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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.

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..

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.

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)
Journal Article
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.

Policy Brief: Autism and Policing (2024)
Report
Ropar, D., & Holloway-George, C. (2024). Policy Brief: Autism and Policing. University of Nottingham

More than one in 100 people in the UK are autistic. Despite the prevalence of autism within society, autistic people face barriers in
their everyday lives. One example of this is within the criminal justice system.

Autistic people are more likely... Read More about Policy Brief: Autism and Policing.

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.

“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.