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What can jigsaws tell us about child development?
Why gendered deodorants work particularly for unmanly men.
Theodore (Ted) Carlson Webster has been involved in helping in the drafting, editing, and review response process of writing the paper in collaboration with researcher in labs at University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), Leuven Institute of Criminology (Belgium), and Maastricht University (Netherlands). Congratulations Ted! https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.972004/full
Recent Publications:
Frowd, C.D., Skelton, F.C., Fodarella, C., Portch, E. & Hancock, P.J.B. (2025, September 26). Evolving (and co-evolving) the face of a criminal. The Psychologist (online). Evolving (and co-evolving) the face of a criminal | BPS
Tӧredi, D., Mansour, J.K., Jones, S.E., Skelton, F.C. & McIntyre, A. (In press). Working Memory Capacity is Related to Eyewitness Identification Accuracy, but Selective Attention and Need for Cognition Are Not. Memory.
Curley, L.J., Breese, E., Munro, J., Havard, C., Skelton, F.C., & Pike, G. (2025). The effects of contextual bias on face recognition decisions. Journal of Forensic Sciences, doi/10.1111/1556-4029.70177
Skelton, F. (2025, July 2). Life after guilt: How wrongful conviction affects the brain [Interview]. Radio New Zealand. RNZ : National : Programmes : Nights : Search
Skelton, F. (2025, June 9). ‘People think you come out… and live happily ever after. If only’. The reality of life after wrongful conviction. The Conversation.
Tӧredi, D., Mansour, J.K., Jones, S.E., Skelton, F.C. & McIntyre, A. (2025). The Impact of Minority Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916251345459. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916251345459
Töredi, D., Mansour, J.K., Jones, S.E., Skelton, F.C. & McIntyre, A. (2025). Creating a Cross-Race Effect Inventory to Postdict Eyewitness Accuracy. Law and Human Behavior, 49(4), 353-375. DOI: 10.1037/lhb0000609
Carver, H., Miler, J.A., Greenhalgh, J. et al. (2025) “You are helping from the heart not just from the head”: a systematic review and qualitative evidence synthesis of the experiences of peer workers working with people experiencing homelessness and substance use. BMC Public Health 25, 1714. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23006-6
Deary, I. J., Cox, S. R., & Okely, J. A. (2024). Inspection time and intelligence: A five-wave longitudinal study from age 70 to age 82 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Intelligence, 105, 101844.
Okely, J. A., Cox, S. R., Deary, I. J., Luciano, M., & Overy, K. (2023). Cognitive aging and experience of playing a musical instrument. Psychology and Aging, 38(7), 696.
Okely, J. A., Overy, K., & Deary, I. J. (2022). Experience of playing a musical instrument and lifetime change in general cognitive ability: Evidence from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Psychological Science, 09567976221092726 https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221092726
Fisher, N. K., Hadley, L. V., Corps, R. E., & Pickering, M. J. (2021). The effects of dual-task interference in predicting turn-ends in speech and music. Brain Research, 1768, 147571. DOI /10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147571
Fodarella, C., Marsh, J. E., Chu, S., Athwal-Kooner, P., Jones, H. S., Skelton, F. C., …Frowd, C. D. (2021). The importance of detailed context reinstatement for the production of identifiable composite faces from memory. Visual Cognition, 29(3), 180-200. DOI: /10.1080/13506285.2021.1890292
Wimmer, M. C., Whalley, B., & Hollins, T. J. (2021). “I can’t skip it”: Does free report improve accuracy in false memories? Memory, 29, 353-361.
Wimmer, M. C., Marx, C., Stirk, S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2021). Bilinguals’ inhibitory control and attentional processes in a visual perceptual task. Psychological Research, 85, 1439-1448.
Doherty, M. J., Wimmer, M. C., Hien, C., Robinson, E. J., & Stone, C. (2021). Piecing together the puzzle of pictorial representation: How jigsaws index metacognitive development. Child Development, 92, 205-221.
Koenig, L., Wimmer, M. C., & Trippas, D. (2020). Item repetition and response deadline affect familiarity and recollection differently across childhood. Memory, 28, 900-907.
Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J. B., Jones, H. S., Jones, B. C., Fodarella, C., Battersby, K., & Logan, K. (2020). Constructing identifiable composite faces: The importance of cognitive alignment of interview and construction procedure. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 26(3), 507–521. DOI: /10.1037/xap0000257
Hadley, L. V., Fisher, N. K., & Pickering, M. J. (2020). Listeners are better at predicting speakers similar to themselves. Acta psychologica, 208, 103094. DOI:/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103094
Piotrowska, B., Willis, A. (2019). Beyond the global motion deficit hypothesis of developmental dyslexia: A cross-sectional study of visual, cognitive, and socio-economic factors influencing reading ability in children. Vision Research, 159, pp. 48-60. Available here
Carruthers, L., MacLean, R., & Willis, A. (2018). The relationship between creativity and attention. Creativity Research Journal, 30(4), 370-379. DOI: 10.1080/10400419.2018.1530910.
Curley, L. J., MacLean, R., & Murray, J. (2017). The Relationship between the Big 5 Personality Traits and Eyewitness Recognition. Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, 13 (2), 1539 – 8714.
Langton, S. R., McIntyre, A. H., Hancock, P. J., & Leder, H. (2017). Saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements trigger equivalent gaze-cued orienting effects. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-30. Available here.