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Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning (2024)
Journal Article
George, D., Dwyer, D., Haselgrove, M., & Le Pelley, M. (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. (2023) 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 ch... Read More about Apparent statistical inference in crows may reflect simple reinforcement learning.

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.

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.

Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms (2024)
Journal Article
Clayton McClure, J. H., Riggs, K. J., Dewhurst, S. A., & Anderson, R. J. (online). Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms. Emotion, https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001371

Anticipated emotions are the feelings one expects if a hypothetical future event were to occur, whereas anticipatory emotions are those one experiences right now while imagining the event. There has been little direct comparison of these two forms of... Read More about Differentiating anticipated and anticipatory emotions and their sensitivity to depressive symptoms.

Absence of Differential Protection From Extinction in Human Causal Learning (2024)
Journal Article
George, D., Haddon, J., & Griffiths, O. (2024). Absence of Differential Protection From Extinction in Human Causal Learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000380

Elemental models of associative learning typically employ a common prediction-error term. Following a conditioning trial, they predict that the change in the strength of an association between a cue and an outcome is dependent upon how well the outco... Read More about Absence of Differential Protection From Extinction in Human Causal Learning.

It's all about perspective: an examination of spontaneous and implicit/explicit visual perspective-taking in Turner syndrome (2024)
Thesis
Thompson, T. It's all about perspective: an examination of spontaneous and implicit/explicit visual perspective-taking in Turner syndrome. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4706284

The ability to take another person’s perspective is a fundamental aspect of social cognition and an important contributor to social interaction. In this online research study, we explored potential differences in visual perspective-taking between adu... Read More about It's all about perspective: an examination of spontaneous and implicit/explicit visual perspective-taking in Turner syndrome.

Isolating the effects of visual imagery on prospective memory (2024)
Journal Article
Abel, J. W., Anderson, R. J., Dean, G. M., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2024). Isolating the effects of visual imagery on prospective memory. Memory, https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2024.2335302

Two experiments investigated the role of visual imagery in prospective memory (PM). In experiment 1, 140 participants completed a general knowledge quiz which included a PM task of writing a letter “X” next to any questions that referred to space. Pa... Read More about Isolating the effects of visual imagery on prospective memory.

Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired-equivalence are positively correlated (2024)
Journal Article
Bru Garcia, S., 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, 50(4), 235–246. https://doi.org/10.1037/xan0000384

In two experiments, participants completed two 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 nonspecific var... Read More about Test performance in optional shift and configural acquired-equivalence are positively correlated.

Attentional bias in psoriasis: The role of processing time and emotional valence (2023)
Journal Article
Etty, S., George, D. N., van Laarhoven, A., Kleyn, C. E., Walton, S., & Holle, H. (online). Attentional bias in psoriasis: The role of processing time and emotional valence. British Journal of Health Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12712

Purpose: The present study explored whether people with psoriasis display an attentional bias towards disease-related threat words and whether this bias occurs relatively early during the phase of stimulus disengagement, or during a later maintained... Read More about Attentional bias in psoriasis: The role of processing time and emotional valence.

Rethinking egocentric bias: A computer mouse-tracking study of adult belief processing (2023)
Journal Article
O'Connor, R. J., Lucas, A., & Riggs, K. J. (2024). Rethinking egocentric bias: A computer mouse-tracking study of adult belief processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(2), 307-327. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001485

Several theories of belief processing assume that processing another's false belief requires overcoming an egocentric bias toward one's current knowledge. The current evidence in support of this claim, however, is limited. In order to investigate the... Read More about Rethinking egocentric bias: A computer mouse-tracking study of adult belief processing.

Data resource profile: the virtual international care homes trials archive (VICHTA) (2023)
Journal Article
Irvine, L., Burton, J., Ali, M., Booth, J., Desborough, J., Logan, P., Moniz-Cook, E., Surr, C., Wright, D., & Goodman, C. (2023). Data resource profile: the virtual international care homes trials archive (VICHTA). International Journal of Population Data Science, 8(6), https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v8i6.2161

Introduction Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) conducted in care home settings address a range of health conditions impacting older people, but often include a common core of data about residents and the care home environment. These data can be use... Read More about Data resource profile: the virtual international care homes trials archive (VICHTA).

The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination (2023)
Journal Article
Dewhurst, S. A., Welsh, J., & Perry, J. L. (2023). The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination. Psychology of sport and exercise, 68, Article 102466. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2023.102466

Two experiments investigated whether mental toughness (MT) is associated with the ability to respond to and/or overcome unwanted information during real-time sport performance. Participants were male snooker players ranging from club to professional... Read More about The influence of mental toughness on responses to feedback in snooker: A real-time examination.

The Many Challenges of Human Experimental Itch Research (2023)
Book Chapter
Holle, H., & Lloyd, D. M. (2023). The Many Challenges of Human Experimental Itch Research. In N. P. Holmes (Ed.), Somatosensory Research Methods (161-180). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3068-6_8

Itch has long been a neglected sense within somatosensory research, and with good reason: acute itch, although relatively easy to trigger, is notoriously difficult to control experimentally. Its time course and behavior cannot easily be predicted and... Read More about The Many Challenges of Human Experimental Itch Research.

The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement (2023)
Journal Article
Anderson, R. J., Clayton McClure, J. H., Boland, J., Howe, D., Riggs, K. J., & Dewhurst, S. A. (2023). The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20438087231164963

Depression is associated with difficulties in goal pursuit which could be related to deficits in emotional anticipation regarding goal success. Therefore, the reported study investigated emotional anticipation for personal goals and whether this diff... Read More about The relationship between depressive symptoms and positive emotional anticipation of goal achievement.

Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat (2023)
Journal Article
George, D., Killcross, S., & Haddon, J. (2023). Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat. Oxford Open Neuroscience, 2, Article kvad003. https://doi.org/10.1093/oons/kvad003

Ambiguous relationships between events may be established using interference procedures such as latent inhibition, extinction, or counterconditioning. Under these conditions, the retrieval of individual associations between a stimulus and outcome is... Read More about Competing contextual processes rely on the infralimbic and prelimbic medial prefrontal cortices in the rat.

The effect of survival processing on memory for pictures depends on how memory is tested (2023)
Journal Article
Dewhurst, S. A., Anderson, R. J., O’Connor, R. J., & Dean, G. (in press). The effect of survival processing on memory for pictures depends on how memory is tested. Memory, https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2171436

Two experiments investigated the effects of survival processing on memory for pictures of objects. In experiment 1, participants were presented with 32 pictures of common objects and rated them for their relevance to a survival scenario, a moving hom... Read More about The effect of survival processing on memory for pictures depends on how memory is tested.

Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation (2023)
Journal Article
Scandola, M., Cross, E. S., Caruana, N., & Tidoni, E. (2023). Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation. International Journal of Social Robotics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00962-2

The future of human–robot collaboration relies on people’s ability to understand and predict robots' actions. The machine-like appearance of robots, as well as contextual information, may influence people’s ability to anticipate the behaviour of robo... Read More about Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation.

Temporal distortion for angry faces: Testing visual attention and action preparation accounts (2023)
Journal Article
Tipples, J., Lupton, M., & George, D. (2023). Temporal distortion for angry faces: Testing visual attention and action preparation accounts. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231172856

When asked to judge the duration of a face people typically overestimate the duration of angry compared with neutral faces. A novel feature of the current research was the inclusion of secondary manipulations designed to distort timing performance na... Read More about Temporal distortion for angry faces: Testing visual attention and action preparation accounts.