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Acceptability of blood and blood substitutes (2008)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Prowse, C., Townsend, E., Spence, A., van Hilten, J., & Lowe, K. (2008). Acceptability of blood and blood substitutes. Journal of Internal Medicine, 263(3), 244-255. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2796.2007.01897.x

Alternatives to donor blood have been developed in part to meet increasing demand. However, new biotechnologies are often associated with increased perceptions of risk and low acceptance. This paper reviews developments of alternatives and presents d... Read More about Acceptability of blood and blood substitutes.

Examining consumer behaviour toward genetically modified (GM) food in Britain (2006)
Journal Article
Spence, A., & Townsend, E. (2006). Examining consumer behaviour toward genetically modified (GM) food in Britain. Risk Analysis, 26(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.2006.00777.x

This study examined behaviour towards genetically modified (GM) food in a British community-based sample. We used an equivalent gain task in which participants actually received the options they chose to encourage truthful responding. In conjunction... Read More about Examining consumer behaviour toward genetically modified (GM) food in Britain.

Implicit attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) foods: a comparison of context-free and context-dependent evaluations (2006)
Journal Article
Spence, A., & Townsend, E. (2006). Implicit attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) foods: a comparison of context-free and context-dependent evaluations. Appetite, 46(2), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2005.09.003

Past research on attitudes towards GM food has focused on measuring explicit attitudes. Here we compared implicit attitudes towards GM foods with explicit attitudes towards GM foods. We used the Go No-Go task to investigate context-free implicit eval... Read More about Implicit attitudes towards Genetically Modified (GM) foods: a comparison of context-free and context-dependent evaluations.

Spontaneous evaluations: similarities and differences between the affect heuristic and implicit attitudes
Journal Article
Spence, A., & Townsend, E. Spontaneous evaluations: similarities and differences between the affect heuristic and implicit attitudes. Cognition and Emotion, 22(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930701298432

The affect heuristic and implicit attitudes are two separate concepts that have arisen within different literatures but that have a number of similarities. This paper compares these two constructs with the aim of clarifying exactly what they are and... Read More about Spontaneous evaluations: similarities and differences between the affect heuristic and implicit attitudes.