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Contribution of inflammation markers and quantitative sensory testing (QST) indices of central sensitisation to rheumatoid arthritis pain (2024)
Journal Article
Georgopoulos, V., Smith, S., McWilliams, D., Walsh, D., & Ferguson, E. (2024). Contribution of inflammation markers and quantitative sensory testing (QST) indices of central sensitisation to rheumatoid arthritis pain. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 26, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-024-03407-5

Background: Pain, the primary complaint in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), is multifaceted, and may be driven by inflammatory disease activity and central sensitisation. We aimed to ascertain what proportion of RA pain severity is explained by markers of... Read More about Contribution of inflammation markers and quantitative sensory testing (QST) indices of central sensitisation to rheumatoid arthritis pain.

The Role of Hyperbole in Conveying Emotionality: The Case of Victim Speech (2024)
Journal Article
Desai, S., Bailey, K., & Filik, R. (in press). The Role of Hyperbole in Conveying Emotionality: The Case of Victim Speech. Cognition and Emotion,

Figurative expressions are commonly used in everyday language as a device for conveying emotion. Hyperbole (e.g., “It took ages for him to arrive”) specifically can provide linguistic emphasis; especially when speakers wish to convey emotional evalua... Read More about The Role of Hyperbole in Conveying Emotionality: The Case of Victim Speech.

Dynamic Interplay of Online Risk and Resilience in Adolescence (DIORA): a protocol for a 12-month prospective observational study testing the associations among digital activity, affective and cognitive reactions and depression symptoms in a community sample of UK adolescents (2024)
Journal Article
Kostyrka-Allchorne, K., Stoilova, M., Bourgaize, J., Murray, A., Azeri, E., Hollis, C., Townsend, E., Livingstone, S., & Sonuga-Barke, E. (2024). Dynamic Interplay of Online Risk and Resilience in Adolescence (DIORA): a protocol for a 12-month prospective observational study testing the associations among digital activity, affective and cognitive reactions and depression symptoms in a community sample of UK adolescents. BMJ Open, 14(9), Article e085061. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-085061

Introduction The impact of digital activity on adolescent mental health has been difficult to assess because of methodological limitations and a lack of strong theory. Dynamic Interplay of Online Risk and Resilience in Adolescence (DIORA) is a longit... Read More about Dynamic Interplay of Online Risk and Resilience in Adolescence (DIORA): a protocol for a 12-month prospective observational study testing the associations among digital activity, affective and cognitive reactions and depression symptoms in a community sample of UK adolescents.

Self-harm in women in midlife: rates, precipitating problems, and outcomes following hospital presentations in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England (2024)
Journal Article
Clements, C., Bickley, H., Hawton, K., Geulayov, G., Waters, K., Ness, J., Kelly, S., Townsend, E., Appleby, L., & Kapur, N. (in press). Self-harm in women in midlife: rates, precipitating problems, and outcomes following hospital presentations in the Multicentre Study of Self-harm in England. British Journal of Psychiatry,

The power of arts‐based film interventions to encourage Black blood donors (2024)
Journal Article
Mills, R., Okubanjo, A., Acheampong, N., Croucher, M., Eaton, N., Kazi, A., Di Angelantonio, E., Wood, A., Barbara, M., & Ferguson, E. (2024). The power of arts‐based film interventions to encourage Black blood donors. Transfusion, https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17963

Background: Blood services must consider innovative ways to encourage more Black people to donate to enhance the efficacy of treatments. We evaluate how two innovative arts-based approaches (co-designed and locally produced films and a large-scale Ma... Read More about The power of arts‐based film interventions to encourage Black blood donors.

Questions on Travel and Sexual Behaviours Negatively Impact Ethnic Minority Donor Recruitment: Effect of Negative Word-of-Mouth and Avoidance (2024)
Journal Article
Ferguson, E., Mills, R., Dawe-Lane, E., Khan, Z., Reynolds, C., Davison, K., Edge, D., Smith, R., O'Hagan, N., Desai, R., Croucher, M., Eaton, N., & Brailsford, S. (in press). Questions on Travel and Sexual Behaviours Negatively Impact Ethnic Minority Donor Recruitment: Effect of Negative Word-of-Mouth and Avoidance. Vox Sanguinis,

Aims: Donor selection questions differentially impacting ethnic minorities can discourage donation directly and via negative-word-of-mouth. We explore the differential impact of two blood safety questions relating to (i) sexual contacts linked to ar... Read More about Questions on Travel and Sexual Behaviours Negatively Impact Ethnic Minority Donor Recruitment: Effect of Negative Word-of-Mouth and Avoidance.

