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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.

How similar are responses to background motion and target displacements? (2022)
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Crowe, E. M., Vellekoop, P., van Meteren, C., Smeets, J. B. J., & Brenner, E. (2022). How similar are responses to background motion and target displacements?. Experimental Brain Research, 240(10), 2667-2676. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-022-06436-1

When making a goal-directed movement towards a target, our hand follows abrupt background motion. This response resembles that of a shift in the target’s position. Does background motion simply change the position towards which the movement is guided... Read More about How similar are responses to background motion and target displacements?.

The forensic implications of camouflaging: a study into victimisation and offending associated with autism and pathological demand avoidance (2022)
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Trundle, G., Jones, K. A., Ropar, D., & Egan, V. (2023). The forensic implications of camouflaging: a study into victimisation and offending associated with autism and pathological demand avoidance. Advances in Autism, 9(2), 116-131. https://doi.org/10.1108/aia-02-2022-0006

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the influence of social camouflaging on victimisation and offending in relation to autism and pathological demand avoidance (PDA) traits. Camouflaging aims to overcome or conceal difficulties in social and comm... Read More about The forensic implications of camouflaging: a study into victimisation and offending associated with autism and pathological demand avoidance.

The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19 (2022)
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Chaumon, M., Rioux, P., Herbst, S. K., Spiousas, I., Kübel, S. L., Gallego Hiroyasu, E. M., …van Wassenhove, V. (2022). The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1587-1599. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01419-2

The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns triggered worldwide changes in the daily routines of human experience. The Blursday database provides repeated measures of subjective time and related processes from participants in nine countries tested... Read More about The Blursday database as a resource to study subjective temporalities during COVID-19.

URB597 induces subtle changes to aggression in adult Lister Hooded rats (2022)
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Warren, W. G., Hale, E., Papagianni, E. P., Cassaday, H. J., Stevenson, C. W., & Stubbendorff, C. (2022). URB597 induces subtle changes to aggression in adult Lister Hooded rats. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 885146. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.885146

The endocannabinoid system has been implicated in both social and cognitive processing. The endocannabinoid metabolism inhibitor, URB597, dose-dependently improves non-social memory in adult Wistar and Sprague Dawley rats, whereas its effect on socia... Read More about URB597 induces subtle changes to aggression in adult Lister Hooded rats.

Temporal contiguity determines overshadowing and potentiation of human Action-Outcome performance (2022)
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Alcalá, J. A., Kirkden, R. D., Bray, J., Prados, J., & Urcelay, G. P. (2022). Temporal contiguity determines overshadowing and potentiation of human Action-Outcome performance. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02155-4

Three experiments (n = 81, n = 81, n = 82, respectively) explored how temporal contiguity influences Action-Outcome learning, assessing whether an intervening signal competed, facilitated, or had no effect on performance and causal attribution in und... Read More about Temporal contiguity determines overshadowing and potentiation of human Action-Outcome performance.

Investigating the relationship between bullying involvement and self-harmful thoughts and behaviour in young people: A systematic review (2022)
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Moore, H., Sayal, K., Williams, A. J., & Townsend, E. (2022). Investigating the relationship between bullying involvement and self-harmful thoughts and behaviour in young people: A systematic review. Journal of Affective Disorders, 315, 234-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2022.07.056

Background: There is a complex and inconsistent relationship between bullying involvement and self-harmful thoughts and behaviour (SHTB) in young people. This novel systematic review aims to establish key interacting, moderating and mediating variabl... Read More about Investigating the relationship between bullying involvement and self-harmful thoughts and behaviour in young people: A systematic review.

BJS Prize 2 Exploring variation in surgical practice: the colorectal surgeon's personality influences anastomotic decision-making in rectal cancer (2022)
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Bisset, C., Ferguson, E., Oliphant, R., Macdermid, E., & Moug, S. (2022). BJS Prize 2 Exploring variation in surgical practice: the colorectal surgeon's personality influences anastomotic decision-making in rectal cancer. British Journal of Surgery, 109(Supplement_5), Article znac246.002. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znac246.002

Background The influence of internal surgeon-specific factors, such as personality, on cognitive bias and decision-making in surgery is not well understood. These factors may be particularly influential in clinical cases where there is a high degree... Read More about BJS Prize 2 Exploring variation in surgical practice: the colorectal surgeon's personality influences anastomotic decision-making in rectal cancer.

Biased confabulation in risky choice (2022)
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Mason, A., Madan, C. R., Simonsen, N., Spetch, M. L., & Ludvig, E. A. (2022). Biased confabulation in risky choice. Cognition, 229, Article 105245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105245

When people make risky decisions based on past experience, they must rely on memory. The nature of the memory representations that support these decisions is not yet well understood. A key question concerns the extent to which people recall specific... Read More about Biased confabulation in risky choice.

