Hot Off the Press: October 2017

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

Stay tuned for monthly updates on the School's publications.


Cao, Y. H., Boruff, B. J., & McNeill, I. M. (2017). The smoke is rising but where is the fire? Exploring effective online map design for wildfire warnings. Natural Hazards, 88, 1473-1501.

Dejonckheere, E., Bastian, B., Fried, E. I., Murphy, S. C., & Kuppens, P. (2017). Perceiving social pressure not to feel negative predicts depressive symptoms in daily life. Depression and Anxiety, 34, 836-844.

Ellis, R. E. R., Seal, M. L., Simmons, J. G., Whittle, S., Schwartz, O. S., Byrne, M. L., & Allen, N. B. (2017). Longitudinal trajectories of depression symptoms in adolescence: Psychosocial risk factors and outcomes. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 48, 554-571.

Fine, C., Dupre, J., & Joel, D. (2017). Sex-Linked Behavior: Evolution, Stability, and Variability. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21, 666-673.

Garfield, J. B. B., Cotton, S. M., Allen, N. B., Cheetham, A., Kras, M., Yucel, M., & Lubman, D. I. (2017). Evidence that anhedonia is a symptom of opioid dependence associated with recent use. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 177, 29-38.

Gebauer, J. E., Sedikides, C., Schonbrodt, F. D., Bleidorn, W., Rentfrow, P. J., Potter, J., & Gosling, S. D. (2017). The religiosity as social value hypothesis: A multi-method replication and extension across 65 countries and three levels of spatial aggregation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 113, E18-E39.

Harari, G. M., Muller, S. R., Mishra, V., Wang, R., Campbell, A. T., Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2017). An evaluation of students' interest in and compliance with self-tracking methods: Recommendations for incentives based on three smartphone sensing studies. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 479-492.

Haslam, N., Stratemeyer, M., & Vargas-Saenz, A. (2017). Scholarly productivity and citation impact of academic psychologists in Group of Eight universities. Australian Journal of Psychology, 69, 162-166.

Hawkins, M. T., Letcher, P., O'Connor, M., Bant, S., Deery, A., Sanson, A., Toumbourou, J. W., & Olsson, C. A. (2017). The structural stability of positive development across young adulthood: Longitudinal findings from the Australian Temperament Project. Emerging Adulthood, 5, 322-336.

Hogendoorn, H., Alais, D., MacDougall, H., & Verstraten, F. A. J. (2017). Velocity perception in a moving observer. Vision Research, 138, 12-17.

Liknaitzky, P., Smillie, L. D., & Allen, N. B. (2017). Out-of-the-blue: Depressive symptoms are associated with deficits in processing inferential expectancy-violations using a novel cognitive rigidity task. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 41, 757-776.

Lubman, D. I., Cheetham, A., Jorm, A. F., Berridge, B. J., Wilson, C., Blee, F., Mckay-Brown, L., Allen, N., & Proimos, J. (2017). Australian adolescents' beliefs and help-seeking intentions towards peers experiencing symptoms of depression and alcohol misuse. BMC Public Health, 17.

Meis, J., & Kashima, Y. (2017). Signage as a tool for behavioral change: Direct and indirect routes to understanding the meaning of a sign. PLOS ONE, 12.

Mula, M., Cavalheiro, E., Guekht, A., Kanner, A. M., Lee, H. W., Ozkara, C., Thomson, A., & Wilson, S. J. (2017). Educational needs of epileptologists regarding psychiatric comorbidities of the epilepsies: A descriptive quantitative survey. Epileptic Disorders, 19, 178-185.

Park, J., Norasakkunkit, V., & Kashima, Y. (2017). Cross-cultural comparison of self-construal and well-being between Japan and South Korea: The role of self-focused and other-focused relational selves. Frontiers in Psychology, 8.

Pedersen, M., Omidvarnia, A., Curwood, E. K., Walz, J. M., Rayner, G., & Jackson, G. D. (2017). The dynamics of functional connectivity in neocortical focal epilepsy. Neuroimage-Clinical, 15, 209-214.

Puccio, F., Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M., Youssef, G., Mitchell, S., Byrne, M., Allen, N., & Krug, I. (2017). Longitudinal bi-directional effects of disordered eating, depression and anxiety. European Eating Disorders Review, 25, 351-358.

Rogers, K., Coleman, H., Brodtmann, A., Darby, D., & Anderson, V. (2017). Family members' experience of the pre-diagnostic phase of dementia: A synthesis of qualitative evidence. International Psychogeriatrics, 29, 1425-1437.

Rose, L. M., Zask, A., & Burton, L. J. (2017). Psychometric properties of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) in a sample of Australian adolescents. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 22, 68-77.

Rozenblat, V., Ryan, J., Wertheim, E., King, R., Olsson, C. A., Letcher, P., & Krug, I. (2017). Relationships between self-reported and observed parenting behaviour, adolescent disordered eating attitudes and behaviours, and the 5-httlpr polymorphism: Data from the Australian Temperament Project. European Eating Disorders Review, 25, 381-388.

Tay, S. A., Hulbert, C. A., Jackson, H. J., & Chanen, A. M. (2017). Affective and cognitive theory of mind abilities in youth with borderline personality disorder or major depressive disorder. Psychiatry Research, 255, 405-411.

Upthegrove, R., Ives, J., Broome, M. R., Caldwell, K., Wood, S. J., & Oyebode, F. (2016). Auditory verbal hallucinations in first-episode psychosis: A phenomenological investigation. BJPsych Open, 2, 88-+.

White, V., Azar, D., Faulkner, A., Coomber, K., Durkin, S., Livingston, M., Chikritzhs, T., Room, R., & Wakefield, M. (2017). Adolescents' exposure to paid alcohol advertising on television and their alcohol use: Exploring associations during a 13-year period. Addiction, 112, 1742-1751.