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The effect of posthypnotic suggestion and task difficulty on adherence to health-related requests (2014)
Journal Article
Carvalho, C., Mazzoni, G., & Kirsch, I. (2014). The effect of posthypnotic suggestion and task difficulty on adherence to health-related requests. Psychology of consciousness theory, research, and practice, 1(1), 92-102. https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000006

The effects of posthypnotic suggestion on health-related behavior, using a behavioral measure of adherence were investigated. Three hundred twenty three students covering the full range of hypnotic suggestibility were prescribed an easy (mood rating)... Read More about The effect of posthypnotic suggestion and task difficulty on adherence to health-related requests.

Selective voluntary forgetting in young and older adults (2014)
Journal Article
Aguirre, C., Gomez-Ariza, C. J., Bajo, M. T., Andrés, P., & Mazzoni, G. (2014). Selective voluntary forgetting in young and older adults. Psychology and Aging, 29(1), 128-139. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0035598

Aging is thought to involve a decline in executive-control capacities, although evidence regarding this claim is not always clear. Thus, although studies exist that suggest impoverished inhibitory memory control in older adults relative to younger ad... Read More about Selective voluntary forgetting in young and older adults.

What factors underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories? Investigating the roles of language skills and auditory short-term memory (2014)
Journal Article
McGeown, S. P., Gray, E. A., Robinson, J. L., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2014). What factors underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories? Investigating the roles of language skills and auditory short-term memory. Cognition, 131(3), 323-329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.02.005

Two experiments investigated the cognitive skills that underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories in the Deese/Roediger-McDermott procedure (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). In Experiment 1, performance... Read More about What factors underlie children's susceptibility to semantic and phonological false memories? Investigating the roles of language skills and auditory short-term memory.

Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships (2014)
Journal Article
St Clair-Thompson, H., Bugler, M., Robinson, J., Clough, P., McGeown, S. P., & Perry, J. (2015). Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships. Educational psychology, 35(7), 886-907. https://doi.org/10.1080/01443410.2014.895294

Mental toughness has frequently been associated with successful performance in sport; however, recent research suggests that it may also be related to academic performance in Higher Education. In a series of three exploratory studies, we examined the... Read More about Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships.

Does knowing speaker sex facilitate vowel recognition at short durations? (2014)
Journal Article
Smith, D. R. R. (2014). Does knowing speaker sex facilitate vowel recognition at short durations?. Acta Psychologica, 148(May), 81-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.01.010

A man, woman or child saying the same vowel do so with very different voices. The auditory system solves the complex problem of extracting what the man, woman or child has said despite substantial differences in the acoustic properties of their voice... Read More about Does knowing speaker sex facilitate vowel recognition at short durations?.