Publications

Unit researchers regularly publish papers and reports related to our areas of focus. You can find our latest work below.

2026

Chawner, L. R. (2026). Parent served vegetable portion sizes and perception of food leftovers across different meal combinations: A cross sectional, online study. Appetite, 108482.
Wheeler, M., Cable, G., Andrews, L., Orbell, S., Sloane, G., Philpot, R. and Cooper, NR., A Green and Pleasant Helping Hand – Examining the Phenomenological Effects of Outdoor Recreational Experiences on Military Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Veterans Studies. 12 (1), 1-17
Cooper, N.R., Wheeler, M., Sloane, G. et al. A randomised waitlist-controlled trial protocol for examining the efficacy of a nature-based intervention (angling) for military veterans and emergency service personnel with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Trials (2026).
Sadovici-Bobeica, V., Gupta, L., Panagiotopoulos, A., Pencheva, D.T., Cobilinschi, C.O., Orbell, S. and Gudu, T. (2026), Illness Perception in Axial Spondylarthritis: Bridging Mind and Joint. Int J Rheum Dis, 29: e70579.

2025

Sel, A., & Fouragnan, E. (2025). Editorial overview: Current advances in noninvasive brain stimulation. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 66, 101598. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2025.101598
Orbell, S., & Farris, O. (2025). Psychological processes in screening behaviour. In Sage handbook of health psychology (2nd ed., Vol. 2,Section 5: Health protection interventions and long-term conditions): Sage Publications.
Hanel, P. H. P., & Paulmann, S. (2025). Do empathic people respond differently to emotional voices? Emotion. doi:10.1037/emo0001549
Farris, O., Orbell, S., Lamarche, V. M., & Smith, R. (2025). Promoting self-management in chronic disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of behaviour change interventions for patients on dialysis. Health Psychol Rev, 19(2), 368-408. doi:10.1080/17437199.2025.2471775
Falaschi, D., Stagg, C., & Sel, A. (2025). Promoting motor recovery after stroke using cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation. EClinicalMedicine, 88, 103473. doi:10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103473
Camara, C. F., Sel, A., & Hanel, P. H. P. (2025). When empathy leads to aggression: The effects of empathy on punitive attitudes towards aggressors. Br J Soc Psychol, 64(3), e12907. doi:10.1111/bjso.12907
Camara, C. F., Filippetti, M. L., & Sel, A. (2025). Neurophysiological dynamics of visceral signals in emotion, self and bodily consciousness. Proc Biol Sci, 292(2048), 20242625. doi:10.1098/rspb.2024.2625

2024

Tarasi, L., Turrini, S., Sel, A., Avenanti, A., & Romei, V. (2024). Cortico-cortical paired-associative stimulation to investigate the plasticity of cortico-cortical visual networks in humans. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 56, 101359. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2024.101359
Fouragnan, E. F., Hosking, B., Cheung, Y., Prakash, B., Rushworth, M., & Sel, A. (2024). Timing along the cardiac cycle modulates neural signals of reward-based learning. Nat Commun, 15(1), 2976. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-46921-5
Di Luzio, P., Brady, L., Turrini, S., Romei, V., Avenanti, A., & Sel, A. (2024). Investigating the effects of cortico-cortical paired associative stimulation in the human brain: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 167, 105933. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105933

2022

Wicks, C., Barton, J., Orbell, S., Andrews, L. (2022). Psychological benefits of outdoor physical activity in natural versus urban environments: A systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies. Applied Psychology, Health and Wellbeing, 14, 1037-1061.
Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., Murray, S. L., Kondrak, C. L., Saltsman, T. L., & Streamer, L. (2022). Lovers in a dangerous time: Ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3, 100061.
Tam, K. Y. Y., Chan, C. A., Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Lavi, I., & Lau, J. (2022). Boredom belief moderates the mental health impact of boredom among young people: Correlational and multi-wave longitudinal evidence gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Personality.
Meadows, A., Higgs S. (2022). Challenging oppression: A social identity model of stigma resistance in higher-weight individuals. Body Image 42:237-245
Lamarche, V. M., & James-Hawkins, L. (2022). It happened to a friend of mine: The influence of perspective-taking on the acknowledgment of sexual assault following ambiguous sexual encounters. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(9-10), NP7343-NP7368.
Van Tilburg, W. A. P., Pekrun, R., & Igou, E. R. (2022). Consumed by boredom: Food choice motivations and weight changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Behavioral Science, 22, 366.
Murray, S. L., Xia, J., Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M., McNulty, J. K., Griffin, D. W., ... & Hicks, L. L. (2022). Trust as a daily defense against collective disease threats. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3, 100071.
Verplanken, B., Orbell, S. (2022). Attitudes, Habits and Behavior Change. Annual Review of Psychology, 73, 327-352.

