Psychology
Welcome to the research outputs of the University of Exeter Department of Psychology, part of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences
Recent Submissions
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A randomized controlled trial of physical activity with individual goal-setting and volunteer mentors to overcome sedentary lifestyle in older adults at risk of cognitive decline: the INDIGO trial protocol
(BioMed Central, 2017-09-13)BACKGROUND: Increasing physical activity (PA) effectively in those who are inactive is challenging. For those who have subjective memory complaints (SMC) or mild cognitive impairment (MCI) this is a greater challenge ... -
Unexpected Gains: Being Overweight Buffers Asian Americans From Prejudice Against Foreigners
(SAGE Publications, 2017-07-26)Can being overweight, a factor that commonly leads to stigmatization, ironically buffer some people from race-based assumptions about who is American? In 10 studies, participants were shown portraits that were edited to ... -
More than music! A longitudinal test of German-Polish music encounters
(Elsevier for International Academy for Intercultural Research, 201-12-15)This research examines music encounters as a hitherto unexplored type of intergroup contact intervention. We tested the short- and mid-term effects of German-Polish music encounters that either took place in Germany or in ... -
Evidence of a Goal-Directed Process in Human Pavlovian-Instrumental Transfer
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2017-06-19)Cues that signal rewards can motivate reward-seeking behaviors, even for outcomes that are not currently desired. Three experiments examined this phenomenon, using an outcome-selective Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT) ... -
Learning and generalization from reward and punishment in opioid addiction
(Elsevier, 2016-09-15)This study adapts a widely-used acquired equivalence paradigm to investigate how opioid-addicted individuals learn from positive and negative feedback, and how they generalize this learning. The opioid-addicted group ... -
Reward and punishment-based compound cue learning and generalization in opiate dependency
(Springer Verlag, 2017-07-27)Substance dependence is thought to be mediated by abnormalities in cognitive abilities, but how this impacts decision-making remains unclear. This study aimed to test whether people who are opiate dependent differed from ... -
Does Associative Memory Play a Role in Solving Physics Problems?
(Cognitive Science Society, 2017-07)Previous research has found that people frequently provide incorrect predictions about the path of moving objects when given an idealised physics problem to solve. The aim of this research was to explore whether these ... -
Mindfulness and Fear Conditioning
(Cognitive Science Society, 2017-07)During mindfulness-based interventions participants can be invited to bring aversive stimuli to mind while practicing mindfulness. This is thought to help the stimuli become less aversive. However, the mechanisms ... -
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) and the Face Inversion Effect: Anodal stimulation at Fp3 reduces recognition for upright faces
(Cognitive Science Society, 2017-07)Perceptual learning is a key perceptual skill that people possess, in particular, it contributes to their ability to distinguish between faces thus recognize individuals. Recently, we showed that anodal transcranial ... -
The co-regulation of privacy in public with wearable cameras
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Current Incentives for Scientists Lead to Underpowered Studies with Erroneous Conclusions
(Public Library of Science, 2016-11-10)We can regard the wider incentive structures that operate across science, such as the priority given to novel findings, as an ecosystem within which scientists strive to maximise their fitness (i.e., publication record and ... -
Learning to Share: Engineering Adaptive Decision-Support for Online Social Networks
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) / Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017)Some online social networks (OSNs) allow users to define friendship-groups as reusable shortcuts for sharing information with multiple contacts. Posting exclusively to a friendship-group gives some privacy control, while ... -
A Social Identity Approach to Understanding and Promoting Physical Activity
(Springer Verlag, 2017-03-27)Against the backdrop of a global physical inactivity crisis, attempts to both understand and positively influence physical activity behaviours are characterized by a focus on individual-level factors (e.g. cognitions, ... -
Evaluating anthropogenic threats to endangered killer whales to inform effective recovery plans
(Springer Nature, 2017)Understanding cumulative effects of multiple threats is key to guiding effective management to conserve endangered species. The critically endangered, Southern Resident killer whale population of the northeastern Pacific ... -
Tripping up addiction: the use of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of problematic drug and alcohol use
(Elsevier, 2016-11-15)Psychedelic drugs have been used as treatments in indigenous cultures for thousands of years. Yet, due to their legal status, there has been limited scientific research into the therapeutic potential of these compounds for ... -
Proinsulin is stable at room temperature for 24 hours in EDTA: A clinical laboratory analysis (adAPT 3)
(Public Library of Science, 2017-04-20)AIMS: Reference laboratories advise immediate separation and freezing of samples for the assay of proinsulin, which limit its practicability for smaller centres. Following the demonstration that insulin and C-peptide are ... -
Social Identity Mapping: A procedure for visual representation and assessment of subjective multiple group memberships
(Wiley for British Psychological Society, 2016-08-31)In this research, we introduce Social Identity Mapping (SIM) as a method for visually representing and assessing a person's subjective network of group memberships. To provide evidence of its utility, we report validating ... -
Aberrant Long-Range Temporal Correlations in Depression Are Attenuated after Psychological Treatment
(Frontiers Media, 2017-06-28)The spontaneous oscillatory activity in the human brain shows long-range temporal correlations (LRTC) that extend over time scales of seconds to minutes. Previous research has demonstrated aberrant LRTC in depressed patients; ... -
The evolution of cooperation by negotiation in a noisy world
(Wiley for European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), 2016-12-17)Cooperative interactions among individuals are ubiquitous despite the possibility of exploitation by selfish free-riders. One mechanism that may promote cooperation is "negotiation": individuals altering their behaviour ... -
When group members go against the grain: An ironic interactive effect of group identification and normative content on healthy eating
(Elsevier, 2016-06-06)Three studies were conducted to examine the effect of group identification and normative content of social identities on healthy eating intentions and behaviour. In Study 1 (N = 87) Australian participants were shown images ...