For a copy of any of the papers below please contact the lead author or the relevant UKAN member.

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In Press

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Surariu, C., Carnelley, K. B., & Hart, C. M. (in press). From shares to social ties: Social media self-disclosure, self-presentation, and social benefits in a collectivistic cultural setting. Personal Relationships.

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2026

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Li, D., Carnelley, K. B., Crawford, M., Lin, X., & Rowe, A. C. (2026). How hostile attribution bias affects attachment anxiety/avoidance and relationship satisfaction: A cross-cultural perspective during the COVID pandemic. The Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2026.2626036.

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Newman-Taylor, K., Bennetts, A., Sood, M., Carnelley, K. B., & Maguire, T. (2026). How might knowing a person’s attachment style inform engagement in CBT for psychosis? Attachment predicts interpersonal beliefs and help-seeking intentions in people with paranoia. The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, 19, e9. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1754470X26100543

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Ozimek, P., Battenfeld, E., Rohmann, E., Bierhoff, H., Hart, C. M., Perks, R., & Surariu, C. (2026). Disconnected connections: How insecure attachment and materialism drive phubbing behaviours. Behavioral Sciences, 16(2), 216. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16020216

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Perks, R. E., Vowels, L. M., Hart, C. M., Francois-Walcott, R. R. R., & Carnelley, K. B. (2026). Help! I need somebody: Development and validation of the Romantic Support-Seeking (RoSS) scale. Current Psychology, 45(1), 57. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-025-08749-0

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Sallay, V., Chiarolanza, C., Martos, T., Joo, S., Boon, S. D., Boiger, M., ... & Randall, A. K. (2026). Experiences of a global stressor during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study of internal, partner and communal stress experiences across 20 nations. EXPERIENCE–Journal of Qualitative Research in Mental Health, 1(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.1556/1122.2025.00004

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2025

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Bush-Evans, R. D., Hart, C. M., Cisek, S. Z., Satchell, L. P., & Sedikides, C. (2025). Narcissism in action: Perceptions, team dynamics, and performance in naturalistic escape room settings. Behavioral Sciences, 15(11), 1461. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15111461

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Carnelley, K. B., Hart, C. M., Vowels, L. M., & Thomas, T. T. (2025). Attachment, perceived partner phubbing, and retaliation: A daily diary study. Journal of Personality, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70012

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Duffy, A., Goodall, K., Carmichael, D., Harper, S., Sivyer, K., Carnelley, K. B., Maguire, T., & Newman-Taylor, K. (2025). Evaluating the implementation of a ward-based training programme within an intensive psychiatric care unit using normalisation process theory. Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care, 21(2), 83-93. https://doi.org/10.20299/jpi.2025.008

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Green, A., Day, N. J. S., Hart, C. M., Grenyer, B. F. S., & Bach, B. (2025). Gender bias in assessing narcissistic personality: Exploring the utility of the ICD‐11 dimensional model. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64(2), 248-264. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12503

 

Hart, C. M., Carnelley, K. B., Vowels, L. M., & Thomas, T.  (2025). Phubbed and furious: Narcissists’ responses to perceived partner phubbing. Behavioral Sciences, 15(7), 853. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs1507085

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Lamarche, V. M., Croft, A., & Atkinson, C. (2025). The dual pathways to masculinity threats: The roles of social role incongruity and social connection in masculine identity maintenance among gay and straight men. European Journal of Social Psychology, 55(5), 789-806.

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Lamarche, V. M., & Rolison, J. J. (2025). Can I tolerate that kind of behaviour? Self‐esteem, expected benefits, risk perceptions and risk tolerance in romantic relationships. British Journal of Social Psychology, 64(2), e12860.

