Influence Memory? Drug, Experimental, and Demographic Factors. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 131, 525-538. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.09.033

Caffeine is a widely used nootropic drug, but its effects on memory in healthy participants have not been sufficiently evaluated. Here we review evidence of the effects of caffeine on different types of memory, and the associated drug, experimental,... Read More about How Does Caffeine Influence Memory? Drug, Experimental, and Demographic Factors.

High Schizotypy Predicts Emotion Recognition Independently of Negative Affect (2021)
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Dawes, C., Danielmeier, C., Haselgrove, M., & Moran, P. M. (2021). High Schizotypy Predicts Emotion Recognition Independently of Negative Affect. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, Article 738344. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.738344

Introduction: Deficits in Emotion Recognition (ER) contribute significantly to poorer functional outcomes in people with schizophrenia. However, rather than reflecting a core symptom of schizophrenia, reduced ER has been suggested to reflect increase... Read More about High Schizotypy Predicts Emotion Recognition Independently of Negative Affect.

Self-harm in children and adolescents by ethnic group: an observational cohort study from the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England (2021)
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Farooq, B., Clements, C., Hawton, K., Ness, J., Patel, A., Kelly, S., …Kapur, N. (2021). Self-harm in children and adolescents by ethnic group: an observational cohort study from the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England. Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, 5(11), 782-791. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642%2821%2900239-X

Background: Studies report an increasing incidence of self-harm in children and adolescents, but the extent to which this is seen in different ethnic groups is unclear. We aimed to investigate rates of emergency department presentations for self-harm... Read More about Self-harm in children and adolescents by ethnic group: an observational cohort study from the Multicentre Study of Self-Harm in England.

How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory (2021)
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Wardell, V., Madan, C. R., Jameson, T. J., Cocquyt, C., Checknita, K., Liu, H., & Palombo, D. J. (2021). How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1454-1465. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3877

A wealth of research suggests that emotion enhances memory. Yet, this enhancement is not uniform. While some theories posit that emotion enhances memory for sensory/perceptual information, such an enhancement has not been observed in mnemonic detail... Read More about How emotion influences the details recalled in autobiographical memory.

What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation? (2021)
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Ferguson, E. (2022). What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?. Current Opinion in Psychology, 44, 202-207. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.09.005

High-cost cooperation directed towards strangers is difficult to explain from an evolutionary perspective. Here, it is argued that by studying the behaviours, motivations, and preferences of real-world high-cost cooperators — blood and organ donors —... Read More about What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?.

Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being (2021)
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Jayawickreme, E., Blackie, L. E. R., Forgeard, M., Roepke, A. M., & Tsukayama, E. (2022). Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(4), 827-838. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211043381

Research on post-traumatic growth (PTG) has been compromised by methodological limitations. Recent process-oriented accounts of personality suggest, however, that positive changes may occur through short-term (i.e., state-level) changes in PTG. In th... Read More about Examining Associations Between Major Negative Life Events, Changes in Weekly Reports of Post-Traumatic Growth and Global Reports of Eudaimonic Well-Being.

Examining the links between conspiracy beliefs and the EU “Brexit” referendum vote in the UK: Evidence from a two-wave survey (2021)
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Jolley, D., Douglas, K. M., Marchlewska, M., Cichocka, A., & Sutton, R. M. (2022). Examining the links between conspiracy beliefs and the EU “Brexit” referendum vote in the UK: Evidence from a two-wave survey. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52(1), 30-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12829

This research examined the link between conspiracy beliefs and political decisions in the context of the 2016 European Union referendum in the United Kingdom. In a longitudinal study, we surveyed British participants at two-time points (one week befo... Read More about Examining the links between conspiracy beliefs and the EU “Brexit” referendum vote in the UK: Evidence from a two-wave survey.

Etiology of persistent mathematics difficulties from childhood to adolescence following very preterm birth (2021)
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Clayton, S., Simms, V., Cragg, L., Gilmore, C., Marlow, N., Spong, R., & Johnson, S. (2022). Etiology of persistent mathematics difficulties from childhood to adolescence following very preterm birth. Child Neuropsychology, 28(1), 82-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2021.1955847

Children born very preterm (VP; 0.05), with the exception of writing large numbers and conceptual understanding of arithmetic. In a previous study, 83 of the VP adolescents and 49 of the term-born adolescents were assessed at age 8–10years using meas... Read More about Etiology of persistent mathematics difficulties from childhood to adolescence following very preterm birth.

Examining the functional utility of personal growth initiative in a war-affected Sri Lankan Tamil sample (2021)
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Demaske, A., Blackie, L. E., Jayawickreme, N., & Jayawickreme, E. (2021). Examining the functional utility of personal growth initiative in a war-affected Sri Lankan Tamil sample. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 12(3), 215–224. https://doi.org/10.1037/aap0000196

The present study explored personal growth initiative (PGI; Robitschek, 1998)—the extent a person is motivated to and actively sets goals toward achieving self-improvement—and its relationship to functional impairment and life satisfaction among a wa... Read More about Examining the functional utility of personal growth initiative in a war-affected Sri Lankan Tamil sample.