Gillian Haddock
Biographic Data
| ID | 126288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gillian Haddock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gillian |
| FAMILY NAME | Haddock |
| SIGNATURE | HADDOCK G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5293-2772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 237 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How Norms Depend on the Presence and Status of Observers
Norms are fundamental to social life, but basic questions about how they are affected by social context remain. Specifically, how do normative constraints depend on the presence and status of observers, and how do such relational contingencies vary across cultures? Using data from more than 25,000 individuals across 90 societies, we test several hypotheses linking normative constraints on everyday behaviors (like arguing, laughing, cursing, kissi…
A Qualitative Co‐Production Study of a Solutions‐Focused Approach to Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Engagement of Male Suicidal Prisoners in Psychological Therapy for Suicide Preventio…
What Narcissists Look Like and Why It’s Important
Prior research investigating public perceptions of narcissistic individuals has relied on participant ratings of researcher-selected dimensions or character vignettes, limiting generalizability and ecological validity. Using reverse correlation—a bottom-up, participant-driven method—we examined how people visually represent narcissists, and the consequences of these representations on attributional perceptions (e.g., trust, leadership, attraction…
How do Adults Think, Feel, and Behave Toward Teenagers? Measuring and Understanding Adults’ Attitudes Toward Teenagers
Despite the pervasiveness of adult–teenager relations, research has largely neglected adults’ attitudes toward teenagers. Eight studies ( N = 3,517) examined the content of adults’ attitudes toward teenagers and developed a 14-item measure that assesses three factors: openness intentions, negative beliefs, and positive emotions regarding teenagers. Openness intentions involve empathic orientations and predict more contact with teenagers and more …
How Do People Conceptualize Narcissism and Narcissistic Individuals
INTRODUCTION: Although past decades have seen notable advances in the conceptualization and assessment of narcissism, scholarship examining lay conceptualizations of the construct remains limited. METHOD: We report two studies utilizing bottom-up, participant-driven methodologies to examine public understandings of narcissism and narcissistic individuals. In Study 1 (n = 202), we thematically analyzed layperson definitions of narcissism and compa…
The Face of Left-Wing Dissent
Recent perspectives have challenged the view that left-wingers are less likely to derogate out-group members. Building on research demonstrating heightened out-group derogation by Progressive (vs. Traditional Liberal) left-wingers, we examined whether Progressives and Traditional Liberals differentially tolerate in-group dissenters on the issue of gender identity. Using reverse correlation, Study 1 found that the Progressive-generated face of J.K…
Barriers to the implementation of psychosocial interventions on acute mental health wards
In order to successfully engage with the delivery of psychosocial interventions on acute mental health wards, staff need access to supportive leadership which champions psychological interventions, as well as training, supervision and support systems which value the demanding nature of working on mental health inpatient wards
What Your Face Says
Two studies investigated how facial signals of communion and agency intersect to shape first impressions. Study 1 primarily investigated how enhancing or reducing facial signals of communion or agency affected impressions of these dimensions. Results demonstrated that the manipulation of facial signals of communion affected impressions of both communion and agency, whereas the manipulation of facial signals of agency affected only impressions of …
Attitudes toward children
BACKGROUND: Adults' views and behaviors toward children can vary from being supportive to shockingly abusive, and there are significant unanswered questions about the psychological factors underpinning this variability. OBJECTIVE: The present research examined the content of adults' attitudes toward children to address these questions. METHOD: Ten studies (N = 4702) identified the factor structure of adults' descriptions of babies, toddlers, and …
Supported or stressed while being assessed? How motivational climates in UK University workplaces promote or inhibit researcher well‐being
Academic culture now places high expectations on researchers to demonstrate research productivity alongside teaching, leadership and knowledge exchange. In two studies of researchers across career stages in UK higher education institutions (HEIs), we examined workplace climate within academic departments as (1) supportive of researchers' needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness, (2) publish‐or‐perish focused and (3) hyper‐competitive. In St…
The Progressive Values Scale
Progressivism has increasingly challenged traditional liberalism as the dominant influence within left-wing ideology. Across four studies, we developed a measure—the Progressive Values Scale (PVS)—that characterizes distinctly progressive values within the left-wing. In Study 1, left-wing participants evaluated divisive issues, with four scale factors emerging. In Study 2, we confirmed this factor structure and included a battery of personality a…
