Derek Heim
Biographic Data
| ID | 84051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Heim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Heim |
| SIGNATURE | HEIM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Edge Hill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3456-0404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A clarion call to the addiction science community: It's time to resist the anti-scientific policies of the US Trump administration
The Impact of Alcohol-Specific and Traditional Masculine Norms on Drinking Game Behaviors: A Multisite Study of Emerging Adult Men
Playing a drinking game (DG) can provide a context for men to behave in accordance with endorsed masculine norms. Using a multisite college sample of emerging adult men ( n = 1142), we examined alcohol-specific masculine norms ( excess / control ) alongside traditional masculine norms and their relations to DG frequency and quantity, and the moderating effects of fraternity membership and hazardous drinking status on these associations. After adj…
Acculturation domains, drinking motives, and alcohol use and consequences among Asian American university students
Although Asian American (AA) college students tend to exhibit lower prevalence of heavy alcohol use compared to other racial/ethnic groups, excessive alcohol consumption within this population occurs. It has been suggested that U.S. acculturation may be associated with both alcohol use and negative alcohol consequences. Theory and research with other ethnic groups point to the importance of drinking motives in influencing alcohol consumption and …
Factor structure of the alcohol expectancies questionnaire among adolescents in rural Ghana
Catching a smile from individuals and crowds: Evidence for distinct emotional contagion processes
Research examining how crowd emotions impact observers usually requires participants to engage in an atypical mental process whereby (static) arrays of individuals are cognitively integrated to represent a crowd. The present work sought to extend our understanding of how crowd emotions may spread to individuals by assessing self-reported emotions, attention and muscle movement in response to emotions of dynamic, virtually modeled crowd stimuli. S…
Thinking and drinking: Associations between momentary thoughts and alcohol consumption during Covid-19 lockdown
COVID-19-related lockdown provided an opportunity to scrutinise alcohol consumption patterns in a historically unique context. This exploratory study examined how people’s thoughts during the day may be related to their drinking during confinement to their homes. Using ecological momentary assessment, 77 UK participants (61% female, Mage = 27.26) used their smartphones to respond to thrice-daily prompts, recording thoughts (in response to open-en…
Assessing alcohol-related beliefs using pictographic representations: A systematic approach to the development and validation of the revised alcohol expectancy task
Aim To systematically develop and test stimuli for inclusion within the revised Alcohol Expectancy Task (rAET)-a pictographic assessment of alcohol-related beliefs.Using a UK adult sample of regular social drinkers, this paper documents the (1) selection (2)development and (3)testing of stimuli, along with (4)initial validation of the rAET.Method A hierarchy of common alcoholic beverages was established, along with a consensus regarding beverage …
An examination of the extent to which drinking motives and problem alcohol consumption vary as a function of deprivation, gender and age
Grieving the Living: The Social Death of Former Jehovah’s Witnesses
Addressing a relative lack of research investigating the experiences of individuals who have left the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW), this research utilizes a social identity approach to examine qualitatively, the process of transitioning towards post-JW life, experiences of ostracism and perceived threats to self-identity. Semi-structured interviews were carried out in the homes of six former JWs, and transcripts were analysed using interpretive pheno…
A Regretful Journey Home: Albanian Return Migration in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008
Despite occurring almost a decade ago, the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis continue to influence the lives of many people today. Intra-European migration literature, for example, suggests that migration patterns were reshaped in its aftermath and emerging literature details mobilities and experiences of migrants in destination societies post-crisis. To date, less research documents the experiences of individuals who, in the wake of th…
Reshaping the publication process: Addiction Research and Theory joins Peer Community In Registered Reports
Reshaping the publication process: Addiction Research and Theory joins Peer Community In Registered Reports
Life after Social Death: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Identity Transition and Recovery
It is well documented that religiosity is linked with positive indicators of well-being, but less research has examined the psychosocial impacts of leaving “high-control” religions. Theoretically situated in recovery and desistance literature underpinned by the social identity approach, the current study examined cross-sectionally the extent to which ‘disfellowshipped’ former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ experiences of ostracism and post-exit identificat…
Stereotype threat may not impact women's inhibitory control or mathematical performance: Providing support for the null hypothesis
Underpinned by the findings of Jamieson and Harkins (2007; Experiment 3), the current study pits the mere effort motivational account of stereotype threat against a working memory interference account. In Experiment 1, females were primed with a negative self‐ or group stereotype pertaining to their visuospatial ability and completed an anti‐saccade eye‐tracking task. In Experiment 2 they were primed with a negative or positive group stereotype a…
