Ryan McKay
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Recent Articles
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Cologna V, Mede N, Berger S, Besley J, Brick C, Joubert M, et al.
Nat Hum Behav
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39833424
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years...
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Mede N, Cologna V, Berger S, Besley J, Brick C, Joubert M, et al.
Sci Data
. 2025 Jan;
12(1):114.
PMID: 39833242
Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust...
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Stochastic decisions support optimal foraging of volatile environments, and are disrupted by anxiety
Lloyd A, McKay R, Furl N
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
. 2025 Jan;
PMID: 39789398
Adolescence is a developmental period of relative volatility, where the individual experiences significant changes to their physical and social environment. The ability to adapt to the volatility of one's surroundings...
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Bellamy A, McKay R, Vogt S, Efferson C
Evol Hum Sci
. 2023 Aug;
4:e13.
PMID: 37588895
Models of frequency-dependent social learning posit that individuals respond to the commonality of behaviours without additional variables modifying this. Such strategies bring important trade-offs, e.g. conformity is beneficial when observing...
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Efferson C, McKay R, Fehr E
Evol Hum Sci
. 2023 Aug;
2:e27.
PMID: 37588359
Why do people sometimes hold unjustified beliefs and make harmful choices? Three hypotheses include (a) contemporary incentives in which some errors cost more than others, (b) cognitive biases evolved to...
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Lloyd A, Viding E, McKay R, Furl N
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2023 Jul;
27(11):1085-1098.
PMID: 37500422
Patch foraging is a near-ubiquitous behaviour across the animal kingdom and characterises many decision-making domains encountered by humans. We review how a disposition to explore in adolescence may reflect the...
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Sulik J, Ross R, Balzan R, McKay R
J Psychopathol Clin Sci
. 2023 Jun;
132(6):749-760.
PMID: 37326560
There is widespread agreement that delusions in clinical populations and delusion-like beliefs in the general population are, in part, caused by cognitive biases. Much of the evidence comes from two...
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Bennett K, Panzeri A, Derrer-Merk E, Butter S, Hartman T, Mason L, et al.
PLoS One
. 2023 May;
18(5):e0283254.
PMID: 37167208
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the psychological wellbeing of some people, there is evidence that many have been much less affected. The Ecological Model of Resilience (EMR) may explain...
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Lev-Ari S, McKay R
Psychon Bull Rev
. 2022 Dec;
30(3):1103-1114.
PMID: 36471228
Why do swear words sound the way they do? Swear words are often thought to have sounds that render them especially fit for purpose, facilitating the expression of emotion and...
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McBride O, Butter S, Martinez A, Shevlin M, Murphy J, Hartman T, et al.
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res
. 2022 Oct;
32(2):e1949.
PMID: 36217275
Objectives: Established in March 2020, the C19PRC Study monitors the psychological and socio-economic impact of the pandemic in the UK and other countries. This paper describes the protocol for Wave...