Self Lab Publications

Papers published in the past five years are listed below. Earlier publications can be accessed here.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

2024/In press

Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., Rhodes, S., Gow, A., Macmillan, K., Hutchison, J., & Ross, J. (in press). The self-referent effect in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Clarkson, T. R., Paff, H., Cunningham, S. J., Ross, J., Haslam, C., & Kritikos, A. (in press). Mine for life: Charting ownership effects in memory from adolescence to old age. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Cunningham, S. J., Ahmed, Z., March, J., Golden, K., Wilks, C., Ross, J., McLean, J. F. (2024). Put you in the problem: Effects of self-pronouns on mathematical problem solving. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(2), 308-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021823117422

2023

Moulds, D. J., Meyer, J., McLean, J. F. & Kempe, V. (2023). Exploring effects of response biases in affect induction procedures. PLoS One. 18, 5, 18 e0285706. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285706
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, j., Ellis, N., Hezelyova, I., & Wood, L. (2023) The cost
of social influence: Own-gender and gender-stereotype social learning biases in adolescents and adults. PLoS ONE, 18(8), e0290122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290122
Short, D. S. & McLean, J. F. (2023). The relationship between numerical mapping abilities, maths achievement, and socio-economic status in 4- and 5-year-old children. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(3), 641-657. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12582

2022

Clarkson, T. R., Cunningham, S. J, Haslam, C., Kritikos, A. (2022). Is self always prioritised? Attenuating the ownership self-reference effect in memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 106, 103420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103420
Cunningham, S., Vogt, J., Martin, D. (2022). Me first? Positioning self in the attentional hierarchy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(2), 115-127. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000976
Wood, L., Hutchison, J., Aitken, M. & Cunningham, S. J. (2022). Young people’s knowledge and endorsement of gender stereotypes of education and career competency. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(3), 768-789. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12510
Pickering, M., McLean, J. F., & Gambi, C. (2022). Interference in the shared-Stroop task: A comparison of self- and other-monitoring. Royal Society Open Science, 9(4), 220107. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220107
Armstrong, V. G. & Ross, J., (2022). The experiences of parents and infants using a home-based art intervention aimed at improving wellbeing and connectedness in their relationship. Frontiers in Psychology, 13(21), 732562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.732562

2021

Kempe, V., Gauvrit, N., Panayotov, N., Cunningham, S. J., Tamariz, M. (2021). Amount of learning and signal stability modulate emergence of combinatorial structure and iconicity in novel signaling systems. Cognitive Science, 45(11), e13057. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13057
Desai, S., McLean, J., Lawrence, C. & Filik, R. (2021). The impact of hyperbole on perception of victim testimony. Journal of Pragmatics, 174, 143-165. https://doi.org/1016/j.pragma.2021.01.013
Armstrong, V. G. & Ross, J. (2021). Art boxes supporting parents and infants to share creative interactions at home: An art-based response to improve wellbeing during Covid-19 restrictions. Public Health, 193, 109-112. https://doi.org/1016/j.puhe.2021.01.031
Hutchison, J., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2021). Development of evaluative and incidental self reference effects in childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105197

2020

Ross, J., Cunningham, S. J., & Hutchison, J. (2020). The me in memory: The role of the self in autobiographical memory development. Child Development,91, e299-e314. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13211
Armstrong, V. G. & Ross, J. (2020). The evidence base for art therapy with parent and infant dyads: an integrative literature review. International Journal of Art Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2020.1724165
Woolnough, P. & Cunningham, S. J. (2020). Developmental perspectives on the behaviour of missing children. Psychology, Crime and Law.https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2020.1837130

2019

Taranu, M, Wimmer, M.C., Ross, J., Farkas, D., Van Ee, R., Winkler, I., &. Denham, S. (2019). Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive function and creativity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 184, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.03.010
Armstrong, V.G, Dalinkeviciute, E. & Ross, J. (2019). A dyadic art psychotherapy group for parents and infants: Piloting quantitative methodologies for evaluation. International Journal of Art Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2019.1590432

