All Outputs (27)

Short term memory and peripheral vision at junctions (2023)
Journal Article

Motorcyclists are at extremely high risk of death in crashes where another vehicle pulls out into their path at a junction. Such crashes have often been described as the result of “look but fail to see” errors. However, recent research has shown that... Read More about Short term memory and peripheral vision at junctions.

“There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures (2021)
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The theory of universal emotions suggests that certain emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, sadness, surprise and happiness can be encountered cross-culturally. These emotions are expressed using specific facial movements that enable human communic... Read More about “There Is No (Where a) Face Like Home”: Recognition and Appraisal Responses to Masked Facial Dialects of Emotion in Four Different National Cultures.

A cross-cultural comparison of where drivers choose to look when viewing driving scenes (2021)
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A substantial proportion of road accidents occur as a result of drivers having poor or insufficient visual search strategies. However, the majority of research into drivers visual search comes from high income Western countries where roads are relati... Read More about A cross-cultural comparison of where drivers choose to look when viewing driving scenes.

Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications (2021)
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In this manuscript we review a seminal debate related to subliminality and concerning the relationship of consciousness, unconsciousness, and perception. We present the methodological implementations that contemporary psychology introduced to explore... Read More about Individual conscious and unconscious perception of emotion: Theory, methodology and applications.

The Effect of a Secondary Task on Drivers’ Gap Acceptance and Situational Awareness at Junctions (2020)
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The current studies explored the roles of the visuospatial and phonological working memory subsystems on drivers’ gap acceptance and memory for approaching vehicles at junctions. Drivers’ behaviour was measured in a high-fidelity driving simulator wh... Read More about The Effect of a Secondary Task on Drivers’ Gap Acceptance and Situational Awareness at Junctions.

How do drivers recall positive and negative driving events? A quantitative approach to analysing driving diaries (2020)
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Whilst diary studies are often analysed in a qualitative manner, quantitative methods which analyse the percentage of different types of language used in diary entries, now exist. From a driving perspective, this could arguably tell us more about the... Read More about How do drivers recall positive and negative driving events? A quantitative approach to analysing driving diaries.

The ‘Saw but Forgot’ error: A role for short-term memory failures in understanding junction crashes? (2019)
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Motorcyclists are involved in an exceptionally high number of crashes for the distance they travel, with one of the most common incidents being where another road user pulls out into the path of an oncoming motorcycle frequently resulting in a fatal... Read More about The ‘Saw but Forgot’ error: A role for short-term memory failures in understanding junction crashes?.

Anger and hostility: are they different? An analytical exploration of facial-expressive differences, and physiological and facial-emotional responses (2019)
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How does drivers’ visual search change as a function of experience? A systematic review and meta-analysis (2019)
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Novice drivers are statistically over-represented in reported road crashes, with recent evidence suggesting that some of this increased crash involvement may be a result of limitations in their cognitive processing. Such processing has typically been... Read More about How does drivers’ visual search change as a function of experience? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways” (2019)
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In this manuscript, the authors present an overview of the history, an account of the theoretical and methodological controversy, and an illustration of contemporary and revised methods for the exploration of unconscious processing. Initially we disc... Read More about The unconscious mind: From classical theoretical controversy to controversial contemporary research and a practical illustration of the “error of our ways”.

Comparing drivers' visual attention at junctions in real and simulated environments (2019)
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Driving simulation is widely used to answer important applied research questions, however, it is vital for specific driving tasks to undergo appropriate behavioural validation testing. Many previous validation studies have used simple driving tasks a... Read More about Comparing drivers' visual attention at junctions in real and simulated environments.

Student drivers the morning after drinking: A willingness to violate road rules despite typical visual attention (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Substantial research has investigated the effects of alcohol consumption on cognitive functions. However, little research has been conducted which examines the effects of evening alcohol consumption on next morning driving perform... Read More about Student drivers the morning after drinking: A willingness to violate road rules despite typical visual attention.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: the appraisal of facial attractiveness and its relation to conscious awareness (2018)
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Previous research suggests that facial attractiveness relies on features such as symmetry, averageness and above-average sexual dimorphic characteristics. Due to the evolutionary and sociobiological value of these characteristics, it has been suggest... Read More about Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: the appraisal of facial attractiveness and its relation to conscious awareness.

Comparing drivers’ gap acceptance for cars and motorcycles at junctions using an adaptive staircase methodology (2018)
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A disproportionate number of road deaths occur at intersections where one vehicle is a motorcycle. Previous research has not systematically varied the type of vehicles presented in a controlled environment. We compared drivers’ (n=54) gap acceptance... Read More about Comparing drivers’ gap acceptance for cars and motorcycles at junctions using an adaptive staircase methodology.

The moderating effect of trait anxiety on anxiety-related thoughts and actions whilst driving (2018)
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Whilst there is evidence for the impact of driving anxiety on behaviour, less exists for the impact of trait anxiety; what does exist is inconclusive. The current study explored the possibility that trait anxiety interacts with driving anxiety to imp... Read More about The moderating effect of trait anxiety on anxiety-related thoughts and actions whilst driving.

Drivers’ visual search behavior toward vulnerable road users at junctions as a function of cycling experience (2018)
Journal Article

Objective The current study investigated the behaviour and visual attention of two groups of drivers with differing pedal cycling experience (pedal cyclists and non-pedal cyclists), towards vulnerable road users at junctions in a driving simulator.... Read More about Drivers’ visual search behavior toward vulnerable road users at junctions as a function of cycling experience.

Comparing car drivers’ and motorcyclists’ opinions about junction crashes (2018)
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Motorcyclists are involved in a disproportionate number of crashes given the distance they travel, with a high proportion of these crashes occurring at junctions. Despite car drivers being solely responsible for many road crashes involving a motorcyc... Read More about Comparing car drivers’ and motorcyclists’ opinions about junction crashes.

The effects of instruction and environmental demand on state anxiety, driving performance and autonomic activity: Are ego-threatening manipulations effective? (2018)
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A small yet emerging body of research on the relationship between anxiety and driving suggests that higher levels of state anxiety may lead to more dangerous driving behaviours. The aim of the current research was to investigate the effects of increa... Read More about The effects of instruction and environmental demand on state anxiety, driving performance and autonomic activity: Are ego-threatening manipulations effective?.

Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold (2018)
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© 2018, © The Author(s) 2018. The biological preparedness model suggests that survival-related visual cues elicit physiological changes without awareness to enable us to respond to our environment. Previous studies have reported some evidence for thi... Read More about Skin Conductance Responses to Masked Emotional Faces Are Modulated by Hit Rate but Not Signal Detection Theory Adjustments for Subjective Differences in the Detection Threshold.

Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Much heated debate surrounds the extent to which we can process emotional stimuli without awareness. In particular the extent to which masked emotional faces can elicit changes in physiology measurements, such as heart rate and s... Read More about Target meta-awareness is a necessary condition for physiological responses to masked emotional faces: Evidence from combined skin conductance and heart rate assessment.