Psychology

Al-kurdi, M. 2015. Attitudes towards mental illness and psychological help seeking in Syria: an exploratory study. PhD thesis University of Westminster Psychology https://doi.org/10.34737/q0809

Gruicic, D. and Benton, S. 2015. Development of Managers’ Emotional Competencies: Mind-Body Training Implications. European Journal of Training and Development. 39 (9), pp. 798-814. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJTD-04-2015-0026

Rowson, T. 2015. Transition to Retirement for Expatriates in the UAE: A Psychological Perspective. in: Haque, A. and Al-Karam, C. (ed.) Mental Health and Psychological Practice in the United Arab Emirates USA Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 93-102

Jacob, J., Jacobs, C. and Silvanto, J. 2015. Attention, working memory, and phenomenal experience of WM content: memory levels determined by different types of top-down modulation. Frontiers in Psychology. 6 1603. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01603

Fredhoi, C. 2015. The importance of positive and negative well-being in older people; associations with psychosocial factors, cortisol and cognitive performance. PhD thesis University of Westminster Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities https://doi.org/10.34737/9961x

Swami, V. and Ng S-K 2015. Factor structure and psychometric properties of the body appreciation scale-2 in university students in Hong Kong. Body Image. 15, pp. 68-71. https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.06.004

Silvanto, J. and Jacobs, C. 2015. How is working memory content consciously experienced? The 'conscious copy' model of WM introspection. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 55, pp. 510-519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.06.003

Forrester, G.S. and Rodriguez, A. 2015. Slip of the tongue: Implications for evolution and language development. Cognition. 141, pp. 103-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.04.012

Forrester, G.S. and Thomas, M.S.C. 2015. What is universal and what differs in language development? Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30 (8), pp. 922-927. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1055281

Swami, V., Tran, U.S., Stieger, S., Voracek, M. and The YouBeauty.com Team 2015. Associations between women’s body image and happiness: Results of the YouBeauty.com Body Image Survey . Journal of Happiness Studies. 16 (3), pp. 705-718. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-014-9530-7

Voracek, M., Reider, S., Stieger, S., Swami, V. and Rieder, S. 2015. What’s in a surname? Physique, aptitude, and sports type comparisons between Tailors and Smiths. PLoS ONE. 10 (7) e0131795. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131795

Schaefer L, M., Burke N, L., Thompson J, K., Dedrick R, F., Heinberg L, J., Bardone-Cone A, M., Higgins M, K., Frederick D, A., Kelly, M., Anderson D, A., Schaumberg, K., Dittmar, H., Clark, L., Adams, Z., Macwana, S., Klump K, L., Vercellone A, C., Paxton S, J. and Swami, V. 2015. Development and validation of the Sociocultural Attitudes Toward Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4). Psychological Assessment. 27 (1), pp. 54-67. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0037917

Norman, H. and Borrill, J. 2015. The Relationship between Self-Harm and Alexithymia. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. 56 (4), pp. 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12217

Mackenzie, J.-M., Cartwright, T., Beck, A. and Borrill, J. 2015. Probation staff experiences of managing suicidal and self-harming service users. Probation Journal. 62 (2), pp. 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550515571396

Swami, V., Cavelti, S., Taylor, D.A. and Tovee, M.J. 2015. The Breast Size Rating Scale: Development and psychometric evaluation. Body Image. 14, pp. 29-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2015.02.004

Cook, L.C. and Borrill, J. 2015. Identifying suicide risk in a metropolitan probation trust: risk factors and staff decision-making. Legal and Criminological Psychology. 20 (2), pp. 255-266. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12034

Swami, V. and Stieger, S. 2015. Time to let go? No automatic aesthetic preference for the golden ratio. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 9 (1), pp. 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038506

Swami, V. 2015. Cultural influences on body size ideals: unpacking the impact of westernisation and modernisation. European Psychologist. 20, pp. 44-51. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000150

Swami, V., Thorn, L., Husbands, D., Tran, U.S., Nader, I.W., von Nordheim, L., Pietschnig, J., Stieger, S. and Voracek, M. 2015. Are the scope and nature of psychology properly understood? An examination of belief in myths of popular psychology among university students. in: Columbus, A.M. (ed.) Advances in Psychology Research. Volume 101 Hauppage, NY Nova Science Publishers. pp. 9-32

Ng S-K, Barron, D. and Swami, V. 2015. Factor structure and psychometric properties of the body appreciation scale among adults in Hong Kong. Body Image. 13, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.10.009