Being more satisfied with romantic relationship status is associated with increased mental wellbeing in people with experience of psychosis
Mental health services should be mindful of the associations between romantic relationship satisfaction and wellbeing. Service users with a fearful attachment style may particularly benefit from support in this area
The voice characterisation checklist
The VoCC is a reliable and internally consistent tool for assessing voice characterisation and will be used to test whether voice characterisation moderates treatment outcome to AVATAR therapy. There is potential wider utility within clinical trials of other relational therapies as well as routine clinical practice
What is important to service users and staff when implementing suicide-focused psychological therapies for people with psychosis into mental health services
Whilst all stakeholders viewed a suicide-focused therapy as valuable for people experiencing psychosis, they also recognize that enabling successful implementation of such interventions will require additional training, flexibility, and resources to existing services
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters
While research has studied the consequences of being ambivalent about a single attitude object, we know little about how dispositionally ambivalent and non-ambivalent targets are perceived. Across six experiments we examined how people perceive and mentally represent dispositionally ambivalent and non-ambivalent others, and how people expect to interact with dispositionally ambivalent and non-ambivalent targets. Experiment 1 demonstrated that a n…
A systematic investigation of the short and long term experiences of taking part in research about suicidal thoughts and acts in the context of a randomised controlled trial
Partaking in studies about suicide can be a positive experience. There is also evidence of some negative impacts in the days immediately following participation. No research has examined both the short and longer term effects of repeated assessment of an individual's suicidal thoughts/behaviours. Clinical trials can involve multiple suicide assessments over several months. The current study investigated whether participants experienced any brief …
The Salience of Children Increases Adult Prosocial Values
Organizations often put children front and center in campaigns to elicit interest and support for prosocial causes. Such initiatives raise a key theoretical and applied question that has yet to be addressed directly: Does the salience of children increase prosocial motivation and behavior in adults? We present findings aggregated across eight experiments involving 2,054 adult participants: Prosocial values became more important after completing t…
A conducive environment? The role of need support in the higher education workplace and its effect on academics' experiences of research assessment in the UK
Little is known about how researchers in higher education institutions (HEIs) experience and respond to support received from their departments. The present study investigated how support for researchers' autonomy (choice and self‐expression), relatedness (through connections with colleagues) and competence (feeling effective in one's work) influenced their attitudes towards an external assessment of research. To do so, we surveyed 598 academics …
Understanding perceptions of the Research Excellence Framework among UK researchers
RAND Europe, together with the University of Cardiff and the University of Sheffield, conducted a real-time evaluation of the Research Excellence Framework. The study assessed attitudes, perspectives and behaviours towards REF 2021 across the sector; and explored how REF policies and changes are embedded in the way submissions are prepared and delivered. The study aims to provide clarity and perspective to inform future rounds of the REF
Involving an individual with lived‐experience in a co‐analysis of qualitative data
BACKGROUND: People with lived-experience of the phenomenon under investigation are seldom involved in the analysis of qualitative data, and there exists little guidance for those wishing to involve contributors at this stage of research. AIMS: To critically reflect on the process of involving people with lived-experience in a thematic analysis and to offer direction to other researchers. METHODS: An individual with lived-experience of residing in…
A Cross-Sectional Study Investigating the Relationship Between Alexithymia and Suicide, Violence, and Dual Harm in Male Prisoners
Background: Suicide and violence are common within male prisoners. One suggested risk factor for both behaviors is alexithymia. Alexithymia describes a deficit in identifying and describing feelings and is also related to externally oriented thinking. This study aimed to explore the relationship between alexithymia, suicide, violence and dual harm in male prisoners. Methods: Eighty male prisoners were recruited from three prisons. Participants we…
Protective Factors Associated With Post-traumatic Outcomes in Individuals With Experiences of Psychosis
Trauma and trauma-specific mental health difficulties (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder) are highly prevalent in people with psychosis. However, not everyone develops post-traumatic symptoms, and some people even experience post-traumatic growth (PTG) following trauma. It is important to identify which protective factors are associated with less severe trauma symptoms and/or positive outcomes to inform the development and implementation of in…
