• Contact Logger: Measuring everyday intergroup contact experiences in near-time 

  Keil, TF; Koschate-Reis, M; Levine, M (Springer / Psychonomic Society, 2020)

  Intergroup contact research has traditionally relied on retrospective accounts of intergroup encounters, mainly through survey-based or observational methods. This study introduces and tests the usability of a purpose-built, ...

• Distress and anhedonia as predictors of depression treatment outcome: A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial 

  Khazanov, GK; Xu, C; Dunn, BD; et al. (Elsevier, 31 October 2020)

  Two core features of depression include depressed mood (heightened distress) and anhedonia (reduced pleasure). Despite their centrality to depression, studies have not examined their contribution to treatment outcomes in ...

• What are people’s experiences of orthorexia nervosa? A qualitative study of online blogs 

  Greville-Harris, M; Smithson, J; Karl, A (Springer Verlag, 13 November 2019)

  Purpose: Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is a proposed new eating disorder, used to describe a pathological obsession with healthy or ‘clean’ eating. Although some quantitative research has been carried out in ON, very little ...

• Impaired empathy and increased anger following social exclusion in non-intoxicated opioid users 

  Carlyle, M; Rowley, M; Stevens, T; et al. (Springer Verlag, 5 November 2019)

  Rationale: Social functioning is modulated by the endogenous opioid system. In opioid use disorder, social functioning appears disrupted, but little research has delineated the nature of these deficits and their relationship ...

• The effects of psychosocial stress on intergroup resource allocation 

  Schweda, A; Faber, NS; Crockett, MJ; et al. (Nature Research, 9 December 2019)

  Stress changes our social behavior. Traditionally, stress has been associated with “fight-or-flight” – the tendency to attack an aggressor, or escape the stressor. But stress may also promote the opposite pattern, i.e., ...

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