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Can Touch Screen Tablets be Used to Assess Cognitive and Motor Skills in Early Years Primary School Children? A Cross-Cultural Study (2016)
Journal Article
Pitchford, N. J., & Outhwaite, L. A. (in press). Can Touch Screen Tablets be Used to Assess Cognitive and Motor Skills in Early Years Primary School Children? A Cross-Cultural Study. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01666

Assessment of cognitive and motor functions is fundamental for developmental and neuropsychological profiling. Assessments are usually conducted on an individual basis, with a trained examiner, using standardized paper and pencil tests, and can take... Read More about Can Touch Screen Tablets be Used to Assess Cognitive and Motor Skills in Early Years Primary School Children? A Cross-Cultural Study.

Cortisol reactivity and suicidal behavior: investigating the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to stress in suicide attempters and ideators (2016)
Journal Article
O’Connor, D. B., Green, J. A., Ferguson, E., O’Carroll, R. E., & O’Connor, R. C. (2017). Cortisol reactivity and suicidal behavior: investigating the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to stress in suicide attempters and ideators. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 75, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2016.10.019

Every 40 seconds a person dies by suicide somewhere in the world. The causes of suicidal behavior are not fully understood. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, is one potential risk factor.... Read More about Cortisol reactivity and suicidal behavior: investigating the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to stress in suicide attempters and ideators.

The emotional impact of verbal irony: eye-tracking evidence for a two-stage process (2016)
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Filik, R., Brightman, E., Gathercole, C., & Leuthold, H. (2017). The emotional impact of verbal irony: eye-tracking evidence for a two-stage process. Journal of Memory and Language, 93, 193-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2016.09.006

In this paper we investigate the socio-emotional functions of verbal irony. Specifically, we use eye-tracking while reading to assess moment-to-moment processing of a character’s emotional response to ironic versus literal criticism. In Experiment 1,... Read More about The emotional impact of verbal irony: eye-tracking evidence for a two-stage process.

Separating content-specific retrieval from post-retrieval processing (2016)
Journal Article
Doidge, A. N., Evans, L. H., Herron, J. E., & Wilding, E. L. (2017). Separating content-specific retrieval from post-retrieval processing. Cortex, 86, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2016.10.003

According to cortical reinstatement accounts, neural processes engaged at the time of encoding are re-engaged at the time of memory retrieval. The temporal precision of event-related potentials (ERPs) has been exploited to assess this possibility, an... Read More about Separating content-specific retrieval from post-retrieval processing.

Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis (2016)
Journal Article
James, R. J., O'Malley, C., & Tunney, R. J. (2017). Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis. British Journal of Psychology, 108(3), 608-625. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12226

This manuscript reviews the extant literature on key issues related to mobile gambling and considers whether the potential risks of harm emerging from this platform are driven by pre-existing comorbidities or by psychological processes unique to mobi... Read More about Understanding the psychology of mobile gambling: A behavioural synthesis.

Reappraisal buffers the association between stress and negative mood measured over 14 days: implications for understanding psychological resilience (2016)
Journal Article
Johnson, J., O'Connnor, D. B., Jones, C., Jackson, C., Hughes, G. J., & Ferguson, E. (2016). Reappraisal buffers the association between stress and negative mood measured over 14 days: implications for understanding psychological resilience. European Journal of Personality, 30(6), 608-617. https://doi.org/10.1002/per.2080

Reappraisal is thought to be an adaptive emotion regulation strategy, and research suggests that individuals who habitually reappraise report more positive patterns of affect overall. However, some experimental studies indicate that a greater tendenc... Read More about Reappraisal buffers the association between stress and negative mood measured over 14 days: implications for understanding psychological resilience.

Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students (2016)
Journal Article
Blake, H., Stanulewicz, N., & McGill, F. (2017). Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 73(4), 917-929. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13181

Aims To investigate physical activity levels of nursing and medicine students; examine predictors of physical activity level; and examine the most influential benefits and barriers to exercise. Background Healthcare professionals have low leve... Read More about Predictors of physical activity and barriers to exercise in nursing and medical students.

Dealing with difficult days: functional coping dynamics in self-harm ideation and enactment (2016)
Journal Article
Nielsen, E., Sayal, K., & Townsend, E. (2017). Dealing with difficult days: functional coping dynamics in self-harm ideation and enactment. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2016.08.036

Background: Self-harm affords people a means of coping. However, little is known about how functional coping dynamics differ between stressful situations in which people self-harm (enactment), think about harming (ideation), or experience no self-har... Read More about Dealing with difficult days: functional coping dynamics in self-harm ideation and enactment.

Histopathological subgroups in knee osteoarthritis (2016)
Journal Article
Wyatt, L., Morerton, B., Mapp, P. I., Wilson, D., Hill, R., Ferguson, E., …Walsh, D. A. (in press). Histopathological subgroups in knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 25(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2016.09.021

Objective: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a heterogeneous, multi-tissue disease. We hypothesised that different histopathological features characterise different stages during knee OA progression, and that discrete subgroups can be defined based on validated... Read More about Histopathological subgroups in knee osteoarthritis.