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Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator (2017)
Journal Article
Vachon, F., Ball, L. J., Frowd, C. D., Battersby, K. L., Labonté, K., Patel, K., Marsh, J. E., Marsh, J., Patel, K., Labonte, K., Threadgold, E., Skelton, F. C., Fodarella, C., Thorley, R., Battersby, K., Frowd, C., Ball, L., & Vachon, F. (2017). Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(3), 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1037/cep0000101

Cell-phone conversation is ubiquitous within public spaces. The current study investigates whether ignored cell-phone conversation impairs eyewitness memory for a perpetrator. Participants viewed a video of a staged crime in the presence of 1 side of... Read More about Chatting in the face of the eyewitness: the impact of extraneous cell-phone conversation on memory for a perpetrator.

Optimising the Unusual Uses Task (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carruthers, L., & MacLean, R. (2017, May 17). Optimising the Unusual Uses Task [Poster]. UK Creativity Researchers' Annual Conference, Edinburgh Napier University, UK.

Creativity and Attention: A Multi-Method Investigation (2016)
Thesis
Carruthers, L. (2016). Creativity and Attention: A Multi-Method Investigation [Doctoral thesis, Edinburgh Napier University]. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1052411

Creativity is a valuable attribute that involves the generation of original ideas; attention is a vital function that facilitates information selection. Past research has related these cognitive constructs, having found that highly creative people te... Read More about Creativity and Attention: A Multi-Method Investigation.

Creativity and Attention: Differences between those with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carruthers, L., MacLean, R., & Willis, A. (2016, September 14-16). Creativity and Attention: Differences between those with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [Presentation / Talk]. Marconi Institute for Creativity Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy.

Creativity is a valuable attribute that involves the generation of original ideas; attention is a vital function that facilitates information selection. Past research has related these cognitive constructs, having found that highly creative people te... Read More about Creativity and Attention: Differences between those with and without Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Give it a rest: A short distraction from a creative problem solving task can increase the proportion of flexible and original responses. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carruthers, L., MacLean, R., & Willis, A. (2016, August 31-September 2). Give it a rest: A short distraction from a creative problem solving task can increase the proportion of flexible and original responses. [Presentation / Talk]. British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain.

Objectives
Incubation, a period time spent away from a problem, can be beneficial to formulating creative solutions, as non-conscious processing of the problem may continue whilst conscious processing is distracted.
The aim of this study was to exa... Read More about Give it a rest: A short distraction from a creative problem solving task can increase the proportion of flexible and original responses..

The effects of a recalled injustice on the experience of experimentally induced pain and anxiety in relation to just-world beliefs (2016)
Journal Article
McParland, J. L., Knussen, C., & Murray, J. (2016). The effects of a recalled injustice on the experience of experimentally induced pain and anxiety in relation to just-world beliefs. European Journal of Pain, 20(9), 1392-1401. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejp.862

Background: A growing field of investigation into social justice cognitions and pain suggests perceived injustice has a negative impact on pain, but little is known about individual variation in the impact of a perceived injustice. One published stud... Read More about The effects of a recalled injustice on the experience of experimentally induced pain and anxiety in relation to just-world beliefs.

Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piotrowska, B., Willis, A., MacLean, R., Murray, J., & Kerridge, J. (2015). Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia. Proceedings European Conference on Visual Perception ECVP 2015.

Dyslexia is a common condition characterized by difficulties with reading and writing despite adequate intelligence, education and motivation. Many individuals with dyslexia also have problems integrating visual information over space and time, and /... Read More about Visual-spatial-motor integration in a cross-section of primary-aged children: implications for assessing risk of Dyslexia.

The impact of morphing on own- and other-race facial composites (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Forwd, C., Walkden, S., & Bowling, J. (2015, August 5-8). The impact of morphing on own- and other-race facial composites [Paper presentation]. European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), University of Nuremberg.

The relationship between attentional control, incubation, and creative problem solving (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carruthers, L., Willis, A., & MacLean, R. (2015, May 5-7). The relationship between attentional control, incubation, and creative problem solving [Poster]. British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Liverpool, UK.

Objectives
Incubation, a period of time spent away from a problem, can be beneficial to formulating a solution, as non-conscious processing of the problem may continue whilst conscious processing is distracted. The concept of attention has been allu... Read More about The relationship between attentional control, incubation, and creative problem solving.

Understanding facial composite construction (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ness, H., & Carruthers, L. (2014, September 3-5). Understanding facial composite construction [Presentation / Talk]. 31st BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference, Nottingham, UK.

The impact of changing state speech on person identification (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Marsh, J., Frowd, C., Vachon, F., & Thorley, R. (2014, September 2-4). The impact of changing state speech on person identification [Paper presentation]. British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham.

It’s not interaction, it’s make believe (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Turner, P., Turner, S., & Carruthers, L. (2014, September 1-3). It’s not interaction, it’s make believe [Presentation / Talk]. European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, Vienna, Austria. https://doi.org/10.1145/2637248.2637266

A principal, but largely unexplored, use of our cognition when using interacting technology involves pretending. To pretend is to believe that which is not the case, for example, when we use the desktop on our personal computer we are pretending, tha... Read More about It’s not interaction, it’s make believe.

The Impact Of Morphing On Own- And Other-race Facial Composites (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., Frowd, C., & Walkden, S. (2013, September 3-5). The Impact Of Morphing On Own- And Other-race Facial Composites [Paper presentation]. British Psychological Society Cognitive Section annual conference, University of Reading.

The relationship between attention and creativity in a cross-section of British adults (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Carruthers, L., Willis, A., & MacLean, R. (2013, June 6-9). The relationship between attention and creativity in a cross-section of British adults [Poster]. 4th World Congress on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Milan, Italy.

Objectives
It has been proposed that distractibility, a key diagnostic criterion of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), may be associated with higher creativity levels in some individuals (e.g. White & Shah, 2011). However, the existing... Read More about The relationship between attention and creativity in a cross-section of British adults.

Impact of lifespan on nursing interventions (2013)
Book Chapter
Tait, D. (2013). Impact of lifespan on nursing interventions. In C. Brooker, & A. Waugh (Eds.), Foundations of Nursing Practice (2nd, pp. 159-192). Elsevier.

Abstract not available.

The Importance Of Context For Facial Composite Images (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Skelton, F., & Frowd, C. (2013, January 23). The Importance Of Context For Facial Composite Images [Paper presentation]. Identifying the Suspect: Improving Facial Composites, University of Leeds.