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PUBLICATIONS

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ATTITUDES / IMPLICIT COGNITION

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MEASUREMENT & VALIDATION

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BEHAVIOR CHANGE

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MISINFORMATION

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CHRONIC PAIN

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OPEN SCIENCE

BOOKS
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De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2020). The Psychology of Learning: A Functional-Cognitive Perspective. The MIT Press. Link

PRE-PRINTS & IN PREP
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Hussey, I., Hughes, S., & Nosek, B. (in prep). Attitudes 2.0: A Large Dataset for Investigating Relations Among Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Identity. 

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Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., Hussey, I., Smyth, C., & De Houwer, J. (in prep). Not All Attitudes Are Created Equal: A Comparative Investigation of Seven Different Evaluative Learning Pathways and Their Implications for Implicit and Explicit Attitude Change.

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Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. Genetic Learning: The Impact of Environmental Regularities on Genetic Behavior. Link.

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Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. Evaluative Conditioning without awareness: Replicable effects do not equate replicable inferences. Link

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De Schryver, M., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Rosseel, Y. (2020). On the Reliability of Implicit Measures: Current Practices and Novel Recommendations. Link

UNDER REVIEW
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Cummins, J., Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. (under review). Effects on the Affect Misattribution Procedure are Strongly Moderated by Awareness. Behavioral Research Methods. Link

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De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (under review). Learning in Individual Organisms, Genes, Machines, and Groups: A New Way of Defining and Relating Learning in Different Systems. Perspectives in Psychological Science.

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Van Dessel, P., Boddez, Y., & Hughes, S. (under review). Nudging societally relevant behavior by promoting cognitive inferences. Scientific Reports.

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Kurdi, B., Hussey, I., Stahl, C., Hughes, S., Unkelbach, C., Ferguson, M., & Corneille, O. (under review). Unaware attitude formation in the surveillance task? Revisiting the findings of Moran et al. (2020). International Review of Social Psychology.

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Hughes, S., Fried, O, Ferguson, M., Hughes, C., Hughes, R., Yao, X., & Hussey, I. (under review). Deepfaked Online Content is Highly Effective in Manipulating People’s Attitudes and Intentions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Link.

IN PRESS OR ACCEPTED
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Kasran, S., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (in press). Observational Evaluative Conditioning is Sensitive to Relational Information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Link.

2022
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Moran, T., Hughes, S., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2022). The role of trait inferences in evaluative conditioning. Collabra: Psychology. Link.

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Kasran, S., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2022). Learning via Instructions about Observations: Exploring Similarities and Differences with Learning via Actual Observations. Royal Society Open Science. Link.

2021
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Greenwald, A., et al. (2021). Best Research Practices for Using the Implicit Association Test. Behavioral Research Methods. Link.

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Beeckman, M., Hughes, S., Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Plasschaert, F., Michielsen, J., Moens, P., & Goubert, L. (2021). Risk and Resilience Predictors of Recovery After Spinal Fusion Surgery in Adolescents. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 11, 789-802. Link.

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Moran, T., Hughes, S.,* Hussey, I.,* Vadillo, M., Olson, M., et al. (2021). Incidental Attitude Formation via the Surveillance Task: A Pre-Registered Replication of Olson and Fazio (2001). Psychological Science. Link * joint first authors

2020
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Kissi, A., Harte, C., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., Crombez, G. (2020). The Rule-Based Insensitivity Effect: A Systematic Review. PeerJ. Link

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Hughes, S., Mattavelli, S., Hussey, I., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The Shared Features Principle: If Two Objects Share a Feature, People Assume Those Objects Also Share Other Features. Journal of Experimental
Psychology: General
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De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2020). Learning to Like or Dislike: Revealing Similarities and Differences Between Evaluative Learning Effects. Current Directions in Psychological Science. Link

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Van Dessel, P., Cummins, J., Hughes, H., Kasran, S., Cathelyn, F., & Moran, T. (2020). Reflecting on Twenty-Five Years of Research Using Implicit Measures: Recommendations for their Future Use. Social Cognition. Link

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Ebersole, C., et al. (2020). Many Labs 5: Testing Pre-Data Collection Peer Review as an Intervention to Increase Reproducibility. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3, 309-331. Link

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Chartier, C. R., et al., (2020). Many Labs 5: Registered Replication of Albarracín et al.(2008), Experiment 5. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3(3), 332-339. Link.