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Liu, W., Newman-Taylor, K., & Carnelley, K. B. (2025).  How does attachment affect help-seeking in people with paranoia and psychosis? The role of emotion regulation, self-stigma, and perceived support. Schizophrenia Research, 285, 75-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2025.08.017

 

Ma, G. W. S., Pavey, C., Eiroa-Solans, C., & Parkinson, B. (2025). Effects of chatting styles on sharers’ emotions during online conversations. European Journal of Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.70003

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Russell, P. S., Hepper, E. G., Fasoli, F., Hopkins-Doyle, A., & Boone, F. (2025). Examining the dynamic impact of emotional apologies on forgiveness. Emotion, 25(5), 1337-1348. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001504

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Sayer, H., Juanchich, M., Lamarche, V. M., & Whiley, L. A. (2025). Standing up to sexism: Does challenging sexist comments have transformational benefits in how women value themselves and other women?. Sex Roles, 91, 44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-025-01594-2

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​Șurariu, C., Carnelley, K. B., & Hart, C. M. (2025). The social benefits of self-disclosure and self-presentation through social media: A systematic review. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2025.2590096

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2024

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Duffy, A., Goodall, K., Carmichael, D., Harper, S., Sivyer, K., Carnelley, K. B., Maguire, T., & Newman-Taylor, K. (2024). Strengthening relationships within intensive psychiatric care: Staff perceptions of an attachment training intervention. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 32, 321-331. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.13109

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Francois-Walcott, R. R. R., Perks, R. E., Vowels, L. M., & Carnelley, K. B.  (2024). Insecure attachment and support seeking during COVID-19: A sequential mixed methods analysis. Attachment and Human Development, 26(2), 159-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2024.2349577

 

Green, A., & Hart, C. M. (2024). Mean girls in disguise? Associations between vulnerable narcissism and perpetration of bullying among women. Sex Roles, 90(7), 848-858. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01477-y

 

Green, A., Hart, C. M., Day, N., MacLean, R., & Charles, K. (2024). Gendering narcissism: Different roots and different routes to intimate partner violence. Sex Roles, 90(6), 723-741. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01471-4 

 

Lamarche, V. M., Blackie, L. E., & McLean, K. C. (2024). The story of ‘us’ is the story of ‘me’: A cross-sectional test of the influence of insecure attachment on narratives of romantic transgressions and high points. PloS One, 19(9), e0306838.

 

Lotun, S., Lamarche, V. M., Matran-Fernandez, A., & Sandstrom, G. M. (2024). People perceive parasocial relationships to be effective at fulfilling emotional needs. Scientific Reports, 14, 8185.

 

Skrobinska, L., Newman-Taylor, K., & Carnelley, K. B. (2024). Psychosis and help-seeking behaviour – A systematic review of the literature. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 97, 585-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12531

 

Skrobinska, L., Newman-Taylor, K., & Carnelley, K. B. (2024). Secure attachment imagery facilitates help-seeking and help-acceptance in psychosis. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 97(3), 549-561. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12530

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2023

 

Carnelley, K. B., Vowels, L. M., Stanton, S., Millings, A., & Hart, C. M. (2023). Perceived partner phubbing predicts lower relationship quality but partners’ enacted phubbing does not. Computers in Human Behavior, 147, 107860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107860 

 

Davis, A. M. B., & Carnelley, K. B.  (2023). Attachment: The what, the why, and the long-term effects. Frontiers for Young Minds, 11, 809060. https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.809060

 

Gold, E. R., Carnelley, K. B., & Rowe, A. C. (2023). Attachment security priming: Testing a new intervention for children and young people with social, emotional, and mental health difficulties. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 85, 101511. 

 

Lamarche, V. M., Tan, K., Stanton, S. C., & Carswell, K. L. (2023). Not so WEIRD after all? Relationship science in diverse samples and contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1162324.

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Laughlin, E., Pettitt, M., Lamarche, V. M., & James-Hawkins, L. (2023). Just one shot? The contextual effects of matched and unmatched intoxication on perceptions of consent in ambiguous alcohol-fueled sexual encounters. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 38(21-22), 11445-11474.

