All Outputs (159)

A clinical assessment tool to improve the use of pain relieving treatments in knee osteoarthritis (2018)
Journal Article

Purpose: Approximately 1 in 4 individuals in the UK over the age of 55 experience knee pain (KP), predominantly due to osteoarthritis (OA). Following treatment targeted at the affected knee, pain relief is reported in only 60%–80% of individuals with... Read More about A clinical assessment tool to improve the use of pain relieving treatments in knee osteoarthritis.

General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer (2018)
Journal Article

Background: While the heterogeniety of pain progression has been studied in chronic diseases, it is unclear the extent to which patterns of pain progression among people in general as well as across different diseases impacts on social, civic and po... Read More about General and disease-specific pain trajectories as predictors of social and political outcomes in arthritis and cancer.

Does observability affect prosociality? (2018)
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The observation of behaviour is a key theoretical parameter underlying a number of models of prosociality. However, the empirical findings showing the effect of observability on prosociality are mixed. In this meta-analysis, we explore the boundary c... Read More about Does observability affect prosociality?.

Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK (2018)
Journal Article

Background: Central banks set economy-wide interest rates to meet exclusively economic objectives. There is a strong link between indebtedness and psychiatric morbidity at the individual level, with interest rates being an important factor determinin... Read More about Central Bank interest rate decisions, household indebtedness, and psychiatric morbidity and distress: evidence from the UK.

Traits associated with central pain augmentation in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort (2018)
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This study aimed to identify self-report correlates of central pain augmentation in individuals with knee pain. A subset of participants (n=420) in the Knee Pain and related health In the Community (KPIC) baseline survey undertook pressure pain thres... Read More about Traits associated with central pain augmentation in the Knee Pain in the Community (KPIC) cohort.

It’s only fair: blood donors are more sensitive to violations of fairness norms than non-donors: converging psychometric and ultimatum game evidence (2018)
Journal Article

Background and Objectives: The design of effective donor recruitment campaigns requires an accurate understanding of donor motivations. This requires cross-validation of theoretically derived, psychometrically assessed motivations with behavioural pr... Read More about It’s only fair: blood donors are more sensitive to violations of fairness norms than non-donors: converging psychometric and ultimatum game evidence.

Sheep farmers’ attitudes to farm inspections and the role of sanctions and rewards as motivation to reduce the prevalence of lameness (2018)
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The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007 make it an offence to allow unnecessary suffering to animals, highlighting that farmers have a duty of care for their animals. Despite this, the current global mean prevalence of lameness in sh... Read More about Sheep farmers’ attitudes to farm inspections and the role of sanctions and rewards as motivation to reduce the prevalence of lameness.

Digital energy visualisations in the workplace: the e-Genie tool (2017)
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Building management systems are designed for energy managers; there are few energy feedback systems designed to engage staff. A tool, known as e-Genie, was developed to engage workplace occupants with energy data and support them to take action to re... Read More about Digital energy visualisations in the workplace: the e-Genie tool.

A comparison of the efficacy of three intervention trial types: postal, group, and one-to-one facilitation, prior management and the impact of message framing and repeat messages on the flock prevalence of lameness in sheep (2017)
Journal Article

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of three knowledge-transfer intervention trial types (postal, group, one-to-one) to promote best practice to treat sheep with footrot. Further aims were to investigate whether farmer behaviour (... Read More about A comparison of the efficacy of three intervention trial types: postal, group, and one-to-one facilitation, prior management and the impact of message framing and repeat messages on the flock prevalence of lameness in sheep.

Effects of childhood trauma on cortisol levels in suicide attempters and ideators (2017)
Journal Article

Objectives: Suicide is a global health issue. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, has been identified as one potential risk factor for suicide. Recent evidence has indicated that blunted co... Read More about Effects of childhood trauma on cortisol levels in suicide attempters and ideators.

Risk preferences in surrogate decision making (2017)
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There is growing evidence that decisions made on behalf of other people differ from the decisions we make for ourselves because we are less affected by the subjective experience of their outcome. As a result, the decisions we make for other people ca... Read More about Risk preferences in surrogate decision making.

Saving energy in the workplace: why, and for whom? (2017)
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Saving energy at work might be considered altruistic, because often no personal benefits accrue. However, we consider the possibility that it can be a form of impure-altruism in that the individual experiences some rewards. We develop a scale to meas... Read More about Saving energy in the workplace: why, and for whom?.

Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games (2017)
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Adherence to norms and interventions to norm violations are two important forms of social behaviour modelled in economic games. While both appear to serve a prosocial function, they may represent separate mechanisms corresponding with distinct emotio... Read More about Politeness and compassion differentially predict adherence to fairness norms and interventions to norm violations in economic games.

Does gratitude enhance prosociality: a meta-analytic review (2017)
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Theoretical models suggest that gratitude is linked to increased prosociality. To date, however, there is a lack of a comprehensive quantitative synthesis of results to support this claim. In this review we aimed to 1) examine the overall strength of... Read More about Does gratitude enhance prosociality: a meta-analytic review.

Safety culture: the Nottingham Veterinary Safety Culture Survey (NVSCS) (2017)
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Safety culture is a vital concept in human healthcare because of its influence on staff behaviours in relation to patient safety. Understanding safety culture is essential to ensure the acceptance and sustainability of changes, such as the introducti... Read More about Safety culture: the Nottingham Veterinary Safety Culture Survey (NVSCS).

How do personality and social structures interact with each other to predict important life outcomes?: the importance of accounting for personality change (2017)
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Personality is important for a range of life outcomes. However, despite evidence that personality changes across time, there is a concerning tendency for researchers outside of personality psychology to treat measures of personality as if they are no... Read More about How do personality and social structures interact with each other to predict important life outcomes?: the importance of accounting for personality change.

Guilty repair sustains cooperation, angry retaliation destroys it (2017)
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Sustained cooperative social interactions are key to successful outcomes in many real-world contexts (e.g., climate change and energy conservation). We explore the self-regulatory roles of anger and guilt, as well as prosocial or selfish social prefe... Read More about Guilty repair sustains cooperation, angry retaliation destroys it.

A brief psychological intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm in patients admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt: a randomised controlled trial (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license Background: We investigated whether a volitional helpsheet (VHS), a brief psychological intervention, could reduce repeat self-harm in the 6 month... Read More about A brief psychological intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm in patients admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt: a randomised controlled trial.

Future directions in personality, occupational and medical selection: myths, misunderstandings, measurement, and suggestions (2017)
Journal Article

This paper has two objectives: (1) presenting recent advances in the personality field concerning the conceptualization of personality arising from the dynamic interactions of behaviour, biology, context, and states, and (2) discussing the implicatio... Read More about Future directions in personality, occupational and medical selection: myths, misunderstandings, measurement, and suggestions.

When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need (2017)
Journal Article

Growing evidence has highlighted the importance of social norms in promoting prosocial behaviors in economic games. Specifically, individual differences in norm adherence—captured by the politeness aspect of Big Five agreeableness—has been found to p... Read More about When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need.