Browsing Psychology and Sociology by Research Centre "Centre for Applied Social Sciences"
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Children’s social appraisal of exclusion in friendship groups
(Springer, 2019-05-16)Previous research has shown that group processes are particularly pertinent to children’s bullying, and who they socially exclude and include. This paper looks at how children’s responses to social exclusion change according ... -
Adolescence: Traditional bullying
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2019)This entry gives a brief overview of the field of traditional bullying in adolescence, reviewing research internationally on the topic, to outline our current understanding of the problem. The entry begins by defining ... -
British Muslims’ discourse of belonging and conflict
(Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 2019)According to the 2011 UK Census, Muslims form the second largest religious community in Britain. The relationship of this community to British society more generally has come under much scrutiny. The current study focused ... -
Understanding the weapon focus effect: The role of threat, unusualness, exposure duration, and scene complexity
(Wiley, 2018-12-21)We examined the role of exposure duration and scene complexity on the weapon focus effect (WFE). Memory for the mock crime was affected more by a weapon than an unusual but nonthreatening object. Threat reduced correct ... -
Alternative facts are not facts: Gaffe-announcements, the Trump administration and the media
(Sage, 2018-12-20)Gaffes are actions or events that are treated as problematic in subsequent news coverage through the production of what we term here ‘gaffe-announcements’. In an analysis of news media interviews conducted with members of ... -
Toying with inclusivity (Christmas 2018: Equal to the Task)
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2018-12-12)Even with the advent of electronic games, toys remain an integral element of the Christmas experience. The centrality of toys to the childhood experience since ancient times has had relatively little impact on the biomedical ... -
Examining how lineup practices of Canadian and U.S. police officers adhere to their national best practice recommendations
(2018-11-25)Canadian (N = 117) and U.S. (N = 167) police officers completed a survey about their lineup construction and administration practices. We compared their responses to national policy recommendations in both countries, which ... -
What (and who) works in widening participation? Supporting direct entrant student transitions to higher education
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-11-09)This article considers support programmes for direct entrant (DE) student transitions as a widening participation strategy. We reflect upon one induction and support project with 27 students transitioning from further ... -
Art making and its interface with dissociative identity disorder: No words that didn’t fit
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-08-21)Studies point to promising developments in expressive arts therapy work with clients who experience dissociation as one of a constellation of symptoms of trauma. Individuals diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder, ... -
Visuospatial bootstrapping: binding useful visuospatial information during verbal working memory encoding does not require set-shifting executive resources.
(Sage, 2018-05-07)Immediate serial recall of digits is better when the digits are shown by highlighting them in a familiar array, such as a phone keypad, compared to presenting them serially in a single location; a pattern referred to as ... -
Attachment insecurity and dispositional aggression: The mediating role of maladaptive anger regulation
(Sage, 2018-05-02)Attachment insecurity has been associated with dysfunctional strategies for emotion regulation, leading to inflexible or maladaptive responding. Currently, application of the attachment framework to anger is underspecified. ... -
Would it not be better to get someone out workin?': 'Safe prejudice' against Polish workers
(Wiley, 2018-03-25)One recurring criticism of immigrant groups is their alleged failure to be employed and contribute to the host society. Here we examine how speakers mobilise a criticism that has attracted less research attention: that ... -
Attitudes toward immigrants among the youth: Contact interventions to reduce prejudice in the school context
(Hogrefe Publishing, 2018-03-16)In recent years in our increasingly globalized world in many countries we have seen the rise of anti-immigrant feelings among the youth. This has resulted in both discrimination against immigrants and negative psychological ... -
Fly on the right: lateral preferences when choosing aircraft seats.
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-12-20)A small preference has been observed for people to choose seats on the left of aircraft when booking via an online system. Although this is consistent with pseudoneglect - the known leftward bias in perception and ... -
On the right track? Investigating the effect of path characteristics on visuospatial bootstrapping in verbal serial recall
(Ubiquity Press, 2017-12-08)Visuospatial bootstrapping (VSB) occurs when memory for verbal material is enhanced via association with meaningful visuospatial information. Sequences of digits are visually presented either in the center of the screen ... -
Art therapy and poverty: Examining practitioners’ experiences of working with children and young people in areas of multiple deprivation in West Central Scotland
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-21)Poverty can have a detrimental impact on the emotional well-being, educational attainment and future life chances of children and young people (CYP). It is known that poverty can also create several barriers to CYP and ... -
Narratives of loneliness and mental ill health in a time of neoliberalism
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Narratives of Loneliness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the 21st Century
(Routledge, 2017-09-28)Rising life expectancies and declining social capital in the developed world mean that an increasing number of people are likely to experience some form of loneliness in their lifetimes than ever before. Narratives of ... -
Still spaces in the academy? The dialectic of university social movement pedagogy
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2017-08-24)Whilst university education is increasingly commodified knowledge, it remains a social relation with the potential for emancipation of the general intellect. In order to realise this project, the knowledge generating ... -
Through the Looking Glass: Young People, Work and the Transition between Education and Employment in a post-Brexit UK
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-07-14)The prospect of a profound transformation in the relationship between the UK and the European Union has raised a range of economic, social and political concerns (Dhingra et al., 2016; Booth et al., 2015; Irwin, 2015; Ebell ...