The Relationship between the Therapeutic Alliance and Suicidal Experiences in People with Psychosis Receiving Therapy
Few studies have examined the relationship between the therapeutic alliance in therapy and suicidal experiences. No studies have examined this relationship with people with non-affective psychosis. The present study sought to redress this gap in the literature. Sixty-four participants with non-affective psychosis and suicidal experiences who were receiving a suicide-focused cognitive therapy were recruited. Self-reported suicidal ideation, suicid…
The importance of (shared) human values for containing the Covid‐19 pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic poses an exceptional challenge for humanity. Because public behaviour is key to curbing the pandemic at an early stage, it is important for social psychological researchers to use their knowledge to promote behaviours that help manage the crisis. Here, we identify human values as particularly important in driving both behavioural compliance to government guidelines and promoting prosocial behaviours to alleviate the strains …
Words Don't Come Easy
Suicide and violence are prevalent within male prisons in the UK. It has been suggested that alexithymia may be associated with both suicide and violence. Alexithymia can be defined as an inability to identify or discuss emotions. The present study aimed to qualitatively explore male prisoners' experiences of alexithymia and how these experiences may relate to suicide and violence. Fifteen male prisoners were recruited from two prisons in the Nor…
Assessing the structure of prejudicial attitudes
Two studies assessed the structure of attitudes toward homosexuals. In Study 1, Ss completed measures of stereotypes, symbolic beliefs, and affective associates as well as attitudes toward homosexuals. They also completed the right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) scale. The results revealed that (a) stereotypes did not provide a complete representation of attitudes, (b) RWA was negatively correlated with attitudes toward homosexuals, (c) the relative…
Preferring “Housewives” To “Feminists”
Four studies are described outlining the favorability of attitudes toward women. In Study 1, participants indicated their attitudes toward women and men and their construal of the term “women.” The results revealed that women were evaluated more favorably than men, but that male right-wing authoritarians (RWAs) who construed women as referring primarily to feminists were least favorable in their attitudes. In Study 2, participants indicated their…
Individual differences in attitude structure
Look Black in anger
Look Black in Anger: The Role of Implicit Prejudice in the Categorization and Perceived Emotional Intensity of Racially Ambiguous Faces
Making a Party Leader Less of a Party Member
The present study tested the degree to which attitudes about a political party would be influenced by the context in which the party leader was rendered cognitively accessible. A sample of British undergraduates evaluated Prime Minister Tony Blair before expressing their opinion about the Labour party. In one condition, the two items were structured such that Blair was expected to be included in participants’ representation of the party. In a sec…
Anti-fat prejudice among children
Personal Accounts of Discontinuing Neuroleptic Medication for Psychosis
We conducted this study to explore personal accounts of making choices about taking medication prescribed for the treatment of psychosis (neuroleptics). There are costs and benefits associated with continuing and discontinuing neuroleptics. Service users frequently discontinue neuroleptics; therefore, we specifically considered these decisions. We used a grounded theory approach to analyze transcripts from interviews with 12 participants. We pres…
Inclusion-exclusion of positive and negative past selves
The current research challenges the widespread truism that recalling a positive self necessarily increases self-esteem, whereas recalling a negative self necessarily decreases self-esteem. Four experiments demonstrate that chronically happy people show a relative increase in self-esteem by recalling either a positive or a negative self. Chronically sad people, however, show a relative decrease in self-esteem by recalling either a positive or a ne…
Mood and the expression of intergroup attitudes
This study investigated the effect of mood on the favourability of intergroup attitudes, and on two important components of intergroup attitudes, namely stereotypes and feelings (i.e. emotional associates) toward social groups. In addition, the individual difference variable of affect intensity (AIM, Larsen and Diener, 1987) was considered as a potential moderating variable. With high AIMs expected to demonstrate more pronounced mood‐judgment eff…
Temporal self-appraisal and attributional focus
Defensive self-esteem impacts attention, attitude strength, and self-affirmation processes
It's easy to like or dislike Tony Blair
The present study investigated the circumstances under which accessibility experiences would impact the favourability of political attitudes. Participants who were either interested or uninterested in British politics generated either two (or five) positive (or negative) attributes about Tony Blair before indicating their attitude toward him. The results revealed that politically uninterested participants rated Blair more favourably when they had…
