Psychology & Neuroscience: Recent submissions

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    • Regarding societal change 

      Blackwood, Leda Moore; Livingstone, Andrew; Leach, Colin (2013-12) - Journal item
      In this paper we introduce our special thematic section on societal change.We begin by providing an overview of the aims of the section, and how these aims grew out of a need to address conceptual and empirical challenges ...

    • Mood-dependent changes in cognitive control 

      Saunders, Blair (University of St Andrews, 2014) - Thesis
      The symptomatology of depression includes affective and cognitive features. As such, depression has been associated both with maladaptive concern over emotional material, and also with general impairments in attentional ...

    • The role of facial cues to body size on attractiveness and perceived leadership ability 

      Re, Daniel E. (University of St Andrews, 2013) - Thesis
      Facial appearance has a strong effect on leadership selection. Ratings of perceived leadership ability from facial images have a pronounced influence on leadership selection in politics, from low-level municipal elections ...

    • The role of executive attention in healthy older adults' concurrent walking and counting 

      Maclean, Linda MacArthur (University of St Andrews, 2013) - Thesis
      Completing activities of daily life relies on using both cognitive and physical resources efficiently, but these are affected by age. This may be due either to an age-related reduction in the resources we have available ...

    • Common HLA alleles associated with health, but not with facial attractiveness 

      Coetzee, Vinet; Barrett, L.; Greeff, J.M.; Henzi, S.P.; Perrett, David Ian; Wadee, A.A. (2007-07) - Journal article
      Three adaptive hypotheses have been proposed to explain the link between the human leucocyte antigen (HLA) genes, health measures and facial attractiveness: inbreeding avoidance, heterozygote advantage and frequency-dependent ...