Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice
Book
Neill, C. (2016)
Ethics and Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice. Taylor & Francis
This highly original book explores the idea and potential of psychology in the context of ethical theory, and the idea of ethics in the context of psychology. In so doing, it ...
Lacan’s master-signifier revisited, or Mandela and repression.
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2016, April)
Lacan’s master-signifier revisited, or Mandela and repression. Paper presented at LACK Conference 2106, Colorado College
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Function Impairment: An Overview.
Journal Article
Carruthers, L. (2016)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Executive Function Impairment: An Overview. the Quarterly, 98,
As with any cognitive ability, attention is vulnerable to dysfunction. The most common attentional problem is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This brief overv...
The effects of a recalled injustice on the experience of experimentally induced pain and anxiety in relation to just-world beliefs
Journal Article
McParland, J., Knussen, C., & Murray, J. (2016)
The effects of a recalled injustice on the experience of experimentally induced pain and anxiety in relation to just-world beliefs. European Journal of Pain, 20(9), 1392-1401. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.862
Background: A growing field of investigation into social justice cognitions and pain suggests perceived injustice has a negative impact on pain, but little is known about indi...
Demonstrating the links between psychology and biology: the practical use of Biopac in undergraduate psychology teaching.
Presentation / Conference
Murray, J., Shaw, M., & Willis, A. (2016, January)
Demonstrating the links between psychology and biology: the practical use of Biopac in undergraduate psychology teaching. Paper presented at The Teaching Fellows' Conference: innovations in teaching and supporting student learning, Edinburgh Napier University
For those unfamiliar with psychology, there is often a perception that it is a subject that is all about the mind and ‘talking therapies. However, since the 1930s this has not...
Alcohol brief intervention in a university setting: a small-scale experimental study.
Journal Article
Dombrowski, S. U., McClatchey, K., & Boyce, M. (2017)
Alcohol brief intervention in a university setting: a small-scale experimental study. Journal of Health Psychology, 22(7), 886-895. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105315617331
Alcohol misuse among university students is commonplace. This study aimed to assess whether Alcohol
Brief Intervention would be effective in reducing hazardous alcohol consump...
Mirror mirror on the ward, who’s the most narcissistic of them all? Pathologic personality traits in health care
Journal Article
Bucknall, V., Burwaiss, S., MacDonald, D., Charles, K., & Clement, R. (2015)
Mirror mirror on the ward, who’s the most narcissistic of them all? Pathologic personality traits in health care. Canadian Medical Association journal, 187(18), 1359-1363. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.151135
Background: Stereotypes in medicine have become exaggerated for the purpose of workplace amusement. Our objective was to assess the levels of “dark triad” personality traits e...
The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory.
Journal Article
Marsh, J. E., Demaine, J., Bell, R., Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Roer, J. P., & Buchner, A. (2015)
The impact of irrelevant auditory facial descriptions on memory for target faces: implications for eyewitness memory. Journal of Forensic Practice, 17(4), 271-280. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFP-08-2014-0029
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential susceptibility of eyewitness memory to the presence of extraneous background speech that comprises a descr...
‘Not to Naught: Paul Celan and the necessary failure of the ever coming word’.
Presentation / Conference
Neill, C. (2015, October)
‘Not to Naught: Paul Celan and the necessary failure of the ever coming word’. Presented at Memory and Counter-Memory, Psychoanalysis and Politics Symposium on the 70th Anniversary of the Holocaust, Institute of Psychoanalysis, London
Developing a theory-informed interactive animation to increase physical activity among young people with asthma.
Presentation / Conference
Murray, J., Todoran, A., Williams, B., & Hoskins, G. (2015, September)
Developing a theory-informed interactive animation to increase physical activity among young people with asthma
The current paper describes the development of a theory-informed interactive animation and which aims to increase levels of physical activity in young people with asthma. The ...