Changing places: Children of return migrants in Albania and their quest to belong
This study examines the experiences of children of return migrants to Albania following the economic crisis in Europe. Adopting a longitudinal approach in which participants were followed-up after a year and employing participative qualitative research methods, the study investigates how perceptions of local and translocal spaces and social relations interact to shape children’s (aged 7–12 years) sense of belonging to their parents’ homeland. Fin…
Challenging the brain disease model of addiction: European launch of the addiction theory network
Challenging the brain disease model of addiction: European launch of the addiction theory network
Controlling for Prior Attainment Reduces the Positive Influence that Single-Gender Classroom Initiatives Exert on High School Students’ Scholastic Achievements
Research points to the positive impact that gender-segregated schooling and classroom initiatives exert on academic attainment. An evaluation of these studies which reveal positive effects highlights, however, that students are typically selectively assigned to single- or mixed-gender instructional settings, presenting a methodological confound. The current study controls for students' prior attainment to appraise the efficacy of a single-gender …
Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators
This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 and 2015. The search identified 45 experiments from 38 articles and 17 unique proposed mediators that were categorized into affective/subjective (n = 6), cognitive (n = 7) and motivational mechanisms (n = 4). Empirical support was accrued for mediators such as anxiety, n…
A qualitative exploration of alcohol use among student sportspeople: A social identity perspective
Research indicates that university student sportspeople are a high‐risk subgroup for hazardous alcohol consumption. Adopting a social identity perspective, we explored the social and psychological processes linking sports participation and alcohol use. Twenty‐two individual semi‐structured interviews were conducted with UK student sportspeople (male: 12; female: 10). A deductive thematic analysis identified three core themes: social identificatio…
Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance
BACKGROUND: Women in mathematical domains may become attuned to situational cues that signal a discredited social identity, contributing to their lower achievement and underrepresentation. AIM: This study examined whether heightened in-group representation alleviates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance. It further investigated whether single-sex testing environments and stereotype threat influenced participants to…
Laying solid foundations: Fred Rotgers
After many years of service Fred Rotgers has stepped down as the US Editor in Chief so that he can dedicate more of his time to new challenges and ventures. His achievements during his tenure have
The relative influence of neighbourhood incivilities, cognitive social capital, club membership and individual characteristics on positive mental health
Previous research indicates that residents׳ perceptions of their neighbourhoods can have an adverse influence on their health and wellbeing over and above the influence of structural disadvantage. Contrary to most prior research, this study employed an indicator of positive wellbeing and assessed the impact of individual characteristics, perceived social and environmental incivilities, indicators of cognitive and structural social capital, and pe…
Alcohol consumption in sportspeople: The role of social cohesion, identity and happiness
Research indicates that those participating in sport consume alcohol more frequently and at higher quantities than their non-sporting peers. The highest levels of alcohol consumption have been found in university student sportspeople; however, the reasons for such elevated alcohol use are unclear and there has been little research in this area outside US institutions. Moreover, research seems to be predominantly problem-focused and may therefore …
Racism, identity and psychological well-being: A Longitudinal Perspective on Politically Embattled Relations
The relation between racism, identity and well-being has stimulated political debate as well as psychological analysis. Research is reported that explores the relation among young people of white (n=97) and minority (n=174) ethnicity. On first assessment, minority ethnic participants reported: (1) more frequent experiences of racism and discrimination than white participants; and (2) higher levels of ethnic identity and equivalent levels of natio…
In verbis, vinum? Relating themes in an open-ended writing task to alcohol behaviors
Alcohol's function as a regulator of emotions has long been denoted in figures of speech, most famously 'in vino, veritas' (in wine, truth). In contrast, we ask whether an individual's self-reported alcohol consumption and related attitudes can be correlated with the words they use to write about alcohol. Participants completed an open-ended essay as part of a survey on alcohol attitudes and behaviors. We used a computerized technique, the Meanin…
We police it ourselves’: Group processes in the escalation and regulation of violence in the night‐time economy
The attempt to regenerate city centres has led to the creation of a ‘night‐time economy’ (NTE) based around alcohol‐led entertainment. This has been accompanied by an increase of violence. Using insights from social identity research on collective action, we argue that NTE violence can be viewed as a group‐level phenomenon. Twenty focus groups were conducted with participants who socialise together (total number of participants = 53). Participant…
Perceived Discrimination, Identification, Social Capital, and Well-Being: Relationships With Physical Health and Psychological Distress in a U.K. Minority Ethnic Community Sample
