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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..

Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime (2022)
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Desai, S., & Filik, R. (2022). Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime. Psychology, Crime and Law, https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2096221

Victim emotionality is one of the most influential factors in sexual crime cases. Traditionally, the study of emotionality has been limited to behaviour-descriptors such as conveying panic or appearing shaken, however, such studies must also be exten... Read More about Literal vs. hyperbole: examining speech preferences in testimonies of victims of sexual crime.

Memory rehabilitation: restorative, specific knowledge acquisition, compensatory, and holistic approaches (2022)
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Gopi, Y., Wilding, E., & Madan, C. R. (2022). Memory rehabilitation: restorative, specific knowledge acquisition, compensatory, and holistic approaches. Cognitive Processing, 23, 537-557. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-022-01099-w

Memory impairment following an acquired brain injury can negatively impact daily living and quality of life—but can be reduced by memory rehabilitation. Here, we review the literature on four approaches for memory rehabilitation and their associated... Read More about Memory rehabilitation: restorative, specific knowledge acquisition, compensatory, and holistic approaches.

Signal detection analysis of contingency assessment: Associative interference and nonreinforcement impact cue-outcome contingency sensitivity, whereas cue density affects bias (2022)
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Jozefowiez, J., Urcelay, G. P., & Miller, R. R. (2022). Signal detection analysis of contingency assessment: Associative interference and nonreinforcement impact cue-outcome contingency sensitivity, whereas cue density affects bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48(3), 190-202. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000334

In a signal detection theory approach to associative learning, the perceived (i.e., subjective) contingency between a cue and an outcome is a random variable drawn from a Gaussian distribution. At the end of the sequence, participants report a positi... Read More about Signal detection analysis of contingency assessment: Associative interference and nonreinforcement impact cue-outcome contingency sensitivity, whereas cue density affects bias.

The role of prediction in learned predictiveness. (2022)
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Eatherington, C. J., & Haselgrove, M. (2022). The role of prediction in learned predictiveness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48(3), 203-221. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000330

Learning permits even relatively uninteresting stimuli to capture attention if they are established as predictors of important outcomes. Associative theories explain this “learned predictiveness” effect by positing that attention is a function of the... Read More about The role of prediction in learned predictiveness..

Bullying and Conspiracy Theories: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorizing (2022)
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Jolley, D., & Lantian, A. (2022). Bullying and Conspiracy Theories: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorizing. Social Psychology, 53(4), 198-208. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000492

Experiences of bullying in the workplace can increase anxiety, paranoia, and hypervigilance to threat in victims. Such factors are also associated with conspiracy beliefs. Two preregistered studies (cross-sectional and experimental) tested whether bu... Read More about Bullying and Conspiracy Theories: Experiences of Workplace Bullying and the Tendency to Engage in Conspiracy Theorizing.

Weight dependence in BCM leads to adjustable synaptic competition (2022)
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Albesa-González, A., Froc, M., Williamson, O., & van Rossum, M. C. (2022). Weight dependence in BCM leads to adjustable synaptic competition. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 50(4), 431-444. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10827-022-00824-w

Models of synaptic plasticity have been used to better understand neural development as well as learning and memory. One prominent classic model is the Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro (BCM) model that has been particularly successful in explaining plasticit... Read More about Weight dependence in BCM leads to adjustable synaptic competition.

Endogenous control is insufficient for preventing attentional capture in children and adults (2022)
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Hayre, R. K., Cragg, L., & Allen, H. A. (2022). Endogenous control is insufficient for preventing attentional capture in children and adults. Acta Psychologica, 228, Article 103611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103611

Adults are known to have developed the ability to selectively focus their attention in a goal-driven (endogenous) manner but it is less clear at what stage in development (5-6 & 9-11 years) children can endogenously control their attention and whethe... Read More about Endogenous control is insufficient for preventing attentional capture in children and adults.

Neurochemical profiles of the anterior temporal lobe predict response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic processing (2022)
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Jung, J. Y., Williams, S. R., Nezhad, F. S., & Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2022). Neurochemical profiles of the anterior temporal lobe predict response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic processing. NeuroImage, 258, Article 119386. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119386

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive technique used to modulate cortical excitability in the human brain. However, one major challenge with rTMS is that the responses to stimulation are highly variable across individu... Read More about Neurochemical profiles of the anterior temporal lobe predict response of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic processing.

Dual-axes of functional organisation across lateral parietal cortex: the angular gyrus forms part of a multi-modal buffering system (2022)
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Humphreys, G. F., & Tibon, R. (2022). Dual-axes of functional organisation across lateral parietal cortex: the angular gyrus forms part of a multi-modal buffering system. Brain Structure and Function, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-022-02510-0

Decades of neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence have implicated the lateral parietal cortex (LPC) in a myriad of cognitive domains, generating numerous influential theoretical models. However, these theories fail to explain why distinct cogni... Read More about Dual-axes of functional organisation across lateral parietal cortex: the angular gyrus forms part of a multi-modal buffering system.

Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH) (2022)
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Wetherall, K., Cleare, S., McClelland, H., Melson, A. J., Niedzwiedz, C. L., O’Carroll, R. E., …O’Connor, R. C. (2022). Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH). BJPsych Open, 8(4), Article e103. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2022.58

Background Waves 1 to 3 (March 2020 to May 2020) of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study suggested an improvement in some indicators of mental health across the first 6 weeks of the UK lockdown, however, suicidal ideation increased. A... Read More about Mental health and well-being during the second wave of COVID-19: longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health and Wellbeing study (UK COVID-MH).

A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset (2022)
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Vaghari, D., Bruna, R., Hughes, L. E., Nesbitt, D., Tibon, R., Rowe, J. B., …Henson, R. N. (2022). A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset. NeuroImage, 258, Article 119344. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119344

Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is vital to reduce the burden of dementia and for developing effective treatments. Neuroimaging can detect early brain changes, such as hippocampal atrophy in Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), a prodromal st... Read More about A multi-site, multi-participant magnetoencephalography resting-state dataset to study dementia: The BioFIND dataset.

Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters (2022)
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Noyes, A., Dalby, D., & Lavis, Y. (2022). Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(10), 1347-1361. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2022.2075720

Improving mathematical skills is a priority in England, and a series of policy levers and government change projects have focused on improving mathematical outcomes in further education (FE) in recent years. Yet little is known about the mathematics... Read More about Mathematics in England’s further education colleges: who is teaching what, and why it matters.

Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories (2022)
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Jolley, D., Marques, M. D., & Cookson, D. (2022). Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories. Current Opinion in Psychology, 47, Article 101363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2022.101363

The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated how conspiracy beliefs–that explain important events as the secret actions of the powerful–can severely impact health choices (such as reduced infection-prevention behaviours). However, the consequences of conspi... Read More about Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories.