The research carried out in the Psychology Department can be categorised into four areas, though there is considerable integration between them, partly because many individuals operate in more than one area and partly because there are many common interests.
Research
Key Research Groups
News Releases
Recent Publications
Alison JS Sanford, Jessica Price, & Anthony J Sanford. (2009). Enhancement and Suppression Effects Resulting from Information Structuring in Sentences. Memory and Cognition, 37(6), 880-888.
McGroarty, A. & Baxter, J.S. (2009) Interviewer Behaviour, Interviewee Self-esteem and Response Change in Simulated Forensic Interviews. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 642-646.
Alloway TP, Rajendran, G, and Archibald LMD (2009). Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders. Journal of Learning Disabilities.
Elliott, MA, Baugh CJ and Sexton, BF (2008). Errors and violations in relation to motorcyclists' crash risk. TRL Annual Review of Research (pp 41-50). Wokingham: Transport Research Laboratory.
Rasmussen, S, O'Connor, RC and Brodie, D (2008). The role of perfectionism and autobiographical memory in a sample of parasuicide patients: An exploratory study. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. 29, 2, 64 - 72.
Davies, JB, Ross, AJ and Sudbery, MV (2008). The Fagerstrom Test for nicotine dependence and its relationship to NRT use and readiness to quit. Journal of Substance Use. 13, 5, 1-9.
Boyle, J, MacKay, T and Lauchlan, F (2008). The Legislative Context and Shared Practice Models. Ch 2 in B Kelly, L Woolfson and J Boyle (eds) Frameworks for Practice in Educational Psychology: A Textbook for Trainees and Practitioners. London: Jessica Kingsley. ISBN 978-1-84310-600-5.
Law, J, Campbell, C, Roulstone, S, Adams, C and Boyle, J (2008). Mapping practice onto theory: The speech and language practitioner's construction of receptive language disorder. International Journal of Language and Communication Distorders, 43, 3, 245 - 263.