Centre for Psychological and Sociological Sciences

Research output

Research output per year 2003 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2021 2024

• 324 Article
• 99 Chapter
• 40 Poster
• 38 Paper
• 141 More
  • 26 Book
  • 17 Commissioned Report
  • 16 Book Review
  • 14 Abstract
  • 13 Entry for Dictionary/Encyclopedia
  • 12 Review
  • 11 Conference Contribution
  • 8 Letter
  • 6 Bulletin/Magazine
  • 3 Foreword/Postscript
  • 3 Digital or Visual Media
  • 2 Guide or Manual
  • 2 Conference Article/Conference Proceedings
  • 2 Editorial
  • 2 Review Article
  • 1 Technical Report
  • 1 Comment/Debate
  • 1 Special issue
  • 1 Discussion Paper

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• Article

  Psychological Well-Being in Italian Elders with and without Parkinson's Disease: A Preliminary Study

  Fastame, M. C., Hitchcott, P., Pau, M., Corona, F. & Penna, M., 1 Jul 2017, In: Innovation in Aging. 1, suppl_1, p. 1164 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  Open Access

• Psychological Well-Being in Italian Families: An Exploratory Approach to the Study of Mental Health Across the Adult Life Span in the Blue Zone

  Hitchcott, P. K., Fastame, M. C., Ferrai, J. & Penna, M. P., 31 Aug 2017, In: Europe's Journal of Psychology. 13, 3, p. 441-454 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • life-span 100%
  • Longevity 89%
  • Mental Health 78%
  • mental health 68%
  • Psychology 67%

• Psychology as a STEM discipline

  Hill, K. M., 20 Sept 2015, In: PsyPAG Quarterly. 96, p. 44-47 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • psychology 100%
  • mathematics 96%
  • engineering 85%
  • Other Sciences 30%
  • diplomat 26%

• Public perceptions on the role of wayfinding in the promotion of recreational walking routes in greenspace – cross-sectional survey

  Ryan, D. & Hill, K., 17 Oct 2022, In: Wellbeing, Space and Society. 3, 100111.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • greenspace 100%
  • walking 73%
  • Walking 59%
  • footpath 52%
  • confidence 51%

• Publishing prevention science: challenges for early career researchers and practitioners. An EUSPR-pre conference workshop

  Hill, K. M., 22 Sept 2016, In: Health Psychology Update. 25, 2, p. 44-46 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Pupil and staff perceptions of bullying in secondary schools: comparing behavioural definitions and their perceived seriousness

  Maunder, R., Harrop, A. & Tattersall, A. J., 1 Sept 2010, In: Educational Research. 52, 3, p. 263-282 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • pupil 100%
  • secondary school 95%
  • exclusion 94%
  • staff 77%
  • scenario 26%

• Pupil involvement in school (re)design: participation in policy and practice

  den Besten, O., Horton, J. & Kraftl, P., 1 Dec 2008, In: Co-Design. 4, 4, p. 197-210

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Pupil 100%
  • Participation 70%
  • School buildings 36%
  • Ideal 25%
  • Education 21%

• Put on a Smiley Face: Textspeak and Personality Perceptions

  Fullwood, C., Quinn, S., Chen-Wilson, J., Chadwick, D. & Reynolds, K., 9 Mar 2015, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 18, 3, p. 147-151 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Social Media 100%
  • Internet 77%
  • Personality 72%
  • personality 58%
  • self-presentation 47%

• Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the defensive profile in breast cancer women: A pilot study

  Di Giuseppe, M., Di Silvestre, A., Lo Sterzo, R., Hitchcott, P., Gemignani, A. & Conversano, C., 21 Jun 2019, In: Health Psychology Open. 6, 1, 2055102919854667.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • cancer 100%
  • Breast Neoplasms 70%
  • Defense Mechanisms 58%
  • defense mechanism 56%
  • Q-Sort 35%

• Rats, assorted shit and ‘racist groundwater’: towards extra-sectional understandings of childhoods and social-material processes

  Horton, J. & Kraftl, P., 17 Dec 2017, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 36, 8, p. 926-948 5 p., 8.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • childhood 100%
  • groundwater 87%
  • swarming 72%
  • economic geography 69%
  • religion 64%

