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People's Trust: a Survey-Based Experiment, 2007
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.Trust is an important lubricant for social and economic transactions. It is related to concepts of ‘social capital’. The aims of this study were firstly to measure trust and trustworthiness in a representative sample of the British population and secondly to investigate which individual attributes may...
Mechanisms of Mindful Change: A Mediating Relationship Between Psychological Flexibility, Self-compassion, and Well-being after Compassionate Mind Training, 2022
Compassion-based practises have been extensively shown to be beneficial in their remediation and prevention of stress-related psychopathologies such as depression and anxiety. There are several fears, block and resistances to compassion which prevent individuals from accessing the physiological and psychological benefits of compassion. A key part of compassion-focused...
Understanding Individual Variation in Empathy and Empathy Enhancement, 2022-2023
Previous work has shown that enhancing self-other control (our ability to differentiate and focus on our own and others' experiences) through behavioural training shows promise in improving empathy. Prior work in this domain has focussed on questionnaire and sensorimotor-based (viewing physically painful images) measures of empathy. We know less about the potential for...
The Preparatory Activation of Guidance Templates for Visual Search and of Target Templates in Non-Search Tasks
Representations of task-relevant object attributes (attentional templates) control the adaptive selectivity of visual processing. Previous studies have demonstrated that templates involved in the guidance of attention during visual search are activated in a preparatory fashion prior to the arrival of visual search displays. The current study investigated whether such...
A New Method for Tracking the Preparatory Activation of Target Templates for Visual Search with High Temporal Precision, 2022-2024
Efficiently selecting task-relevant objects during visual search depends on foreknowledge of their defining characteristics, which are represented within attentional templates. These templates bias attentional processing toward template-matching sensory signals and are assumed to become anticipatorily activated prior to search display onset. However, a direct neural signal...
Impact of Visual Self-Motion Cues on Spatial and Temporal Visual Integration, 2023
We present two psychophysics experiments investigating the impact of visual self-motion cues on visual spatiotemporal summation.
The first experiment is a 4AFC target detection task where participants give the location of a target that appeared in one of four known locations, against a moving background. Each target is composed of two small probes which are separated by...
Using Positive Simulation Training to Improve Predictions about the Future in Depression, 2019-2023
Previous research has shown that depression is associated with a negative thinking style, whereby individuals hold negative views about themselves, the world, and the future. Moreover, it has been argued that holding negative views about the future is a key factor in causing and maintaining depressive episodes (Roepke & Seligman, 2015). The research conducted within this...
Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: Millennium Cohort Study
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) aims to maximise the use, value and impact of longitudinal studies, both at home and abroad. Bringing together leading UK longitudinal studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service, CLOSER works to stimulate interdisciplinary research,...
Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: 1970 British Cohort Study
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) aims to maximise the use, value and impact of longitudinal studies, both at home and abroad. Bringing together leading UK longitudinal studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service, CLOSER works to stimulate interdisciplinary research,...
Computer Mouse Tracking Studies of Adult Belief Processing, 2021-2022
While adults can readily report another agent’s false belief, theories of belief processing typically assume that this process requires the inhibition of one’s own salient current knowledge: belief processing involves overcoming an initial “egocentric bias” towards one’s own knowledge. However, evidence for the presence of egocentric bias during tasks in which adults...
Parietal Alpha tACS Shows Inconsistent Effects on Visuospatial Attention, 2018-2019
We aimed to build on research using transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) to modulate visuospatial attention. The goal was to replicate previous findings that lateralized parietal tACS at alpha frequency induces a change in attention bias away from the contra- towards the ipsilateral visual hemifield. 40 healthy participants underwent tACS in two separate...
Teacher and Educational Research, 1968
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The purpose of this study was to determine which fields of education were thought by teachers to need research and development.Main Topics:Attitudinal/Behavioural Questions
This study is divided into two main parts. The first deals with six main topics of educational research - teaching methods,...
Psychological Adjustment of Immigrants, 1977
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of this study was to relate psychological social adjustment to factors which influenced the decision to migrate in the first place, to adjustment prior to migration, and to expectations about life in Britain held before migration.Main Topics:200 Pakistani, 200 Indian, and 200 Irish immigrants to...
Cognitive bias modification for paranoia, feasibility study: Main and interim datasets 2015-2017
The study was a feasibility, double-blind randomized controlled trial of CBM-pa treatment for clinical paranoia compared to an active text reading control, both given in addition to treatment as usual. CBM-pa is a cognitive intervention that targets negatively biased interpretation of emotional ambiguity of the sort specifically related to paranoid thinking. It is...
Psychosocial support for promoting mental health and wellbeing among adolescent young carers in Europe (Me-We), 2021
The research project “Psychosocial support for promoting mental health and well-being among adolescent young carers in Europe” (ME-WE), funded by the European Union (H2020; 2018-2021), aimed to develop an innovative framework of primary prevention interventions for AYCs aged 15-17 that have been tested in six European countries (Sweden - coordinator, Italy, Slovenia,...
