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Recent Publications

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

In Press

 

Carnelley, K. B., Hart, C. M., Vowels, L. M., & Thomas, T. T.  (in press). Attachment, perceived partner phubbing, and retaliation: A daily diary study. Journal of Personalityhttps://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.70012

 

Duffy, A., Goodall, K., Carmichael, D., Harper, S., Sivyer, K., Carnelley, K. B., Maguire, T., & Newman-Taylor, K. (in press). Evaluating the implementation of a ward-based training programme within an intensive psychiatric care unit using normalisation process theory. Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care.

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

 

Russell, P. S., Hepper, E. G., Fasoli, F., Hopkins-Doyle, A., & Boone, F. (in press). Examining the dynamic impact of emotional apologies on forgiveness. Emotion.

Vowels, L. M., Vowels, M. J., Carnelley, K. B., & Kumashiro, M.  (in press). 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  

2025

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

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.

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.

 

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

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

2024

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.​

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. 

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.

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   

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 

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.

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. 

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. 

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, 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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. 

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

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

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.

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.

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 

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

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

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.

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

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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