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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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O’Connor, R. C., Ferguson, E., Scott, F., Smyth, R., McDaid, D., Park, A.-L., …Armitage, C. J. (2017). A brief psychological intervention to reduce repetition of self-harm in patients admitted to hospital following a suicide attempt: a randomised controlled trial. Lancet Psychiatry, 4(6), 451-460. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366%2817%2930129-3

© 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)
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Ferguson, E., & Lievens, F. (2017). Future directions in personality, occupational and medical selection: myths, misunderstandings, measurement, and suggestions. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 22(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-016-9751-0

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)
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Zhao, K., Ferguson, E., & Smillie, L. D. (in press). When fair is not equal: compassion and politeness predict allocations of wealth under different norms of equity and need. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8(8), https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550616683018

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.

Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach (2017)
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Keatley, D. A., Ferguson, E., Lonsdale, A., & Hagger, M. S. (2017). Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach. Health Education Research, 32(1), 33-47. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyw056

Binge drinking is associated with deleterious health, social and economic outcomes. This study explored the lay understanding of the causes of binge drinking in members of the general public in the United Kingdom and Australia. Participants in the Un... Read More about Lay causes of binge drinking in the United Kingdom and Australia: a causal network diagram approach.

Discordant inflammation and pain in early and established rheumatoid arthritis: Latent Class Analysis of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network and British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register data (2016)
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McWilliams, D. F., Ferguson, E., Young, A., Kiely, P. D., & Walsh, D. A. (2016). Discordant inflammation and pain in early and established rheumatoid arthritis: Latent Class Analysis of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network and British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register data. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 18(1), Article 295. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-016-1186-8

Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is often measured using the 28 joint Disease Activity Score (DAS28). We aimed to identify and independently verify subgroups of people with RA that may be discordant with respect to self-reported... Read More about Discordant inflammation and pain in early and established rheumatoid arthritis: Latent Class Analysis of Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Network and British Society for Rheumatology Biologics Register data.

Anticipated regret and organ donor registration: a randomised controlled trial (2016)
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O'Carroll, R. E., Shepherd, L., Hayes, P. C., & Ferguson, E. (2016). Anticipated regret and organ donor registration: a randomised controlled trial. Health Psychology, 35(11), 1169-1177. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000363

Objective: To test whether simply asking people to rate the extent to which they anticipate feeling regret for not registering as an organ donor after death increases subsequent verified organ donor registration. Methods: 14,509 members of the genera... Read More about Anticipated regret and organ donor registration: a randomised controlled trial.

Cortisol reactivity and suicidal behavior: investigating the role of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis responses to stress in suicide attempters and ideators (2016)
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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.

Reappraisal buffers the association between stress and negative mood measured over 14 days: implications for understanding psychological resilience (2016)
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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.

Histopathological subgroups in knee osteoarthritis (2016)
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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.

Prosocial personality traits differentially predict egalitarianism, generosity, and reciprocity in economic games (2016)
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Zhao, K., Ferguson, E., & Smillie, L. D. (2016). Prosocial personality traits differentially predict egalitarianism, generosity, and reciprocity in economic games. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 1137. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01137

Recent research has highlighted the role of prosocial personality traits—agreeableness and honesty-humility—in egalitarian distributions of wealth in the dictator game. Expanding on these findings, we ran two studies to examine individual differences... Read More about Prosocial personality traits differentially predict egalitarianism, generosity, and reciprocity in economic games.

Associations between sheep farmer attitudes, beliefs, emotions and personality, and their barriers to uptake of best practice: the example of footrot (2016)
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O’Kane, H., Ferguson, E., Kaler, J., & Green, L. (2017). Associations between sheep farmer attitudes, beliefs, emotions and personality, and their barriers to uptake of best practice: the example of footrot. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 139, 123-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2016.05.009

There is interest in understanding how farmers’ behaviour influences their management of livestock. We extend the theory of planned behaviour with farmers attitudes, beliefs, emotions and personality to investigate how these are associated with manag... Read More about Associations between sheep farmer attitudes, beliefs, emotions and personality, and their barriers to uptake of best practice: the example of footrot.

Factors associated with the presence and prevalence of contagious ovine digital dermatitis: a 2013 study of 1136 random English sheep flocks (2016)
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Dickins, A., Clark, C. C., Kaler, J., Ferguson, E., O’Kane, H., & Green, L. E. (2016). Factors associated with the presence and prevalence of contagious ovine digital dermatitis: a 2013 study of 1136 random English sheep flocks. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prevetmed.2016.06.009

In 2013, a questionnaire was used to gather data on risks for introduction, and factors associated with prevalence, of contagious ovine digital dermatitis (CODD). There were 1136 (28.4%) usable responses from 4000 randomly selected sheep farmers in E... Read More about Factors associated with the presence and prevalence of contagious ovine digital dermatitis: a 2013 study of 1136 random English sheep flocks.