Reaction times in three auditory priming adult experiments
Data from three experiments on the processing of vowels and consonants in listeners of English and French, that support a paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language (Delle Luche et al. 2014).
This research compared listeners of English and French as there are considerable differences in the distribution and acoustic properties of vowels and consonants between...
BBC Big Personality Test, 2009-2011: Dataset for Mapping Personality across Great Britain
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The data are from a large Internet-based survey designed and administered in collaboration with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Between November 2009 and April 2011, 588,014 individuals competed the “Big Personality Test”.
Volunteers were told that the survey was designed to assess...
Functional magnetic resonance imaging data of brain area activity when recognising facial expressions
Data resulting from an experiment which used brain scanning or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the brain areas active when recognising facial expressions and to learn about how they are connected and how they communicate with each other.
The dataset consists of volumetric 3D scans of brains, necessarily stored in a special, purpose-made file...
EEG Evidence for Spatial Selectivity in Feature-Based Preparation for Visual Search, 2023-2024
In many visual search tasks, the detection of target objects in visual search requires feature-selective attentional guidance and space-based attentional selection. Feature-based attention is often assumed to operate in a spatially global fashion across the entire visual field, but there is also evidence that it can be restricted to task-relevant locations under some...
Spatial and Temporal Visual Integration, 2021
We present four psychophysics experiments investigating spatiotemporal summation in various visual contexts. The experiments are 4AFC detection tasks where a target is briefly represented in one of four known locations. Stimuli consist of targets with various spatial (0 to .9dva) or temporal (0 to 100ms) properties. Staircase procedures are used to identify luminance...
The consequences of inattention for visual and tactile stimulus detection and discrimination
This collection contains data from 10 experiments. The research involved the collection of anonymised behavioural performance data (including reaction times, response accuracies and/or verbal responses) from groups of human observers. Brief descriptions of the experiments are provided, along with a separate data file and protocol for each experiment. Each file contains a...
The consequences of inattention for visual and tactile stimulus detection and discrimination
This collection contains data from 10 experiments. The research involved the collection of anonymised behavioural performance data (including reaction times, response accuracies and/or verbal responses) from groups of human observers. Brief descriptions of the experiments are provided, along with a separate data file and protocol for each experiment. Each file contains a...
Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: Special Licence Access
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) aims to maximise the use, value and impact of longitudinal studies, both at home and abroad. Bringing together leading UK longitudinal studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service, CLOSER works to stimulate interdisciplinary research,...
Harmonised Mental Health Measures at Age 10/11 in Selected British Cohorts: National Child Development Study
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.CLOSER (Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources) aims to maximise the use, value and impact of longitudinal studies, both at home and abroad. Bringing together leading UK longitudinal studies, the British Library and the UK Data Service, CLOSER works to stimulate interdisciplinary research,...
Impact of Visual Self-Motion Cues on Spatial and Temporal Visual Integration, 2023
We present two psychophysics experiments investigating the impact of visual self-motion cues on visual spatiotemporal summation.
The first experiment is a 4AFC target detection task where participants give the location of a target that appeared in one of four known locations, against a moving background. Each target is composed of two small probes which are separated by...
Gaining Consensus on Emotional Wellbeing Themes and Preferences for Digital Intervention Type and Content To Support the Mental Health of Young People With Long-Term Health Conditions: A Delphi Study, 2022
Background: Young people (YP) with long-term conditions (LTCs) are at greater risk of psychological distress than those without LTCs. Despite this, there is a scarcity of quality digital interventions designed to help improve mental well-being in this population The aim of this study was to determine what YP, parents and health professionals preferred for future...
Riding Along In My Automobile: Musically-Induced Emotions and Driving Behaviour, 2018-2021
There are four interrelated datasets in this collection:
In Study 1 we investigated the effects of musical characteristics (i.e., presence of lyrics and loudness) in the context of simulated urban driving. We studied the potentially distracting effects of processing lyrics through exposing young drivers to the same piece of music with/without lyrics and at different sound...
A Meta-Analysis of the Internal Consistency of the Moral Injury Event Scale, 2021-2022
The Moral Injury Event Scale (MIES) is a tool for measuring exposure to potentially morally injurious event(s) and distress. While it reported satisfactory psychometric properties in its early development studies, it has since been used in multiple contexts and populations without assessment of its changing reliability or validity. A meta-analysis was conducted to assess the...
Voice-Hearing in Young People: Distress Factors and Social Relating, 2022
Psychological models in adults have indicated several factors that might play a role in maintaining the distress associated with hearing voices, including negative inter-relating between the hearer and the voices and persecutory beliefs about the voices. Additionally, negative relating with voices can be mirrored in the difficult relationships that hearers have with social...
Online Computer Mouse Tracking Study of Adult Belief Processing, 2023
While adults can readily report another agent’s false belief, theories of belief processing typically assume that this process requires the inhibition of one’s own salient current knowledge: belief processing involves overcoming an initial “egocentric bias” towards one’s own knowledge. However, evidence for the presence of egocentric bias during tasks in which adults...