Sometimes stories sell
Research has demonstrated that narratives can be effective in eliciting attitude change, especially when recipients become transported into the narrative. In three studies, we addressed whether some people are predisposed to be influenced by narratives and whether narrative and rhetorical appeals are differentially effective for different people. In Study 1, participants read an experimental or a control narrative, and completed measures of attit…
Do I get better looking each day? Changes in self‐perceptions of attractiveness as a function of temporal perspective
Do people perceive themselves as becoming more attractive across time? The present studies investigated whether individuals (a) judge their previous self as physically less attractive than their current self and (b) judge their future self to be physically more attractive than their current self. The studies also investigated when temporal biasing of attractiveness is most likely to occur. In Study 1, students rated their present and past attract…
How people perceive dispositionally (non-) ambivalent others and why it matters
While research has studied the consequences of being ambivalent about a single attitude object, we know little about how dispositionally ambivalent and non-ambivalent targets are perceived. Across six experiments we examined how people perceive and mentally represent dispositionally ambivalent and non-ambivalent others, and how people expect to interact with dispositionally ambivalent and non-ambivalent targets. Experiment 1 demonstrated that a n…
The attitudes of medical professionals toward children and children at risk of separation from parents in Eastern Europe
This article reports the findings of a multi-country study of medical professionals' perceptions and evaluations of children. The primary aim of the study was to establish the perceptions medical professionals working in three Eastern European countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova) hold toward children identified as “typical”, “at-risk” and “with disability”. A second aim was to explore the existence of country-level differences in medical profes…
The influence of response scale alternatives on judgments of future academic expectations
Background . The study examined how students make judgments about their academic expectations, and whether these judgments are context dependent. Aims . The aim was to explore how the manipulation of response scale alternatives affects academic judgments. It was predicted that the response alternatives presented with a question would be used as information that would allow respondents to compare themselves to others, and that this comparison proc…
Assessing the structure of prejudicial attitudes
Two studies assessed the structure of attitudes toward homosexuals. In Study 1, Ss completed measures of stereotypes, symbolic beliefs, and affective associates as well as attitudes toward homosexuals. They also completed the right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) scale. The results revealed that (a) stereotypes did not provide a complete representation of attitudes, (b) RWA was negatively correlated with attitudes toward homosexuals, (c) the relative…
Preferring “Housewives” To “Feminists”
Four studies are described outlining the favorability of attitudes toward women. In Study 1, participants indicated their attitudes toward women and men and their construal of the term “women.” The results revealed that women were evaluated more favorably than men, but that male right-wing authoritarians (RWAs) who construed women as referring primarily to feminists were least favorable in their attitudes. In Study 2, participants indicated their…
Mood and the expression of intergroup attitudes
This study investigated the effect of mood on the favourability of intergroup attitudes, and on two important components of intergroup attitudes, namely stereotypes and feelings (i.e. emotional associates) toward social groups. In addition, the individual difference variable of affect intensity (AIM, Larsen and Diener, 1987) was considered as a potential moderating variable. With high AIMs expected to demonstrate more pronounced mood‐judgment eff…
Authoritarianism, Values, and the Favorability and Structure of Antigay Attitudes
Correlates and Predictors of Lottery Play in the United Kingdom
A comparison of the long‐term effectiveness of distraction and focusing in the treatment of auditory hallucinations
Cognitive‐behavioural interventions for patients experiencing neuroleptic resistant auditory hallucinations have fallen into two main categories: those which encourage distraction as a coping strategey, and those which encourage patients to focus on or expose themselves to their hallucinations. A 20‐session distraction treatment was compared with an equal length focusing treatment for 19 patients who were experiencing chronic auditory hallucinati…
The influence of response scale alternatives on judgments of future academic expectations
Background . The study examined how students make judgments about their academic expectations, and whether these judgments are context dependent. Aims . The aim was to explore how the manipulation of response scale alternatives affects academic judgments. It was predicted that the response alternatives presented with a question would be used as information that would allow respondents to compare themselves to others, and that this comparison proc…
