Outputs (637)

Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response (2025)
Journal Article
Mather, E., & Lindsay, S. (2025). Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response. Infant and Child Development, 34(3), Article e70019. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.70019

There is widespread evidence that children display a mutual exclusivity response upon encountering new words. Children displaying this behaviour will select a novel, name-unknown object in response to a novel label, rather than a familiar, name-known... Read More about Registered Report Stage 2. How Well Do Children Remember Fast-Mapped Words? A Pre-Registered Meta-Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response.

(Un)intentionality bias in action observation revisited (2025)
Journal Article
Tidoni, E., Merritt, A., Adeyemi, E., Scandola, M., Tree, J., Riggs, K., & George, D. (in press). (Un)intentionality bias in action observation revisited. Cognition, 262, 106191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106191

When observing individuals in action, we often infer their goals and intentions. Yet, in situations where actions are ambiguous and could be either intentionally generated or not, there is a tendency to perceive these actions as internally driven. Th... Read More about (Un)intentionality bias in action observation revisited.

Occupational Stress Risk Assessment: AACE Ambulance Trust. Phase 1 summary findings – Focus groups with control room employees (2025)
Report
Freour, L., & Earle, F. (2025). Occupational Stress Risk Assessment: AACE Ambulance Trust. Phase 1 summary findings – Focus groups with control room employees. Association of Ambulance Chief Executives

Key Points:

This project commissioned by the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) aims to explore the sources of stress risks in the control rooms.

Phase 1 took place between Dec 2023 and March 2024. Eight focus groups were conduct... Read More about Occupational Stress Risk Assessment: AACE Ambulance Trust. Phase 1 summary findings – Focus groups with control room employees.

‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing (2025)
Journal Article
Nichols, H., Metcalf, J., Earle, F., & Fréour, L. (2025). ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing. Incarceration, 6, https://doi.org/10.1177/26326663241310334

Prison staff experience multiple stressors in the course of their working lives and existing literature consistently emphasises the negative wellbeing implications of prison work. There is a gap in existing research regarding the types of wellbeing s... Read More about ‘Strengthen Them Inside’: Supporting Prison Staff Wellbeing in England through Creative Writing.

Does productive agreement morphology increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language? (2025)
Journal Article
Lago, S., Oltrogge, E., & Stone, K. (2025). Does productive agreement morphology increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language?. Glossa Psycholinguistics, 4(1), https://doi.org/10.5070/g6011.25340

Adult language learners have variable performance with subject-verb number agreement. But it is unclear whether their performance additionally depends on the availability of agreement morphology in their first language. To address this question, we c... Read More about Does productive agreement morphology increase sensitivity to agreement in a second language?.

Does oral breathing disrupt memory consolidation during waking rest? A registered report (2025)
Journal Article
Richards, B., Holle, H., & Lindsay, S. (2025). Does oral breathing disrupt memory consolidation during waking rest? A registered report. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218251328994

Studies of waking rest, whereby passive rest is compared with an active task, have shown a benefit for declarative memory during short waking rest periods, which has been argued to result from the active task disrupting slow oscillations that occur d... Read More about Does oral breathing disrupt memory consolidation during waking rest? A registered report.

Perceived stigma mediates the relationship between health-related quality of life and depression in people with atopic dermatitis (2025)
Journal Article
North, C., van Beugen, S., & Holle, H. (2025). Perceived stigma mediates the relationship between health-related quality of life and depression in people with atopic dermatitis. Stigma and Health, https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000622

Atopic dermatitis (AD) significantly impacts an individual’s life. Prior research has found positive correlations between the disease’s impact on daily quality of life, depression, and perceived stigmatization. However, the interaction of these varia... Read More about Perceived stigma mediates the relationship between health-related quality of life and depression in people with atopic dermatitis.

Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning (2024)
Journal Article
George, D. N., Dwyer, D. M., Haselgrove, M., & Le Pelley, M. E. (online). Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241305622

Johnston et al. report results which they argue demonstrate that crows engage in statistical inference during decision-making. They trained two crows to associate a set of stimuli with different reward probabilities (from 10% to 90%) before choice te... Read More about Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning.

Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology (2024)
Journal Article
Gould, E., Fraser, H. S., Parker, T. H., Nakagawa, S., Griffith, S. C., Vesk, P. A., Fidler, F., Hamilton, D. G., Abbott, J. K., Abbey-Lee, R. N., Aguirre, L. A., Abbott, J. K., Altschul, D., Aguirre, L. A., Atkins, J. W., Alcaraz, C., Atkinson, J., Aloni, I., Baker, C. M., Lindsay, S., …Gilles, M. (2025). Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology. BMC biology, 23(1), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-02101-x

Although variation in effect sizes and predicted values among studies of similar phenomena is inevitable, such variation far exceeds what might be produced by sampling error alone. One possible explanation for variation among results is differences a... Read More about Same data, different analysts: variation in effect sizes due to analytical decisions in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways (2024)
Journal Article
Wilson, V. A. D., Sauppe, S., Brocard, S., Ringen, E., Daum, M. M., Wermelinger, S., Gu, N., Andrews, C., Isasi-Isasmendi, A., Bickel, B., & Zuberbü Hler, K. (2024). Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways. PLoS Biology, 22(11), Article e3002857. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002857

Human language relies on a rich cognitive machinery, partially shared with other animals. One key mechanism, however, decomposing events into causally linked agent-patient roles, has remained elusive with no known animal equivalent. In humans, agent-... Read More about Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways.