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Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2022)
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Tunney, R. J., & James, R. (2022). Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. Royal Society Open Science, 9(10), Article 220102. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220102

We report the results of a pre-registered analysis of data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing that was designed to test the hypothesis that economic scarcity is associated with individual differences in decision-making. We tested this hypo... Read More about Individual differences in decision-making: evidence for the scarcity hypothesis from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study (2022)
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Yasdiman, M. B., Townsend, E., & Blackie, L. E. R. (2022). Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 998836. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.998836

Research has found an inverse relationship between posttraumatic growth (PTG) and suicidal ideation in military and community samples that holds when controlling for other suicide risk factors. However, further research is needed into the underlying... Read More about Examining the protective influence of posttraumatic growth on interpersonal suicide risk factors in a 6-week longitudinal study.

Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms (2022)
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Viidu, D. A., Ferguson, E., Kaart, T., & Mõtus, K. (2022). Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms. Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 9, Article 959548. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.959548

Although calf mortality is a multifactorial problem, little is known about the attitudes and personalities of calf care workers (CCWs) and their association with calf mortality. This study aimed to describe the attitudes, satisfaction, and personalit... Read More about Calf care workers' attitudes and personality and their association with calf mortality in large-scale dairy farms.

An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research (2022)
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Richie-Halford, A., Cieslak, M., Ai, L., Caffarra, S., Covitz, S., Franco, A. R., …Rokem, A. (2022). An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data, 9, Article 616. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7

We created a set of resources to enable research based on openly-available diffusion MRI (dMRI) data from the Healthy Brain Network (HBN) study. First, we curated the HBN dMRI data (N = 2747) into the Brain Imaging Data Structure and preprocessed it... Read More about An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research.

The spatial properties of adaptation-induced distance compression (2022)
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Jovanovic, L., McGraw, P. V., Roach, N. W., & Johnston, A. (2022). The spatial properties of adaptation-induced distance compression. Journal of Vision, 22(11), Article 7. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.22.11.7

Exposure to a dynamic texture reduces the perceived separation between objects, altering the mapping between physical relations in the environment and their neural representations. Here we investigated the spatial tuning and spatial frame of referenc... Read More about The spatial properties of adaptation-induced distance compression.

Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation (2022)
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Lee, S. T., van Heuven, W. J., Price, J. M., & Leong, C. X. R. (2023). Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation. Behavior Research Methods, 55, Article 3585-3601. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01977-3

Translation equivalents are widely used in bilingual research concerning word processing (e.g., Eddington & Tokowicz, 2013; Jouravlev & Jared, 2020) and second-language vocabulary learning (e.g., Bracken et al., 2017; Degani et al., 2014). Although t... Read More about Translation norms for Malay and English words: The effects of word class, semantic variability, lexical characteristics, and language proficiency on translation.

The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China (2022)
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Howell, J. L., Sweeny, K., Hua, J., Werntz, A., Hussain, M., Hinojosa, B. M., …Teachman, B. A. (2022). The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China. Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001163

Uncertainty about the future often leads to worries about what the future will bring, which can have negative consequences for health and well-being. However, if worry can act as a motivator to promote efforts to prevent undesirable future outcomes,... Read More about The Role of Uncertainty, Worry, and Control in Well-Being: Evidence From the COVID-19 Outbreak and Pandemic in U.S. and China.

Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries (2022)
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Ogunbode, C., Doran, R., Hanss, D., Ojala, M., Salmela-Aro, K., van den Broek, K. L., …Karasu, M. (2022). Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, Article 101887. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101887

This study explored the correlates of climate anxiety in a diverse range of national contexts. We analysed cross-sectional data gathered in 32 countries (N = 12,246). Our results show that climate anxiety is positively related to rate of exposure to... Read More about Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries.

Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude (2022)
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Burdett, M., & Burdett, E. (2122). Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 9(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2022-0009

This article considers the social evolutionary research on gratitude and reciprocity and focuses on two mechanisms, upstream reciprocity and increased gratitude to strangers, that have strong consonance with various theological accounts of gift-givin... Read More about Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude.

Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review (2022)
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James, R. J., Dixon, G., Dragomir, M. G., Thirlwell, E., & Hitcham, L. (2023). Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review. Addictive Behaviors, 137, Article 107503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107503

It has been claimed that smartphone usage constitutes a behavioral addiction, characterised by compulsive, excessive use of one's phone and psychological withdrawal or distress when the phone is absent. However, there is uncertainty about key phenome... Read More about Understanding the construction of ‘behavior’ in smartphone addiction: A scoping review.

Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant (2022)
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Cutter, M. G., Paterson, K. B., & Filik, R. (2023). Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant. British Journal of Psychology, 114(1), 39-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12594

Controversy exists as to whether, compared to young adults, older adults are more, equally or less likely to make linguistic predictions while reading. While previous studies have examined age effects on the prediction of upcoming words, the predicti... Read More about Syntactic prediction during self-paced reading is age invariant.