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Landy, J. F., Jia, M., Ding I. L., Viganola, D. Tierney, W., ... Uhlmann, E. L. (2020). Crowdsourcing Hypothesis Tests: Making Transparent How Design Choices Shape Research Results. Psychological Bulletin, 146(5), 451–479. Link

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Hussey, I., & Hughes, S. (2020). Hidden Invalidity in 15 Commonly Used Measures in Social and Personality Psychology. Advances in Methods and Procedures in Psychological Science. Link

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Beeckman, M., Simons, L., Hughes, S., Loeys, T., & Goubert, L. (2020). A Network Analytic Study of the Potential Antecedents and Consequences of Pain-Related Avoidance and Engagement in Adolescents. Pain Medicine, 21(2), e89-e101. Link

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Smith, C.T., Calanchini, J., Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The Impact of Instruction and Experience-Based Evaluative Learning on IAT Performances: A Quad Model Perspective. Cognition & Emotion,  34(1), 21-41. Link

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Hughes, S., Mattavelli, S., Hussey, I., & De Houwer, J. (2020). The influence of extinction and counterconditioning procedures on operant evaluative conditioning and intersecting regularity effects. Royal Society Open Science, 7, 192085. Link.

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Kissi, A., Hughes, S., Van Ryckeghem, D., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2020). When pain becomes uncontrollable: an experimental analysis of the impact of instructions on pain-control attempts. Pain. Link..

2019
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Beeckman, M., Simons, L., Hughes, S., Loeys, T., & Gobert, L. (2019). Investigating how parental instructions and protective responses mediate the relationship between parental psychological flexibility and pain-related behavior in adolescents with chronic pain: a daily diary study. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2350. Link

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Hughes, S., Ye, Y., Van Dessel, P., & De Houwer, J. (2019). When People Co-occur With Good or Bad Events: Graded Effects of Relational Qualifiers on Evaluative Conditioning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 45(2), 196–208. Link

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Van Dessel, P., Eder, A., & Hughes, S. (in press). Mechanisms Underlying Effects of Approach-Avoidance Training on Stimulus Evaluation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 44(8), 1224-1241. Link

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Beeckman, M., Hughes, S., Van Ryckeghem, D., Van Hoecke, E., Dehoorne, J., Joos, R., & Goubert, L (2019). Resilience factors in children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis and their parents: the role of child and parent psychological flexibility. Pain Medicine, 20, 1120-1131. Link

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Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2019). How Do Actions Influence Attitudes? An Inferential Account of the Impact of Action Performance on Stimulus Evaluation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 23, 267-284.  Link

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De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2019). Toward a Cumulative Science of Emotion: A Functional-Cognitive Framework for Emotion Research. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 61-66.  Link

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Liefooghe, B., Hughes, S., Schmidt, J., & De Houwer, J. (2019). Stroop-like effects of derived stimulus–stimulus relations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 46(2), 327–349. Link

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Beeckman, M., Hughes, S., Kissi, A., Simons, L., & Goubert, L. (in press). How an Understanding of our Ability to Adhere to Verbal Rules can Increase Insight into (Mal)adaptive Functioning in Chronic Pain. The Journal of Pain, 20(10), 1141-1154. Link

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De Houwer, J., Richetin, J., Hughes, S., & Perugini, M. (2019). On the Assumptions that We Make About the World Around Us: A Conceptual Framework for Feature Transformation Effects. Collabra: Psychology. Link

2018
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Hughes, S., Ye., Y., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Evaluative Conditioning Effects Are Modulated By The Nature of Contextual Pairings. Cognition & Emotion, 33, 871-884.Link

