Psychology & Counselling Research
Research Overview
The department of Psychology and Counselling carries out high quality scientific research in psychology that moves theory forward while informing applied issues in settings such as mental health, education, social policy and sports. Our focus is on an integrative approach to research problems, using varied quantitative and qualitative methods.
Research is ongoing in the following areas:
- Biological psychology
- Forensic psychology
- Educational psychology
- Health psychology
- Personality psychology
- Social psychology
- Sports Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Abnormal Psychology
- Parapsychology
- Positive Psychology
Staff and Postgraduate Research Interests
The APRG – Applied Psychology Research Group
Research Centre for Children, Schools and Families
The centre is dedicated to research and consultancy on education, health, wellbeing and social issues in families, adolescence and childhood.
Recent Research Publications by Members of the Department
2011
Robinson, O.C., Wright, G.R.T. & Kendall, E. (2011). Parental Attachment and its Relationship to Contextualised Trait Expression and Mean-Corrected Cross-Context Trait Variability. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 547-552.
Tharp I. J., & Pickering, A. D. (2011). Individual differences in cognitive flexibility: The influence of spontaneous eyeblink rate, trait psychoticism and working memory on attentional set-shifting. Brain and Cognition 75(2), 119-125.
2010
Chen M, Thompson T, Kropotov J and Gruzelier J. (2010). Beneficial effects of electrostimulation contingencies on sustained attention and electrocortical activity. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 1, 1-16
Corney, R. & Davis, J. (2010). The attractions and risks of Internet gambling for women: A qualitative study. Journal of Gambling Issues,24, 121–139.
Corney, R. & Davis, J. (2010). Female frequent Internet gamblers: a qualitative study investigating the role of family, social situation and work. Community, Work & Family, 13, 291-309.
Davis, J.P., Sulley, L. Solomon, C. & Gibson, S. (2010). A Comparison of Individual and Morphed Facial Composites Created Using Different Systems. In G. Howells, K. Sirlantzis, A. Stoica, T. Huntsberger and A.T. Arslan (Eds.) 2010 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Security Technologies (p. 56 – 60).
Davis, J.P., Valentine, T., & Davis, R.E. (2010). Facial comparison of photographic images taken from full-face and profile viewpoints. Forensic Science International, 200, 165-176
Luke, D., & Friedman, H. (2010). The neurochemistry of psi reports and associated experiences. In S. Krippner, and H. Friedman (Eds.), Mysterious minds: The neurobiology of psychics, mediums and other extraordinary people (pp.163-185). Westport, CT: Greenwood / Praeger.
Luke, D. (2010). Anthropology and parapsychology: Still hostile sisters in science? Time and Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness & Culture, 3 (3), 245-266.
Luke. D. P. (2010). Rock art or Rorschach: Is there more to entoptics than meets the eye? Time & Mind: The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness & Culture, 3(1),9-28
Robinson, O.C. & Smith, J.A. (2010). The Stormy Search for Self in Early Adulthood: Developmental Crisis and the Dissolution of Dysfunctional Personae. The Humanistic Psychologist, 38, 120-145.
Robinson, O.C. & Smith, J.A. (2010). Investigating the Form and Dynamics of Crisis Episodes in Early Adulthood: The Application of a Composite Qualitative Method. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 7 (2), 170-191.
Robinson, O.C., Demetre, J.D. & Corney, R.H. (2010). Personality and retirement: Exploring the links between the Big Five personality traits, reasons for retirement and the experience of being retired. Personality and Individual Differences, 48, 792-797.
Thompson T, Steffert T, Gruzelier J. (2010). A randomised controlled trial of the effects of hypnosis with 3D virtual reality animation on tiredness, mood and salivary cortisol. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 59, 1-20.
Turk, V., Kerry, S.,Corney, R.,Rowlands, G. & Khattran, S. (2010). Why some adults with intellectual disability consult their general practitioner more than others. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 54, 833-842
Turk, V; Burchell,S; Burrha, S; Corney,R; Elliott, S; Kerry, S; Molloy, C; Painter, K. (2010). An Evaluation of the Implementation of Hand Held Health Records with Adults with Learning Disabilities: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 23, 2, 100-111
Valentine, T., Davis, J.P., Thorner, K., Solomon, C., & Gibson, S. (2010). Evolving and combining facial composites: Between-witness and within-witness morphs compared. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 16(1), 72-86.
