Publications
Please contact me on g.nobes@uea.ac.uk for copies, or go to https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/gavin-nobes/publications/
Please contact me on g.nobes@uea.ac.uk for copies, or go to https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/gavin-nobes/publications/
Metcalfe-Hume, R., Leary, C. O., Nobes, G., Edwards, I., & Beazley, P. (2026). Juror decision making: Does juror stigma, mental health literacy, or the description of a defendant’s mental health status, impact decision-making in a mock criminal trial? International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 106, 102197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2026.102197 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252726000117
Nobes, G. (2023). Daly and colleagues have overestimated the magnitude of the “Cinderella effect” in lethal child abuse, and underestimated the role of confounding variables in its explanation. A reply to Daly (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 3599-3604. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001501 [Supplementary material: Responses to Daly's criticisms]
Nobes, G., Panagiotaki, G., & Martin, J.W. (2023). Moral luck and the roles of outcome and negligence in moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104456
Nobes, G., Frède, V., & Panagiotaki, G. (2022). Astronomers’ representations of the earth and day / night cycle: Implications for children’s acquisition of scientific concepts. Current Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02676-6 [PDF: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12144-021-02676-6.pdf.
Nobes, G., & Martin, J. W. (2022). They should have known better: The roles of negligence and outcome in moral judgements of accidental actions. British Journal of Psychology, 113(2), 370-395. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12536 [Full text]
Nobes, G., Panagiotaki, G., Malvaso, C.G., & Klevens, J. (2022). Physical abuse of children by stepfathers in Colombia. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, NP5747–NP5773. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520912585, [pdf: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0886260520912585]
Lightfoot, K., Panagiotaki, G., & Nobes, G. (2020). Effectiveness of psychological interventions for smoking cessation in adults with mental health problems: A systematic review. British Journal of Health Psychology, 25(3), 615-638. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12431
Lovatt Smith, P., & Nobes, G. (2020). Carrying capacity of traditional farming in South East England. Organic Farming, 6, 14-22. http://www.librelloph.com/organicfarming/article/view/of-6.1.14
Crago, R. V., Renoult, L., Biggart, L., Nobes, G., Satmarean, T., & Bowler, J. O. (2019). Physical aggression and attentional bias to angry faces: An event related potential study. Brain Research. 146387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2019.146387
Engelhardt, P. E., Nobes, G., & Pischedda, S. (2019). The relationship between adult symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and criminogenic cognitions. Brain Sciences, 9, 128. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/6/128
Malvaso, C.G., Delfabbro, P.H., Day, A., & Nobes, G. (2019). Young people under youth justice supervision with varying child protection histories: An analysis of group differences. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 63, 159-178. DOI: 10.1177/0306624X18791735
Nobes, G., Panagiotaki, G., & Russell Jonsson, K. (2019). Child homicides by stepfathers: A replication and reassessment of the British evidence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1091-1102.DOI: 10.1037/xge0000492
Malvaso, C.G., Delfabbro, P.H., Day, A., & Nobes, G. (2018). The maltreatment-violence link: Exploring the role of maltreatment experiences and other individual and social risk factors among young people who offend. Journal of Criminal Justice, 55, 35-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2018.01.006
Panagiotaki, G., Seeley, C., & Nobes, G. (2018). https://theconversation.com/how-young-children-understand-death-and-how-to-talk-to-them-about-it-96134
Panagiotaki, G., Hopkins, M., Nobes, G., & Ward, E. (2018). Children's and adults' understanding of death: Cognitive, parental and experiential influences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 166, 96-115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.07.014
Nobes, G., & Panagiotaki, G. (2018). https://theconversation.com/the-cinderella-effect-are-stepfathers-dangerous-103707
Nobes, G., Panagiotaki, G., & Engelhardt, P. (2017). The development of intention-based morality: The influence of intention salience and recency, negligence, and outcome on children's and adults' judgments. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1895-1911. doi: 10.1037/dev0000380