Cognition, Affect, and the Prediction of Social Attitudes
Multicomponent models of attitude (e.g., Eagly & Chaiken, 1993; Zanna & Rempel, 1988) postulate that attitudes are summary evaluations based on cognitive, affective, and behavioral information. In this chapter, we describe research we have conducted that has used this model to study the role of cognitive and affective information in guiding attitudes. This research has revealed that both cognitive and affective information are uniquely important …
The Queen Mother and I’
We examined whether social group attitudes are subject to context effects. It was hypothesised that manipulating the context in which a group exemplar was rendered accessible would produce different effects when subjects were subsequently asked to evaluate the exemplar's group. In our study, all subjects first expressed their opinion about the (popular) Queen Mother before indicating their attitude toward the British Royal Family. In the ‘non-red…
Voices of Reason, Voices of Insanity
The validation of a religiosity measure for individuals with schizophrenia
Measures of religiosity validated for psychotic patients do not exist. This study sought to examine the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Religious Life Inventory (RLI) in this population. It was anticipated that religiosity would be affected by psychotic symptoms. The religiosity of patients with schizophrenia was assessed while symptoms were more evident and again after treatment, to evaluate changes in religiosity. Four fact…
It's easy to like or dislike Tony Blair
The present study investigated the circumstances under which accessibility experiences would impact the favourability of political attitudes. Participants who were either interested or uninterested in British politics generated either two (or five) positive (or negative) attributes about Tony Blair before indicating their attitude toward him. The results revealed that politically uninterested participants rated Blair more favourably when they had…
Individual differences in attitude structure
Making a Party Leader Less of a Party Member
The present study tested the degree to which attitudes about a political party would be influenced by the context in which the party leader was rendered cognitively accessible. A sample of British undergraduates evaluated Prime Minister Tony Blair before expressing their opinion about the Labour party. In one condition, the two items were structured such that Blair was expected to be included in participants’ representation of the party. In a sec…
Religious beliefs and religious delusions
It has been suggested that patients with strong religious beliefs or religious delusions have poor outcome from psychiatric treatment. The aim of the investigation was to establish if the patients’ shorter-term response to psychiatric treatment was affected by these factors. A quasi-experimental design was used, in which patients with schizophrenia were assessed soon after admission to hospital. They were categorised as (1) religious or not relig…
Temporal self-appraisal and attributional focus
Psychosis and substance use problems
Substance use is a significant problem for people with severe mental health problems such as schizophrenia. It has a high prevalence and is linked to poor clinical and social outcomes. Reasons for substance using in this population are wide-ranging and overlap with those found in non-psychotic populations. Services have traditionally not been well configured to deal with people with dual problems of psychosis and substance use leading to this gro…
Do I get better looking each day? Changes in self‐perceptions of attractiveness as a function of temporal perspective
Do people perceive themselves as becoming more attractive across time? The present studies investigated whether individuals (a) judge their previous self as physically less attractive than their current self and (b) judge their future self to be physically more attractive than their current self. The studies also investigated when temporal biasing of attractiveness is most likely to occur. In Study 1, students rated their present and past attract…
Anti-fat prejudice among children
Inclusion-exclusion of positive and negative past selves
The current research challenges the widespread truism that recalling a positive self necessarily increases self-esteem, whereas recalling a negative self necessarily decreases self-esteem. Four experiments demonstrate that chronically happy people show a relative increase in self-esteem by recalling either a positive or a negative self. Chronically sad people, however, show a relative decrease in self-esteem by recalling either a positive or a ne…
Look Black in anger
Look Black in Anger: The Role of Implicit Prejudice in the Categorization and Perceived Emotional Intensity of Racially Ambiguous Faces
Defensive self-esteem impacts attention, attitude strength, and self-affirmation processes
Sometimes stories sell
Research has demonstrated that narratives can be effective in eliciting attitude change, especially when recipients become transported into the narrative. In three studies, we addressed whether some people are predisposed to be influenced by narratives and whether narrative and rhetorical appeals are differentially effective for different people. In Study 1, participants read an experimental or a control narrative, and completed measures of attit…
Health values as truisms
Evaluation of an online healthy eating programme
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