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Believe it or not : Exploring dogmatism and different belief structures across non-religious groups
Gurney, Daniel; McKeown, Shelley; Churchyard, Jamie; Howlett, Neil (2013-11)Personality and dogmatic thinking within religious individuals have been examined by previous research, but neglected for non-religious individuals. In this experiment, we distinguish between two types of non-religious ... -
Can misleading hand gestures influence eyewitness testimony?
Gurney, Daniel; Pine, Karen (2011-05)A wealth of research has highlighted the susceptibility of eyewitnesses to misleading verbal questions. However, the role of nonverbal influence when questioning witnesses has been overlooked, even though substantive ... -
Dressing up posture: The interactive effects of posture and clothing on competency judgements
Gurney, Daniel; Howlett, Neil; Pine, Karen; Tracey, Megan; Moggridge, Rachel (2017-05-01)Individuals often receive judgements from others based on their clothing and their posture. While both of these factors have been found to influence judgements of competency independently, their relative importance in ... -
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, ... -
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, ... -
A nod in the wrong direction : Does nonverbal feedback affect eyewitness confidence in interviews?
Gurney, Daniel; Vekaria, Kishan; Howlett, Neil (2014)Eyewitnesses can be influenced by an interviewer's behaviour and report information with inflated confidence as a result. Previous research has shown that positive feedback administered verbally can affect the confidence ... -
The Saliency of Gestural Misinformation in the Perception of a Violent Crime
Gurney, Daniel; Ellis, Louise; Vardon-Hynard, Emily (2016-04-18)Recent research has revealed that misinformation from gestures can influence eyewitness memory. However, while the effects of verbal influence have been shown to have major impacts on prosecution, gestural misinformation ... -
The semantic specificity hypothesis : when gestures do not depend upon the presence of a listener
Pine, K.; Gurney, Daniel; Fletcher, Ben (2010)Humans gesture even when their gestures can serve no communicative function (e.g., when the listener cannot see them). This study explores the intrapersonal function of gestures, and the semantic content of the speech they ... -
What’s Left Unsaid : How Nonverbal Influence Compares with Verbal Influence
Gurney, Daniel (2015-05)Eyewitnesses' memory reports can be altered when ambiguous post-event information is presented verbally during interviews. While recent research has identified that gestures can also act a source of influence in eyewitness ...