Psychology Experiments

Each year, second year psychology students, run, analyse and write up group experiments looking for interactions and analysed used two-way ANOVA. In 2017 and 2018, in addition to their individual experiment reports, each group also published an edited version of their reports on a web page to disseminate their results.

If you would like to find out more about the psychology research methods practical classes at Oxford Brookes University, please contact Wakefield Morys-Carter and/or read the following article.

Morys-Carter, W.L., Paltoglou, A.E., & Davies, E.L. (2015). Vertical enhancement of second-year psychology research. Psychology Teaching Review, 21(1), 68-72.

Examples from 2014

Grandis, S., Taylor, C., Campbell, S., Dixon, M. & Carter, W.L. (2014, December 18). Tattoo prejudice: Driven into history by the Millennial Generation. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137experiments2017/tattoo-prejudice

Smejka, T., Martin, J., Taylor, A., Fok, C. & Carter, W.L. (2014, December 18). Pierced and prejudiced: The effect of piercing location on perceived attractiveness by participants with and without piercings. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137experiments2017/u24137-pierced-and-prejudiced-2014

COGNITIVE BIAS

Barnes, A.; Burns, E.; Chatfield, L.; Cupid, M.; Kubach, F.; Wells, D. (2018) The effect of speech rate and speech exposure on the accuracy of age estimation. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-psychos-2018/

Fawlk-Davies, M., Taylor, C., Kanesalingam, A., Milton, A., Keenan, J. and Manna, I. (2018, December 4). The Effects of Music Type and Facial Expression on Age Perception. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-age-2018.

Francis, E., Smith, P., Sujit, D., Taylor, O., Dunn, S., & Morys-Carter, W.L. (2017, December 1). Investigating the effects of the size and colour of an individuals tattoo and their perceived attractiveness. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137titsfortats2017

Geiser, T., White, C., Rokeberg, C., & Morys-Carter, W.L. (2017, December 5). An investigation on cognitive bias and the juridical system. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137judgejudys2017/home

Mallory, C., Ng, J., Pope, K., Thomas, S., Erskine, K., Francis, M., & Morys-Carter, W. (2018). The Effect of Clothing Type and Glasses on Perceived Intelligence. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-foureyes-2018

Salmon, A., Hart-Dyke, J., Wetton, A., Rogers, C., Long, T., & Morys-Carter, W.L. (2017, December 1). Investigating the effects of vape tricks and vape adverts on attitudes to vaping in smokers and non-smokers. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137gbvo2017

Todd, K., Barlow, J., Abel, H., O'Donovan, E., Tudge N., & Morys-Carter, W.L. (2017, December 1). The effects of social media on personal image and photo preference. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137socialstorymakers

Williams, F., Carswell, J., Riley, E., Walsh-Atkins, C. & Harvey, B. (2018, November, 27). The Effects of Age of Target and Filter Application on the Error of Age Estimation. Retrieved from: https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u241372faced2018

Cognitive Psychology

Hudspith, H., Ellis, C., Cunningham, G. & Camp, S. (2017, December 1). The effect of colour and object congruence on change blindness. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-take-2-2017

Pestill, R., Morter, L., & Camp, S. (2017, December 1). An investigation into the effects of visual and audio presentation combined with word length on memory. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/vam

EMOTIONAL STROOP

Botterill, C. B. R., Tinker, A. D., McCall, A. L., Humphries, Y. T. & Walter, K. (2018). The effect tiredness and negative/neutral emotions has on the emotional Stroop task. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-stroop-teasers-2018 .

Clark, R., Hurley-Bennett, T., Jones, V., Mewis, H., O'Neill, O., Smullen, J. & Walter, K. (2018, November, 27) Mental Health and Well-Being and the Emotional Stroop Task. Retrieved from: https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-stroop4-2018/home

Davidson. C. A., Lupton-Weeks. G. A. P., McCullough. B. A, Parrish. K. L., Walter. K (2018, Nov, 30), Perceived stress in healthy participants does not cause a stroop effect using an emotional Stroop task. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-stroop-dogg-2018/home.

Gerken, M., Ortiz, D., Andrade, S., Hall, E., Andrei, A., Boyd, S. & Walter, K. (2018, November, 30). The effect valence of words and mood-inducing videos may have on reaction times in an Emotional Stroop task. Retrieved from URL: https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-stroop3-2018/home

Headley, K., Davies, J., Cox, W., Holmes, E., Rashid, A., Coleman, K. (2018, November 30). The Effect of Musically Induced Mood on the Emotional Stroop task. Retreived from: https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-superstroopers-2018/home.

Spinks, H., Bignall, N., Blencowe, A., Brookes, L., & Veldhuis, A. (2018, November 27th) A study into the effects of the emotional valence of words and emotional priming on response time in an Emotional Stroop test. https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-stormstroopers-2018/home

Turner, K., Hampton, S., Hofmann, J., Hynd, E., Palumbo, E., Rathbone, M.,& Walter, K. (2018, November, 30). Investigating the effect that emotional well-being has on reaction times in an emotional Stroop task. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-totes-emosh-2018

Health Psychology

Clark, A. B., Deacon, E., Horton I., Morys-Carter, W., Rust-Ashford, R., Stow, J. J., & Wharton, A. L. (2018, November, 27th), Level of Anxiety as an indicator of sub-phobic response to phobic (spiders) versus non-phobic (kittens) stimuli. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137phobias2018

Asghar, H., McDonald, E., Piculist, M., Rafeek, S., Raina, B., (2018, November, 30). Effects of Dream Recall and Sleep Length on Creativity. https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-dreamteam-2018

Osborne., J.J.V., Martin., G.H., Bitouche., R.M., McGuinness, F.J.O. & Hennelly, S.E. (2017, December 1). An investigation into the relationship between alcohol consumption, alcohol specific health messages and subsequent compensatory health beliefs. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-thinkin-bout-drinkin-20

SELF-REFERENCE

Lund, E., Adams, H., Desmond, L., Pearson, E., & Morys-Carter, W. (2018, December 1st). Colour and the self reference effect. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-elf-on-a-shelf-2018.

Waters, A., Jabegu, S., Pardesi, J., Peters, D., Quinney, E., Dyton, L., Morys-Carter, W. (2018, November 30). Self- Esteem and the Self-Reference Effect. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137narcissists2018.

Winckles, L., Whitham, D., Dobson, C., & Field, M. (2018). The Effect of Music Genre and Mood on Memory Recall. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137note2self2018

WRITING

Angilley, A., Daniels, E., Gerrard, R., Russell, E., Vietor, H. (2018, November 27th) Is writing accuracy affected by increasing the cognitive load in the working memory stores? Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-writing1-2018

Cox, E. M., Browne, M. D., Liu, A., Saiz Garcia, C., Farrow, I. V. F., McIntyre, R. K., Sheldrake, O. and Walter, K. (2018, November, 30). The effect of handwriting on the perception of the quality of writing, using a mark scheme to reduce the cognitive bias. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137handwritersanonymous

Currie, F., Haigh, N., Smith, H., Farthing, L., Bielecki, M. (2018). The Effect of Self Assessment on Behaviour. Retrieved from: https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137-CogDyn-2018

Denny, N., Kabir, F., Kirkman, S., M’Rabet, I., Pathak, P., Negus, U., Walter, K. (2018, November 30). Dyslexia & Working Memory: How music facilitates dyslexic individuals in spelling tasks. Retrieved from https://sites.google.com/brookes.ac.uk/u24137psychosquad.