Jeff teaches on the psychology courses and he is primarily involved in teaching statistics, cognitive psychology with a focus on language, and psychopathology. Jeff currently teaches on the following modules:
- PSY4032 Introduction to Research Methods and Statistics
- PSY6016 Psychology Dissertation
- PSY5047 Neuropsychology
- PSY7051 Advanced Research Methods in Forensic Psychology
- PSY7054 Brain and Cognition
- PSY7057 Psychology Dissertation
Abigail Jones – Examining the effect of statistics anxiety in undergraduate students. This project will use a mixed methods approach to look in more depth at the causes of students’ anxiety towards statistics.
Jeff also has funding for two further PhD students:
- One project will be examining aspects of statistics anxiety.
- The second project will look at how we comprehend implicit meaning during reading using a variety of eye tracking and EEG measures.
Publications
Stewart, A.J., Le-Luan, E., Yao, B., Wood, J. & Haigh, M. (2018). Comprehension of indirect requests is influenced by their degree of imposition. Discourse Processes. (Impact factor 1.515)
Wood, J. S., Haigh, M., & Stewart, A. J. (2018). An eye-tracking examination of readers’ sensitivity to pragmatic scope information during the processing of conditional inducements. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 72(3), 197-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cep0000142
Stewart, A. J., Wood, J. S., Le-luan, E., Yao, B., & Haigh, M. (2017). “It’s hard to write a good article.” The online comprehension of excuses as indirect replies. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-15.
Haigh, M., Wood, J., & Stewart, A. J. (2016). Slippery Slope Arguments imply opposition to change. Memory & Cognition, 44, 819-836. (Impact factor 2.039)
Wood, J., Haigh, M., & Stewart, A. J. (2016). “This isn’t a promise, it’s a threat”: Eye movements reveal semantic scope differences in conditional inducements. Experimental Psychology. 63, 89-97. (Impact factor 2.000)
Wray, H., Wood, J., Haigh, M., & Stewart, A. J. (2016). Threats may be negative promises (but warnings are more than negative tips). Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28, 593-600. (Impact factor 1.892)
Adank, P., Stewart, A.J., Connell, L., & Wood, J. (2013). Accent imitation positively affects language attitudes. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 280. (Impact factor 2.463. Current Citations = 12)
Haigh, M., Stewart, A.J., Wood, J., & Connell, L. (2011). Conditional advice and inducements: are readers sensitive to implicit speech acts during comprehension? Acta Psychologica, 136,419-424. (Impact factor 1.816. Current Citations = 15)
Haigh, M., Wood, J., Connell, L., & Stewart, A.J., (2011). Comprehending advice and inducements: Evidence from conditionals and conjunctions. Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science.
Conferences and presentations
Wood, J., Haigh, M., Kinsella, J., & Stewart, A.J. (2014). The online comprehension of indirect replies: Evidence from eye-tracking. Conference poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP).
Wood, J., Stewart, A.J., & Connell, L. (2013) Read this and I'll pay you a fiver: Eye tracking implicit meaning in conditionals. Conference poster presented at the University of Bangor meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society.
Wood, J., Stewart, A.J., & Connell, L. (2012) Read this and I'll pay you a fiver: Implicit meaning is processed differently in conditionals and conjunctive paraphrases. Conference talk given at the University of Hull meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society.
