Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity (2016)
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Van Den Berg, B., Appelbaum, L. G., Clark, K., Lorist, M. M., & Woldorff, M. G. (2016). Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity. Scientific Reports, 6, Article 37718. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep37718

© The Author(s) 2016. An individual's performance on cognitive and perceptual tasks varies considerably across time and circumstances. We investigated neural mechanisms underlying such performance variability using regression-based analyses to examin... Read More about Visual search performance is predicted by both prestimulus and poststimulus electrical brain activity.

Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance (2016)
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Pennington, C. R., & Heim, D. (2016). Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 86(3), 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12110

© 2016 The British Psychological Society. BACKGROUND: Women in mathematical domains may become attuned to situational cues that signal a discredited social identity, contributing to their lower achievement and underrepresentation.AIM: This study exam... Read More about Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance.

Implicit alcohol-related expectancies and the effect of context (2016)
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Monk, R. L., Pennington, C. R., Campbell, C., Price, A., & Heim, D. (2016). Implicit alcohol-related expectancies and the effect of context. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77(5), 819-827. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2016.77.819

© 2016, Alcohol Research Documentation Inc. All right reserved. Objective: The current study examined the impact of varying pictorial cues and testing contexts on implicit alcohol-related expectancies. Method: Seventy-six participants were assigned r... Read More about Implicit alcohol-related expectancies and the effect of context.

Blurred lines: Performance enhancement, common mental disorders and referral in the U.K. athletic population (2016)
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Roberts, C. M., Faull, A. L., & Tod, D. (2016). Blurred lines: Performance enhancement, common mental disorders and referral in the U.K. athletic population. Frontiers in Psychology, 7(JUL), https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01067

© 2016 Roberts, Faull and Tod. Through the awareness-raising efforts of several high-profile current and former athletes, the issue of common mental disorders (CMD) in this population is gaining increasing attention from researchers and practitioners... Read More about Blurred lines: Performance enhancement, common mental disorders and referral in the U.K. athletic population.

The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback (2016)
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Pennington, C. R., Pennington, C., Campbell, C., Monk, R. L., & Heim, D. (2016). The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback. American Journal of Psychiatric Rehabilitation, 19(3), 175-195. https://doi.org/10.1080/15487768.2016.1171175

© 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Research is reported that examines whether imagined social contact combined with implicit attitude feedback may be an effective intervention for inducing changes in attitudes toward mental ill health... Read More about The malleability of stigmatizing attitudes: Combining imagined social contact with implicit attitude feedback.

Wearing eye tracking technology during batting practice: Assessing the experiences of professional baseball athletes (2016)
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Roberts, C., Tabano, J., & Hunfalvay, M. (2016). Wearing eye tracking technology during batting practice: Assessing the experiences of professional baseball athletes. https://doi.org/10.5923/j.sports.20160603.10

Utilizing wearable technology in sport allows for the collection of motor behavior data during task engagement. This data can be assessed in real-time or retrospectively. Although enriching the scope of performance data, the consequences of wearable... Read More about Wearing eye tracking technology during batting practice: Assessing the experiences of professional baseball athletes.

"Girls can't play": The effects of stereotype threat on females' gaming performance (2016)
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Kaye, L. K., & Pennington, C. R. (2016). "Girls can't play": The effects of stereotype threat on females' gaming performance. Computers in Human Behavior, 59, 202-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.020

© 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The current study examined the impact of stereotype threat on female online gamers' performance and further examined whether manipulating the availability of multiple social identities effectivel... Read More about "Girls can't play": The effects of stereotype threat on females' gaming performance.

Applying the verifiability approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol (2016)
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Harvey, A. C., Vrij, A., Nahari, G., & Ludwig, K. (2017). Applying the verifiability approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 22(1), 47-59. https://doi.org/10.1111/lcrp.12092

Purpose Lie detection in insurance claim settings is difficult as liars can easily incorporate deceptive statements within descriptions of otherwise truthful events. We examined whether the Verifiability Approach (VA) could be used effectively in in... Read More about Applying the verifiability approach to insurance claims settings: Exploring the effect of the information protocol.

Twenty years of stereotype threat research: A review of psychological mediators (2016)
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Pennington, C. R., Heim, D., Levy, A. R., & Larkin, D. T. (2016). Twenty years of stereotype threat research: A review of psychological mediators. PLoS ONE, 11(1), e0146487. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146487

Copyright © 2016 Pennington et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and... Read More about Twenty years of stereotype threat research: A review of psychological mediators.

Are career termination concerns only for athletes? A case study of the career termination of an elite female coach (2016)
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Kenttä, G., Mellalieu, S., & Roberts, C. M. (2016). Are career termination concerns only for athletes? A case study of the career termination of an elite female coach. Sport Psychologist, 30(4), 314-326. https://doi.org/10.1123/tsp.2015-0134

© 2016 Human Kinetics, Inc. This paper presents a case study of an elite female coach and her career termination from a 20+ year career following a critical life incident. A novel autobiographical approach was adopted whereby the participant undertoo... Read More about Are career termination concerns only for athletes? A case study of the career termination of an elite female coach.