2026/In press

• March, J., McLean, J. F., Ross, J., Kuipers, J. R., Cunningham, S. J. (in press) Why do self-referent cues facilitate problem-solving? Insights from eye tracking. PLoS ONE.

• Taylor, C., Cunningham, S. J.,  &  Woolnough, P. (2026) “Wanting to escape”: motivations and experiences of repeat missing adults. Psychology, Crime and Law. Early online view

• Crothers, H., Scott-Brown, K., & Cunningham, S. J. (2026) “It’s Just Not Safe”: Gender-based harassment and toxicity experiences of women in Esports. Games and Culture, 21(4), 746-764. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120241273358 

2025

• Ahmed, Z., McLean, J. F., Allan, K. & Cunningham, S. J. (2025) Evidence for a direct effect of self-cues on working memory capacity in children and adults. British Journal of Psychology, 116(3), 575-593. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjop/12778

• Goncharova, Y. & Ross, J. (2025). The me beyond the mirror: Exploring the developmental correlates of the multidimensional self. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 18n7(2), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2025.2545501

• Mentzou, A., Ross, J., Ellis, M. P. & Harrison, M. (2025). From ‘living death’ to ‘becoming-with’: caring for dementia beyond the human. Health Sociology Review, 34, 329-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2025.2547578 

• Symeonidou, M., Doherty, M. J. & Ross, J. (2025). Thinking about thinking: A longitudinal investigation linking developments in metacognition, inhibitory control, and theory of mind. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 249(19),106103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106103

• Clarkson, T. R., Paff, H., Cunningham, S. J., Ross, J., Haslam, C., & Kritikos, A. (2025) Mine for life: Charting ownership effects in memory from adolescence to old age. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(4), 766-780. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241254119

• Kirk, N. & Cunningham, S. J. (2025) Listen to yourself! Prioritisation of self-associated and own-voice cues. British Journal of Psychology, 161(1), 131-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12741

• Ross, J., Hutchison, J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2025). Exploring bidirectional links between self and memory across early to late childhood. Child Development, 96(1), 234-250. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14163 

2024

• Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., Rhodes, S., Gow, A., Macmillan, K., Hutchison, J., & Ross, J. (2024). The self-referent effect in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 42(3), 348-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12489 

• Cunningham, S. J., Ahmed, Z., March, J., Golden, K., Wilks, C., Ross, J., McLean, J. F. (2024). Put you in the problem: Effects of self-pronouns on mathematical problem solving. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(2), 308-325. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021823117422

• Mentzou, A. & Ross, J., (2024). The emergence of self-awareness: Insights from robotics. Human Development, 68(2), 90-100. https://doi.org/10.1159/000538027 

• Symeonidou, M., Mizokawa, A., Kabaya, S., Doherty, M. J. & Ross, J. (2024). Contrasting one's share of the shared life space: Comparing the roles of metacognition and inhibitory control in the development of theory of mind among Scottish and Japanese children. Developmental Science. 27(5), e13417. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13417 

2023

• Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, j., Ellis, N., Hezelyova, I., & Wood, L. (2023) The cost of social influence: Own-gender and gender-stereotype social learning biases in adolescents and adults. PLoS ONE, 18(8), e0290122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0290122

• Goncharova, Y. & Ross, J., (2023). The self-concept questionnaire offers a multidimensional, developmentally sensitive measure of the capacity for self-reflection in young children. Infant and Child Development, 32(6), e2459. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2459 

• Mentzou, A., Sixsmith, J., Ellis, M. P. & Ross, J., (2023). Change in the psychological self in people living with dementia: A scoping review. Clinical Psychology Review, 101(16), 102268. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2023.102268

2022

• Clarkson, T. R., Cunningham, S. J, Haslam, C., Kritikos, A. (2022). Is self always prioritised? Attenuating the ownership self-reference effect in memory. Consciousness and Cognition, 106, 103420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103420

• Cunningham, S., Vogt, J., Martin, D. (2022). Me first? Positioning self in the attentional hierarchy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 48(2), 115-127. https://doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000976 

• Wood, L., Hutchison, J., Aitken, M. & Cunningham, S. J. (2022). Young people’s knowledge and endorsement of gender stereotypes of education and career competency. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61(3), 768-789. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12510

• Armstrong, V. G. & Ross, J., (2022). The experiences of parents and infants using a home-based art intervention aimed at improving wellbeing and connectedness in their relationship. Frontiers in Psychology, 13(21), 732562. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.732562

2021

• Kempe, V., Gauvrit, N., Panayotov, N., Cunningham, S. J., Tamariz, M. (2021). Amount of learning and signal stability modulate emergence of combinatorial structure and iconicity in novel signaling systems. Cognitive Science, 45(11), e13057. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13057

• Armstrong, V. G. & Ross, J. (2021). Art boxes supporting parents and infants to share creative interactions at home: An art-based response to improve wellbeing during Covid-19 restrictions. Public Health, 193, 109-112. https://doi.org/1016/j.puhe.2021.01.031

• Hutchison, J., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2021). Development of evaluative and incidental self reference effects in childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 210, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105197

Cunningham, S. J. Self-cues and working memory: Direct effects of capacity. British Psychological Society Cognitive Section, Swansea, UK. September 2024.

Ahmed, Z., Mclean, J., March, J., Golden, K., Wilks, C., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. How can ‘you’ support children’s maths word problem solving? British Psychological Society Developmental Section, Sheffield, UK. September 2022.

Ahmed, Z., Mclean, J., March, J., Golden, K., Wilks, C., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. How can ‘you’ support children’s maths word problem solving? The Mathematical Cognition and Learning Society, Antwerp, Belgium. June 2022.

Golden, K., March, J., Ahmed, Z., McLean, J. Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. Effects of personal pronouns on children’s numerical problem solving. Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Madison, WI. April 2022.

March, J., Cunningham, S. J., McLean, J., Golden, K., & Ross, J. The influence of self-referential cues and problem consistency on children’s maths performance. Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Keele University, UK. March 2022.

Golden, K., March., J., Wilks, C., McLean, J., Ross, J., & Cunningham, S. J. Investigating the influence of self-referential pronouns on children’s close reading performance. British Psychological Society Developmental Section (virtual). Sept. 2021.

Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., & McLean, J.  Can self-cues be used to support children’s verbal working memory? British Psychological Society Developmental Section (virtual). Sept. 2021.

Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., & Ross, J. How do self-reference effects change across childhood? Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (virtual). April 2021.

Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., & McLean, J. Can the ‘self’ enhance children’s verbal working memory? Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (virtual). April 2021.

March, J., Golden, K., Ahmed, Z., McLean, J. & Cunningham, S. J. Investigating the effect of self-referential cues and working memory on children’s maths performance. Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting (virtual). April 2021.