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Li, D., Carnelley, K. B., & Rowe, A. C.  (2023).  Insecure attachment orientation in adults and children and negative attribution bias: A meta-analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49(12). https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221117690

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Murray, S. L., Xia, J., Lamarche, V., Seery, M. D., McNulty, J., Griffin, D. W., Ward, D. E., Han, J., Hicks, L. L., & Dubois, D. (2023). A moth to a flame? Fulfilling connectedness needs through romantic relationships protects conspiracy theorists against COVID-19 misinformation. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4, 100111.

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Vowels, L. M., Vowels, M. J., Carnelley, K. B., & Kumashiro, M.  (2023). A machine learning approach to predicting perceived partner support from relational and individual variables. Social Psychological and Personality Science, https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221114982

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Vowels, L. M., Vowels, M. J., Carnelley, K. B., Millings, A., & Gibson-Miller, J. (2023). Toward a causal link between attachment styles and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 14(5). https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550622111498​

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2022

 

Evans, N. D., Juhl, J., Hepper, E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Fetterman, A. K. (2022). Romantic nostalgia as a resource for healthy relationships. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(7), 2181-2206. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221075773

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Hepper, E. G., Ellett, L., Kerley, D., & Kingston, J. L. (2022). Are they out to get me? Individual differences in nonclinical paranoia as a function of narcissism and defensive self-protection. Journal of Personality, 90(5), 727-747. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12693

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Cuyvers, B., Verhees, M. W., Van IJzendoorn, M. H., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Rowe, A. C., Ceulemans, E., & Bosmans, G. (2022). The Effect of Attachment Priming on State Attachment Security in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Roles of Trait Attachment and State Attachment Volatility. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 02724316221099871.

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Lamarche, V. M. (2022). Interdependent transformations: Integrating insights from relationship science to advance post-traumatic growth and personality change research. European Journal of Personality, 36(4), 640-652.

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Lamarche, V. M., & James-Hawkins, L. (2022). It happened to a friend of mine: The influence of perspective-taking on the acknowledgement of sexual assault following ambiguous sexual encounters. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(9-10), NP7343-NP7368.

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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.

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Li, D., Carnelley, K. B., & Rowe, A. C. (2022). Insecure Attachment Orientation in Adults and Children and Negative Attribution Bias: A Meta-Analysis. , 01461672221117690.

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Lotun, S., Lamarche, V. M., Samothrakis, S., Sandstrom, G. M., & Matran-Fernandez, A. (2022). Parasocial relationships on YouTube reduce prejudice towards mental health issues. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 16565.

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Newman-Taylor, K., Harper, S., Maguire, T., Sivyer, K., Sapachlari, C., & Carnelley, K. B. (2022). Attachment-based CBT models for psychosis; A PPI informed approach for acute care settings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, 15, e55. doi:10.1017/S1754470X22000526.​

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Thomas, T. T., Carnelley, K. B., & Hart, C. M.  (2022). Phubbing in romantic relationships and retaliation: A daily diary study.  Computers in Human Behavior, 137, 107398. 

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Vowels, L. M., Carnelley, K. B., Kumashiro, M., & Rowe, A. C. (2022).  The impact of non-harmonious goals on partner support and taking on opportunities.  Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03463-7.

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Sood, M., Newman-Taylor, K. & Carnelley, K. B.  (2022).  Do emotion regulation strategies mediate the attachment-paranoia association?: An experimental study of repeated attachment imagery priming and whether this buffers against social stress. Psychology and Psychotherapy:  Theory, Research and Practice, 95(3), 781-806. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12398   

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Randall, A., K., . . . .  Carnelley, K. B., . . . Hart, C. M., . . . . .  Zemp, M.  (2022).  Coping with global uncertainty: Perceptions of COVID-19 psychological distress, relationship quality, and dyadic coping for romantic partners across 27 Countries.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 39(1), 3-33.

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Vowels, L.M., Carnelley, K.B., & Stanton, S.C.E. (2022). Attachment anxiety predicts worse mental health outcomes during COVID-19: Evidence from two longitudinal studies. Personality and Individual Differences, 185, 111256.