2021

Brosowsky, N., Van Tilburg W. A. P., Scholar, A. A., Boylan, J., & Seli, P., Danckert, J., (2021). Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic. Motivation and Emotion, 45, 631-640.
Pulmann L, Vrticka P, Linz R, Stalder T, Kirschbaum C, Engert V, Singer T. (2021). Contemplative mental training reduces hair glucocorticoid levels in a randomized clinical trial. Psychosomatic Medicine 83(8):894-905
Gardner, B., Arden, M., Brown, D., Eves, F., Green, J., Inauen, J., Keller, J., Kwasnicka, D., Labudek, S., McCleary, N., Mullan, B.A., Neter, E., Orbell, S., Potthof, S., Hamilton, K., Hankonen, N., Marien, H., Masaryk, R., Lally, P. (2021). Developing real-world habit-based health behaviour -change interventions: Twenty-one questions to guide future research. Psychology and Health, online open access publication.
Lamarche, V. M., & Rolison, J. J. (2021). Hand-in-hand in the golden years: Cognitive interdependence, partner involvement in retirement planning, and the transition into retirement. Plos one, 16(12), e0261251.
Stephenson, P., Yuen, E., Skaczkowski, G., Spelten, E., Orbell, S., Wilson, C. (2021). The impact of illness perceptions and coping strategies on use of supportive care for cancer. Cancers, 13 (10),2501.
Thorpe, A., Sirota, M., Orbell, S., Juanchich, M. (2021). Effect of information on reducing inappropriate expectations and requests for antibiotics. British Journal of Psychology, 112, 3, 804-827.
Hagger, M. S. & Orbell, S. (2021). The common sense model of illness self- regulation: a conceptual review and proposed extended model. Health Psychology Review.
Raines, J., Holmes, L., Watts-Overall, T., Slettevold, E., Griua, D., Orbell, S., Rieger, G. (2021). Patterns of genital sexual arousal in transgender men. Psychological Science, 32, 4, 485-495.
Keech, J.J., Orbell, S., Hagger, M.S., O’Callaghan, F.V., Hamilton, K. (2021). Psychometric properties of the Stress Control Mindset Measure in university students from Australia and the UK. Brain and Behavior, 11, 2, e01963.

2020

Wheeler, M., Cooper, N., Hacker-Hughes, J., Andrews, L., Juanchich, M., Orbell, S. (25. November, 2020). Outdoor recreational experiences improve wellbeing of military veterans with PTSD: Positive evidence from a pilot study and a randomized controlled trial. Plos One.
Valentini, E., Fetter, E., Orbell, S. (2020). Treatment preferences in fibromyalgia patients: A cross sectional web-based survey. European Journal of Pain, 24, 1290-1300.
Thorpe, A., Sirota, M., Juanchich, M., Orbell, S. (2020). ‘Always take your doctor’s advice’: Does trust moderate the effect of information on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing expectations? British Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 358-376.
Thorpe, A., Sirota, M., Juanchich, M., Orbell, S. (2020). Action bias in the public’s clinically inappropriate expectations for antibiotics. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Applied, 26, 422-431.
Lamarche, V. M. (2020). Socially connected and COVID-19 prepared: The influence of sociorelational safety on perceived importance of COVID-19 precautions and trust in government responses. Social Psychological Bulletin, 15(4).
Lamarche, V. M., Seery, M. D., Kondrak, C. L., Saltsman, T. L., & Streamer, L. (2020). Clever girl: Benevolent sexism and cardiovascular threat. Biological Psychology, 149, 107781.

2018/19

Orbell, S. Phillips, L.A. (2019). Automatic processes and self-regulation of illness. Health Psychology Review, 13, 4, 378-405.
Lamarche, V. M., & Seery, M. D. (2019). Come on, give it to me baby: Self-esteem, narcissism, and endorsing sexual coercion following social rejection. Personality and Individual Differences, 149, 315-325.
Watts, T.M., Holmes, L., Raines, J., Orbell, S. Rieger, G. (2018) Sexual arousal patterns of identical twins with discordant sexual orientations. Scientific Reports, 8, 14970.
Cavers D., Calanzani, N., Orbell, S., Vojt, G., Steele, RJC., Brownlea, L., Smith, S., Patnick, J., Weller, D., Campbell, C. (2018). Development of an evidence based brief ‘talking’ intervention for non-responders to bowel screening for use in primary care: stakeholder interviews. BMC Family Practice, 19, 105.
Barnett, K.N., Weller, D., Smith, S., Steele, R.J.C., Vedsted, P., Orbell, S., Moss, S.M., Melia, J. W., Patnick, J., Campbell, C. (2018). The contribution of a negative colorectal screening test result to symptom appraisal and help-seeking behavior among patients subsequently diagnosed with an interval colorectal cancer. Health Expectations, 19 Feb 2018.

2016/17

Hagger, M. ,Koch, S., Chatzisarantis, N., Orbell, S. (2017). The Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation: Meta-Analysis and Test of a Process Model. Psychological Bulletin, 143, 1117-1154.
Orbell, S., Sczepura, A., Weller, D., Gumber, A., Hagger, M. (2017). South Asian Ethnicity, Socio-economic Status and Psychological Mediators of Faecal Occult Colorectal Screening Participation: A Test of a Process Model. Health Psychology, 36, 1161-1172.
Daughters, K., Manstead, A. S. R., & Rees D. A. (2017) Hypopituitarism is associated with lower oxytocin concentrations and reduced empathic ability. Endocrine, 57, 166-174.
Karen N Barnett, David Weller, Steve Smith, Sheina Orbell, Peter Vedsted, Robert JC Steele, Jane W Melia, Sue M Moss, Julietta Patnick, Christine Campbell. (2016). Understanding of a negative bowel cancer screening result and potential impact on future symptom appraisal and help-seeking behavior: a focus group study. Health Expectations.