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Emotion processing and electrodermal activity in young people who self-harm (2025)
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Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., Belkadi, N., Etherson, M. E., Loney, K. J., Mathew, S., Munro, J., Townsend, E., Nock, M. K., Ferguson, E., & O'Connor, R. C. (2025). Emotion processing and electrodermal activity in young people who self-harm. nature mental health, 3(11), 1374-1383. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-025-00520-5

The biological underpinnings of self-harm (SH) in young people are unclear. SH often serves to regulate emotions, and electrodermal activity (EDA) is a well-established biomarker of emotional arousal, which is physiologically related to emotion regul... Read More about Emotion processing and electrodermal activity in young people who self-harm.

The Cognitive and Neuroimaging for Neurodegenerative Disorders Study (CogNID): design and initial findings from real-world clinical practice (2025)
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Hosseini, A. A., Shao, B., Lee, A. R., Dhillon, P., Junaid, K., Gran, B., Sellars, P., Sargisson, H., Jung, J., & Mukaetova-Ladinska, E. B. (2025). The Cognitive and Neuroimaging for Neurodegenerative Disorders Study (CogNID): design and initial findings from real-world clinical practice. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 16, 1630082. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1630082

Introduction: Dementia presents with significant heterogeneity across age groups, particularly in early-onset cognitive decline (EOCD), which poses diagnostic and management challenges. The Cognitive and Neuroimaging for Neurodegenerative Disorders (... Read More about The Cognitive and Neuroimaging for Neurodegenerative Disorders Study (CogNID): design and initial findings from real-world clinical practice.

Crowding out Effects of Opt-out Defaults: Evidence from Organ Donation Policies (2025)
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Güntürküna, P., Studt, S., Winkler, D., Clement, M., Tan, J., Merz, E.-M., Huis in 't Veld, E., & Ferguson, E. (2025). Crowding out Effects of Opt-out Defaults: Evidence from Organ Donation Policies. PNAS Nexus, 4(10), pgaf311. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf311

Many of today’s pressing societal challenges, such as organ shortages, low vaccination rates, and climate change, require significant changes in individual behavior. One promising intervention to encourage such behavioral change is the opt-out defaul... Read More about Crowding out Effects of Opt-out Defaults: Evidence from Organ Donation Policies.

The Prosocial Phenotype and Cooperative Health Protective Behaviors: Insights from COVID-19 (2025)
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Mills, R., Di Angelantonio, E., Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., Masser, B., McClelland, H., Melson, A. J., Niedzwiedz, C., O’Connor, D. B., O’Carroll, R., Robb, K. A., Scowcroft, E., Watson, B., Wood, A., Zortea, T., O’Connor, R., Desai, R., Brailsford, S. R., & Ferguson, E. (2025). The Prosocial Phenotype and Cooperative Health Protective Behaviors: Insights from COVID-19. Health Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0001561

Objectives: Identifying factors associated with cooperative health-protective behaviors (e.g., vaccination, social distancing) is critical during crises requiring collective action. This research examines two hypotheses in the context of the COVID-19... Read More about The Prosocial Phenotype and Cooperative Health Protective Behaviors: Insights from COVID-19.

When ‘help’ might hurt: Do gambling harm prevention advertisements reduce or contribute to gambling stigma? Results of an exploratory study (2025)
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Palmer, M., Weiss-Cohen, L., Torrance, J., & Newall, P. (2025). When ‘help’ might hurt: Do gambling harm prevention advertisements reduce or contribute to gambling stigma? Results of an exploratory study. Public Health, 249, 106010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2025.106010

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Gambling stigma is an important issue which influences, for example, the low rates of help-seeking observed internationally. Harm prevention advertisements aim to increase awareness regarding gambling harms among the population, althoug... Read More about When ‘help’ might hurt: Do gambling harm prevention advertisements reduce or contribute to gambling stigma? Results of an exploratory study.

Dimensions underlying public perceptions and misperceptions of food's environmental impact (2025)
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Fletcher, D., Long, G., Lukinova, E., Harvey, J., Parkes, J., Ogunbode, C., Goulding, J., & Spence, A. (2025). Dimensions underlying public perceptions and misperceptions of food's environmental impact. Journal of Cleaner Production, 531, 146938. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2025.146938

Food systems are a major contributor to environmental impacts such as greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, with widespread dietary changes required to avoid surpassing safe planetary boundaries by 2050. To promote dietary shifts among the... Read More about Dimensions underlying public perceptions and misperceptions of food's environmental impact.

Computational Approaches Reveal Developmental Shifts in Exploratory Play (2025)
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Colantonio, J., Bass, I., Shing, Y. L., Wijeakumar, S., McKay, C., Rafetseder, E., Mackey, A. P., & Bonawitz, E. (2025). Computational Approaches Reveal Developmental Shifts in Exploratory Play. Developmental Science, 28(6), e70081. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70081

Although exploratory play is considered a hallmark of cognitive development and learning, relatively few studies have been able to quantitatively characterize the shifts that may occur in children's approach to exploration. One reason for this gap is... Read More about Computational Approaches Reveal Developmental Shifts in Exploratory Play.

Co-Developing Content Updates for the Card Sort Task for Self-Harm–Digital (CaTS-D) With People With Lived Self-Harm Experiences: Pilot Study and Thematic Analysis (2025)
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Bird, K., Greentree, I., O'Shea, B., & Townsend, E. (2025). Co-Developing Content Updates for the Card Sort Task for Self-Harm–Digital (CaTS-D) With People With Lived Self-Harm Experiences: Pilot Study and Thematic Analysis. JMIR Mental Health, 12, e71296. https://doi.org/10.2196/71296

Background: Self-harm is a significant global concern with multiple negative outcomes. Self-harm research tools typically focus on single risk factors, meaning the temporal interplay between factors and their impact on self-harm is unknown. The Card... Read More about Co-Developing Content Updates for the Card Sort Task for Self-Harm–Digital (CaTS-D) With People With Lived Self-Harm Experiences: Pilot Study and Thematic Analysis.

A Re-Exploration of our Unconscious: What We Have Come To Unmask; What Still Lies Beneath (2025)
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Tsikandilakis, M., Bali, P., Pasachidou, V.-M., Toranzos, R. L., Szczesniak, K., Mével, P.-A., Madan, C., & Milbank, A. (2025). A Re-Exploration of our Unconscious: What We Have Come To Unmask; What Still Lies Beneath. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 59(4), 71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-025-09935-2

In this manuscript, concepts, issues and resolutions that call for conscious awareness in research into the unconscious are revisited and reviewed. Historical episodes and episodes of controversial experimentation that are formative rallying points f... Read More about A Re-Exploration of our Unconscious: What We Have Come To Unmask; What Still Lies Beneath.