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An international comparison of deceased and living organ donation/transplant rates in opt-in and opt-out systems: a panel study (2014)
Journal Article
Shepherd, L., O’Carroll, R. E., & Ferguson, E. (2014). An international comparison of deceased and living organ donation/transplant rates in opt-in and opt-out systems: a panel study. BMC Medicine, 12, Article 131. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-014-0131-4

Background Policy decisions about opt-in and opt-out consent for organ donation are based on limited evidence. To fill this gap we investigated the difference between deceased and living organ donation rates in opt-in and opt-out consent systems acr... Read More about An international comparison of deceased and living organ donation/transplant rates in opt-in and opt-out systems: a panel study.

Fast to Forgive, Slow to Retaliate: Intuitive Responses in the Ultimatum Game Depend on the Degree of Unfairness (2014)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Lawrence, C., Bibby, P., & Maltby, J. (2014). Fast to Forgive, Slow to Retaliate: Intuitive Responses in the Ultimatum Game Depend on the Degree of Unfairness. PLoS ONE, 9(5), Article e96344. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096344

Evolutionary accounts have difficulty explaining why people cooperate with anonymous strangers they will never meet. Recently models, focusing on emotional processing, have been proposed as a potential explanation, with attention focusing on a dual s... Read More about Fast to Forgive, Slow to Retaliate: Intuitive Responses in the Ultimatum Game Depend on the Degree of Unfairness.

The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientiousness and Too Little Anxiety Are Detrimental to the Acquisition of Medical Knowledge and Skill (2014)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Semper, H., Yates, J., Fitzgerald, E., Skatova, A., & James, D. (2014). The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientiousness and Too Little Anxiety Are Detrimental to the Acquisition of Medical Knowledge and Skill. PLoS ONE, 9(9), Article e8860

Theory suggests that personality traits evolved to have costs and benefits, with the effectiveness of a trait dependent on how these costs and benefits relate to the present circumstances. This suggests that traits that are generally viewed as positi... Read More about The ‘Dark Side’ and ‘Bright Side’ of Personality: When Too Much Conscientiousness and Too Little Anxiety Are Detrimental to the Acquisition of Medical Knowledge and Skill.

Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology (2014)
Journal Article
Evans, R., & Ferguson, E. (2014). Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology. Vox Sanguinis, 106(2), https://doi.org/10.1111/vox.12080

Background and Objectives While blood donation is traditionally described as a behaviour motivated by pure altruism, the assessment of altruism in the blood donation literature has not been theoretically informed. Drawing on theories of altruism fro... Read More about Defining and measuring blood donor altruism: a theoretical approach from biology, economics and psychology.

A data mining framework to model consumer indebtedness with psychological factors (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Ladas, A., Ferguson, E., Garibaldi, J. M., & Aickelin, U. (2014). A data mining framework to model consumer indebtedness with psychological factors.

Modelling Consumer Indebtedness has proven to be a problem of complex nature. In this work we utilise Data Mining techniques and methods to explore the multifaceted aspect of Consumer Indebtedness by examining the contribution of Psychological Factor... Read More about A data mining framework to model consumer indebtedness with psychological factors.