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Visual and auditory contextual cues differentially influence alcohol-related inhibitory control (2018)
Journal Article
Qureshi, A., Monk, R. L., Pennington, C. R., Li, X., Leatherbarrow, T., & Oulton, J. R. (2021). Visual and auditory contextual cues differentially influence alcohol-related inhibitory control. Adicciones -Palma de Mallorca-, 33(1), 7-18. https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.1091

Introduction: Representing a more immersive testing environment, the current study exposed individuals to both alcohol-related visual and auditory cues to assess their respective impact on alcohol-related inhibitory control. It examined further wheth... Read More about Visual and auditory contextual cues differentially influence alcohol-related inhibitory control.

Moving beyond “Us” versus “Them”: Social identities in digital gaming (2018)
Journal Article
Kaye, L. K., & Pennington, C. R. (2018). Moving beyond “Us” versus “Them”: Social identities in digital gaming. Psychology of Women Section Review,

This was an invited submission for a special focus issue on gender and gaming for the Psychology of Women Section Review (British Psychological Society).

Alcohol-related attentional bias in a gaze contingency task: Comparing appetitive and non-appetitive cues (2018)
Journal Article
Qureshi, A., Monk, R. L., Pennington, C. R., Wilcockson, T. D., & Heim, D. (2019). Alcohol-related attentional bias in a gaze contingency task: Comparing appetitive and non-appetitive cues. Addictive Behaviors, 90, 312-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.11.034

© 2018 Background: Non-problem drinkers attend automatically to alcohol-related cues compared to non-alcohol related cues on tests of inhibitory control. Moreover, attentional bias for alcohol-related cues varies between problem and non-problem drink... Read More about Alcohol-related attentional bias in a gaze contingency task: Comparing appetitive and non-appetitive cues.

You ≠ me: individual differences in the structure of social cognition (2018)
Journal Article
Shaw, D. J., Czekóová, K., Pennington, C. R., Qureshi, A. W., Špiláková, B., Salazar, M., …Urbánek, T. (2020). You ≠ me: individual differences in the structure of social cognition. Psychological Research, 84, 1139-1156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1107-3

© 2018, The Author(s). This study investigated the structure of social cognition, and how it is influenced by personality; specifically, how various socio-cognitive capabilities, and the pattern of inter-relationships and co-dependencies among them d... Read More about You ≠ me: individual differences in the structure of social cognition.

Stereotype threat may not impact women's inhibitory control or mathematical performance: Providing support for the null hypothesis (2018)
Journal Article
Pennington, C. R., Litchfield, D., McLatchie, N. M., & Heim, D. (2019). Stereotype threat may not impact women's inhibitory control or mathematical performance: Providing support for the null hypothesis. European Journal of Social Psychology, 49(4), 717-734. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2540

© 2018 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Underpinned by the findings of Jamieson and Harkins (2007; Experiment 3), the current study pits the mere effort motivational account of stereotype threat against a working memory interference account. In Experiment 1... Read More about Stereotype threat may not impact women's inhibitory control or mathematical performance: Providing support for the null hypothesis.

Registered replication report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008) (2018)
Journal Article
Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., Orthey, R., McCarthy, R. J., …Yıldız, E. (2018). Registered replication report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 299-317. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918781032

The self-concept maintenance theory holds that many people will cheat in order to maximize self-profit, but only to the extent that they can do so while maintaining a positive self-concept. Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008, Experiment 1) gave participan... Read More about Registered replication report on Mazar, Amir, and Ariely (2008).

Registered replication report on Srull and Wyer (1979) (2018)
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McCarthy, R. J., Skowronski, J. J., Verschuere, B., Meijer, E. H., Jim, A., Hoogesteyn, K., …Yıldız, E. (2018). Registered replication report on Srull and Wyer (1979). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 1(3), 321-336. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245918777487

Srull and Wyer (1979) demonstrated that exposing participants to more hostility-related stimuli caused them subsequently to interpret ambiguous behaviors as more hostile. In their Experiment 1, participants descrambled sets of words to form sentences... Read More about Registered replication report on Srull and Wyer (1979).

Controlling for Prior Attainment Reduces the Positive Influence that Single-Gender Classroom Initiatives Exert on High School Students’ Scholastic Achievements (2018)
Journal Article
Pennington, C. R., Kaye, L. K., Qureshi, A. W., & Heim, D. (2018). Controlling for Prior Attainment Reduces the Positive Influence that Single-Gender Classroom Initiatives Exert on High School Students’ Scholastic Achievements. Sex Roles, 78(5-6), 385-393. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0799-y

© 2017, The Author(s). Research points to the positive impact that gender-segregated schooling and classroom initiatives exert on academic attainment. An evaluation of these studies which reveal positive effects highlights, however, that students are... Read More about Controlling for Prior Attainment Reduces the Positive Influence that Single-Gender Classroom Initiatives Exert on High School Students’ Scholastic Achievements.

Applying the multi-Threat framework of stereotype threat in the context of digital gaming (2018)
Journal Article
Pennington, C., Kaye, L. K., & McCann, J. J. (2018). Applying the multi-Threat framework of stereotype threat in the context of digital gaming. PLoS ONE, 13(2), e0192137. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192137

© 2018 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 source are... Read More about Applying the multi-Threat framework of stereotype threat in the context of digital gaming.