Barron, D., Towell, A., Swami, V. and Morgan, K.D. 2015. Examination of the factor structure of the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ) among British and Trinidadian adults. BioMed Research International. 2015 258275. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/258275

Quaresmini, C., Forrester, G.S., Spiezio, C. and Vallortigara, G. 2014. Social Environment Elicits Lateralized Behaviors in Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) and Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology. 128 (3), pp. 276-84. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036355

Forrester, G.S., Pegler, R., Thomas, M.S.C. and Mareschal, D. 2014. Handedness as a marker of cerebral lateralization in children with and without autism. Behavioural Brain Research. 268, pp. 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2014.03.040

Forrester, G.S., Crawley, M. and Palmer, C. 2014. Social environment elicits lateralized navigational paths in two populations of typically developing children. Brain and Cognition. 91, pp. 21-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2014.07.005

McVicar, A., Ravalier, J. and Greenwood, C. 2014. Biology of stress revisited: intracellular mechanisms and the conceptualization of stress. General Psychology. 30 (4), pp. 272-279. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2508

Swami, V. and Knowles, V. 2014. Mental health literacy of negative body image: symptom recognition and beliefs about body image in a British community sample. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health. 7 (2), pp. 199-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/17542863.2013.769611

Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2014. Political paranoia and conspiracy theories. in: van Prooijen, J.W. and van Lange, P.A.M. (ed.) Power politics, and paranoia: why people are suspicious about their leaders Cambridge Cambridge University Press. pp. 218-236

Swami, V. and Furnham, A. 2014. Personality and aesthetics preferences. in: Smith, J.K. and Tinio, P.P.L. (ed.) The Cambridge handbook of the psychology of aesthetics and the arts Cambridge Cambridge University Press.

Swami, V. 2014. Mental health literacy of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). in: Moore, R. and Perry, D. (ed.) Health literacy: developments, issues, and outcomes Hauppauge, NY Nova Science Publishers.

Swami, V. 2014. German and Tagalog happiness scales. in: Michalos, A.C. (ed.) Encyclopedia of quality of life research Amsterdam Elsevier. pp. 2536-2537

Stieger, S. and Swami, V. 2014. Twitter users’ interest in asteroid 2012 DA14 mirrored the asteroid’s trajectory during it’s Earth flyby. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 65 (7), pp. 1409-1415. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23097

Scott, I.M., Clark, A.P., Josephson, S.C., Boyette, A.H., Cuthill, I.C., Fried, R.L., Gibson, M.A., Hewlett, B.S., Jamieson, M., Jankowiak, W., Honey, P.L., Huang, Z., Liebert, M.A., Purzycki, B.G., Shaver, J.H., Snodgrass, J.J., Sosis, R., Sugiyama, L.S., Swami, V., Yu, D.W., Zhao, Y. and Penton-Voak, I.S. 2014. Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 111 (40), pp. 14388-14393. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1409643111

Jacobs, C., de Graaf, T.A. and Sack, A.T. 2014. Two distinct neural mechanisms in early visual cortex determine subsequent visual processing. Cortex. 59, pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2014.06.017

Stemmet, L., Roger, D., Kuntz, J. and Borrill, J. 2014. General and specific avoidance: the development and concurrent validation of a new measure of avoidance coping. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. (31), pp. 222-230. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000220

Potts, R. and Shanks, D.R. 2014. The benefit of generating errors during learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 143 (2), pp. 644-667. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0033194

Swami, V., Miah, J., Noorani, N. and Taylor, D.A. 2014. Is the hijab protective? An investigation of body image and related constructs among British Muslim women. British Journal of Psychology. 105 (3), pp. 352-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12045

de Graaf, T.A., Koivisto, M., Jacobs, C. and Sack, A.T. 2014. The chronometry of visual perception: review of occipital TMS masking studies. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 45, pp. 295-304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2014.06.017

Swami, V., Diwell, R. and McCreary, D.R. 2014. Sexuality and the drive for muscularity: evidence of associations among British men. Body Image. 11 (4), pp. 543-546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.08.008

Swami, V. and Benford, K. 2014. Body image and personality among British men: associations between the big five domains, drive for muscularity, and body appreciation. Body Image. 11 (4), pp. 454-457. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2014.07.004

Duecker, F., Frost, M.A., de Graaf, T.A., Graewe, B., Jacobs, C., Goebel, R. and Sack, A.T. 2014. The cortex-based alignment approach to TMS coil positioning. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 26 (10), pp. 2321-2329. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00635