• Recent Work on the Concept of Gratitude in Philosophy and Psychology

  Gulliford, L., Morgan, B. & Kristjánsson, K., 1 Sept 2013, In: Journal of Value Inquiry. 47, 3, p. 285-317 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  • Gratitude 100%
  • Philosophy 78%
  • psychology 63%
  • Psychology 61%
  • moral philosophy 33%

• Reconsidering sensory isolation in floatation tanks as a method of promoting psi-conducive imagery

  Cooper, C. E., Saunders, D. & Hitchman, G., 31 Jan 2020, In: Journal of the Society for Psychical Research. 84, 1, p. 1-19 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Parapsychology 100%
  • Imagery 86%
  • Isolation 59%
  • Ganzfeld 41%
  • Human Consciousness 27%

• Reconsidering the Blackmore-Sargent controversy

  Roe, C., 1 Jul 2021, In: The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research. 2, p. 4-5 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  Open Access

  File

• Reflections on geographies of age

  Horton, J. & Kraftl, P., 1 Jun 2008, In: Area. 40, 2, p. 284-288 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

• Reflexivity in Theory, Research and Praxis: Situated, relational, emotional and embodied: Conference Review

  McAllister, L., 10 Oct 2018, In: Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin. 26, p. 40-43

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • reflexivity 100%
  • psychotherapist 78%
  • bank 63%
  • event 58%
  • university teacher 49%

• Reframing voices and visions using a spiritual model: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of anomalous experiences in mediumship

  Roxburgh, E. C. & Roe, C. A., 19 Mar 2014, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mental Health, Religion and Culture. 17, 6, p. 641-653 13 p., 6.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Form Perception 100%
  • Civilization 91%
  • Auditory Perception 89%
  • Gift Giving 89%
  • Anthropology 83%

• Regional gray matter density associated with emotional conflict resolution: Evidence from voxel-based morphometry

  Deng, Z., Wei, D., Xue, S., Du, X., Hitchman, G. & Qiu, J., 5 Sept 2014, In: Neuroscience. 275, p. 500-507 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  • Negotiating 100%
  • Gray Matter 84%
  • Emotional Regulation 32%
  • Gyrus Cinguli 28%
  • Brain 27%

• Regional gray matter volume and anxiety-related traits interact to predict somatic complaints in a non-clinical sample

  Wei, D., Du, X., Li, W., Chen, Q., Li, H., Hao, X., Zhang, L., Hitchman, G., Zhang, Q. & Qiu, J., 11 Mar 2014, In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 10, 1, p. 122–128 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Gray Matter 100%
  • Parahippocampal Gyrus 96%
  • complaint 94%
  • Anxiety 70%
  • anxiety 62%

• Regional gray matter volume is associated with rejection sensitivity: A voxel-based morphometry study

  Sun, J., Li, H., Li, W., Wei, D., Hitchman, G., Zhang, Q. & Qiu, J., 1 Sept 2014, In: Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 14, 3, p. 1077–1085 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  • Psychology Rejection 100%
  • Gray Matter 87%
  • Individuality 20%
  • Brain 14%
  • Social Distance 10%

• Relations, commitment and satisfaction in agency workers and permanent workers

  Biggs, D. & Swailes, S., 1 Mar 2006, In: Employee Relations. 28, 2, p. 130-143

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Workers 100%
  • Organizational Commitment 63%
  • Call Centres 20%
  • Employers 19%
  • Precarious Employment 13%

• Remembering ‘Uncle Al’: Alice Tanous on Alex Tanous and the Alex Tanous Foundation

  Cooper, C. E., 1 Apr 2016, In: Paranormal Review. 78, p. 1-4 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

• Remote viewing of concealed target pictures under light and dark conditions

  Krippner, S., Saunders, D., Morgan, A. & Quan, A., Jan 2019, In: Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing. 15, 1, p. 27-37 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Darkness 100%
  • Target 67%
  • Light 56%
  • Effect Size 22%
  • Beliefs 18%

• Resilience in Elders of the Sardinian Blue Zone: An Explorative Study

  Fastame, M. C., Hitchcott, P. K., Mulas, I., Ruiu, M. & Penna, M. P., 26 Feb 2018, In: Behavioral Sciences. 8, 3, 30.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • mental health 100%
  • Resilience 65%
  • resilience 58%
  • Mental Health 53%
  • marker 45%

