Dodd, H., Nesbit, R., & FitzGibbon, L. (2025). Introducing the Multidimensional Toolkit for the Assessment of Play in Schools (M-TAPS): A reliability study. F1000Research, 14, 476. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.160920.1
FitzGibbon, L., Morriss, J., Clasen, M., Wake, S., Nesbit, R., Andersen, M. M., & Dodd, H. F. (2025). Affective Forecasting During a Haunted House Experience: Insights into Intolerance of Uncertainty. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 103046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2025.103046
Nesbit, Rachel. J., FitzGibbon, L., & Dodd, Helen. F. (2025). Parents Perceptions of Play in School: Findings From the British Children’s Play Survey. Psychology in the Schools, 62(9), 2928–2941. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.23512
Ryan, Z. J., Dodd, H. F., & FitzGibbon, L. (2025). Uncertain world: How children’s curiosity and intolerance of uncertainty relate to their behaviour and emotion under uncertainty. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(4), 842–860. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241252651
Williams, B., FitzGibbon, L., Brady, D., & Christakou, A. (2025). Sample size matters when estimating test–retest reliability of behaviour. Behavior Research Methods, 57(4), 123. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02599-1
Ryan, Z. J., Stockill, H., Nesbit, R. J., FitzGibbon, L., & Dodd, H. F. (2024). Parents’ Perception of Risk in Play: Associations with Parent and Child Gender. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33(8), 2359–2366. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02844-9
FitzGibbon, L., Oliver, B., Nesbit, R., & Dodd, H. (2024). A scoping review of methods and measures used to capture children's play during school breaktimes. Educational Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2024.2306944
Dodd, H. F., Nesbit, R. J., & FitzGibbon, L. (2023). Child’s Play: Examining the Association Between Time Spent Playing and Child Mental Health. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01363-2
FitzGibbon, L., Putt, C., Feeney, A., McCormack, T., & Beck, S. R. (2024) Experience of regret is unaffected by concurrent working memory load. Routledge Open Research. https://doi.org/10.12688/routledgeopenres.18001.1
Nesbit, R., FitzGibbon, L., & Dodd, H. (2023). Street play, wellbeing and mental health from childhood into adulthood. European Psychiatry, 66(S1), S991-S991. http://doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2023.2107 (conference proceedings)
Stone, H., FitzGibbon, L., Millan, E., & Murayama, K. (2023). Encouraging willingness to try insect foods with a utility-value intervention. Appetite, 190, 107002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107002
Yagi, A., FitzGibbon, L., Murayama, K., Shinomori, K., & Sakaki, M. (2023). Uncertainty drives exploration of negative information across younger and older adults. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13415-023-01082-8
FitzGibbon, L., & Murayama, K. (2022). Counterfactual curiosity: Motivated thinking about what might have been. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377(1866), 20210340. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0340
Stone, H., FitzGibbon, L., Millan, E., & Murayama, K. (2022). Curious to eat insects? Curiosity as a key predictor of willingness to try novel food. Appetite, 168, 105790. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105790
Dodd, H. F., FitzGibbon, L., Watson, B. E., & Nesbit, R. J. (2021). Children’s play and independent mobility in 2020: results from the British Children’s Play Survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084334
FitzGibbon, L., Komiya, A., & Murayama, K. (2021). The Lure of Counterfactual Curiosity: People Incur a Cost to Experience Regret. Psychological Science. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0956797620963615
McNabb, C. B., Burgess, L. G., Fancourt, A., Mulligan, N., FitzGibbon, L., Riddell, P., & Murayama, K. (2020). Similarity in resting-state functional brain connectivity is not influenced by social closeness in schoolchildren. Scientific Reports, 10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67718-8
FitzGibbon, L., Lau, J. K. L., & Murayama, K. (2020). The seductive lure of curiosity: Information as a motivationally salient reward. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 35. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.05.014
Geurini, R., FitzGibbon, L., & Coricelli, G. (2020). The role of agency in children’s experience of regret and disappointment. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2020.03.029
FitzGibbon, L., Moll, H., Carboni, J., Lee, R., & Dehghani, M. (2019). Counterfactual curiosity in preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 183, 146-157. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.11.022
Murayama, K., FitzGibbon, L., & Sakaki, M. (2019). Process account of curiosity and interest: A reward-learning perspective. Educational Psychology Review, 31(4), 875-895. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-019-09499-9
Moffett, L., Moll, H., & FitzGibbon, L. (2018). Future planning in 4- and 5-year-old children. Developmental Psychology. 54(5), 866. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000484
Carroll, D., FitzGibbon, L., & Blakey, E. (2016). Cognitive flexibility in young children: Beyond perseveration. Child Development Perspectives. 10(4), 211-215. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12192
Thomas, P., FitzGibbon, L., & Raymond, J. (2016). Value conditioning modulates visual working memory processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42(1), 6-10. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000144
FitzGibbon, L., Cragg, L., & Carroll, D. J. (2014). Primed to be inflexible: The influence of set size on cognitive flexibility during childhood. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 101. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00101
Carroll, D. J., FitzGibbon, L., & Critchley, A. (2014). Why do alternative ways of responding improve children's performance on tests of strategic reasoning? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 32(2), 195-204. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12033