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Ageing and thought suppression performance: Its relationship with working memory capacity, habitual thought suppression and mindfulness
Erskine, James A K; Georgiou, George (2017-08-01)A study investigated how the ability to suppress thoughts in the laboratory was affected by type of thought suppressed (positive, negative, neutral), participants’ age and working memory ca- pacity (WMC). Linked variables ... -
Avoidant coping and consumptive behaviour
Erskine, James; Georgiou, George; Kvavilashvili, Lia (2014) -
Behavioral, Cognitive, and Affective Consequences of Trying to Avoid Chocolate
Erskine, James; Georgiou, George (Humana Press, 2012) -
Creation of a new measure of self-control assessing thoughts, emotions and behaviours
Georgiou, George (2009) -
Creativity and ease of ambiguous figural reversal
Wiseman, Richard; Watt, Caroline; Gilhooly, Kenneth; Georgiou, George (2011-08)Two studies examined the relationships between self-rated and objectively measured creative ability and ease of perceiving alternative interpretations of the ambiguous Duck Rabbit figure. The studies found empirical support ... -
Don't wait to incubate - and do something different
Gilhooly, Kenneth; Georgiou, George (2012) -
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 ... -
Incubation and Creativity : Do Something Different
Gilhooly, Kenneth; Georgiou, George; Devery, Ultan (2013)The experiment reported here investigated interactions between the type of creative task (verbal or spatial) and the type of incubation activity (verbal or spatial) on creative performance. The experiment used a verbal ... -
Incubation and suppression processes in creative problem solving
Gilhooly, Kenneth; Georgiou, George; Sirota, Miroslav; Paphiti-Galeano, Antonia (2015-01-02)The present study investigated the role of thought suppression in incubation, using a delayed incubation paradigm. A total of 301 participants were tested over five conditions, viz., continuous work control, incubation ... -
Incubation effects in problem solving : unconscious work, selective forgetting or attentional shift?
Gilhooly, Kenneth; Georgiou, George (2010) -
Incubation in creative thinking
Gilhooly, Kenneth; Georgiou, George (2014) -
Incubation mechanisms : Unconscious work v. forgetting v. attentional withdrawal
Georgiou, George; Gilhooly, Kenneth (2009) -
A longitudinal investigation of repressive coping and ageing
Erskine, James; Kvavilashvili, Lia; Myers, Lynn; Leggett, Sarah; Davies, Steve; Hiskey, Syd; Hogg, Joanna; Yeo, Sophia; Georgiou, George (2015-07-03)Two studies investigated the possibility that repressive coping is more prevalent in older adults and that this represents a developmental progression rather than a cohort effect. Study 1 examined repressive coping and ... -
Quality science from quality measurement: The role of measurement type with respect to replication and effect size magnitude in psychological research
Kornbrot, Diana; Wiseman, Richard; Georgiou, George (2018-02-12)The quality of psychological studies is currently a major concern. The Many Labs Project (MLP) and the Open-Science-Collaboration (OSC) have collected key data on replicability and statistical effect sizes. We build on ... -
Repressive coping and ageing : psychologically protective yet physically destructive?
Erskine, James; Georgiou, George; Kvavilashvili, Lia; Myers, Lynn (2013) -
The Role of Thought Suppression in Incubation Effects
Georgiou, George (2012)Symposium - Advances in Thinking, Problem Solving and Creativity: A Festschrift for Kenneth J. Gilhooly -
Stress and Resilience in the Workplace
Erskine, James; Georgiou, George (Springer Nature, 2023-08-24)Resilience to the effects of stress is a variable that is often overlooked in studies of the effects of stress on behaviour and individuals. Indeed, our models of health provision (both physical and mental health) focus ... -
To admit or not to admit? : The effect of framing on risk assessment decision making in psychiatrists
Jefferies-Sewell, Kiri; Sharma, Shivani; Gale, Tim; Hawley, Chris J.; Georgiou, George; Laws, K.R. (2015-02)To investigate whether presentation of risk information in different formats (frequency, percentage and semantic) influences inpatient admission decisions by psychiatrists -
To suppress, or not to suppress? : That is repression: Controlling intrusive thoughts in addictive behaviour
Moss, Antony; Erskine, James; Albery, Ian; Allen, James; Georgiou, George (2015-05-01)Research to understand how individuals cope with intrusive negative or threatening thoughts suggests a variety of different cognitive strategies aimed at thought control. In this review, two of these strategies – thought ...