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. A., Achee, M., Tomarken, A., & Filik, R. (2024). Is There a Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Professional Male Fashion Models?. American Journal of Men's Health, 18(5), https://doi.org/10.1177/15579883241279507

This study is the first to examine the utility of body mass index (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,... Read More about Is There a Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Eating Disorder Symptoms in Professional Male Fashion Models?.

Educating future leaders to engage the challenges of a changing world: A blended-learning approach to character and leadership education at the University of Hong Kong (2024)
Journal Article
Brooks, E., Tse, S., Wright, J. Y., & Burdett, E. (2024). Educating future leaders to engage the challenges of a changing world: A blended-learning approach to character and leadership education at the University of Hong Kong. Tertiary Education and Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11233-024-09138-1

How can a new generation of students be equipped to take up positions of responsibility in a dynamic global environment, serving as leaders and citizens who will further the good of societies around the world? As the institutions responsible for educ... Read More about Educating future leaders to engage the challenges of a changing world: A blended-learning approach to character and leadership education at the University of Hong Kong.

Effects of manipulating prefrontal activity and dopamine D1 receptor signalling in an appetitive feature-negative discrimination learning task (2024)
Journal Article
Hock, R. M., Owusu-Amoah, N., Waite, L., Muir, C., Stevenson, C. W., Bonardi, C., & Cassaday, H. J. (2024). Effects of manipulating prefrontal activity and dopamine D1 receptor signalling in an appetitive feature-negative discrimination learning task. Behavioral Neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1037/bne0000603

Healthy cognition requires inhibitory modulation of associative learning; conversely, impaired inhibitory discrimination is implicated in behavioral disorders. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and its dopamine innervation are key to understanding... Read More about Effects of manipulating prefrontal activity and dopamine D1 receptor signalling in an appetitive feature-negative discrimination learning task.

Perception and neurocognitive aging (2024)
Book Chapter
Allen, H. (2024). Perception and neurocognitive aging. In Encyclopedia of the Human Brain. (2). Elsevier

There are sensory changes and decline in all senses, although people are often more aware of the changes in vision and hearing than those in touch, smell and taste. In the first part of this article, I will summarize and discuss these changes. In the... Read More about Perception and neurocognitive aging.

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.

Safety signals reinforce instrumental avoidance in humans (2024)
Journal Article
Fisher, C. T., & Urcelay, G. P. (2024). Safety signals reinforce instrumental avoidance in humans. Learning and Memory, 31(8), Article a053914. https://doi.org/10.1101/lm.053914.123

Safety signals reinforce instrumental avoidance behavior in nonhuman 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.

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.

Aim
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)
Journal Article
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.

From Economic Inequality to Intolerance: The Role of Conspiracy Beliefs in Anti-Immigrant Sentiment (2024)
Report
Jolley, D., Hattersley, M., Skipper, Y., & Douglas, K. (2024). From Economic Inequality to Intolerance: The Role of Conspiracy Beliefs in Anti-Immigrant Sentiment. University of Nottingham

On 31st December 2023, a disused pub in Dublin, Ireland, was set ablaze in a suspected arson attack. Earlier that month, the building had been subject to protests amid claims that the building would be used to house asylum seekers, leading to suggest... Read More about From Economic Inequality to Intolerance: The Role of Conspiracy Beliefs in Anti-Immigrant Sentiment.

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)
Journal Article
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..

Memory for health information: Influences of age, hearing aids, and multisensory presentation (2024)
Journal Article
Stacey, J., Atkin, C., Roberts, K. L., Henshaw, H., ALLEN, H., & Badham, S. P. (in press). Memory for health information: Influences of age, hearing aids, and multisensory presentation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology,

Background. We investigated how presenting online health information in different modalities can influence memory, as this may be particularly important for older adults who may need to make regular decisions about health, and could also face additio... Read More about Memory for health information: Influences of age, hearing aids, and multisensory presentation.

Students engage with and benefit from active learning when this is appropriately embedded in curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.