Research
Academic publications
Key stereotyping and gender research papers
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
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
Hutchison, J., Martin, D., Slessor, G., Urquhart, J., Smith, K., & Cunningham, S. J. (2018). Context and perceptual salience influence the formation of stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution. Cognitive Science, 42(S1), 186-212. https://doi.org/10.1111/COGS.12560
Martin, D., Cunningham, S. J., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G. & Smith, K. (2017). How societal stereotypes might form and evolve via cumulative cultural evolution? Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 11, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/SPC3.12338
Martin, D., Hutchison, J., Slessor, G., Urquhart, J., Cunningham, S. J., & Smith, K. (2014). The spontaneous formation of stereotypes via cumulative cultural evolution. Psychological Science, 25, 1777-1786. doi: 1177/09567614541129
Cunningham, S. J. & Macrae, C. N. (2011). The colour of gender stereotyping. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 598-614. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2011.02023.x.
Key social learning research papers
Lew-Levy, Sheina, van den Bos, Wouter, Corriveau, Kathleen H., Dutra, Natalia Bezerra, Flynn, Emma G., O'Sullivan, Eoin, Pope, Sarah, Rawlings, Bruce, Smolla, Marco, Xu, Jing & Wood, Lara (Submitted). Peer learning and cultural evolution. Child Development Perspectives
Lucas, A. J., Burdett, E. R. R., Burgess, V., Wood, L. A., McGuigan, N., Harris, P. L. & Whiten, A. (2017). The development of selective copying: children’s learning from an expert versus their mother. Child Development. 88, 2026-2042.
Burdett, E. R. R., Lucas, A. J., Buchsbaum, D., McGuigan, N., Wood, L. A. & Whiten, A. (2016). Do children copy an expert or a majority? Examining selective learning in instrumental and normative contexts. PLoS One,11, e0164698.
Wood, L. A., Harrison, R. A., Lucas, A. J., McGuigan, N., Burdett, E. R. R. & Whitten, A. (2016). "Model age-based" and "copy when uncertain" biases in children's social learning of a novel task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 272-284
Wood, L. A., Kendal, R. L. & Flynn, E. G. (2015). Does a peer model’s task proficiency influence children’s solution choice and innovation? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 139, 90-202
Wood, L. A., Kendal, R. L. & Flynn, E. G., (2013). Copy me or copy you? The effect of prior experience on social learning. Cognition, 127, 203-213.
Wood, L. A., Kendal, R. L. & Flynn, E. G., (2013). Whom do children copy? Model-based biases in social learning. Developmental Review, 33, 341-356
Wood, L. A., Kendal, R. L. & Flynn, E. G., (2012). Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children's imitation is affected by model age over model knowledge state. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 387-394 8.
Other: Recent social cognition papers
Ahmed, Z., Cunningham, S. J., Rhodes, S., Gow, A., Macmillan, K., Hutchison, J., & Ross, J. (in press). The self-referent effect in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Clarkson, T. R., Paff, H., Cunningham, S. J., Ross, J., Haslam, C., & Kritikos, A. (in press). Mine for life: Charting ownership effects in memory from adolescence to old age. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
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/10.1177/17470218231174229
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
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
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
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
Cunningham, S. J., Scott, L., Hutchison, J., Ross, J., & Martin, D. (2018). Applying self-processing biases in education: Improving learning through ownership. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 7, 342-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2018.04.004
Cunningham, S. J. (2018). The thoughtful self. In Hauke & Kritikos (Eds.) Embodiment in Psychology – A Practitioner’s Guide. Springer.
Gillespie-Smith, K, Ballantyne, C, Branigan, H, Turk, D. J., & Cunningham, S. J. (2018). The I in Autism: Severity and social functioning in Autism is related to self-processing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36, 127-141. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12219
Allan, K., Morson, S., Dixon, S., Martin, D. & Cunningham, S. J. (2017). Simulation-based mentalizing generates a ‘proxy’ self-reference effect in memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70,1074-1084. https://doi.org/0.1080/17470218.2016.1209532
Cunningham, S. J. & Turk, S. J. (2017). A review of self-processing biases in cognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70,987-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1276609