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Improving uptake and engagement with child body image interventions delivered to mothers: Understanding mother and daughter preferences for intervention content (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Mothers are a key influence on adolescent girls’ body image. This study aimed to improve understanding of mothers’ and daughters’ preferences for content in body image interventions designed to assist mothers to promote positive b... Read More about Improving uptake and engagement with child body image interventions delivered to mothers: Understanding mother and daughter preferences for intervention content.

Gay father surrogacy families: Relationships with surrogates and egg donors and parental disclosure of children's origins (2016)
Journal Article

Objective: To study the nature and quality of relationships between gay father families and their surrogates and egg donors and parental disclosure of children's origins. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Family homes. Patient(s): Parents in... Read More about Gay father surrogacy families: Relationships with surrogates and egg donors and parental disclosure of children's origins.

Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Soldiers’ Experiences of Being Married and Serving in the British Army (2016)
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© 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. ABSTRACT: Research suggests certain aspects of military life, especially operational deployments, may negatively impact military marriages. However, much of this research is from the United States an... Read More about Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Soldiers’ Experiences of Being Married and Serving in the British Army.

Brain matters... in social sciences (2016)
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Rusconi, E., Sedgmond, J., Bolgan, S., & D. Chambers, C. D. (2016). Brain matters... in social sciences. AIMS Neuroscience, 3(3), 253-263. https://doi.org/10.3934/Neuroscience.2016.3.253

Here we offer a general introduction to cognitive neuroscience and provide examples relevant to psychology, healthcare and bioethics, law and criminology, information studies, of how brain studies have influenced, are influencing or show the potentia... Read More about Brain matters... in social sciences.

Marital status distribution of the U.K. military: Does it differ from the general population? (2016)
Journal Article

The U.K. media suggest that U.K. military personnel have high divorce rates; to date, these claims are not substantiated. Marital status distribution of the general population and military were compared using data from the Office for National Statist... Read More about Marital status distribution of the U.K. military: Does it differ from the general population?.

The development of the Slade-Pais Expectations of Childbirth Scale (SPECS) (2016)
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Slade, P., Pais, T., Fairlie, F., Simpson, A., & Sheen, K. (2016). The development of the Slade-Pais Expectations of Childbirth Scale (SPECS). Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 34(5), 495-510. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2016.1209300

Objective: To develop a valid and reliable English language-based scale to measure pregnant women’s expectations of childbirth. Background: During pregnancy, most women think about their forthcoming childbirth, and develop expectations of how they th... Read More about The development of the Slade-Pais Expectations of Childbirth Scale (SPECS).

On the borders of solidarity: Ethics, power and immigration controls (2016)
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The debate about migration in political and media discourse is dominated by issues of economics and culture, while only the ethical approach reveals the question of power, writes Phillip Cole. The left must on one hand understand anxieties people hav... Read More about On the borders of solidarity: Ethics, power and immigration controls.

Psychological approaches to coping with pain in later life (2016)
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Eccleston, C., Tabor, A., Edwards, R. T., & Keogh, E. (2016). Psychological approaches to coping with pain in later life. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 32(4), 763-771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cger.2016.06.004

A psychological model of coping with the demands of aging is outlined. Chronic pain is conceptualized as a challenge to normal aging, because it threatens identity, risks affective disorder (depression), and interferes with action. The sparse evidenc... Read More about Psychological approaches to coping with pain in later life.

Reproductive tourism, through the anthropological “reproscope” (2016)
Journal Article

This review analyses the emerging literature on ‘reproductive tourism’ through a metaphorical ‘reproscope’ focusing largely on cross-border egg donation and surrogacy as the prime areas of contemporary anthropological investigation. Whilst acknowledg... Read More about Reproductive tourism, through the anthropological “reproscope”.

Experiencing the surveillance society (2016)
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Ellis, D., Tucker, I., & Harper, D. (2016). Experiencing the surveillance society. Psychologist,

The images that circulated following the November 2015 Paris attacks and the August 2011 UK disturbances have reminded us of the ubiquity of surveillance. In the UK we may be aware of the CCTV owned by local councils and shops; the helicopter-borne c... Read More about Experiencing the surveillance society.