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Using electronic surveying to assess psychological distress within the UK university student population: a multi-site pilot investigation. (2008)
Journal Article
Bewick, B. M., Gill, J. S., Mulhern, B., Barkham, M., & Hill, A. J. (2008). Using electronic surveying to assess psychological distress within the UK university student population: a multi-site pilot investigation. E-journal of applied psychology clinical and social issues, 4, 1-5. doi:10.7790/ejap.v4i2.120

This paper describes the level of psychological distress within university students participating in an evaluation of a web-based intervention for alcohol use. Data was collected from 1129 students from four UK universities. Psychological distress... Read More about Using electronic surveying to assess psychological distress within the UK university student population: a multi-site pilot investigation..

The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions (2008)
Journal Article
Cooper, R. M., Rowe, A. C., & Penton-Voak, I. S. (2008). The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22, 1120-1127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.11.010

Previous work has suggested that elevated levels of trait anxiety are associated with an increased ability to accurately recognize the facial expression of fear. However, to date, recognition has only been assessed after viewing periods of 10s, despi... Read More about The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions.

Effecting an improvement to the fitness function. How to evolve a more identifiable face. (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Frowd, C., Park, J., McIntyre, A., Bruce, V., Pitchford, M., Fields, S., …Hancock, P. J. (2008). Effecting an improvement to the fitness function. How to evolve a more identifiable face. In ECSIS Symposium on Bio-inspired Learning and Intelligent Systems for Security, 2008. BLISS '08doi:10.1109/bliss.2008.28

Constructing the face of a criminal from the selection of individual facial parts is a hard task. We have been working on a new system called EvoFIT that involves the selection and breeding of complete faces. The approach is theoretically better foun... Read More about Effecting an improvement to the fitness function. How to evolve a more identifiable face..

Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito (2008)
Journal Article
Neill, C. (2008). Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito. Subjectivity, 24(1), 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2008.21

This paper explores a Lacanian approach towards inter-subjectivity and a consideration of how such an approach might impact constructively on social psychology. Drawing largely on the work of Bracha Ettinger, the paper will consider questions of alte... Read More about Severality: Beyond the Compression of the Cogito.

Do children utilize motion when recognizing faces? (2008)
Journal Article
Skelton, F., & Hay, D. (2008). Do children utilize motion when recognizing faces?. Visual Cognition, 16(4), 419-429. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280701577496

Previous research indicates that unfamiliar faces may be recognised better if they are viewed in motion. This study utilised a three trial learning paradigm to investigate whether unfamiliar faces are learnt more quickly from moving clips than from s... Read More about Do children utilize motion when recognizing faces?.