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Children's judgments of disloyal and immoral peer behavior: Subjective group dynamics in minimal intergroup contexts (2008)
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Abrams, D., Rutland, A., Ferrell, J. M., & Pelletier, J. (2008). Children's judgments of disloyal and immoral peer behavior: Subjective group dynamics in minimal intergroup contexts. Child Development, 79(2), 444-461. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01135.x

The developmental model of subjective group dynamics hypothesizes that peer exclusion during middle childhood involves inferences about group dynamics. To test the generality of this prediction, children judged, within minimal groups, peers whose beh... Read More about Children's judgments of disloyal and immoral peer behavior: Subjective group dynamics in minimal intergroup contexts.

Empowered to change: Evidence from a qualitative exploration of a user-informed psycho-educational programme for people with type 1 diabetes (2008)
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Booker, S., Morris, M., & Johnson, A. (2008). Empowered to change: Evidence from a qualitative exploration of a user-informed psycho-educational programme for people with type 1 diabetes. Chronic Illness, 4(1), 41-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/1742395307086695

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a user-informed psycho-educational programme for people with type 1 diabetes. Methods: Qualitative data derived from repeated interviews and diaries enabled an appraisal of participants' unique, individual experi... Read More about Empowered to change: Evidence from a qualitative exploration of a user-informed psycho-educational programme for people with type 1 diabetes.

The impact of art, design and environment in mental healthcare: A systematic review of the literature (2008)
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Byrne, E., O'Connor, S., Soteriou, T., & Daykin, N. (2008). The impact of art, design and environment in mental healthcare: A systematic review of the literature. Journal- Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 128(2), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.1177/1466424007087806

Aims: There has been a burgeoning interest in arts and the environment in healthcare. While research has been undertaken on the clinical impact of disciplines, relatively little research has studied the impact of broader arts for health interventions... Read More about The impact of art, design and environment in mental healthcare: A systematic review of the literature.

Alleviating the consequences of marginalisation? EU aid policy towards the Caribbean ACPs (2008)
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Clegg, P. (2008). Alleviating the consequences of marginalisation? EU aid policy towards the Caribbean ACPs. Journal of International Development, 20(2), 193-204. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1450

The article reviews the EU's development policy in relation to the Caribbean members of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. It considers the particular challenges faced by these small economies before assessing their trade and aid relatio... Read More about Alleviating the consequences of marginalisation? EU aid policy towards the Caribbean ACPs.

The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature (2008)
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Brain, S., Daykin, N., Orme, J., Evans, D., Salmon, D., & Mceachran, M. (2008). The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of Health Psychology, 13(2), 251-264. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105307086699

This article reports a systematic review of literature published between 1994 and 2004 on the effects of performing arts for health in young people aged 11-18. The review includes research on music, performance, drama and dance in community settings... Read More about The impact of participation in performing arts on adolescent health and behaviour: A systematic review of the literature.

Spreading or concentrating drinking occasions - Who is most at risk? (2008)
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Kuntsche, S., Plant, M., Plant, M., Miller, P., & Gmel, G. (2008). Spreading or concentrating drinking occasions - Who is most at risk?. European Addiction Research, 14(2), 71-81. https://doi.org/10.1159/000113721

Aims: (a) To compare acute negative consequences for people who drink a given amount of alcohol on few occasions (concentrators) per week in comparison with the consequences for people who drink the same amount on more days in a week (spreaders). (b)... Read More about Spreading or concentrating drinking occasions - Who is most at risk?.

Considerations for the provision of psychosocial services for families following paediatric burn injury-A quantitative study (2008)
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Phillips, C., & Rumsey, N. (2008). Considerations for the provision of psychosocial services for families following paediatric burn injury-A quantitative study. Burns, 34(1), 56-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2006.12.003

The purpose of the study was to quantify and report levels of psychosocial distress in a sample of parents of burned children to inform evidence-based recommendations for psychosocial support programmes. This paper reports on the cross-sectional quan... Read More about Considerations for the provision of psychosocial services for families following paediatric burn injury-A quantitative study.

