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Comparing self-perceptions, meta-perceptions, and peer judgments of the academic experience of autistic and non-autistic university students (2024)
Journal Article
Alhusayni, A., Sheppard, E., & Marsh, L. (in press). Comparing self-perceptions, meta-perceptions, and peer judgments of the academic experience of autistic and non-autistic university students. Autism in Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2024.0107

Background. Previous research has shown that, when presented with brief samples of behaviour, non-autistic university students judge autistic peers less favourably than non-autistic peers on measures of academic experience (e.g. motivation to study,... Read More about Comparing self-perceptions, meta-perceptions, and peer judgments of the academic experience of autistic and non-autistic university students.

Exploring general practitioners’ management of self-harm in young people: a qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article
Mughal, F., Saunders, B., Lewis, M., Armitage, C., Dikomitis, L., Lancaster, G., Townsend, E., & Chew-Graham, C. A. (2024). Exploring general practitioners’ management of self-harm in young people: a qualitative study. Health Expectations, 27(5), Article e70026. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70026

Background
General practitioners (GPs) are key to the frontline assessment and treatment of young people after self-harm. Young people value GP-led self-harm care but little is known about how GPs manage young people after self-harm.

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To und... Read More about Exploring general practitioners’ management of self-harm in young people: a qualitative study.

Not always as advertised: Different effects from viewing safer gambling (harm prevention) adverts on gambling urges (2024)
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Newall, P., Weiss-Cohen, L., Torrance, J., & Bart, Y. (2025). Not always as advertised: Different effects from viewing safer gambling (harm prevention) adverts on gambling urges. Addictive Behaviors, 160, Article 108161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108161

Public concern around gambling advertising in the UK has been met not by government action but by industry self-regulations, such as a forthcoming voluntary ban on front-of-shirt gambling sponsorship in Premier League soccer. “Safer gambling” (harm p... Read More about Not always as advertised: Different effects from viewing safer gambling (harm prevention) adverts on gambling urges.

A psychological mechanism for the development of anxiety (2024)
Journal Article
Urcelay, G. P. (2024). A psychological mechanism for the development of anxiety. Behavioral Neuroscience, 138(4), 281–290. https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000607

Although numerous behavioural constructs have been proposed to account for anxiety disorders, how these develop within an individual has been difficult to predict. In this perspective, I selectively review clinical and experimental evidence suggestin... Read More about A psychological mechanism for the development of anxiety.

Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired equivalence are positively correlated. (2024)
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Bru García, S. B., George, D. N., & Robinson, J. (2024). Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired equivalence are positively correlated. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000384

In 2 experiments, participants completed 2 computer-based tasks: a configural acquired-equivalence procedure and an optional-shift procedure. Both revealed that test performance was positively correlated, even when controlling for non-specific variab... Read More about Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired equivalence are positively correlated..

Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design (2024)
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McDonald, S., Huntington, B., & Allen, H. (2024). Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.56230/osotl.108

The present investigation sought to evaluate the influence of active and blended learning approaches to teaching on student engagement, learning gains, confidence, and sense of belonging in their psychology course. Two-hundred and eighty-four student... Read More about Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design.

Older adults do not show enhanced benefits from multisensory information on speeded perceptual discrimination tasks (2024)
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Atkin, C., Stacey, J. E., Allen, H. A., Henshaw, H., Roberts, K. L., & Badham, S. P. (2024). Older adults do not show enhanced benefits from multisensory information on speeded perceptual discrimination tasks. Neurobiology of Aging, 142, 65-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2024.08.003

Some research has shown that older adults benefit more from multisensory information than do young adults. However, more recent evidence has shown that the multisensory age benefit varies considerably across tasks. In the current study, older (65 – 8... Read More about Older adults do not show enhanced benefits from multisensory information on speeded perceptual discrimination tasks.

Is there a relationship between body mass index and eating disorder symptoms in professional male fashion models? (2024)
Journal Article
Ralph-Nearman, C., Hooper, M., Achee, M., Tomarken, A., & Filik, R. (in press). Is there a relationship between body mass index and eating disorder symptoms in professional male fashion models?. American Journal of Men's Health,

This study is the first to examine the utility of BMI as an indicator of eating disorder (ED) pathology and fitness for employment for professional male fashion models. We assessed the relationship between experimenter-measured BMI, muscle mass, body... Read More about Is there a relationship between body mass index and eating disorder symptoms in professional male fashion models?.

Do neuroticism and efficacy beliefs moderate the relationship between climate change worry and mental wellbeing? (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunbode, C. A., Salmela-Aro, K., Maran, D. A., van den Broek, K., Doran, R., Lins, S., Torres-Marín, J., Navarro-Carrillo, G., Rocchi, G., & Schermer, J. A. (2024). Do neuroticism and efficacy beliefs moderate the relationship between climate change worry and mental wellbeing?. Journal of Affective Disorders, 364, 37-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.08.018

Background: Research on the nature and prevalence of phenomena like climate anxiety (or eco-anxiety) is increasing rapidly but there is little understanding of the conditions under which climate change worry becomes more or less likely to significant... Read More about Do neuroticism and efficacy beliefs moderate the relationship between climate change worry and mental wellbeing?.