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Hughes, S., Mattavelli, S., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Examining the Impact of Distance as a Contextual Cue in Evaluative Conditioning. PlosOne, 13(10): e0204855Link

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Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., Van Dessel, P., de Almeida, J. H., Stewart, I., & De Houwer, J. (2018). On the Symbolic Generalization of Likes and Dislikes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 365-377Link

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Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., De Houwer, J., Soenens, B., Hughes, S., Vansteenkiste, M. (2018). The Development and Validation of an Implicit Measure of Competence Need Satisfaction. Motivation and Emotion, 42(5), 615–637Link

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Van Dessel, P., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2018). Consequence-Based Approach-Avoidance Training: A New and Improved Method for Changing Behavior. Psychological Science, 29(12), 1899–1910Link

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Kissi, A., Hughes, S., De Schryver, M., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2018). Examining the Moderating Impact Plys and Tracks on the Insensitivity Effect: A Preliminary Investigation. The Psychological Record, 68(4), 431–440. Link

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Hughes, S. (2018). A brief introduction to philosophy of science as it applies to clinical psychology. In S. C., Hayes & S. G., Hofmann (Eds.), Process-based CBT: the science and core clinical competencies of cognitive behavioral therapy (pp. 23-45). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications. Link

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Van Dessel, P., De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Hussey, I. (2018). An analysis of the scientific status and limitations of the attitudinal entropy framework and an initial test of some of its empirical predictions Psychological Inquiry, 29(4), 213-217. Link

2017
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De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Brass, M. (2017). Toward a unified framework for research on instructions and other messages: An introduction to the special issue on the power of instructions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 81, 1-3. Link

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De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2017). Bridging the Divide Between Functional and Cognitive Psychology. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(1), 47-50. Link

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Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Smyth, S. (2017). Implicit Cross-Community Attitudes Revisited: Evidence for In-Group Favoritism but not for Out-Group Derogation in Northern Ireland. The Psychological Record, 67(1), 97–107. Link

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Kissi, A., Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., De Houwer, J., & Crombez, G. (2017). Conceptual Advances in Studying Rule-Governed Behavior: A Systematic Review of Pliance, Tracking and Augmenting. Behavior Modification, 41(5), 683-707. Link

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De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2017). Psychological Engineering: A Functional-Cognitive Perspective on Applied Psychology. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 6(1), 1-13. Link

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De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2017). Environmental Regularities as a Concept for Carving up the Realm of Learning Research. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 6(3), 343-346. Link

2016
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Stewart, C., Hughes, S., & Stewart, I. (2016). A Contextual Behavioral Approach to the Study of (Persecutory) Delusions. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 5(4), 235-246. Link

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De Houwer, J., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). Associative Learning as Higher-Order Cognition: Learning in Human and Nonhuman Animals from the Perspective of Propositional Theories and Relational Frame Theory. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 130, 215-225. Link

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Hughes. S., De Houwer, J. & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). The Moderating Impact of Distal Regularities on the Effect of Stimulus Pairings: A Novel Perspective on Evaluative Conditioning. Experimental Psychology, 63, 20-44. Link

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Hussey, I., Ní Mhaoileoin, D., Barnes-Holmes, D., Ohtsuki, T., Kishita, N., Hughes, S., & Murphy, C. (2016). The IRAP is Non-Relative but Not A-Contextual: Changes to the Contrast Category Influence Men’s De-humanization of Women. The Psychological Record, 66, 291–299. Link

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De Houwer, J., & Hughes, S. (2016). Evaluative conditioning as a symbolic phenomenon: On the relation between evaluative conditioning, evaluative conditioning via instructions, and persuasion. Social Cognition, 34, 480–494. Link

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Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, M. (2016). Expanding the Boundaries of Evaluative Learning Research: How Intersecting Regularities Shape Our Likes and Dislikes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145, 731-754. Link

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Hughes, S., Hussey, I., Corrigan, B., Jolie, K., Murphy, C., & Barnes-Holmes, D., (2016). Faking Revisited: Exerting Strategic Control over Performance on the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 632–648. Link