This study examined racism, ethnic and majority identification, cognitive aspects of social capital (i.e., a sense of trust), and perceived stress and evaluated the relationships between these variables and two indices of adjustment (physical health, psychological well-being) in three minority ethnic community samples in Scotland, United Kingdom. Pakistani ( n = 211, 101 female), Indian ( n = 155, 81 female), and African and Caribbean ( n = 244, …
Discriminatory peer aggression among children as a function of minority status and group proportion in school context
This study investigates discriminatory peer aggression among primary school aged children as a function of minority status (based on nationality, ethnicity, religion) of the target and the relative proportions of minority and majority children in the school. Participants were 925 8‐ to 12‐year‐olds attending schools in Britain. Children of minority status were no more likely than children of majority background to experience peer aggression in ge…
We police it ourselves’: Group processes in the escalation and regulation of violence in the night‐time economy
The attempt to regenerate city centres has led to the creation of a ‘night‐time economy’ (NTE) based around alcohol‐led entertainment. This has been accompanied by an increase of violence. Using insights from social identity research on collective action, we argue that NTE violence can be viewed as a group‐level phenomenon. Twenty focus groups were conducted with participants who socialise together (total number of participants = 53). Participant…
Life after Social Death: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Identity Transition and Recovery
It is well documented that religiosity is linked with positive indicators of well-being, but less research has examined the psychosocial impacts of leaving “high-control” religions. Theoretically situated in recovery and desistance literature underpinned by the social identity approach, the current study examined cross-sectionally the extent to which ‘disfellowshipped’ former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ experiences of ostracism and post-exit identificat…
Changing places: Children of return migrants in Albania and their quest to belong
This study examines the experiences of children of return migrants to Albania following the economic crisis in Europe. Adopting a longitudinal approach in which participants were followed-up after a year and employing participative qualitative research methods, the study investigates how perceptions of local and translocal spaces and social relations interact to shape children’s (aged 7–12 years) sense of belonging to their parents’ homeland. Fin…
The relative influence of neighbourhood incivilities, cognitive social capital, club membership and individual characteristics on positive mental health
Previous research indicates that residents׳ perceptions of their neighbourhoods can have an adverse influence on their health and wellbeing over and above the influence of structural disadvantage. Contrary to most prior research, this study employed an indicator of positive wellbeing and assessed the impact of individual characteristics, perceived social and environmental incivilities, indicators of cognitive and structural social capital, and pe…
Alcohol consumption in sportspeople: The role of social cohesion, identity and happiness
Research indicates that those participating in sport consume alcohol more frequently and at higher quantities than their non-sporting peers. The highest levels of alcohol consumption have been found in university student sportspeople; however, the reasons for such elevated alcohol use are unclear and there has been little research in this area outside US institutions. Moreover, research seems to be predominantly problem-focused and may therefore …
Racism, identity and psychological well-being: A Longitudinal Perspective on Politically Embattled Relations
The relation between racism, identity and well-being has stimulated political debate as well as psychological analysis. Research is reported that explores the relation among young people of white (n=97) and minority (n=174) ethnicity. On first assessment, minority ethnic participants reported: (1) more frequent experiences of racism and discrimination than white participants; and (2) higher levels of ethnic identity and equivalent levels of natio…
Controlling for Prior Attainment Reduces the Positive Influence that Single-Gender Classroom Initiatives Exert on High School Students’ Scholastic Achievements
Research points to the positive impact that gender-segregated schooling and classroom initiatives exert on academic attainment. An evaluation of these studies which reveal positive effects highlights, however, that students are typically selectively assigned to single- or mixed-gender instructional settings, presenting a methodological confound. The current study controls for students' prior attainment to appraise the efficacy of a single-gender …
Stereotype threat may not impact women's inhibitory control or mathematical performance: Providing support for the null hypothesis
Underpinned by the findings of Jamieson and Harkins (2007; Experiment 3), the current study pits the mere effort motivational account of stereotype threat against a working memory interference account. In Experiment 1, females were primed with a negative self‐ or group stereotype pertaining to their visuospatial ability and completed an anti‐saccade eye‐tracking task. In Experiment 2 they were primed with a negative or positive group stereotype a…
A qualitative exploration of alcohol use among student sportspeople: A social identity perspective
Research indicates that university student sportspeople are a high‐risk subgroup for hazardous alcohol consumption. Adopting a social identity perspective, we explored the social and psychological processes linking sports participation and alcohol use. Twenty‐two individual semi‐structured interviews were conducted with UK student sportspeople (male: 12; female: 10). A deductive thematic analysis identified three core themes: social identificatio…