• Review of 'Education in Parapsychology: Student and Instructor Perspectives' by Harvey Irwin

  Roe, C. A., 1 Jan 2014, In: Journal of Parapsychology. 78, 1

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  Open Access

  File

  • Parapsychology 100%
  • parapsychology 86%
  • book review 66%
  • instructor 39%
  • Students 38%

• Review of 'School Violence Intervention: A Practical Handbook' (2nd ed) [edited by] Jane Close Conoley & Arnold P. Goldstein, New York, The Guildford Press, 2004

  Maunder, R., 1 Jan 2006, In: Journal of Educational Administration and History. 38, 1

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

• Role of Ethical Leadership in Online Sustainability Reporting

  Rahim, N., Biggs, D. & Aly, D., 30 Jun 2017, In: Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies. 3, 1, p. 121-129

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Sardinian Elders: Successful Ageing and Psychosocial Rorrelates despite Response Bias

  Hitchcott, P., Fastame, M. C., Desogus, S., Conti, R. & Penna, M., 1 Jul 2017, In: Innovation in Aging. 1, suppl_1, p. 1294-1295 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  Open Access

• Searching for Afrocentric spirituality within the transpersonal

  Turner, D., Callaghan, J. & Gordon-Finlayson, A., 1 Jan 2015, In: Transpersonal Psychology Review. 17, 1, p. 20-25 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  • Spirituality 100%
  • African Spirituality 66%
  • Wisdom 33%

• Seen and heard? Ethics and agency in participatory visual research with children, young people and families

  Lomax, H., 1 Nov 2015, In: Families, Relationships and Societies. 4, 3

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  • moral philosophy 100%
  • responsibility 36%
  • experience 21%

• Self-Concept Clarity and Online Self-Presentation in Adolescents

  Fullwood, C., James, B. M. & Chen-Wilson, C-H., 1 Dec 2016, In: Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. 19, 12, p. 716-720 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • self-presentation 100%
  • Self Concept 82%
  • self-concept 80%
  • adolescent 49%
  • Ego 48%

• Shades of courage. Emotional dimentions of courage in the family semantic polarities model

  Ugazio, V. & Salamino, F., 1 Jun 2016, In: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology. 23, 2, p. 215-233 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  • Courage 100%
  • Semantics 68%
  • semantics 52%
  • threat 21%
  • Guilt 20%

• Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day to day politics of digital mothering

  Lazard, L., Capdevila, R., Dann, C. J., Locke, A. & Roper, S., 17 Apr 2019, In: Social and Personality Psychology Compass. 13, 4, 20 p., e12443.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Politics 100%
  • Parenting 92%
  • politics 45%
  • Social Media 33%
  • Social Networking 30%

• Showcasing health psychology postgraduate research: contemporary theory and methods

  Hill, K. M., 1 Dec 2014, In: Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPAG) Quarterly. 93, p. 70-72

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Behavioral Medicine 100%
  • Congresses 71%
  • Education 45%

• Small acts, kind words and "not too much fuss": implicit activisms

  Horton, J. & Kraftl, P., 1 Jan 2009, In: Emotion, Space and Society. 2, 1

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  • affective bonds 100%
  • Caregivers 81%
  • Parents 71%
  • Interviews 62%
  • Political Activism 61%

• Small wonder: Effect Sizes in Parapsychology

  Roe, C., 1 Apr 2021, In: The Magazine of the Society for Psychical Research. 1, p. 4-5 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  Open Access

  File

• Spaces of every-night life: for geographies of sleep, sleeping and sleepiness

  Kraftl, P. & Horton, J., 1 Aug 2008, In: Progress in Human Geography. 6, 4

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

• Spelling Predictors; Investigating the role of Phonological ability and rapid naming in a large cross-sectional British study

  Niolaki, G. Z., Vousden, J., Taylor, L., Terzopoulos, A. R., Shepherd, D-L., Debney, L. & Masterson, J., 1 Aug 2022, In: Learning and Instruction. 80, 101635.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Cross-Sectional Studies 100%
  • Reading 89%
  • Child 66%
  • performance 23%
  • experience 15%

• Staff and student experiences of working together on pedagogic research projects: Partnerships in practice