Tracing a matrix of gender: An analysis of the feminine in hospital-based treatment for eating disorders (2008)
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Malson, H., & Ryan, V. (2008). Tracing a matrix of gender: An analysis of the feminine in hospital-based treatment for eating disorders. Feminism and Psychology, 18(1), 112-132. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353507084955

Numerous studies have elucidated how a multiplicity of contemporary western cultural ideas and values that constitute 'normal' femininity are enmeshed in and central to the discursive production and regulation of girls' and women's 'eating disordered... Read More about Tracing a matrix of gender: An analysis of the feminine in hospital-based treatment for eating disorders.

General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone (2008)
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Persson, M., Becker, M., & Svensson, H. (2008). General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone. Scandinavian Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, 42(1), 14-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02844310701694472

We report on the general intellectual capacity of men around 17-19 years of age and with cleft lip either with or without cleft palate (CLP) or cleft palate alone. Data were obtained from the Swedish National Service enrolment register for the years... Read More about General intellectual capacity of young men with cleft lip with or without cleft palate and cleft palate alone.

‘In the sunshine’: A case study exploring the impact of a CETL award scheme (2008)
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Turner, R., Young, P., Menon, S., & Stone, M. (2008). ‘In the sunshine’: A case study exploring the impact of a CETL award scheme. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 32(4), 441-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098770802538152

This article explores the impact of an award scheme provided by one of the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETLs). The award scheme provides financial and other support for lecturers teaching higher education in colleges of further e... Read More about ‘In the sunshine’: A case study exploring the impact of a CETL award scheme.

Policing football crowds in england and wales: a model of ‘good practice’? (2008)
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Stott, C., Livingstone, A., & Hoggett, J. (2008). Policing football crowds in england and wales: a model of ‘good practice’?. Policing and Society, 18(3), 258-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439460802091641

There have been important developments in psychological theory of crowd dynamics (Reicher 2001). When this body of knowledge has been combined with operational policing it has been associated with conflict reduction in the context of high risk footba... Read More about Policing football crowds in england and wales: a model of ‘good practice’?.

Tissue-engineered technologies: Scientific biomedicine, frames of risk and regulatory regime-building in europe (2008)
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Faulkner, A., Geesink, I., Kent, J., & Fitzpatrick, D. (2008). Tissue-engineered technologies: Scientific biomedicine, frames of risk and regulatory regime-building in europe. Science as Culture, 17(2), 195-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505430802062950

Tissue engineering is one potential arm of the much-heralded regenerative medicine. We use the concepts of technological zone, risk framing and regulatory jurisdiction to analyse what risks are formulated in the zone of tissue engineering and whether... Read More about Tissue-engineered technologies: Scientific biomedicine, frames of risk and regulatory regime-building in europe.

Co-interpretation of usage data: A mixed methods approach to evaluation of online environments (2008)
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Procter, R., Carmichael, P., & Laterza, V. (2008). Co-interpretation of usage data: A mixed methods approach to evaluation of online environments. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 2(1), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.5172/mra.455.2.1.44

This paper describes a novel research approach in which server usage data collected from online environments provides a ‘focus’ for semi-structured interviews in the course of which research participants are involved in a process of co-interpretation... Read More about Co-interpretation of usage data: A mixed methods approach to evaluation of online environments.

From farmyards to town square, managing continuity through rupture: Montepulciano’s Bruscello theatre (2008)
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Crociani-Windland, L. (2008). From farmyards to town square, managing continuity through rupture: Montepulciano’s Bruscello theatre. Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 18(1), 157-184

Montepulciano’s Bruscello declares itself to be the only survivor of a popular theatre tradition once present across the whole of Tuscany and parts of Emilia-Romagna. The original agrarian tradition consisted of a range of calendrical musical repres... Read More about From farmyards to town square, managing continuity through rupture: Montepulciano’s Bruscello theatre.

Rapid acquisition of emotional information and attentional bias in anxious children (2008)
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attentional bias in anxious children. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 39(3), 321-339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2007.08.003

This study reports on the relationship between evaluative learning (EL) and attentional preference in children with varying degrees of anxiety, as measured by the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, and varying degrees of parental anxiety, a... Read More about Rapid acquisition of emotional information and attentional bias in anxious children.