2025/In press

• 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. Early online view

• Crothers, H., Scott-Brown, K., & Cunningham, S. J. (2025) “It’s Just Not Safe”: Gender-based harassment and toxicity experiences of women in Esports. Games and Culture. Early online view

• 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. Early online view

• 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

2023

• Moulds, D. J., Meyer, J., McLean, J. F. & Kempe, V. (2023). Exploring effects of response biases in affect induction procedures. PLoS ONE, 18(5), e0285706. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0285706

• 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

• Short, D. S. & McLean, J. F. (2023). The relationship between numerical mapping abilities, maths achievement, and socio-economic status in 4- and 5-year-old children. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(3), 641-657. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12582

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

• Pickering, M., McLean, J. F., & Gambi, C. (2022). Interference in the shared-Stroop task: A comparison of self- and other-monitoring. Royal Society Open Science, 9(4), 220107. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220107

• 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

• Desai, S., McLean, J., Lawrence, C. & Filik, R. (2021). The impact of hyperbole on perception of victim testimony. Journal of Pragmatics, 174, 143-165. https://doi.org/1016/j.pragma.2021.01.013

• 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

2020

• Ross, J., Cunningham, S. J., & Hutchison, J. (2020). The me in memory: The role of the self in autobiographical memory development. Child Development, 91, e299-e314.   https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13211

• Armstrong, V. G. & Ross, J. (2020). The evidence base for art therapy with parent and infant dyads: an integrative literature review. International Journal of Art Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2020.1724165

• Woolnough, P. & Cunningham, S. J. (2020). Developmental perspectives on the behaviour of missing children. Psychology, Crime and Law, 27(6), 539-561. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2020.1837130

2019

• Taranu, M, Wimmer, M.C., Ross, J., Farkas, D., Van Ee, R., Winkler, I., &. Denham, S. (2019). Children’s perception of visual and auditory ambiguity and its link to executive function and creativity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 184, 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.03.010

• Armstrong, V.G, Dalinkeviciute, E. & Ross, J. (2019). A dyadic art psychotherapy group for parents and infants: Piloting quantitative methodologies for evaluation. International Journal of Art Therapy, 234(3), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/17454832.2019.1590432

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

McLean, J. F. How can “you” help children’s performance of maths word problems? British Psychological Society Psychology of Education Section, Liverpool, UK. September 2023

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.

Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J. & McLean, J. Investigating the relationship between self-referencing and children’s visuospatial working memory: can ownership support working memory? British Psychological Society Developmental and Social Annual Conference. Stoke, August 2019.

Cunningham, S. J., Ahmed, Z., Rhodes, S., Gow, A., Macmillan, K. & Ross, J. Self-processing in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). International Convention on Psychological Science. Paris, March 2019.

Ross, J., Hutchison, J. & Cunningham, S. J. Development of self-reference effects. International Convention on Psychological Science. Paris, March 2019.