Moral relativism as a disconnect between behavioural and experienced warm glow (2016)
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Ferguson, E., & Flynn, N. (2016). Moral relativism as a disconnect between behavioural and experienced warm glow. Journal of Economic Psychology, 56, 163-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2016.06.002

We examine the robustness of warm glow preferences to changes in the choice set. Behavioural warm glow is measured using the crowded-out charity dictator game of Crumpler and Grossman (2008). In the give treatment, subjects could donate any part of t... Read More about Moral relativism as a disconnect between behavioural and experienced warm glow.

For better or for worse: the moderating effects of personality on the marriage life satisfaction link (2016)
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Boyce, C. J., Wood, A. M., & Ferguson, E. (2016). For better or for worse: the moderating effects of personality on the marriage life satisfaction link. Personality and Individual Differences, 97, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.005

On average, marriage tends to lead to temporary increases in life satisfaction, which quickly return to pre-marital levels. This general pattern, however, does not consider the personality of individuals entering into marriage. We examine whether fol... Read More about For better or for worse: the moderating effects of personality on the marriage life satisfaction link.

Individual differences in loss aversion: conscientiousness predicts how life satisfaction responds to losses versus gains in income (2016)
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Boyce, C. J., Wood, A. M., & Ferguson, E. (2016). Individual differences in loss aversion: conscientiousness predicts how life satisfaction responds to losses versus gains in income. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 42(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167216634060

Loss aversion is considered a general pervasive bias occurring regardless of context or person making the decision. We hypothesized that conscientiousness would predict an aversion to losses in the financial domain. We index loss aversion by the rela... Read More about Individual differences in loss aversion: conscientiousness predicts how life satisfaction responds to losses versus gains in income.

Individual differences in good manners rather than compassion predict fair allocations of wealth in the dictator game (2016)
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Zhao, K., Ferguson, E., & Smillie, L. D. (in press). Individual differences in good manners rather than compassion predict fair allocations of wealth in the dictator game. Journal of Personality, https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12237

Objective. One of the most common tools for studying prosociality is the dictator game, in which allocations to one’s partner are often described in terms of altruism. However, there is less consensus regarding the motivations driving these allocatio... Read More about Individual differences in good manners rather than compassion predict fair allocations of wealth in the dictator game.

Blood donation and altruism: the mechanism of altruism (MOA) approach (2016)
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Ferguson, E., & Lawrence, C. (2016). Blood donation and altruism: the mechanism of altruism (MOA) approach. ISBT Science Series, 11, https://doi.org/10.1111/voxs.12209

Is blood donation a pure altruistic act? The answer to this question has profound implications for the type of interventions we can adopt and the way in which research is conducted into blood donor behaviour. This review will address this question an... Read More about Blood donation and altruism: the mechanism of altruism (MOA) approach.

Visuospatial ability as a predictor of novice performance in ultrasound–guided regional anesthesia (2015)
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Atif, S., Ferguson, E., Thanawala, V., Bedforth, N. M., Hardman, J., & McCahon, R. A. (2015). Visuospatial ability as a predictor of novice performance in ultrasound–guided regional anesthesia. Anesthesiology, 123(5), https://doi.org/10.1097/ALN.0000000000000870

Background: Visuospatial ability correlates positively with novice performance of simple laparoscopic tasks. The aims of this study were to identify if visuospatial ability could predict technical performance of an ultrasound–guided needle task by n... Read More about Visuospatial ability as a predictor of novice performance in ultrasound–guided regional anesthesia.

We need to talk about error: causes and types of error in veterinary practice (2015)
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Oxtoby, C., Ferguson, E., White, K., & Mossop, L. (2015). We need to talk about error: causes and types of error in veterinary practice. Veterinary Record, 177(17), https://doi.org/10.1136/vr.103331

Patient safety research in human medicine has identified the causes and common types of medical error and subsequently informed the development of interventions which mitigate harm, such as the WHO’s safe surgery checklist. There is no such evidence... Read More about We need to talk about error: causes and types of error in veterinary practice.

Cortisol levels and suicidal behavior: a meta-analysis (2015)
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O’Connor, D. B., Ferguson, E., Green, J. A., O'Carroll, R. E., & O'Connor, R. C. (in press). Cortisol levels and suicidal behavior: a meta-analysis. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 63, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.10.011

Suicide is a major cause of death worldwide, responsible for 1.5% of all mortality. The causes of suicidal behavior are not fully understood. Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activity, as measured by cortisol levels, is one pote... Read More about Cortisol levels and suicidal behavior: a meta-analysis.