January 2017: Leslie van der Leer and Ryan McKay summarised their recent paper 'The Optimist Within' in a blog post for Imperfect Cognitions. Find it here.
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November 2016: Ben Tappin summarised his recent paper 'The Illusion of Moral Superiority’ in a blog post for Imperfect Cognitions. Find it here.
New paper online: Ross, R. M., McKay, R., Coltheart, M. & Langdon, R. (2016). Perception, cognition, and delusions. Commentary on Firestone and Scholl. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. doi:10.1017/S0140525X15002691, e258
November 2016: Ben Tappin and Ryan McKay's work on the “Illusion of Moral Superiority” was discussed on the BBC radio 4 programme the Moral Maze, and featured in outlets including the Financial Times, the Pacific Standard, the New York Magazine, the Atlantic and the British Psychological Society Research Digest.
New paper online: Tappin, B. M. & McKay, R. T. (2016). The illusion of moral superiority. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi:10.1177/1948550616673878
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New paper online: Ross, R., Hartig, B. & McKay, R. (2016). Analytic cognitive style predicts paranormal explanations of anomalous experiences but not the experiences themselves: Implications for cognitive theories of delusions. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.08.018
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July 2016: Ben Tappin presented new work on “The Illusion of Moral Superiority" at the 8th Southampton Symposium on Self and Identity, Department of Psychology, University of Southampton.
New paper online: Ross, R. M., Pennycook, G., McKay, R., Gervais, W. M., Langdon, R., & Coltheart, M. (2016). Analytic cognitive style, not delusional ideation, predicts data gathering in a large beads task study. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. doi:10.1080/13546805.2016.1192025
Ryan McKay (together with Polly Dalton and Dawn Watling) awarded the Royal Holloway team teaching prize.