2009
Davis, J.P., & Valentine, T. (2009). CCTV on Trial: Matching Video Images with the Defendant in the Dock, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 482-505.
Monks, C.P., Smith, P.K., Coyne, I., Barter, C., Ireland, J., & Naylor, P. (2009). Bullying in different contexts: commonalities and differences. Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review Journal, 14, 146-156.Dock, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23, 482-505.
Morgan, J. & Farsides, T. (2009). Psychometric Evaluation of the Meaning in Life Measure. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10: 351–366.
Morgan, J. & Farsides, T. (2009). Measuring Meaning in Life. Journal of Happiness Studies, 10: 197-214.
Robinson, O.C. (2009). On the Social Malleability of Traits: Variability and Consistency in Big 5 Trait Expression across Three Interpersonal Contexts. Journal of Individual Differences, 30(4), 201–208
Robinson, O.C. and Smith, J. (2009). Metaphors and Metamorphoses: Narratives of Identity During Times of Crisis. In D. Robinson, P. Fisher, T. Yeadon-Lee, S. J. Robinson & Woodcock, P. (Eds.) Narrative, Memory and Identities, pp.85-94. University of Huddersfield Press.
Tharp I. J., & Pickering A. D. (2009). A note on DeCaro, Thomas and Beilock (2008): Further data demonstrate complexities in the assessment of information-integration category learning. Cognition, 111(3), 410-414.
Simonds, L.M., Demetre, J.D., & Read, C. (2009). Relationships between magical thinking, obsessive-compulsiveness and other forms of anxiety in a sample of non-clinical children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 457-471.
Smillie, L. D., Cooper, A. J., Tharp, I. J., & Pelling, E. (2009). Individual Differences in Cognitive Control: The role of Psychoticism and Working Memory in Set-Shifting. British Journal of Psychology, 100(4), 629-643.
2008
Hartley, J .E., & Montgomery, A.M.J. (2008). Inhibition of prandial and waterspray-induced grooming by 8-OH-DPAT. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2008, 22 (Suppl) A26.
Hartley, J .E., & Montgomery, A.M.J. (2008). 8-OH-DPAT inhibits both prandial and waterspray-induced grooming. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2008, 22 (7) 746-752
Monks, C.P., Ortega-Ruiz, R. & Rodríguez-Hidalgo, A.J. (2008). Peer-victimization in multi-cultural schools in Spain and England. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 5, 507-535.
Ortega, R., Romera, E.M., & Monks, C.P. (2008). El impacto de la actividad lúdica en el desarollo de la competencia social: un modelo de prevención de la agresividad injustificada. International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy, 8, 193-202 (in Spanish).
Smith, P.K. & Monks, C.P. (2008). Concepts of bullying: Developmental and cultural aspects. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health, 20 (2), 101-112.
Thompson T., Steffert T, Ros T, Leach J & Gruzelier J (2008). EEG methodology in sport and performance. Methods, 45, 279-288.
Thompson T., Keogh E, French C & Davis R (2008). Anxiety sensitivity and pain: generalisability across noxious stimuli. Pain, 134 (1-2), 187-96.
2007
Crowley, C., Harré, R., & Lunt, I. (2007). Safe spaces and sense of identity: Views and experiences of lesbian, gay and bisexual young people. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 11(1-2), 127-143.
Gavin, J., Duffield, J., Brosnan, M., Joiner, R., Maras, P., & Scott, A.J. (2007). Drawing the net: Internet identification, internet use, and the image of internet users. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10(3), 478-481.
Hallam, R., Ashton, P, Sherbourne, K, Gailey, L & Corney, R. (2007) Coping, conversation tactics and marital interaction in persons with acquired profound hearing loss: correlates of distress, Audiological Medicine, 5, 2, 103.
Joiner, R., Brosnan, M., Duffield, J., Gavin, J., & Maras, P. (2007). The relationship between Internet identification, internet anxiety and internet Use. Computers and Human Behavior, 23(3), 1408-1420.
Luke, D. P. (2007). The science of magic: A parapsychological model of psychic ability in the context of magical will. Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, 4, 90-119.
Maras, P. (2007). ‘But no one in my family has been to University’: Aiming higher: school students’ attitudes to higher education. The Australian Educational Researcher, 34(3), 69-90.
Maras, P., Carmichael, K., Patel, S., & Wills, J. (2007). “The trouble with Year 10”. 13-16 year old school students’ attitudes to higher education. Social Psychology of Education, 10(3), 375-397.