Nobes, G., Panagiotaki, G., & Bartholomew, K. (2016). The influence of intention, outcome and question-wording on children’s and adults’ moral judgments. Cognition, 157, 190-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.08.019
Patouris, E., Scaife, V., & Nobes, G. (2016). A behavioral approach to adolescent cannabis use: Accounting for nondeliberative, developmental, and temperamental factors. Journal of Substance Use, 21, 506-514. doi:10.3109/14659891.2015.1076076
Malvaso, C., Delfabbro, P., Proeve, M., & Nobes, G. (2015). Predictors of child injury in biological and stepfamilies. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 8(3), 149-159. doi: 10.1007/s40653-015-0052-1
Panagiotaki, G., Nobes, G., Ashraf, A., & Aubby, H. (2015). British and Pakistani children’s understanding of death: Cultural and developmental influences. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33, 31-44. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12064
Panagiotaki, G., & Nobes, G. (2014). Cultural influences on children’s understanding of the human body and the concept of life. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 32, 276-290. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12039
Frède, V., Nobes, G., Frappart, S., Panagiotaki, G., Troadec, B., and Martin, A. (2011). The acquisition of scientific knowledge: The influence of methods of questioning and analysis on the interpretation of children’s conceptions of the Earth. Infant and Child Development, 20, 432-448. DOI: 10.1002/icd.730
Siegal, M., Nobes, G., & Panagiotaki, G. (2011). Children’s knowledge of the Earth. Nature Geoscience, 4, 134-136. DOI:10.1038/ngeo1094
Nobes, E.G. & Nobes, G. (Eds.) (2010). Sixty successful personal statements for UCAS application. Norwich: Cambridge Occupational Analysts. Link
Nobes, G., Panagiotaki, G., & Pawson, C. (2009). The influence of negligence, intention and outcome on children’s moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 382-397. DOI:10.1016/j.jecp.2009.08.001
Panagiotaki, G., Nobes, G., & Potton, A. (2009). Mental models and other misconceptions in children’s understanding of the earth. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 52-67. DOI:10.1016/j.jecp.2008.10.003
Nobes, G., & Panagiotaki, G. (2009) Mental models or methodological artifacts? Adults' 'naive' responses to a test of children's conceptions of the Earth. British Journal of Psychology, 100, 347-363. DOI: 10.1348/000712608X332909
Nobes, G., & Panagiotaki, G. (2007). Adults' representations of the Earth: Implications for children's acquisition of scientific concepts. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 664-665. DOI: 10.1348/000712607X178119
Panagiotaki, G., Nobes, G., & Banerjee, R. (2006). Is the world round or flat? Children's understanding of the Earth. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 3, 124-141. DOI: 10.1080/17405620500397732
Panagiotaki, G., Nobes, G., & Banerjee, R. (2006). Children's understanding of the Earth: A methodological comparison. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24, 353-372. DOI: 10.1348/026151005X39116
Nobes, E.G. & Nobes, G. (Eds.) (2006). Forty successful personal statements for UCAS application. Norwich: Cambridge Occupational Analysts. Link
Nobes, G., Martin, A.E., & Panagiotaki, G. (2005). The development of scientific knowledge of the Earth. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 23, 47-64. DOI: 10.1348/026151004x20649
Nobes, G., Moore, D.G., Martin, A.S., Clifford, B.R., Butterworth, G., Panagiotaki, G. & Siegal, M. (2003). Children’s understanding of the Earth in a multicultural community: mental models or fragments of knowledge? Developmental Science. 6, 72-85. DOI: 10.1111/1467-7687.00257
Nobes, G., & Pawson, C. (2003). Children’s understanding of social rules and social status. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 49, 77-99. DOI: 10.1353/mpq.2003.0005
Nobes, G., & Smith, M. (2002). Family structure and the physical punishment of children. Journal of Family Issues, 23, 349-373 DOI: 10.1177/0192513X02023003002
Nobes, G., & Smith, M. (2000). The relative extent of physical punishment and abuse by mothers and fathers. Trauma, Violence and Abuse, 1, 47-66. DOI: 10.1177/1524838000001001004
Nobes, G., Smith, M., Upton, P., & Heverin, A. (1999). Physical punishment by mothers and fathers in British homes. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 14, 887-902. DOI: 10.1177/088626099014008006
Nobes, G. (1999). Children's understanding of rules they invent themselves. Journal of Moral Education, 28, 215-232. DOI: 10.1080/030572499103232
Nobes, G., & Smith, M. (1997). Physical punishment in two-parent families. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2, 271-281. DOI: 10.1177/1359104597022007