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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.
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In Press
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.
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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
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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 Bulletin, https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672221117690
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Davis, A. M. B., & Carnelley, K. B. (in press). Attachment: The what, the why, and the long-term effects. Frontiers for Young Minds,
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2023
Carnelley, K. B., Stanton, S., Vowels, L. M., Hart, C. M., & Millings, A. (2023). Perceived partner phubbing predicts lower relationship quality but partners’ enacted phubbing does not. Computers and Human Behavior, 147, 107860.
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
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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.
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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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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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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
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
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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