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Vowels, L. M.., Francois-Walcott, R. R. R., Carnelley, K. B., & Checksfield, E. L.  (2022). Adapting to change: How has COVID-19 affected people’s work and personal goals? PLOS One, 17(2), e0262195.

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Sood, M., Carnelley, K. B., & Newman-Taylor, K. (2022).  How does insecure attachment lead to paranoia? A systematic critical review of cognitive, affective, and behavioural mechanisms. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61(3), 781-815. DOI: 10.1111/bjc.12361

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Vowels, L M.., & Carnelley, K. B.  (2022).  Partner support and goal outcomes: A multilevel meta-analysis and a methodological critique. European Journal of Social Psychology, 52(4), 679-694.

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Wilkinson, L.L., Rowe, A.C., Douglas, T., Thirkettle, M., & Nolan, L. J. (2022). Adult attachment anxiety is associated with night eating syndrome in UK and UK-based samples: Two cross-sectional studies. Appetite, 172, 105968.

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2021

 

Lamarche, V. M., Atkinson, C., & Croft, A. (2021). A cognitive uncoupling: masculinity threats and the rejection of relationship interdependence. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(6), 920-929.

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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.

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Murray, S. L., Lamarche, V., Seery, M. D., Jung, H. Y., Griffin, D. W., & Brinkman, C. (2021). The social-safety system: Fortifying relationships in the face of the unforeseeable. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 120(1), 99-130.

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Murray, S. L., Seery, M. D., Lamarche, V. M., Jung, H. Y., Saltsman, T. L., Griffin, D. W., ... & McNulty, J. (2021). Looking for safety in all the right places: When threatening political reality strengthens family relationship bonds. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(7), 1193-1202.

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Vowels, L. M.., Carnelley, K. B., & Francois-Walcott, R. R. R.  (2021). Partner support and goal outcomes during COVID-19: A mixed methods study.  European Journal of Social Psychology, 51(2), 393-408 ,https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2745 

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Millings, A., Abu-Akel, A., Mattar, T., & Rowe, A. (2021) Constraints to liberty of movement and attachment styles significantly account for well-being in three Palestinian samples. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1968139.

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Eisenbarth, H., Hart, C. M., Zechmeister, J., Kudielka, B. M., & Wust, S. (2021). The differential contribution of boldness, meanness, and disinhibition in explaining externalizing and internalizing symptoms. Current Psychology. 

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Eisenbarth, H., Hart, C. M., et al. (2021). Aspects of psychopathic personality relate to lower subjective and objective professional success. Personality and Individual Differences, 186, 111340. 

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Newman-Taylor, K., Sood, M., Rowe, A. C., & Carnelley, K. B.  (2021).  The impact of repeated attachment priming on paranoia, mood and behavioural intentions in an analogue sample. Brain Sciences, 

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Vowels, L. M., Francois-Walcott, R. R. R., Perks, R., & Carnelley, K. B.  (2021).  “Be free together rather than confined together”: A qualitative exploration of how relationships changed in the early COVID-19 pandemic.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

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Vowels, L. M.., Carnelley, K. B., & Francois-Walcott, R. R. R.  (2021). Successful negotiation of goal conflict between romantic partners predicts better goal outcomes during COVID-19: A mixed methods study.  Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.

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Sood, M., Carnelley, K. B., & Newman-Taylor, K., (2021). How does attachment imagery for paranoia work? Cognitive fusion and negative beliefs about self and others mediate the association between attachment imagery and paranoia and anxiety.  Psychology and Psychotherapy:  Theory, Research, and Practice, 94, 973 - 993.

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Karl, A., Carnelley, K. B., Arikan, G., Baldwin, D., Heinrichs, M., & Stopa, L. (2021).  The effect of attachment security priming and oxytocin on physiological responses to trauma films and subsequent intrusions. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 141.