The Developmental Trajectories of Children’s Reorientation to Global and Local Properties of Environmental Geometry (2022)
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Buckley, M. G., Holden, L. J., Smith, A. D., & Haselgrove, M. (2024). The Developmental Trajectories of Children’s Reorientation to Global and Local Properties of Environmental Geometry. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(4), 889-912. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001265

The way in which organisms represent the shape of their environments during navigation has been debated in cognitive, comparative, and developmental psychology. While there is evidence that adult humans encode the entire boundary shape of an environm... Read More about The Developmental Trajectories of Children’s Reorientation to Global and Local Properties of Environmental Geometry.

A typology of strategies that recognize, reward, and incentivize blood donation (2022)
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Chell, K., Masser, B., Davison, T. E., & Ferguson, E. (2022). A typology of strategies that recognize, reward, and incentivize blood donation. Transfusion, https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17053

Background: Blood collection agencies (BCAs) worldwide are continuously looking to improve recognition, reward, and incentive (RRI) policies to optimize the recruitment and retention of blood donors. However, given the inconsistent categorization and... Read More about A typology of strategies that recognize, reward, and incentivize blood donation.

UK ethnic minority healthcare workers’ perspectives on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK ethnic minority community: A qualitative study (2022)
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Sagoe, D., Ogunbode, C., Antwi, P., Knizek, B. L., Awaleh, Z., & Dadzie, O. (2022). UK ethnic minority healthcare workers’ perspectives on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK ethnic minority community: A qualitative study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 908917. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.908917

Background: The experiences of UK ethnic minority (UKEM) healthcare workers are crucial to ameliorating the disproportionate COVID-19 infection rate and outcomes in the UKEM community. We conducted a qualitative study on UKEM healthcare workers’ pers... Read More about UK ethnic minority healthcare workers’ perspectives on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK ethnic minority community: A qualitative study.

Trauma exposure and short-term volitional personality trait change (2022)
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Blackie, L. E., & Hudson, N. W. (2023). Trauma exposure and short-term volitional personality trait change. Journal of Personality, 91(3), 583-600. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12759

Objective: Research into post-traumatic growth (PTG) finds individuals report positive changes in their identity, relationships, and worldviews after trauma. In a pre-registered 16-week longitudinal study, we examined trait change after recent trauma... Read More about Trauma exposure and short-term volitional personality trait change.

Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2020) (2022)
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Prosser, N. S., Hill, E. M., Armstrong, D., Gow, L., Tildesley, M. J., Keeling, M. J., …Green, M. J. (2022). Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2020). Veterinary Record, 191(5), Article e1854. https://doi.org/10.1002/vetr.1854

Background: Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) causes substantial economic losses to the cattle industry; however, control and eradication can be achieved by identifying and removing persistently infected cattle from the herd. Each UK nation has sep... Read More about Descriptive analysis of national bovine viral diarrhoea test data in England (2016–2020).

Effects of emotion and semantic relatedness on recognition memory: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence (2022)
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Han, M., Li, B., Guo, C., & Tibon, R. (2023). Effects of emotion and semantic relatedness on recognition memory: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence. Psychophysiology, 60(1), Article e14152. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14152

Some aspects of our memory are enhanced by emotion, whereas others can be unaffected or even hindered. Previous studies reported impaired associative memory of emotional content, an effect termed associative “emotional interference”. The current stud... Read More about Effects of emotion and semantic relatedness on recognition memory: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence.

Exploring variation in surgical practice: does surgeon personality influence anastomotic decision-making? (2022)
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Bisset, C. N., Ferguson, E., MacDermid, E., Stein, S. L., Yassin, N., Dames, N., …Plato Project Steering Group Collaborators. (2022). Exploring variation in surgical practice: does surgeon personality influence anastomotic decision-making?. British Journal of Surgery, 109(11), 1156-1163. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znac200

BACKGROUND: Decision-making under uncertainty may be influenced by an individual's personality. The primary aim was to explore associations between surgeon personality traits and colorectal anastomotic decision-making. METHODS: Colorectal surgeons wo... Read More about Exploring variation in surgical practice: does surgeon personality influence anastomotic decision-making?.

Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour (2022)
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Hill, E. M., Prosser, N. S., Ferguson, E., Kaler, J., Green, M. J., Keeling, M. J., & Tildesley, M. J. (2022). Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(7), Article e1010235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010235

The spread of infection amongst livestock depends not only on the traits of the pathogen and the livestock themselves, but also on the veterinary health behaviours of farmers and how this impacts their implementation of disease control measures. Cont... Read More about Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour.

Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour. (2022)
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Hill, E. M., Prosser, N. S., Ferguson, E., Kaler, J., Green, M. J., Keeling, M. J., & Tildesley, M. J. (2022). Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(7), Article e1010235. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010235

Background: The spread of infection amongst livestock depends not only on the traits of the pathogen and the livestock themselves, but also on the behavioural characteristics of farmers and how that impacts the implementation of livestock disease con... Read More about Modelling livestock infectious disease control policy under differing social perspectives on vaccination behaviour..