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“No pain, no gain”: The impact of autonomous sensory meridian response on pain perception (2022)
Journal Article

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a phenomenon characterised by a static-like tingling sensation spreading from the scalp and neck to the periphery in response to a variety of audio, visual, and tactile triggers resulting in a highly rel... Read More about “No pain, no gain”: The impact of autonomous sensory meridian response on pain perception.

Attentional biases towards body expressions of pain in men and women (2021)
Journal Article

This study investigated whether there are gender differences in attention to bodily expressions of pain and core emotions. Three experiments are reported using the attentional dot probe task. Images of men and women displaying bodily expressions, inc... Read More about Attentional biases towards body expressions of pain in men and women.

The disruptive effects of pain on the early allocation of attentional resources: An attentional blink study (2021)
Journal Article

Background: Recent evidence suggests that pain dampens attentional processes. However, much of this work has been based on higher-order attentional tasks that involve only spatial attention. Other aspects of the process through which pain engages and... Read More about The disruptive effects of pain on the early allocation of attentional resources: An attentional blink study.

The impact of working conditions on the UK’s teaching assistants (2021)
Journal Article

Teaching assistants (TAs) in the United Kingdom typically work with students with additional and special needs, including the most challenging and vulnerable pupils, in low paid, precarious roles. However, no research has examined how organisational... Read More about The impact of working conditions on the UK’s teaching assistants.

Gender differences in attention to pain body postures in a social context: A novel use of the bodies in the crowd task (2020)
Journal Article

Pain signals the presence of potential harm, captures attention, and can inhibit performance on concurrent tasks. What is less well known, however, is whether such attentional capture also occurs in a wider social context, such as when observing peop... Read More about Gender differences in attention to pain body postures in a social context: A novel use of the bodies in the crowd task.

Resilience and return-to-work pain interventions: Systematic review (2019)
Journal Article

Background Resilience is a developing concept in relation to pain, but has not yet been reviewed in return-towork (RTW) contexts. Aims To explore the role of resilience enhancement in promoting work participation for chronic pain sufferers, by review... Read More about Resilience and return-to-work pain interventions: Systematic review.

Working conditions and stress in the English education system (2018)
Journal Article

Background The UK education sector has among the highest level of stress sickness absence of all occupations. However, investigations of psychosocial working conditions which contribute to stress, including behaviour of students and parents, has not... Read More about Working conditions and stress in the English education system.

Sex differences in the decoding of pain-related body postures (2017)
Journal Article

Background: Pain can be detected through nonverbal cues, including facial expressions, vocalisations, and body posture. While there are sex differences in how emotional expressions are recognized, these differences have not always been found for pain... Read More about Sex differences in the decoding of pain-related body postures.

Pain communication through body posture: The development and validation of a stimulus set (2014)
Journal Article

Pain can be communicated nonverbally through facial expressions, vocalisations, and bodily movements. Most studies have focussed on the facial display of pain, whereas there is little research on postural display. Stimulus sets for facial and vocal e... Read More about Pain communication through body posture: The development and validation of a stimulus set.