The School of Psychology Equality Committee (SPEC) is the School of Psychology’s body for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and provides a forum for discussing, developing and implementing EDI best practice. A large part of our work recently has been focussed on engaging with the Athena SWAN Charter; a framework which is used across the globe…Continue Reading School of Psychology achieves Silver Athena SWAN Award
Year: 2020
Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Pregnancy: Importance of Analyzing Temporal Profiles to Understand Clinical Outcomes
Maternal glucose is the major determinant of fetal growth, predicting large for gestational age (LGA) infants and neonatal outcomes (1). However, maternal glucose is dynamic, with glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity varying across the 24-h day with a circadian rhythmicity (2,3). Superimposed upon this, there are the peaks and troughs in glucose that are determined…Continue Reading Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Pregnancy: Importance of Analyzing Temporal Profiles to Understand Clinical Outcomes
Slow-Motion Replays DO Help Referees Make Better Decisions
(Reposted from Lincoln.ac.uk) Slow-motion replays used as part of the video assistant referee (VAR) system have a positive impact on decisions made on the field, new research suggests. Eighty professional football officials from the Premier League and Championship took part in research led by the University of Lincoln. They each watched video clips of…Continue Reading Slow-Motion Replays DO Help Referees Make Better Decisions
College Students’ Attitudes, Stigma, and Intentions Toward Seeking Online and Face-to-Face Counseling
Around one‐fifth (20.3%) of all college students worldwide experience a psychological disorder within a given year, however, only 16% of these individuals receive treatment for their mental health issue (Auerbach et al., 2016). As approximately three‐quarters of lifetime mental illnesses are onset by the age of 24 (Kessler et al., 2005), it is paramount this age group…Continue Reading College Students’ Attitudes, Stigma, and Intentions Toward Seeking Online and Face-to-Face Counseling
Perception of dynamic facial expressions of emotion between dogs and humans
Facial expressions are a core component of the emotional response of social mammals. In contrast to Darwin’s original proposition, expressive facial cues of emotion appear to have evolved to be species-specific. Faces trigger an automatic perceptual process, and so, inter-specific emotion perception is potentially a challenge; since observers should not try to “read” heterospecific facial…Continue Reading Perception of dynamic facial expressions of emotion between dogs and humans
Valence-dependent Disruption in Processing of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Early Visual Cortex—A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study
Our visual inputs are often entangled with affective meanings in natural vision, implying the existence of extensive interaction between visual and emotional processing. However, little is known about the neural mechanism underlying such interaction. This exploratory transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) study examined the possible involvement of the early visual cortex (EVC, Area V1/V2/V3) in perceiving…Continue Reading Valence-dependent Disruption in Processing of Facial Expressions of Emotion in Early Visual Cortex—A Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Study
Collaboration with a new Nuffield funded study exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on low-income families
A new Nuffield funded study examining the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has officially been launched today. Led by Dr Ruth Patrick (University of York), Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite (University of Birmingham) and Dr Maddy Power (University of York), the study has several ambitious aims and objectives, including: • Drawing on evidence from welfare rights advisors…Continue Reading Collaboration with a new Nuffield funded study exploring the impacts of COVID-19 on low-income families
Nonlinear transduction of emotional facial expression
To create neural representations of external stimuli, the brain performs a number of processing steps that transform its inputs. For fundamental attributes, such as stimulus contrast, this involves one or ore nonlinearities that are believed to optimise the neural code to represent features of the natural environment. Here we ask if the same is also…Continue Reading Nonlinear transduction of emotional facial expression
The effects of goal types on psychological outcomes in active and insufficiently active adults in a walking task: Further evidence for open goals
This study aimed to extend recent work on the effects of goal types in physical activity (PA; Swann, Hooper et al., 2020) by comparing the effects of SMART, open, and do-your-best (DYB) goals on performance and psychological responses in active and insufficiently active adults in a walking task. It is common…Continue Reading The effects of goal types on psychological outcomes in active and insufficiently active adults in a walking task: Further evidence for open goals