Predictors of injurious assault committed during or after drinking alcohol: A case–control study of young offenders
Studies of causal links between alcohol and aggression are often handicapped by threats to internal and external validity. Case–control methods employ an event‐level analysis that can reduce some of these validity threats by the use of within‐subject controls. This study used a case–control approach, asking 39 male inmates in a Young Offenders' Institution to compare drinking behaviour before incidents where they reported commission of an injurio…
Addiction as a functional representation
This study examined how perceptions of the addicted state vary as a function of social conditions, personal circumstances and type of substance. University students ( n = 144) were presented with portrayals of drug users in which sex, drug type and social setting were varied. A questionnaire determined the degree to which participants thought that the person portrayed was (i) addicted, (ii) prone to use drugs due to his/her personality, and (iii)…
Catching a smile from individuals and crowds: Evidence for distinct emotional contagion processes
Research examining how crowd emotions impact observers usually requires participants to engage in an atypical mental process whereby (static) arrays of individuals are cognitively integrated to represent a crowd. The present work sought to extend our understanding of how crowd emotions may spread to individuals by assessing self-reported emotions, attention and muscle movement in response to emotions of dynamic, virtually modeled crowd stimuli. S…
Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance
BACKGROUND: Women in mathematical domains may become attuned to situational cues that signal a discredited social identity, contributing to their lower achievement and underrepresentation. AIM: This study examined whether heightened in-group representation alleviates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance. It further investigated whether single-sex testing environments and stereotype threat influenced participants to…
Addiction as a functional representation
Addiction as a functional representation
This study examined how perceptions of the addicted state vary as a function of social conditions, personal circumstances and type of substance. University students ( n = 144) were presented with portrayals of drug users in which sex, drug type and social setting were varied. A questionnaire determined the degree to which participants thought that the person portrayed was (i) addicted, (ii) prone to use drugs due to his/her personality, and (iii)…
Task unrelated thought: The role of distributed processing
Subjective experience and the attentional lapse: Task engagement and disengagement during sustained attention
Encoding during the attentional lapse: Accuracy of encoding during the semantic sustained attention to response task
Contested knowledge: Introducing Fillmore, Kerr, Stockwell, Chikritzhs, and Bostrom ()
Contested knowledge Introducing Fillmore, Kerr, Stockwell, Chikritzhs, and Bostrom (2006)
Debating the protective effect: A brief introduction
Editorial
Predictors of injurious assault committed during or after drinking alcohol: A case–control study of young offenders
Studies of causal links between alcohol and aggression are often handicapped by threats to internal and external validity. Case–control methods employ an event‐level analysis that can reduce some of these validity threats by the use of within‐subject controls. This study used a case–control approach, asking 39 male inmates in a Young Offenders' Institution to compare drinking behaviour before incidents where they reported commission of an injurio…
Continuity and change
Perceived Discrimination, Identification, Social Capital, and Well-Being: Relationships With Physical Health and Psychological Distress in a U.K. Minority Ethnic Community Sample
This study examined racism, ethnic and majority identification, cognitive aspects of social capital (i.e., a sense of trust), and perceived stress and evaluated the relationships between these variables and two indices of adjustment (physical health, psychological well-being) in three minority ethnic community samples in Scotland, United Kingdom. Pakistani ( n = 211, 101 female), Indian ( n = 155, 81 female), and African and Caribbean ( n = 244, …
We police it ourselves’: Group processes in the escalation and regulation of violence in the night‐time economy
The attempt to regenerate city centres has led to the creation of a ‘night‐time economy’ (NTE) based around alcohol‐led entertainment. This has been accompanied by an increase of violence. Using insights from social identity research on collective action, we argue that NTE violence can be viewed as a group‐level phenomenon. Twenty focus groups were conducted with participants who socialise together (total number of participants = 53). Participant…
Discriminatory peer aggression among children as a function of minority status and group proportion in school context
This study investigates discriminatory peer aggression among primary school aged children as a function of minority status (based on nationality, ethnicity, religion) of the target and the relative proportions of minority and majority children in the school. Participants were 925 8‐ to 12‐year‐olds attending schools in Britain. Children of minority status were no more likely than children of majority background to experience peer aggression in ge…
In verbis, vinum? Relating themes in an open-ended writing task to alcohol behaviors
Alcohol's function as a regulator of emotions has long been denoted in figures of speech, most famously 'in vino, veritas' (in wine, truth). In contrast, we ask whether an individual's self-reported alcohol consumption and related attitudes can be correlated with the words they use to write about alcohol. Participants completed an open-ended essay as part of a survey on alcohol attitudes and behaviors. We used a computerized technique, the Meanin…
Laying solid foundations: Fred Rotgers
