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 proof-of-concept investigation into ketamine as a pharmacological treatment for alcohol dependence: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
(BioMed Central, 2017-04-04)BACKGROUND: Worldwide, alcohol abuse is a burgeoning problem. Abstinence is key to allow recovery of physical and mental health as well as quality of life, but treatment for alcohol dependence is associated with high relapse ... -
Differences in social preference between the sexes during ontogeny drive segregation in a precocial species (article)
(Springer Verlag, 2017-06)Hypotheses for why animals sexually segregate typically rely on adult traits, such as differences in sexual roles causing differential habitat preferences, or size dimorphism inducing differences in diet or behaviour. ... -
Everyday functioning of people with Parkinson’s disease and impairments in executive function: a qualitative investigation
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-06-09)Purpose: Executive function is the key area of cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. This study investigated how cognitive difficulties impact on everyday life of people with Parkinson’s disease and their carers, ... -
Adaptive and non-adaptive models of depression: a comparison using register data on antidepressant medication during divorce
(Public Library of Science, 2017-06-14)Divorce is associated with an increased probability of a depressive episode, but the causation of events remains unclear. Adaptive models of depression propose that depression is a social strategy in part, whereas non-adaptive ... -
Should I stay or should I go? Implications of maternity leave choice for perceptions of working mothers
(Elsevier, 2017-05-06)Working mothers often find themselves in a difficult situation when trying to balance work and family responsibilities and to manage expectations about their work and parental effectiveness. Family-friendly policies such ... -
"I Don't Think Of It As An Illness": Illness Representations in Mild to Moderate Dementia
(IOS Press, 2016-02-27)The self-regulatory model proposes that illness representations influence adjustment and coping in chronic conditions. Better understanding of the illness representations held by people with dementia could help with targeting ... -
Social health and dementia: a European consensus on the operationalization of the concept and directions for research and practice
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-11-21)BACKGROUND: Because the pattern of illnesses changes in an aging population and many people manage to live well with chronic diseases, a group of health care professionals recently proposed reformulating the static WHO ... -
End of life care: A scoping review of experiences of Advance Care Planning for people with dementia
(SAGE Publications, 2016-11-07)Despite increasing attention given to dementia by international governments and policy makers, the focus of end of life care has been on the dying trajectory of malignant disease. People with severe dementia have complex ... -
Dying well with reduced agency: a scoping review and thematic synthesis of the decision-making process in dementia, traumatic brain injury and frailty
(BioMed Central, 2016-07-27)BACKGROUND: In most Anglophone nations, policy and law increasingly foster an autonomy-based model, raising issues for large numbers of people who fail to fit the paradigm, and indicating problems in translating practical ... -
Anticholinergic Exposure During Rehabilitation: Cognitive and Physical Function Outcomes in Patients with Delirium Superimposed on Dementia
(Elsevier / American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2015-07-31)OBJECTIVES: We examined the association between anticholinergic medication exposure and subsequent cognitive and physical function in patients with delirium superimposed on dementia during rehabilitation. We also examined ... -
Does cognitive reserve moderate the association between mood and cognition? A systematic review
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-11-03)The evidence regarding the association between mood and cognitive function is conflicting, suggesting the involvement of moderating factors. This systematic review aimed to assess whether cognitive reserve moderates the ... -
Improved memory for information learnt before alcohol use in social drinkers tested in a naturalistic setting
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017)Alcohol is known to facilitate memory if given after learning information in the laboratory; we aimed to investigate whether this effect can be found when alcohol is consumed in a naturalistic setting. Eighty-eight social ... -
Pilot test of a novel food response and attention training treatment for obesity: Brain imaging data suggest actions shape valuation.
(Elsevier, 2017-04-19)Elevated brain reward and attention region response, and weaker inhibitory region response to high-calorie food images have been found to predict future weight gain. These findings suggest that an intervention that reduces ... -
Cortical abnormalities in bipolar disorder: an MRI analysis of 6503 individuals from the ENIGMA Bipolar Disorder Working Group.
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-05-02)Despite decades of research, the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder (BD) is still not well understood. Structural brain differences have been associated with BD, but results from neuroimaging studies have been inconsistent. ... -
Cognitive training as a potential treatment for overweight and obesity: A critical review of the evidence: Proposal for special issue in appetite: Executive function training & eating behaviour.
(Elsevier, 2017-05-22)The aim of this review is to critically evaluate the effectiveness and candidate mechanisms of action of psychological interventions which aim to either (a) improve the capacity for self-regulatory, reflective processes ... -
Corrigendum to "The neural correlates of moral decision-making: A systematic review and meta-analysis of moral evaluations and response decision judgements" [Brain Cogn. 108 (2016) 88-97]
(Elsevier, 2016-11-11)A cluster-level thresholding error in the version of GingerALE software used by the authors (version 2.3.4) was reported by Eickhoff et al. (2016) recently. The authors subsequently re-ran the ALE analysis using version ... -
Drug cue reactivity involves hierarchical instrumental learning: evidence from a biconditional Pavlovian to instrumental transfer task
(Springer Verlag, 2017-04-15)RATIONALE: Drug cue reactivity plays a crucial role in addiction, yet the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. According to the binary associative account, drug stimuli retrieve an expectation of the drug outcome, ... -
The application of statistical network models in disease research
(Wiley for British Ecological Society, 2017-04-18)Host social structure is fundamental to how infections spread and persist, and so the statistical modelling of static and dynamic social networks provides an invaluable tool to parameterise realistic epidemiological models. ... -
Mental ownership: Does mental rehearsal transform novel stimuli into mental possessions?
(Elsevier, 2017)Mentally rehearsing unfamiliar first names for the purpose of categorizing them into a group produces both preference for and, more surprisingly, identification with the group of names (i.e., association of the names with ... -
Education and social participation: Civic identity and civic participation in formal and informal education contexts
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2017-02-01)