Hot Off the Press: December 2017

View a range of publications from the academic team of the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences during the previous calendar month.

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Barke, A., Bode, S., Dechent, P., Schmidt-Samoa, C., Van Heer, C., & Stahl, J. (2017). To err is (perfectly) human: Behavioural and neural correlates of error processing and perfectionism. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 1647-1657.

Brennan, E., Durkin, SJ., Wakefield, M., & Kashima, Y. (2017). Why do smokers talk about antismoking campaigns? Predictors of the occurrence and content of campaign-generated conversations. Health Communication, 32, 1539-1556.

Callaghan, B. L., Dandash, O., Simmons, J. G., Schwartz, O., Byrne, M. L., Sheeber, L., Allen, N. B., & Whittle, S. (2017). Amygdala resting connectivity mediates association between maternal aggression and adolescent major depression: A 7-year longitudinal study. Journal of The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 56, 983-991.

Chen, W. J., & Howe, P. D. L. (2017). Attribute amnesia is greatly reduced with novel stimuli. PeerJ, 5.

De Paoli, T., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Halliwell, E., Puccio, F., & Krug, I. (2017). Social rank and rejection sensitivity as mediators of the relationship between insecure attachment and disordered eating. European Eating Disorders Review, 25, 469-478.

Fung, B. J., Murawski, C., & Bode, S. (2017). Caloric primary rewards systematically alter time perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 43, 1925-1936.

Holcombe, A. O., Nguyen, E. H. L., & Goodbourn, P. T. (2017). Implied reading direction and prioritization of letter encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1420-1437.

Holt, C., Milgrom, J., Gemmill, AW (2017). Improving help-seeking for postnatal depression and anxiety: a cluster randomised controlled trial of motivational interviewing. Archives Of Womens Mental Health, 20, 791-801.

Lin, X. P., Bryant, C., Boldero, J., & Dow, B. (2017). Older people's relationships with their adult children in multicultural Australia: A comparison of Australian-born people and Chinese immigrants. Ageing & Society, 37, 2103-2127.

McNeill, I. M., & Ronan, K. R. (2017). Children in disasters: The role of household preparedness. Natural Hazards, 89, 1239-1254.

Mundy, L. K., Canterford, L., Kosola, S., Degenhardt, L., Allen, N. B., & Patton, G. C. (2017). Peer victimization and academic performance in primary school children. Academic Pediatrics, 17, 830-836.

Murray, S. B., Nagata, J. M., Griffiths, S., Calzo, J. P., Brown, T. A., Mitchison, D., Blashill, A. J., & Mond, J. M. (2017). The enigma of male eating disorders: A critical review and synthesis. Clinical Psychology Review, 57, 1-11.

O'Donnell, M. L., Schaefer, I., Varker, T., Kartal, D., Forbes, D., Bryant, R. A. A., Silove, D., Creamer, M., McFarlane, A., Mahli, G., Felmingham, K., Van Hoof, M., Hadzi-Pavlovic, D., Nickerson, A., & Steel, Z. (2017). A systematic review of person-centered approaches to investigating patterns of trauma exposure. Clinical Psychology Review, 57, 208-225.

Oehr, L., & Anderson, J. (2017). Diffusion-tensor imaging findings and cognitive function following hospitalized mixed-mechanism mild traumatic brain injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 98, 2308-2319.

Pitchaimuthu, K., Wu, Q. Z., Carter, O., Nguyen, B. N., Ahn, S., Egan, G. F., & McKendrick, A. M. (2017). Occipital GABA levels in older adults and their relationship to visual perceptual suppression. Scientific Reports, 7.

Saling, L. L., Laroo, N., & Saling, M. M. (2017). Automatization of personal and impersonal discourse with narrative re-telling as a function of age. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, 24, 649-661.

Sanchez, L. A. V., O'Callaghan, C., Gough, K., Hall, K., Kashima, Y., Seymour, J. F., Schofield, P., & Ross, D. M. (2018). Patient perceptions of treatment-free remission in chronic myeloid leukemia. Leukemia & Lymphoma, 59, 406-415.

Sletten, T. L., Ftouni, S., Nicholas, C. L., Magee, M., Grunstein, R. R., Ferguson, S., Kennaway, D. J., O'Brien, D., Lockley, S. W., & Rajaratnam, S. M. W. (2017). Randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a blue-enriched light intervention to improve alertness and performance in night shift workers. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 74, 792-801.

Trevis, K. J., Tailby, C., Grayden, D. B., McLachlan, N. M., Jackson, G. D., & Wilson, S. J. (2017). Identification of a neurocognitive mechanism underpinning awareness of chronic tinnitus. Scientific Reports, 7.

Turner, W. F., Johnston, P., de Boer, K., Morawetz, C., & Bode, S. (2017). Multivariate pattern analysis of event-related potentials predicts the subjective relevance of everyday objects. Consciousness and Cognition, 55, 46-58.

Yamagishi, T., Li, Y., Fermin, A. S. R., Kanai, R., Takagishi, H., Matsumoto, Y., Kiyonari, T., & Sakagami, M. (2017). Behavioural differences and neural substrates of altruistic and spiteful punishment. Scientific Reports, 7.