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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.

The Role of Syntactic and Semantic Cues in Preventing Temporary Illusions of Plausibility (2025)
Journal Article
Stone, K., & Rabovsky, M. (online). The Role of Syntactic and Semantic Cues in Preventing Temporary Illusions of Plausibility. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02320

Unexpected words within a context elicit large N400 brain potentials. However, sometimes the N400 at an unexpected word is small when stereotypical agent and patient roles are reversed, such as at “arrested” in “the cop that the thief arrested.” In a... Read More about The Role of Syntactic and Semantic Cues in Preventing Temporary Illusions of Plausibility.

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.

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.

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.

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?.

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.

Understanding impact and factors that improve postvention service delivery: findings from a study of a community-based suicide bereavement support service in England (2024)
Journal Article
Bell, J., Cunnah, K., & Earle, F. (online). Understanding impact and factors that improve postvention service delivery: findings from a study of a community-based suicide bereavement support service in England. Mortality, https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2024.2417299

This article reports on a two-year study of a community-based suicide postvention support service in the UK. Attention centres on the implementation of four integrated elements within the service model: multi-agency working with real-time suicide sur... Read More about Understanding impact and factors that improve postvention service delivery: findings from a study of a community-based suicide bereavement support service in England.

Looks at what isn't there: eye movements on a blank screen when processing negation in a first and a second language (2024)
Journal Article
Vanek, N., Matić Škorić, A., Košutar, S., Matějka, Š., & Stone, K. (2024). Looks at what isn't there: eye movements on a blank screen when processing negation in a first and a second language. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 18, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1457038

Is negation more difficult to process than affirmation? If it is, does processing negation in a second language (L2) compound the difficulty compared to the first language (L1)? This article addresses the issues of difficulties in processing differen... Read More about Looks at what isn't there: eye movements on a blank screen when processing negation in a first and a second language.

Improving User Accessibility for Waste Recycling Behaviour via a Symbol Matching System (2024)
Thesis
Howshigan, S. (2024). Improving User Accessibility for Waste Recycling Behaviour via a Symbol Matching System. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/5077567

This thesis investigated the impact of symbols on packaging and bins with the intent of nudging the individual unconsciously to proper waste sorting with less cognitive effort. Experiment 1 (N=78) investigated the impact of symbols in facilitating co... Read More about Improving User Accessibility for Waste Recycling Behaviour via a Symbol Matching System.

Degrees of Distress: the impact of university life on the wellbeing of undergraduate students; A mixed methods exploration (2024)
Thesis
Robson, K. (2024). Degrees of Distress: the impact of university life on the wellbeing of undergraduate students; A mixed methods exploration. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4920495

Today's university students are pivotal to the future of our societies, professions, and families, making their psychological wellbeing a significant public health concern attracting interest from researchers and policy makers alike. The sociodemogra... Read More about Degrees of Distress: the impact of university life on the wellbeing of undergraduate students; A mixed methods exploration.

Mechanisms underpinning the gestural facilitation of second language word learning: an investigation through speeded and un-speeded tasks (2024)
Thesis
Minton-Branfoot, E. (2024). Mechanisms underpinning the gestural facilitation of second language word learning: an investigation through speeded and un-speeded tasks. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4913290

Vocabulary learning is one of the many challenges faced by second language learners, particularly when full immersion is not available. Iconic gesture cues have been found to provide benefits in such learning. However, the full extent of the gesture... Read More about Mechanisms underpinning the gestural facilitation of second language word learning: an investigation through speeded and un-speeded tasks.

Understanding the Phenomenological Experience of Schema Therapy in eating disorders (2024)
Thesis
Cunningham, A. Understanding the Phenomenological Experience of Schema Therapy in eating disorders. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4865950

Introduction: This research investigated the experiences of schema therapy of those with an eating disorder and schema therapists treating eating disorders. Three studies used semi-structured online interviews. Two explored clients’ experiences longi... Read More about Understanding the Phenomenological Experience of Schema Therapy in eating disorders.

Increasing the immersivity of 360° videos facilitates learning and memory: implications for theory and practice (2024)
Journal Article
Peney, T., & Skarratt, P. A. (2024). Increasing the immersivity of 360° videos facilitates learning and memory: implications for theory and practice. Educational Technology Research and Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-024-10402-9

Recent years have seen an increase in the use of immersive virtual reality (IVR) technology in education and training. Studies examining the efficacy of IVR-based interventions have shown improved performance compared to traditional training programm... Read More about Increasing the immersivity of 360° videos facilitates learning and memory: implications for theory and practice.

Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people (2024)
Journal Article
Morton, F. B., Henri, D., Adaway, K., Adaway, K. A., Soulsbury, C., Soulsbury, C. D., & Hopkins, C. R. (2024). Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people. Biological Conservation, 296, Article 110653. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110653

Studies on wild animal psychology are growing in popularity due to the important role they play in understanding how wildlife is responding to human-driven environmental changes. However, communicating psychological information to the general public... Read More about Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people.