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McKenna, I., Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., Yodar, R., & O’Shea, D. (2016). Obesity, Food Deprivation and Implicit Attitudes to Healthy and Unhealthy Foods: Lessons Learned from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure. Appetite, 100, 41-54. Link

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Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). Relational Frame Theory: An Overview. In S. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes, R. Zettle, and T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. New York: Wiley. Link

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Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2016). Relational Frame Theory: Implications for the Study of              Human Language and Cognition. In S. Hayes, D. Barnes-Holmes, R. Zettle, and T. Biglan (Eds.), Handbook of Contextual Behavioral Science. New York: Wiley. Link

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Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & Perugini, P. (2016). The Functional-Cognitive Framework for Psychological Research: Controversies and Resolutions. International Journal of Psychology, 51, 4–14. Link

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Perugini, M., Costantini, G., Hughes, S., & De Houwer, J. (2016). A Functional Perspective on Personality. International Journal of Psychology, 51, 33–39. Link

2015
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De Schryver, M., Hughes, S., Rosseel, Y., & De Houwer, J. (2015). Unreliable Yet Still Replicable: A Comment on LeBel and Paunonen (2011). Frontiers in PsychologyLink

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De Houwer, J., Heider, N., Spruyt, A., Roets, A., & Hughes, S. (2015). The Relational Responding Task: Toward a New Implicit Measure of Beliefs. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 319. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00319 Link

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Hughes, S., Lyddy, F., Dukes, K, Saad, C., Miller, H., Kaplan, R., Lynch, A., Lee Nichols, A., (2015). Highly Prevalent but Not Always Persistent: Undergraduate and Graduate Student’s Misconceptions about Psychology. Teaching of Psychology, 42(1), 34-42. Link

2014
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Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2014). Associative Concept Learning, Stimulus Equivalence, and Relational Frame Theory: Working out the Similarities and Differences Between Human and Non-Human Behavior. Journal of Experimental Behavior Analysis, 101(1), 156-160. Link

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McAuliffe, D., Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2014). The Dark-Side of Rule Governed Behavior: An Experimental Analysis of Problematic Rule-Following in an Adolescent Population with Depressive Symptomology. Behavior Modification, 38(4), 587-613. Link

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Remue, J., Hughes, S., De Houwer, J., & De Raedt, R. (2014). To Be or Want to Be: Disentangling the Role of Actual versus Ideal Self in Implicit Self-Esteem. PLoS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108837. Link

2013
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Barnes-Holmes, D., & Hughes, S. (2013). A Functional Approach to the Study of Human Emotion: The Centrality of Relational/Propositional Processes. In D. Hermans, B. Rimé, & B. Mesquita, (Eds). Changing Emotions. Psychology Press. Link

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Hughes, S, & Barnes-Holmes, D. (2013). A Functional Approach to the Study of Implicit Cognition: The IRAP and the REC model. In B. Roche & S. Dymond. (Eds.). Advances in Relational Frame Theory & Contextual           Behavioural Science: Research & ApplicationsLink

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Hughes, S., Lyddy, F., & Kaplan, R. (2013). The Impact of Language and Format on Student Endorsement of Psychological Misconceptions. Teaching of Psychology, 40, 31-37. Link

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Hughes, S., Lyddy, F., & Lambe, S. (2013). Misconceptions about Psychological Science: A Review. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 12, 20-31. Link

2012
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Hughes, S., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Vahey, N. (2012). Holding on to Our Functional Roots When Exploring New Intellectual Islands: A Voyage through Implicit Cognition. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 1, 17-38. Link

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Lyddy, F., & Hughes, S. (2012). Attitudes Towards Psychology as a Science and the Persistence of Psychological Misconceptions in Psychology Undergraduates. In V. Karandashev, & S. McCarthy, (Eds). Teaching Psychology around the World (Vol. 3).Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Link

2011
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Hughes, S., & Barnes-Holmes, D., (2011). On the Formation and Persistence of Implicit Attitudes: New Evidence from the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP).The Psychological Record, 61, 391–410. Link

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