2018

Cunningham, S. J., Scott, L., Hutchison, J., Ross, J., & Martin, D. (2018). Applying self-processing biases in education: Improving learning through ownership. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7, 342-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.04.004
Cunningham, S. J. (2018). The thoughtful self. In Hauke & Kritikos (Eds.) Embodiment in Psychology – A Practitioner’s Guide. Springer.
Gillespie-Smith, K, Ballantyne, C, Branigan, H, Turk, D. J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2018). The I in Autism: Severity and social functioning in Autism is related to self-processing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36, 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12219
Hutchison, J., Martin, D., Slessor, G., Urquhart, J., Smith, K., & Cunningham, S. J. (2018). Context and perceptual salience influence the formation of stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution. Cognitive Science, 42(S1), 186-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/COGS.12560

Conference Presentations

McLean, J. F. How can “you” help children’s performance of maths word problems? BPS Psychology of Education section annual conference, Liverpool, 13th-14th September 2023
Ahmed, Z., Mclean, J., March, J., Golden, K., Wilks, C., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. How can ‘you’ support children’s maths word problem solving? British Psychological Society Developmental Section, Sheffield, UK. September 2022.
Ahmed, Z., Mclean, J., March, J., Golden, K., Wilks, C., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. How can ‘you’ support children’s maths word problem solving? The Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, , Antwerp, Belgium. June 2022.
Golden, K., March, J., Ahmed, Z., McLean, J. Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. Effects of personal pronouns on children’s numerical problem solving. Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Madison, WI. April 2022.
March, J., Cunningham, S. J., McLean, J., Golden, K., & Ross, J. The influence of self-referential cues and problem consistency on children’s maths performance. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Keele University, UK. March 2022.
Golden, K., March., J., Wilks, C., McLean, J., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. Investigating the influence of self-referential pronouns on children’s close reading performance. BPS Developmental Section Conference (virtual). Sept. 2021.
Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., & McLean, J. Can self-cues be used to support children’s verbal working memory? BPS Developmental Section Conference (virtual). Sept. 2021.
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., & Ross, J. How do self-reference effects change across childhood? Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (virtual). April 2021.
Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., & McLean, J. Can the ‘self’ enhance children’s verbal working memory? Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (virtual). April 2021.
March, J., Golden, K., Ahmed, Z., McLean, J. & Cunningham, S. J. Investigating the effect of self-referential cues and working memory on children’s maths performance. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (virtual). April 2021.
Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J. & McLean, J. Investigating the relationship between self-referencing and children’s visuospatial working memory: can ownership support working memory? BPS Developmental and Social Annual Conference. Stoke, August 2019.
Cunningham, S. J., Ahmed, Z., Rhodes, S., Gow, A., Macmillan, K. & Ross, J. Self-processing in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). International Convention on Psychological Science. Paris, March 2019.
Ross, J., Hutchison, J. & Cunningham, S. J. Development of self-reference effects. International Convention on Psychological Science. Paris, March 2019.
Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J.,Ross, J. & Rhodes, S. Exploring the self-reference effect in ADHD. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Liverpool, Sept. 2018.
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J. Growing me: The development of the self-reference effect across childhood. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference,Liverpool, Sept. 2018
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., &Ross, J. Development of incidental and explicit self-reference effects reveals distinct cognitive mechanisms. BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Liverpool, Aug. 2018.
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J., The me in memory: Using the self-reference effect to measure development in the autobiographical self. BPS Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Liverpool, Aug. 2018.
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., Ross, J. & Martin, D. Self-biases in recall: Applying ownership effects in education. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sept. 2017.
Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J. Self-processing biases in event memory: Implications for the development of self-awareness. BPS Developmental Section Annual Conference, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sept. 2017.
Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., & Martin, D. The ownership effect in memory: applications for learning. International Convention on Psychological Science, Vienna, March 2017.