After many years of service Fred Rotgers has stepped down as the US Editor in Chief so that he can dedicate more of his time to new challenges and ventures. His achievements during his tenure have
The relative influence of neighbourhood incivilities, cognitive social capital, club membership and individual characteristics on positive mental health
Previous research indicates that residents׳ perceptions of their neighbourhoods can have an adverse influence on their health and wellbeing over and above the influence of structural disadvantage. Contrary to most prior research, this study employed an indicator of positive wellbeing and assessed the impact of individual characteristics, perceived social and environmental incivilities, indicators of cognitive and structural social capital, and pe…
Alcohol consumption in sportspeople: The role of social cohesion, identity and happiness
Research indicates that those participating in sport consume alcohol more frequently and at higher quantities than their non-sporting peers. The highest levels of alcohol consumption have been found in university student sportspeople; however, the reasons for such elevated alcohol use are unclear and there has been little research in this area outside US institutions. Moreover, research seems to be predominantly problem-focused and may therefore …
Racism, identity and psychological well-being: A Longitudinal Perspective on Politically Embattled Relations
The relation between racism, identity and well-being has stimulated political debate as well as psychological analysis. Research is reported that explores the relation among young people of white (n=97) and minority (n=174) ethnicity. On first assessment, minority ethnic participants reported: (1) more frequent experiences of racism and discrimination than white participants; and (2) higher levels of ethnic identity and equivalent levels of natio…
Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators
This systematic literature review appraises critically the mediating variables of stereotype threat. A bibliographic search was conducted across electronic databases between 1995 and 2015. The search identified 45 experiments from 38 articles and 17 unique proposed mediators that were categorized into affective/subjective (n = 6), cognitive (n = 7) and motivational mechanisms (n = 4). Empirical support was accrued for mediators such as anxiety, n…
A qualitative exploration of alcohol use among student sportspeople: A social identity perspective
Research indicates that university student sportspeople are a high‐risk subgroup for hazardous alcohol consumption. Adopting a social identity perspective, we explored the social and psychological processes linking sports participation and alcohol use. Twenty‐two individual semi‐structured interviews were conducted with UK student sportspeople (male: 12; female: 10). A deductive thematic analysis identified three core themes: social identificatio…
Creating a critical mass eliminates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance
BACKGROUND: Women in mathematical domains may become attuned to situational cues that signal a discredited social identity, contributing to their lower achievement and underrepresentation. AIM: This study examined whether heightened in-group representation alleviates the effects of stereotype threat on women's mathematical performance. It further investigated whether single-sex testing environments and stereotype threat influenced participants to…
Challenging the brain disease model of addiction: European launch of the addiction theory network
Challenging the brain disease model of addiction: European launch of the addiction theory network
Controlling for Prior Attainment Reduces the Positive Influence that Single-Gender Classroom Initiatives Exert on High School Students’ Scholastic Achievements
Research points to the positive impact that gender-segregated schooling and classroom initiatives exert on academic attainment. An evaluation of these studies which reveal positive effects highlights, however, that students are typically selectively assigned to single- or mixed-gender instructional settings, presenting a methodological confound. The current study controls for students' prior attainment to appraise the efficacy of a single-gender …
Changing places: Children of return migrants in Albania and their quest to belong
This study examines the experiences of children of return migrants to Albania following the economic crisis in Europe. Adopting a longitudinal approach in which participants were followed-up after a year and employing participative qualitative research methods, the study investigates how perceptions of local and translocal spaces and social relations interact to shape children’s (aged 7–12 years) sense of belonging to their parents’ homeland. Fin…
Stereotype threat may not impact women's inhibitory control or mathematical performance: Providing support for the null hypothesis
Underpinned by the findings of Jamieson and Harkins (2007; Experiment 3), the current study pits the mere effort motivational account of stereotype threat against a working memory interference account. In Experiment 1, females were primed with a negative self‐ or group stereotype pertaining to their visuospatial ability and completed an anti‐saccade eye‐tracking task. In Experiment 2 they were primed with a negative or positive group stereotype a…
Life after Social Death: Leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses, Identity Transition and Recovery
It is well documented that religiosity is linked with positive indicators of well-being, but less research has examined the psychosocial impacts of leaving “high-control” religions. Theoretically situated in recovery and desistance literature underpinned by the social identity approach, the current study examined cross-sectionally the extent to which ‘disfellowshipped’ former Jehovah’s Witnesses’ experiences of ostracism and post-exit identificat…
Psychology (33 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)