Strong perceptual consequences of low-level visual predictions: A new illusion (2022)
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Jovanovic, L., Trichanh, M., Martin, B., & Giersch, A. (2023). Strong perceptual consequences of low-level visual predictions: A new illusion. Cognition, 230, Article 105279. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105279

Predicting information is considered to be an efficient strategy to minimise processing costs by exploiting regularities in the environment, and to allow for adaptation in case of irregularities, i.e. prediction errors. How such errors impact conscio... Read More about Strong perceptual consequences of low-level visual predictions: A new illusion.

Investigating corroboration of self-perceived posttraumatic growth among Sri Lankan Tamil survivors of ethnopolitical warfare through trait, domain, and profile agreement approaches (2022)
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Reynolds, C. J., Blackie, L. E., Furr, R. M., Demaske, A., Roepke, A. M., Forgeard, M., & Jayawickreme, E. (2022). Investigating corroboration of self-perceived posttraumatic growth among Sri Lankan Tamil survivors of ethnopolitical warfare through trait, domain, and profile agreement approaches. Psychological Assessment, 34(12), 1155–1165. https://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001172

Though research on assessing posttraumatic growth has been severely critiqued, some evidence suggests close others can observe and report changes in individuals following traumatic life events and are sensitive to idiosyncratic ways in which changes... Read More about Investigating corroboration of self-perceived posttraumatic growth among Sri Lankan Tamil survivors of ethnopolitical warfare through trait, domain, and profile agreement approaches.

Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task (2022)
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French, B., Di Chiaro, N. V., & Holmes, N. P. (2022). Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task. Experimental Brain Research, 240, 2715-2723. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06450-3

The grating orientation discrimination task (GOT) is a sensitive and reliable measure of tactile spatial resolution, or acuity. We used the GOT in three experiments to investigate the effects of hand posture and hand visibility on spatial acuity. Par... Read More about Hand posture, but not vision of the hand, affects tactile spatial resolution in the grating orientation discrimination task.

Fast Event-Related Mapping of Population Fingertip Tuning Properties in Human Sensorimotor Cortex at 7T (2022)
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Khalife, S., Francis, S. T., Schluppeck, D., Sánchez-Panchuelo, R. M., & Besle, J. (2022). Fast Event-Related Mapping of Population Fingertip Tuning Properties in Human Sensorimotor Cortex at 7T. eNeuro, 9(5), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0069-22.2022

fMRI studies that investigate somatotopic tactile representations in the human cortex typically use either block or phase-encoded stimulation designs. Event-related (ER) designs allow for more flexible and unpredictable stimulation sequences than the... Read More about Fast Event-Related Mapping of Population Fingertip Tuning Properties in Human Sensorimotor Cortex at 7T.

Improved cognitive performance in trace amine-associated receptor 5 (TAAR5) knock-out mice (2022)
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Maggi, S., Bon, C., Gustincich, S., Tucci, V., Gainetdinov, R. R., & Espinoza, S. (2022). Improved cognitive performance in trace amine-associated receptor 5 (TAAR5) knock-out mice. Scientific Reports, 12, Article 14708. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18924-z

Trace amine-associated receptors (TAARs) are a family of G protein-coupled receptors present in mammals in the brain and several peripheral organs. Apart from its olfactory role, TAAR5 is expressed in the major limbic brain areas and regulates brain... Read More about Improved cognitive performance in trace amine-associated receptor 5 (TAAR5) knock-out mice.

Activating faith: pro-environmental responses to a Christian text on sustainability (2022)
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Ives, C. D., Buys, C., Ogunbode, C., Palmer, M., Rose, A., & Valerio, R. (2022). Activating faith: pro-environmental responses to a Christian text on sustainability. Sustainability Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-022-01197-w

With growing attention on the importance of values, beliefs and worldviews in shaping environmental outcomes, there remains little research on religion and sustainability transformations. We explored the impact of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s envir... Read More about Activating faith: pro-environmental responses to a Christian text on sustainability.

Cannabidiol Prevents Spontaneous Fear Recovery after Extinction and Ameliorates Stress-Induced Extinction Resistance (2022)
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Papagianni, E. P., Warren, W. G., Cassaday, H. J., & Stevenson, C. W. (2022). Cannabidiol Prevents Spontaneous Fear Recovery after Extinction and Ameliorates Stress-Induced Extinction Resistance. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(16), Article 9333. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23169333

Cannabidiol, the main non-psychotropic constituent of cannabis, has potential as a treatment for anxiety-related disorders since it reduces learned fear expression and enhances fear extinction. The return of fear over time after successful extinction... Read More about Cannabidiol Prevents Spontaneous Fear Recovery after Extinction and Ameliorates Stress-Induced Extinction Resistance.

Feasibility and acceptability of experience sampling among LGBTQ+ young people with self-harmful thoughts and behaviours (2022)
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Williams, A. J., Arcelus, J., Townsend, E., & Michail, M. (2022). Feasibility and acceptability of experience sampling among LGBTQ+ young people with self-harmful thoughts and behaviours. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 916164. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.916164

This study was the first to determine whether it was feasible and acceptable to use experience sampling methods (ESM) among LGBTQ+ young people, who had current experiences of self-harm. Sixteen LGBTQ+ young people (16–25 years old) took part in the... Read More about Feasibility and acceptability of experience sampling among LGBTQ+ young people with self-harmful thoughts and behaviours.