Renewal of instrumental avoidance in humans (2024)
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Urcelay, G. P., Symmons, K., Amos, B., Toutounji, H., & Prével, A. (2024). Renewal of instrumental avoidance in humans. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 50(3), 197–209. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000383

The ABA renewal effect occurs when behaviour is trained in one context (A), extinguished in a second context (B), and test occurs in the training context (A). Two mechanisms that explain ABA renewal are context summation at test and contextual modula... Read More about Renewal of instrumental avoidance in humans.

The fear factor: examining the impact of fear on vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs (2024)
Journal Article
Jolley, D., Shepherd, L., & Maughan, A. (2024). The fear factor: examining the impact of fear on vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs. Psychology and Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2024.2381235

Objectives: While anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs can reduce vaccine intentions, longitudinal research shows that vaccine hesitancy can increase conspiracy beliefs. In three experiments (N = 949), we examined the effect of fear about a vaccine on vac... Read More about The fear factor: examining the impact of fear on vaccine hesitancy and anti-vaccine conspiracy beliefs.

Safety signals reinforce instrumental avoidance in humans (2024)
Journal Article
Fisher, C. T. L., & Urcelay, G. (in press). Safety signals reinforce instrumental avoidance in humans. Learning and Memory,

Safety signals reinforce instrumental avoidance behavior in non-human animals. However, there are no conclusive demonstrations of this phenomenon in humans. Using human participants in an avoidance task, Experiments 1-3 and 5 were conducted online to... Read More about Safety signals reinforce instrumental avoidance in humans.

“Going through life on hard mode”- The experience of late diagnosis of autism and/or ADHD: a qualitative study (2024)
Journal Article
French, B., & Cassidy, S. (2024). “Going through life on hard mode”- The experience of late diagnosis of autism and/or ADHD: a qualitative study. Autism in Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2024.0085

Background – In the UK, over 2.5 million adults with undiagnosed neurodevelopmental conditions, such as autism and ADHD, can face difficulties accessing diagnosis and support. Our qualitative study explores people’s experiences of receiving a diagnos... Read More about “Going through life on hard mode”- The experience of late diagnosis of autism and/or ADHD: a qualitative study.

How Do Autistic Students Do in the Eyes of Their Peers? Non-Autistic Judgments About the Academic Experiences of Autistic and Non-Autistic University Students, Based on Brief Samples of Behavior (2024)
Journal Article
Alhusayni, A., Sheppard, E., Mitchell, P., & Marsh, L. (2024). How Do Autistic Students Do in the Eyes of Their Peers? Non-Autistic Judgments About the Academic Experiences of Autistic and Non-Autistic University Students, Based on Brief Samples of Behavior. Autism in Adulthood, https://doi.org/10.1089/aut.2023.0049

Background: Previous research has found that people can make a variety of judgments about others based on brief samples of their behavior such as judging their social favorability and whether they wish to socialize with them. Non-autistic people freq... Read More about How Do Autistic Students Do in the Eyes of Their Peers? Non-Autistic Judgments About the Academic Experiences of Autistic and Non-Autistic University Students, Based on Brief Samples of Behavior.

Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present (2024)
Journal Article
Fowler, Z., Palombo, D. J., Madan, C. R., & O’Connor, B. B. (2024). Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(25), Article e2318292121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2318292121

From close friends to people on a first date, imagining a shared future appears fundamental to relationships. Yet, no previous research has conceptualized the act of imagination as a socially constructed process that affects how connected we feel to... Read More about Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present.

Propranolol attenuates the establishment of conditioned context aversions: differential effects compared to MK-801 in an animal model of anticipatory nausea and vomiting (2024)
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İlhan, Ç. F., Ülke, E., Urcelay, G. P., & Kişlal, S. (2024). Propranolol attenuates the establishment of conditioned context aversions: differential effects compared to MK-801 in an animal model of anticipatory nausea and vomiting. Behavioural Pharmacology, 35(5), 293–302. https://doi.org/10.1097/fbp.0000000000000779

Cancer patients often experience anticipatory nausea and vomiting (ANV) due to Pavlovian conditioning. Both N-methyl-D-aspartate and beta-adrenergic receptors are known to mediate memory formation, but their role in the development of ANV remains unc... Read More about Propranolol attenuates the establishment of conditioned context aversions: differential effects compared to MK-801 in an animal model of anticipatory nausea and vomiting.

Upholding social hierarchies: Social dominance orientation moderates the link between (intergroup) conspiracy exposure and violent extremism (2024)
Journal Article
Schrader, T., Jolley, D., Jolley, R., & Krahenbuhl, S. (2024). Upholding social hierarchies: Social dominance orientation moderates the link between (intergroup) conspiracy exposure and violent extremism. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241247985

Across two experimental studies, we explored whether exposure to intergroup conspiracy theories can increase violent reactions towards targeted groups. We also examined how ideological attitudes may moderate the effect. In Study 1 (N = 160, preregist... Read More about Upholding social hierarchies: Social dominance orientation moderates the link between (intergroup) conspiracy exposure and violent extremism.