  Maunder, R., 19 Sept 2021, In: Higher Education Research and Development. 40, 6, p. 1205-1219 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • pedagogics 100%
  • research project 72%
  • staff 60%
  • experience 30%
  • student 24%

• Staff experiences of managing bullying in secondary schools: the importance of internal and external relationships in facilitating intervention

  Maunder, R. & Tattersall, A. J., 1 Mar 2010, In: Educational and Child Psychology. 27, 1

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

• Stories too big for a case file: Unaccompanied young people confront the hostile environment in pandemic times

  Aissatou, Prokopiou, E., Leon, L., Mika, Mirfat, Osman, Iyambo, P., Rosen, R., Rebin, Meetoo, V. & Zak, 6 Oct 2022, In: Sociological Research Online. 27, 3, p. 550-558

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • case file 100%
  • time 25%
  • violence 23%
  • knowledge production 19%
  • aesthetics 17%

• Streams of bereavement

  Owton, H., 1 Jun 2012, In: Qualitative Inquiry. 18, 5

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article

  File

  • father 100%
  • narrative 78%
  • grief 69%
  • event 35%
  • time 22%

• Synchronicity in the therapeutic setting: a survey of practitioners

  Roxburgh, E. C., Ridgway, S. & Roe, C. A., 1 Mar 2016, In: Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. 16, 1, p. 44-53 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  • Psychotherapy 100%
  • Counselors 71%
  • Psychology 55%
  • psychotherapist 52%
  • counselor 40%

• Systematic Review of Studies on Subliminal Exposure to Phobic Stimuli: Integrating Therapeutic Models for Specific Phobias

  Frumento, S., Menicucci, D., Hitchcott, P. K., Zaccaro, A. & Gemignani, A., 2 Jun 2021, In: Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15, 654170.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Specific Phobia 100%
  • Implosive Therapy 94%
  • Subliminal Stimulation 61%
  • Systematic Reviews 50%
  • Olfactory Cortex 46%

• Taking “Thanks” for Granted: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Gratitude in the UK and Australia

  Morgan, B., Gulliford, L. & Waters, L., 1 Apr 2022, In: Cross-Cultural Research. 56, 2-3, p. 185-227 43 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Gratitude 100%
  • Child 29%
  • adolescent 26%
  • Emotions 17%
  • Prototype 17%

• Talking emotions in multilingual healthcare settings. A qualitative study of interpreted-mediated interaction in Italian hospitals

  Farini, F., 18 Dec 2015, In: Interpreters Newsletter. 20, p. 123-128

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

• Talking emotions in multilingual healthcare settings. A qualitative study of interpreter-mediated interaction in Italian hospitals

  Farini, F., 18 Dec 2015, In: Interpreters Newsletter. 20, p. 123-138 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Qualitative Study 100%
  • interpreter 89%
  • Interpreter 76%
  • Healthcare 63%
  • Emotion 63%

• Tattooed female bodies: considerations from the literature

  Dann, C., Callaghan, J. & Fellin, L., 1 May 2016, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Psychology of Women Section Review. 18, 1

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • femininity 100%
  • literature 40%
  • social construction 19%
  • experience 6%

• Terminal Lucidity in a Pediatric Oncology Clinic

  Roehrs, P., Fenwick, P., Greyson, B., Kellehear, A., Kothe, K., Nahm, M., Roe, C., Tassell-Matamua, N. & Woollacott, M., 4 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 212, 1, p. 57-60 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  • Pediatrics 100%
  • Pediatric Hospitals 60%
  • Oncologists 57%
  • Documentation 48%
  • Tertiary Care Centers 45%

• Testing for forced-choice precognition using a hidden task: two replications

  Luke, D. P., Roe, C. A. & Davison, J., 1 Jan 2008, In: Journal of Parapsychology. 72

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • questionnaire 100%
  • performance 90%
  • Fractals 65%
  • Creativity 64%
  • Punishment 62%

• Testing the Pagan Prescription: Using a Randomized Controlled Trial to Investigate Pagan Spell-Casting as a Form of Noncontact Healing

  Sonnex, C., Roe, C. & Roxburgh, E. C., 11 Mar 2020, In: Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. 26, 3, p. 219-225 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • medication 100%
  • Prescriptions 98%
  • Analysis of Variance 91%
  • Randomized Controlled Trials 78%
  • Meditation 75%