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Mode of delivery affected questionnaire response rates in a birth cohort study (2016)
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Bray, I., Bray, I., Noble, S., Robinson, R., Molloy, L., & Tilling, K. (2017). Mode of delivery affected questionnaire response rates in a birth cohort study. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 81, 64-71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2016.09.004

© 2016 The Author(s) Objectives Cohort studies must collect data from their participants as economically as possible, while maintaining response rates. This randomized controlled trial investigated whether offering a choice of online or paper questio... Read More about Mode of delivery affected questionnaire response rates in a birth cohort study.

Coming off drugs: A critical history of the withdrawing body (2016)
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Walmsley, I. (2016). Coming off drugs: A critical history of the withdrawing body. Contemporary Drug Problems, 43(4), 381-396. https://doi.org/10.1177/0091450916666641

Heroin withdrawal is perhaps one of the most taken-for-granted components of the addiction framework. Heroin users as well as researchers, policy makers, and practitioners have become dependent on it for thinking about and acting upon the process of... Read More about Coming off drugs: A critical history of the withdrawing body.

Book review: Being an early career feminist academic (2016)
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Mackay, F. (2016). Book review: Being an early career feminist academic

Being an Early Career Feminist Academic: Global Perspectives, Experiences and Challenges, edited by Rachel Thwaites and Amy Pressland Young scholars tell it like it is but is knowledge of replaceability a bar to change? asks Finn Mackay

Brexit and the Overseas Territories: Repercussions for the Periphery (2016)
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Clegg, P. (2016). Brexit and the Overseas Territories: Repercussions for the Periphery. Round Table, 105(5), 543-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2016.1229420

© 2016 The Round Table Ltd. There are 14 United Kingdom Overseas Territories (UKOTs), of which nine are associated with the European Union (EU) via the Overseas Association Decision adopted by the EU in 2013. Gibraltar, meanwhile, is part of the EU u... Read More about Brexit and the Overseas Territories: Repercussions for the Periphery.

Maintaining pre-school children's health and wellbeing in the UK: A qualitative study of the views of migrant parents (2016)
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McClean, S., Condon, L. J., & McClean, S. (2017). Maintaining pre-school children's health and wellbeing in the UK: A qualitative study of the views of migrant parents. Journal of Public Health, 39(3), 455-463. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdw083

© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health. Background There is evidence that key health behaviours of people who migrate deteriorate over time, which has a consequent impact upon the health of depen... Read More about Maintaining pre-school children's health and wellbeing in the UK: A qualitative study of the views of migrant parents.

Self-perceptions of romantic appeal in adolescents with a cleft lip and/or palate (2016)
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Sharratt, N. D., Feragen, K. B., Stock, N. M., Sharratt, N., & Kvalem, I. L. (2016). Self-perceptions of romantic appeal in adolescents with a cleft lip and/or palate. Body Image, 18, 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.06.009

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd During adolescence, romantic relationships are a key developmental milestone. Coupled with the increasing salience of appearance and social acceptance, adolescents with an appearance-altering condition may feel particularly vulner... Read More about Self-perceptions of romantic appeal in adolescents with a cleft lip and/or palate.

Randomized controlled trial of an online mother-daughter body image and well-being intervention (2016)
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Diedrichs, . P. C., Atkinson, M. J., Garbett, K. M., Williamson, H., Halliwell, E., Rumsey, N., …Barlow, F. K. (2016). Randomized controlled trial of an online mother-daughter body image and well-being intervention. Health Psychology, 35(9), 996-1006. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000361

© 2016 American Psychological Association. Objective: Poor body image is a public health issue. Mothers are a key influence on adolescent girls' body image. This study evaluated an accessible, scalable, low-intensity internet-based intervention deliv... Read More about Randomized controlled trial of an online mother-daughter body image and well-being intervention.

Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance (2016)
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Pennington, C. R., & Heim, D. (2016). Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 86(3), 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12110

© 2016 The British Psychological Society. BACKGROUND: Women in mathematical domains may become attuned to situational cues that signal a discredited social identity, contributing to their lower achievement and underrepresentation.AIM: This study exam... Read More about Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance.

Implicit alcohol-related expectancies and the effect of context (2016)
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Monk, R. L., Pennington, C. R., Campbell, C., Price, A., & Heim, D. (2016). Implicit alcohol-related expectancies and the effect of context. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 77(5), 819-827. https://doi.org/10.15288/jsad.2016.77.819

© 2016, Alcohol Research Documentation Inc. All right reserved. Objective: The current study examined the impact of varying pictorial cues and testing contexts on implicit alcohol-related expectancies. Method: Seventy-six participants were assigned r... Read More about Implicit alcohol-related expectancies and the effect of context.

Little girls in a grown up world: Exposure to sexualized media, internalization of sexualization messages, and body image in 6–9 year-old girls (2016)
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Slater, A., & Tiggemann, M. (2016). Little girls in a grown up world: Exposure to sexualized media, internalization of sexualization messages, and body image in 6–9 year-old girls. Body Image, 18, 19-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.04.004

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Despite widespread public concern about the early sexualization of young girls, as yet there has been little empirical examination of potential negative effects. In the present study a sample of 300 6–9 year-old girls completed in... Read More about Little girls in a grown up world: Exposure to sexualized media, internalization of sexualization messages, and body image in 6–9 year-old girls.

Disclaimer labels on fashion magazine advertisements: Does timing of digital alteration information matter? (2016)
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Bury, B., Tiggemann, M., & Slater, A. (2017). Disclaimer labels on fashion magazine advertisements: Does timing of digital alteration information matter?. Eating Behaviors, 25, 18-22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2016.08.010

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The study aimed to investigate whether a message informing readers about digital alteration read before exposure to thin ideal advertisements would enhance the effectiveness of disclaimer labels. Participants were 280 female under... Read More about Disclaimer labels on fashion magazine advertisements: Does timing of digital alteration information matter?.

Improving uptake and engagement with child body image interventions delivered to mothers: Understanding mother and daughter preferences for intervention content (2016)
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Garbett, K. M., & Diedrichs, P. C. (2016). Improving uptake and engagement with child body image interventions delivered to mothers: Understanding mother and daughter preferences for intervention content. Body Image, 19, 24-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2016.07.004

© 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)
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Blake, L., Carone, N., Slutsky, J., Raffanello, E., Ehrhardt, A. A., & Golombok, S. (2016). Gay father surrogacy families: Relationships with surrogates and egg donors and parental disclosure of children's origins. Fertility and Sterility, 106(6), 1503-1509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.08.013

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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Keeling, M., Woodhead, C., & Fear, N. T. (2016). Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Soldiers’ Experiences of Being Married and Serving in the British Army. Marriage and Family Review, 52(6), 511-534. https://doi.org/10.1080/01494929.2015.1124353

© 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)
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Keeling, M., Wessely, S., & Fear, N. T. (2017). Marital status distribution of the U.K. military: Does it differ from the general population?. Military Behavioral Health, 5(1), 26-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/21635781.2016.1213210

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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Cole, P. (in press). On the borders of solidarity: Ethics, power and immigration controls. Soundings, 63, 123-135

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)
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Nahman, M. (2016). Reproductive tourism, through the anthropological “reproscope”. Annual Review of Anthropology, 45, 417-432

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”.