The path towards a professional identity: An IPA study of Greek family therapy trainees (2013)
Journal Article
Fragkiadaki, E., Triliva, S., Balamoutsou, S., & Prokopiou, A. (2013). The path towards a professional identity: An IPA study of Greek family therapy trainees. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 13(4), 290-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733145.2013.768287

Objective: Contemporary psychotherapy research has focused mainly on practitioners' training and education. The impact of training on professional development and the application of therapeutic skills have been the primary foci of the empirical liter... Read More about The path towards a professional identity: An IPA study of Greek family therapy trainees.

I knew you were going to miss that: Predicting future visual search performance from initial search abilities (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013, November). I knew you were going to miss that: Predicting future visual search performance from initial search abilities. Poster presented at Object Perception, Attention, and Memory, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

A unique data source—hundreds of thousands of individuals who voluntarily played a smartphone game (Airport Scanner; Kedlin Company)—was used to assess predictors of visual search accuracy. Baseline performance was assessed on easy levels at the star... Read More about I knew you were going to miss that: Predicting future visual search performance from initial search abilities.

Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry (2013)
Journal Article
Jackson, T. H., Mitroff, S. R., Clark, K., Proffit, W. R., Lee, J. Y., & Nguyen, T. T. (2013). Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry. American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 144(5), 663-671. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajodo.2013.06.020

Introduction An accurate assessment of face symmetry is necessary for the development of a dentofacial diagnosis in orthodontics, and an understanding of individual differences in perception of face symmetry between patients and providers is needed t... Read More about Face symmetry assessment abilities: Clinical implications for diagnosing asymmetry.

Forging partnerships for mental health: The case of a prefecture in crisis ravaged Greece (2013)
Journal Article
Triliva, S., Fragkiadaki, E., & Balamoutsou, S. (2013). Forging partnerships for mental health: The case of a prefecture in crisis ravaged Greece. European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 15(4), 375-390. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642537.2013.849275

Public health and in particular mental health have been severely affected by the multitude of socioeconomic crises experienced by people in Greece. The severe austerity programmes, have reduced access to health services and increased demand for publi... Read More about Forging partnerships for mental health: The case of a prefecture in crisis ravaged Greece.

Attentional sampling of multiple wagon wheels (2013)
Journal Article
Macdonald, J. S., Macdonald, J. S. P., Cavanagh, P., & VanRullen, R. (2014). Attentional sampling of multiple wagon wheels. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 76(1), 64-72. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-013-0555-5

Attending to a periodic motion stimulus can induce illusory reversals of the direction of motion. This continuous wagon wheel illusion (c-WWI) has been taken to reflect discrete sampling of motion information by visual attention. An alternative view... Read More about Attentional sampling of multiple wagon wheels.

Building a successful Olympic team selection protocol in women's handball: A case study examining the benefits of employing reflective practice (2013)
Journal Article
Roberts, C. M., & Faull, A. L. (2013). Building a successful Olympic team selection protocol in women's handball: A case study examining the benefits of employing reflective practice. Reflective Practice, 14(5), 648-659. https://doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2013.835719

The sharing of applied practice offered in the current paper affords an opportunity to view how the use of reflective practice can serve as a problem-solving catalyst to a variety of issues raised during support provided to GB women's handball within... Read More about Building a successful Olympic team selection protocol in women's handball: A case study examining the benefits of employing reflective practice.

Host country nationals' attitudes toward expatriates: Development of a measure † (2013)
Journal Article
Arman, G., & Aycan, Z. (2013). Host country nationals' attitudes toward expatriates: Development of a measure †. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 24(15), 2927-2947. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2013.763839

A measure assessing host country nationals' (HCNs) perceptions of attitudes and behaviors of the expatriates (ATEX) was developed and validated in two studies. For the first study, interviews were conducted to generate items. A questionnaire involvin... Read More about Host country nationals' attitudes toward expatriates: Development of a measure †.

Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search (2013)
Journal Article
Clark, K., Cain, M., Adcock, R. A., & Mitroff, S. R. (2014). Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search. Applied Ergonomics, 45(3), 528-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2013.07.008

Career visual searchers such as radiologists and airport security screeners strive to conduct accurate visual searches, but despite extensive training, errors still occur. A key difference between searches in radiology and airport security is the str... Read More about Context matters: The structure of task goals affects accuracy in multiple-target visual search.

Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists (2013)
Journal Article
Jackson, T. H., Clark, K., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists. Visual Cognition, 21(7), 838-852. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2013.832450

Assessing facial symmetry is an evolutionarily important process, which suggests that individual differences in this ability should exist. As existing data are inconclusive, the current study explored whether a group trained in facial symmetry assess... Read More about Enhanced facial symmetry assessment in orthodontists.

Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers (2013)
Journal Article
Cain, M. S., Biggs, A. T., Cain, M., Clark, K., Darling, E. F., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers. Visual Cognition, 21(3), 330-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2013.790329

Some visual searches depend upon accuracy (e.g., radiology, airport security screening), and it is important for both theoretical and applied reasons to understand what factors best predict performance. The current study administered a visual search... Read More about Assessing visual search performance differences between Transportation Security Administration Officers and nonprofessional visual searchers.

Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, K., Biggs, A. T., Darling, E. F., Cain, M. S., Jackson, T. H., Samei, E., …Mitroff, S. R. (2013, May). Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations. Paper presented at Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida, United States

Professionals whose careers depend on visual skills typically demonstrate superior performance on career-related tasks; farmers better determine the sex of day-old chicks (Biederman & Shiffrar, 1987), and bank tellers better detect counterfeit curren... Read More about Visual expertise: Insights gained by comparing professional populations.

Trainer communication style and training outcomes (2013)
Book Chapter
Towler, A., & Arman, G. (2013). Trainer communication style and training outcomes. In M. A. Paludi (Ed.), Psychology for Business Success (103-114). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger

The chapter summarizes key issues in trainer communication style for improving training outcomes

Characterizing clinical skill acquisition: Face symmetry assessment abilities in orthodontists (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Jackson, T. H., Nguyen, T. T., Clark, K., Lee, J. Y., Proffit, W. R., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013, March). Characterizing clinical skill acquisition: Face symmetry assessment abilities in orthodontists. Poster presented at International Association for Dental Research, Seattle, Washington, United States

Objectives: Assessing face symmetry is key to diagnosis in dentistry. By comparing performance on tests of visual cognition (symmetry assessment) across dental students, orthodontics residents, orthodontics faculty, and untrained controls, we explore... Read More about Characterizing clinical skill acquisition: Face symmetry assessment abilities in orthodontists.