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Stevenson, J., Millings, A., Emerson, L. M., Sirois, F., & Rowe, A. (2021) Adult Attachment and Mindfulness: Examining Directionality, Causality, and Theoretical Implications. Journal of Research in Personality DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104043

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Arriaga, X. B., Eller, J., & Kumashiro, M., Rholes, W. S., & Simpson, J. A. (2021). Self-efficacy and declines over time in attachment anxiety during the transition to parenthood. Social Psychological and Personality and Science, 12, 658-666. doi/10.1177/1948550620933411

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Arriaga, X. B., & Kumashiro, M. (2021).  Change in security from an Interdependence Theory perspective. In R. A. Thompson, J. A. Simpson, & L. Berlin (Eds.). Attachment: Fundamental Questions (pp. 176-184). Guilford Press.  ISBN 9781462546022

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Thorne, S. R., Hegarty, P., & Hepper, E. G.(2021). Love is heterosexual-by-default: Cultural heterosexism in default prototypes of romantic love. British Journal of Social Psychology, 60, 653-677.DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12422

 

Hepper E. G., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., Robertson, S., & Routledge, C. (2021). Time capsule: Nostalgia shields psychological wellbeing from limited time horizons. Emotion, 21, 644-664. DOI: 10.1037/emo0000728

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Vowels, L. M.., & Carnelley, K. B.  (2021). Attachment styles, negotiation of goal conflict, and perceived partner support during COVID-19. Personality and Individual Differences,171.

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2020

 

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.

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Satchell, L., Fido., D., Harper., C., Shaw, H., Davidson, B., Ellis, D, Hart, C.M., …. (2020). Development of an Offline-Friend Addiction Questionnaire (O-FAQ): Are most people really social addicts? Behaviour Research Methods, 53, 1097-1106. 

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Hart, C. M., Sedikides, C. & De Cremer, D. (2020). Pinpointing the role of the self in procedural fairness. Self and Identity, 2107-2124. 

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Millings, A., Hirst, S., Sirois, F., & Houlston, C. (2020) Emotional Adaptation to Relationship Dissolution in parents and non-parents: A new conceptual model and measure. PLOS One doi:  10.1371/journal.pone.0239712

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Rice, T. M., Kumashiro, M., & Arriaga, X. B. (2020). Mind the gap: Perceived partner responsiveness as a bridge between general and partner-specific attachment security. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17,7178-7194.

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Kumashiro, M., & Arriaga, X. B. (2020). Attachment security enhancement model: Bolstering attachment securing through close relationships. In B. A. Mattingly, K. P. McIntyre, & G. W. Lewandowski, Jr. (Eds.), Interpersonal Relationships and the Self-Concept (pp. 69-88). Springer.

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Hunt, L. L., Kumashiro, M., & Arriaga, X. B. (2020). An interdependence analysis of enhancing attachment security. In L. V. Machia, C. R. Agnew, & X. B. Arriaga (Eds.), Interdependence, Interaction, and Close Relationships (pp. 95-119). Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108480963 

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Urbonaviciute, G., & Hepper, E. G. (2020). When is narcissism associated with low empathy? A meta-analytic review. Journal of Research in Personality, 89, 104036. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2020.104036

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Luke, M. A., Carnelley, K. B., & Sedikides, C. (2020) Attachments in the workplace: How attachment security in the workplace benefits the organization.  European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 1046-1054.Psychology,https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2652

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Kobori, O., Sawamiya, Y., Yoshinaga, N., Rowe, A., Wilkinson, L. (2020). Investigation of attachment orientation and affect regulation: Use of a novel affect regulation mapping tool in Japanese athletes.Psychologia.

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Rowe, A. C., Gold, E. R., & Carnelley, K. B.  (2020).  The effectiveness of attachment security priming in improving positive affect and reducing negative affect:  A systematic review.  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, doi: 10.3390/ijerph17030968

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Douglas, T. D., Stephens, J. W., Barry, J., Lee, M. D., & Wilkinson, L. L. (2020). The influence of attachment orientation on weight loss, eating behaviour and other health outcomes among patients undergoing bariatric surgery: A scoping review. Appetite, 147, 104504.

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