Amanda M Ferguson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1834147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda M Ferguson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferguson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSON A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5451-9209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions
Concerns about the relationship between social media use and adolescent mental health are growing, yet few studies focus on adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms. This limits our understanding of how social media use varies across mental health profiles. In this Registered Report, we analyse nationally representative UK data (N = 3,340, aged 11-19 years) including diagnostic assessments by clinical raters alongside quantitative a…
Social uncertainty in the digital world
The social world is inherently uncertain. We present a computational framework for thinking about how increasingly popular online environments modulate the social uncertainty we experience, dependent on the type of social inferences we make. This framework draws on Bayesian inference, which involves combining multiple informational sources to update our beliefs
Motivational effects on empathic choices
Empathy is hard work
1,204) and a meta-analysis, we found a robust preference to avoid empathy, which was associated with perceptions of empathy as more effortful and aversive and less efficacious. Experimentally increasing empathy efficacy eliminated empathy avoidance, suggesting that cognitive costs directly cause empathy choice. When given the choice to share others' feelings, people act as if it is not worth the effort. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all…
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Time-interval measurement in stuttering
This paper explores the importance of measurement in the management of stuttering, and suggests that time-interval measurement may be a clinically useful tool for speech-language pathologists in working with children and adults who stutter. Four experienced speech-language pathologists (Expert raters) and four speech pathology students (Novice raters) used both time-interval measurement (TIM) procedures and percent syllable stuttered (PSS) measur…
Time-interval measurement in stuttering
This paper explores the importance of measurement in the management of stuttering, and suggests that time-interval measurement may be a clinically useful tool for speech-language pathologists in working with children and adults who stutter. Four experienced speech-language pathologists (Expert raters) and four speech pathology students (Novice raters) used both time-interval measurement (TIM) procedures and percent syllable stuttered (PSS) measur…
Answers at your fingertips
Empathy is hard work
1,204) and a meta-analysis, we found a robust preference to avoid empathy, which was associated with perceptions of empathy as more effortful and aversive and less efficacious. Experimentally increasing empathy efficacy eliminated empathy avoidance, suggesting that cognitive costs directly cause empathy choice. When given the choice to share others' feelings, people act as if it is not worth the effort. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all…
Motivational effects on empathic choices
Social uncertainty in the digital world
The social world is inherently uncertain. We present a computational framework for thinking about how increasingly popular online environments modulate the social uncertainty we experience, dependent on the type of social inferences we make. This framework draws on Bayesian inference, which involves combining multiple informational sources to update our beliefs
Social media use in adolescents with and without mental health conditions
Concerns about the relationship between social media use and adolescent mental health are growing, yet few studies focus on adolescents with clinical-level mental health symptoms. This limits our understanding of how social media use varies across mental health profiles. In this Registered Report, we analyse nationally representative UK data (N = 3,340, aged 11-19 years) including diagnostic assessments by clinical raters alongside quantitative a…
Psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (2 works) · Empathy (2 works) · Feeling (2 works) · Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (2 works)