Birkbeck, University of London

AI chatbot integration in fashion e-retail: consumer behaviour shifts and pathways to organizational change

Purpose AI chatbots are increasingly embedded in customer-facing retail operations, yet research has examined them mainly as tools of individual adoption. This study positions consumer attitudinal and behavioural responses to chatbots in fashion e-retail as micro-level foundation...

Creating Sanctuary Before and After Trent. The Architectural Screen at The Santuario Di Mongiovino

This article takes as its point of departure an unusual architectural screen to be found in one of the many sanctuary churches erected in Central Italy in the early Cinquecento. Begun in 1524, the Santuario di Mongiovino, in Western Umbria, was built to enshrine a late medieval f...

Visually simulated altered gravity modulates perceived object weight

Gravity is a fundamental force acting on all objects on Earth. It is therefore unsurprising that the brain has internalized regularities associated with terrestrial gravity. An internal model of gravity is thought to arise from the integration of vestibular, visual, proprioceptiv...

How effective are interventions at enhancing preschool children's empathy? A meta-analytic review

Empathy, defined as sharing and understanding others’ emotional experiences, is key to the formation of social groups and plays an important role in children’s social development. While enhancing this skill in early education has been a focus in the field, whether trainings emplo...

How followers evaluate social media influencers’ communication: A persuasion‐based perspective and research agenda

Abstract Scholarly research on social media influencers is expanding. Although the field has grown substantially, its research base remains fragmented. This is largely due to the multitude of disciplines upon which influencer research draws and to the diverse perspectives applied...

The Right to Communicate: UNESCO and the politics of global communication, 1969–1987

Abstract The Right to Communicate (RtC) is the idea that individuals possess not only the freedom to ‘seek, receive and impart information’, as laid down in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), but also the right to communicate horizontally with their p...

The Contribution of Environmental History to Understanding Fires in Landscapes: Exploring Analogies between Case Studies in South Africa and Portugal

ABSTRACT This article offers comparative environmental histories of wildfires in Portugal and South Africa from c .1860 to the 2010s, using a framework derived from Elinor Ostrom’s work on managing communal environmental systems and an emerging integrated approach to wildfire man...

The scientist–practitioner divide revisited: From bridging a gap to navigating the layers of a knowledge ecosystem

Abstract Discussions about the scientist–practitioner divide have shaped industrial, work and organizational psychology (IWOP), including landmark publications in this journal ( Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 74 , 2001, 391–411; Journal of Occupational and...

Infant Attention to Eyes Versus Mouth Varies With Mouth Movement Speed, Family History of Autism and Language Development

Abstract Purpose Patterns of visual attention to faces are mixed in infants with a family history of autism relative to controls. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often co-occurs with autism and could represent one source of variance in findings. Heterogeneity in l...

Infant-caregiver vocal contingency changes across varying interpersonal space

Vocal contingency between caregivers and infants is a fundamental building block for socio-communicative development. This paper investigates vocal contingency in home settings and how it varies as a function of the physical distance between infants and their caregivers. We recor...

The Early Childhood Curiosity Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Properties in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, and Germany

Curiosity in early childhood is associated with exploration, learning, and cognitive growth, yet little is known about how trait curiosity can be reliably assessed in preschoolers. This paper reports the development and validation of a caregiver-report measure designed to assess...

Personalising wearable neuroimaging for neurodivergent children through co-design with families and industry

Abstract Wearable neuroimaging methods hold considerable promise for identifying early biomarkers of neurodevelopmental conditions, yet their application to neurodivergent young children remains limited by significant participation barriers. We investigated inclusion rates and pa...

Large‐scale nuclear and plastid phylogenomic analyses inform an updated Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification: APG V

Abstract We present here a revision of the APG classification that considers the extensive recent analyses of hundreds of nuclear and plastid genes for many angiosperm species. Although previous versions of the APG classification were largely based on uniparentally inherited mark...

‘Vulnerable but Happy?’ Exploring Older People’s Wellbeing in the UK During the FirstCOVID-19 Lockdown

This paper focuses on the wellbeing of a sample of older and predominantly middle-class UK individuals drawn from the Mass Observation Project (MOP) participant panel in 2020, covering the first months of the global COVID-19 pandemic and first UK national lockdown. It finds that...

Movement-Related Differences Between Infants with High and Low Likelihood of Autism: A Longitudinal Study Using Markerless Motion Tracking

Background: Motor behaviour has been shown to differ in both complexity and variability between neurotypical and autistic populations. However, there is little research on the early development of specific kinematic features and their timing of emergence in early life. Methods: T...

The cost of “what might have been”: false memories for counterfactual actions

Deciding what to do should typically involve considering what could have been done, but in fact was not done. We tested whether such unchosen alternative action paths leave traces in memory. Across two behavioural experiments, participants solved a modified Tower of London (ToL)...

Foundations of Black epistemology: knowledge discourse in Africana philosophy

In this important work of philosophical enquiry, Dr Oluwayomi seeks to reorientate thinking on a selection of Black activists, conceiving of them as philosophers. In the preface, he contends that p...

Stabilizing the ground beneath our feet: Reflections on the shifting sands of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)

This invited commentary presents our personal reflections upon the evolving diversity, equality/equity and inclusion (DEI) landscape since the publication of our review, Fletcher and Beauregard's (2022) 'The psychology of diversity and its implications for workplace (in)equality:...

The development and psychometric evaluation of the brief Compulsive Pornography Use Scale (CPUS-4)

Abstract Online pornography use has increased worldwide in recent decades, with problematic use being associated with negative mental health outcomes. However, no brief instrument is currently available to specifically assess Problematic Pornography Use (PPU) by operationalizing...

Resolving the Abstract–Concrete Paradox in the Angular Gyrus:A Multimethod Investigation

Abstract Despite its well-established role in memory-guided cognition, whether and how the angular gyrus (AG) contributes to semantic processing remains unresolved. Connectomic work links the AG to abstract mentation, yet neuroimaging studies paradoxically show greater AG engagem...