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Everyday Memory Failures in Older Adults with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment
Niedzwienska, Agnieszka; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2019-07-02)Identifying people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), who are at increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, is important for improving early disease management and care. Although self- or informant-reported ... -
Executive functions in insight versus non-insight problem solving: an individual differences approach
Gilhooly, K.; Fioratou, E. (2009)This study investigated the roles of the executive functions of inhibition and switching and of verbal and visuo-spatial working memory capacities in insight and non-insight tasks. Eighteen insight tasks, 10 non-insight ... -
Experiencing the impossible and creativity: a targeted literature review
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline (2022-07-20)Previous work suggests that unexpected and surprising experiences (e.g., living in another culture or looking at surreal images) promotes creative thinking. This targeted literature review examines whether the inherent ... -
The eyes don't have it : Lie detection and neuro-linguistic programming
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline; ten Brinke, Leanne; Porter, Stephen; Couper, Sara-Louise; Rankin, Calum (2012-07-11)Proponents of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) claim that certain eye-movements are reliable indicators of lying. According to this notion, a person looking up to their right suggests a lie whereas looking up to their ... -
Factors used in the detection of elder financial abuse: A judgement and decision-making study of social workers and their managers
Davies, Miranda; Harries, Priscilla; Cairns, Deborah; Stanley, David; Gilhooly, Mary; Gilhooly, Kenneth; Notley, Elizabeth; Gilbert, Anthony; Penhale, Bridget; Hennessy, Catherine (2011-05)Factors social workers use in practice to detect elder financial abuse are currently unknown. A critical incident technique was applied within a judgement analysis approach to elicit cue use. Only three factors were key ... -
Failing the Future : Three Unsuccessful Attempts to Replicate Bem's 'Retroactive Facilitation of Recall' Effect
Ritchie, Stuart J; Wiseman, Richard; French, Christopher C (2012)Nine recently reported parapsychological experiments appear to support the existence of precognition. We describe three pre-registered independent attempts to exactly replicate one of these experiments, 'retroactive ... -
Framing the detection of financial elder abuse as bystander intervention : Decision cues, pathways to detection and barriers to action.
Gilhooly, M. L.; Cairns, Deborah; Harries, P.; Gilhooly, Kenneth; Notley, E. (2013)The purpose of this paper is to explore the detection and prevention of elder financial abuse through the lens of a “professional bystander intervention model”. The authors were interested in the decision cues that raise ... -
The frequency and cueing mechanisms of involuntary autobiographical memories while driving
Laughland, Andrew; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2024-01-03)Involuntary autobiographical memories (IAMs) have been typically studied with paper diaries, kept for a week or longer. However, such studies are unable to capture the true frequency of IAMs, nor the level of detail that ... -
From mind-pops to hallucinations? : A study of involuntary semantic memories in schizophrenia
Elua, I.; Laws, K.R.; Kvavilashvili, L. (2012-04-30)Involuntary semantic memories or mind-pops consist of isolated fragments of one's semantic knowledge (e.g., a word or a sentence, proper name, image or a melody) that come to mind unexpectedly, without any deliberate attempt ... -
The gestural misinformation effect : skewing eyewitness testimony through gesture
Gurney, Daniel; Pine, Karen; Wiseman, Richard (2013)The susceptibility of eyewitnesses to verbal suggestion has been well documented, although little attention has been paid to the role of nonverbal communication in misinformation. Three experiments are reported; in each, ... -
Green behaviour change : HOT topics
Page, M.P.A.; Page, N. (British Psychological Society (BPS), 2011)Climate change is a psychological problem. A rather stark statement maybe, but one which is, we think, defensible. To be sure, the mitigation of the effects of climate change poses very great technological challenges. ... -
Handmade Memories : The impact of interviewers’ gestures on children’s eyewitness reports
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Handmade memories : The robustness of the gestural misinformaton effect in children's eyewitness interviews
Kirk, Elizabeth; Gurney, Daniel; Edwards, Rebecca; Dodimead, Christopher (2015-09-01)An interviewer’s gestures can convey misleading information and subsequently cause inaccuracies in the reporting of an event by both adults and children. We investigated the robustness of the gestural misinformation effect, ... -
The Hebb repetition effect as a laboratory analogue of novel word learning
Szmalec, A.; Duyck, W.; Vandierendonck, A.; Mata, A.B.; Page, M.P.A. (2009)The present study tests the hypothesis that a common ordering mechanism underlies both short-term serial recall of verbal materials and the acquisition of novel long-term lexical representations, using the Hebb repetition ... -
Hocus Pocus: using comics to promote skepticism about the paranormal
Wiseman, Richard; Collver, Jordan; Worth, Rik; Watt, Caroline (2021-03-08)This study investigated the potential for comics to promote skepticism about the paranormal. Participants rated their interest in comics, read a skeptical account of alleged paranormal phenomena in One of three mediums ... -
How frequently do you forget in everyday life? : A diary study of prospective and retrospective memory errors in young and old healthy adults
Laughland, Andrew; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2014-05)Memory research has commonly been conducted in the laboratory, where large age effects have been observed. In contrast, research using self-report questionnaires assessing retrospective and prospective memory has shown no ... -
How long should a diary be kept? : A diary study of prospective and retrospective memory errors in young and old healthy adults
Laughland, Andrew; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2014-05)Memory research has commonly been conducted in the laboratory, and by the use of self-report questionnaires assessing retrospective and prospective memory. Although a diary method can give more accurate insight into everyday ... -
Human Psychophysical Functions, an Update : Methods for Identifying their form; Estimating their Parameters; and Evaluating the Effects of Important Predictors
Kornbrot, Diana E. (2016-03-01)Stevens' power law for the judgments of sensation has a long history in psychology and is used in many psychophysical investigations of the effects of predictors such as group or condition. Stevens' formulation (Formula ... -
I hear what you say but I see what you mean : the role of gestures in children's pragmatic comprehension
Kirk, Elizabeth; Pine, Karen; Ryder, Nuala (2011)This study investigated whether gesture can enhance the pragmatic comprehension of language impaired children. Language impaired children (N=21) and age matched typically developing children (N=26) were presented verbal ... -
I suppress, therefore I smoke : effects of thought suppression on smoking behavior
Erskine, James; Georgiou, George; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2010)Thought suppression is a method frequently employed by individuals who are trying to control their thoughts and behaviors. Although this strategy is known to actually increase unwanted thoughts, it is unclear whether thought ...