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| Graham C L DaveySummaryAffiliation: University of Sheffield Country: UK Publications
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Signposts to development: theory of mind in deaf childrenTyron Woolfe
University of Sheffield, Western Bank, United Kingdom
Child Dev 73:768-78. 2002....
Agrammatic but numerateRosemary A Varley
Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TA, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:3519-24. 2005..To our knowledge, these results demonstrate for the first time the remarkable independence of mathematical calculations from language grammar in the mature cognitive system...
Language access and theory of mind reasoning: evidence from deaf children in bilingual and oralist environmentsMarek Meristo
Department of Psychology, Goteborg University, Goteborg, Sweden
Dev Psychol 43:1156-69. 2007..Particularly for native signers, access to sign language in a bilingual environment may facilitate conversational exchanges that promote the expression of ToM by enabling children to monitor others' mental states effectively...
Preschoolers' understanding of lies and innocent and negligent mistakesM Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, England
Dev Psychol 34:332-41. 1998..In this context, many children distinguished mistakes from lies and displayed an incipient ability to discriminate between lies and negligent mistakes that often generate negative reactions and innocent mistakes that do not...
Culture and children's cosmologyMichael Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK
Dev Sci 7:308-24. 2004....
Conceptual development and conversational understandingMichael Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP, UK
Trends Cogn Sci 8:534-8. 2004..We review recent research in this area, focussing on early knowledge of the appearance-reality distinction and knowledge of cosmological concepts...
Neuroscience. Signposts to the essence of languageMichael Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TP, UK
Science 305:1720-1. 2004
Aphasia, language, and theory of mindMichael Siegal
University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
Soc Neurosci 1:167-74. 2006..By contrast, difficulties shown by young children and by adults with right hemisphere brain damage on certain ToM tasks often appear to involve the absence of a pragmatic awareness that precludes the expression of ToM reasoning...
Bilingualism and conversational understanding in young childrenMichael Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, UK
Cognition 110:115-22. 2009..We suggest that bilingualism can be accompanied by an enhanced ability to appreciate effective communicative responses...
Neural systems involved in "theory of mind"Michael Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP, UK
Nat Rev Neurosci 3:463-71. 2002....
Bilingualism accentuates children's conversational understandingMichael Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 5:e9004. 2010..In two experiments, we examined the children's ability to identify responses to questions as violations of conversational maxims (to be informative and avoid redundancy, to speak the truth, be relevant, and be polite)...
Contamination sensitivity and the development of disease-avoidant behaviourMichael Siegal
Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TP, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:3427-32. 2011..Through this process, the perceptual cues of contamination are linked to threats of disease outcomes and can act as determinants of disease-avoidant behaviours...
Disgust: the disease-avoidance emotion and its dysfunctionsGraham C L Davey
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:3453-65. 2011....
Mood as input and perseverative worrying following the induction of discrete negative moodsFrances Meeten
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, BN1 9QH
Behav Ther 43:393-406. 2012..These findings support a view of mood-as-input effects where overall valency is the important factor in determining perseveration...
Language and spatial reorientation: evidence from severe aphasiaJudith Bek
Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn 36:646-58. 2010....
An experimental investigation of the role of negative mood in worry: the role of appraisals that facilitate systematic information processingSuzanne R Dash
School of Psychology, The University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 43:823-31. 2012..An experimental study assessed the potential role of systematic information processing in mediating the facilitative effect of negative mood on worry (e.g. Johnston & Davey, 1997)...
The effect of disgust on anxiety ratings to fear-relevant, disgust-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuliGraham C L Davey
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
J Anxiety Disord 22:1347-54. 2008..The results lend support to the view that disgust has a causal effect on anxiety, and implicates disgust as a risk factor for anxious psychopathology...
What ends a worry bout? An analysis of changes in mood and stop rule use across the catastrophising interview taskGraham C L Davey
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Behav Res Ther 45:1231-43. 2007..The results are discussed in the context of mood-as-input accounts of pathological worrying and the therapeutic implications of these findings are reviewed...
Evidence for cognition without grammar from causal reasoning and 'theory of mind' in an agrammatic aphasic patientR Varley
Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Curr Biol 10:723-6. 2000..Despite this profound impairment in grammar, he displayed simple causal reasoning and ToM understanding. Thus, reasoning about causes and beliefs involve processes that are independent of propositional language...
Severe impairment in grammar does not preclude theory of mindR Varley
Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Neurocase 7:489-93. 2001..These results reveal the functional autonomy of theory of mind from the capacity for propositional/grammatical language, and support its independence from executive function...
Mood-as-input hypothesis and perseverative psychopathologiesFrances Meeten
School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Clin Psychol Rev 31:1259-75. 2011....
Disgust and eating disorder symptomatology in a non-clinical population: the role of trait anxiety and anxiety sensitivityGraham C L Davey
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Clin Psychol Psychother 16:268-75. 2009....
Experienced disgust causes a negative interpretation bias: a causal role for disgust in anxious psychopathologyGraham C L Davey
Department of Psychology, The University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
Behav Res Ther 44:1375-84. 2006..Because the effect is a non-specific emotion-congruent one, elevated disgust levels will result in a predisposition to interpret information in a threatening way across a broad range of anxious- and threat-relevant domains...
Foreknowledge, caring, and the side-effect effect in young childrenSandra Pellizzoni
Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy
Dev Psychol 45:289-95. 2009..The findings suggest developmental continuity in the link between reasoning about morality and intentionality...
Using controlled comparisons in disgust psychopathology research: the case of disgust, hypochondriasis and health anxietyGraham C L Davey
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK
J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry 37:4-15. 2006....
Inflated responsibility and perseverative checking: the effect of negative moodBenie MacDonald
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom
J Abnorm Psychol 114:176-82. 2005..These effects of the various configurations of inflated responsibility and mood valency are predicted by the mood-as-input hypothesis...
Mood-as-input and depressive ruminationJack Hawksley
Department of Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Behav Res Ther 48:134-40. 2010....
The contact principle and utilitarian moral judgments in young childrenSandra Pellizzoni
Department of Psychology, University of Trieste, Italy
Dev Sci 13:265-70. 2010..Overall, the children's responses were remarkably similar to those reported in adult studies. These findings document the extent to which some constraints on moral judgment are present in early human development...
Language and conceptual developmentMichael Siegal
Trends Cogn Sci 8:287. 2004
Competence and performance in belief-desire reasoning across two cultures: the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about false belief?Amir Amin Yazdi
Department of Psychology, Ferdowsi University, Mashad, Iran
Cognition 100:343-68. 2006..These results challenge the theory-theory account and are discussed in terms of models of belief-desire reasoning in which both conceptual competence and performance factors play central roles...
Once in contact, always in contact: contagious essence and conceptions of purification in American and Hindu Indian childrenAhalya Hejmadi
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3604, USA
Dev Psychol 40:467-76. 2004..In keeping with Hindu culture, the Indian children responded significantly more strongly to stranger or cockroach contamination and, with increasing age, viewed contamination as more impervious to any kind of purification...
