Peer Reviewed Manuscripts - submitted
Cavve, B., Hurlstone, M. J., & Farrell, S. (2024). Social utility, inequality aversion, and rank-status.
Cavve, B., Hurlstone, M. J., & Farrell, S. (2024). Stated preferences for inequality aversion and rank-status.
Hurlstone, M. J., Tapsuwan, S., & White, B. (2023). The biosecurity collective-risk social dilemma: Simulating the prevention of a rapidly spreading pest.
Hurlstone, M. J., White, B., & Newell, B. R. (2023, resubmitted). Threshold uncertainty, early-warning signals, and the prevention of dangerous climate change. [Supplementary Material]
Hurlstone, M. J., Thuijs, S., Rossen, I., & Ecker, U. (2023). Crafting normative messages to promote childhood vaccine advocacy. [Supplementary Material]
Hurlstone, M. J. (2023). Modelling spatial immediate serial recall performance in a macaque (Macaca mulatta): A competitive queuing approach.
Hurlstone, M. J. (2023). Modelling error patterns in verbal and spatial serial recall: Constraints for theories of short-term order memory.
Peer Reviewed Manuscripts - published
Hurlstone, M. J. (2024). Serial recall. In Kahana, M., and Wagner, A. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory. Oxford University Press.
Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., Jiang, M., Platow, M., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2024). Causal inference in misinformation and conspiracy research. Advances in Psychology.
Marsh, J. E., Hurlstone, M. J., Marois, A., Ball, L. J., Moore, S. B., Vachon, F., Schlittmeier, S. J., Roer, J. P., Buchner, A., Aust, F., & Bell, R. (2024). Changing-state irrelevant speech disrupts visual-verbal but not visual-spatial serial recall. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Tay, L. Q., Lewandowsky, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). Thinking clearly about misinformation. Communications Psychology.
Tay, L. Q., Lewandowsky, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2023). A focus shift in the evaluation of misinformation interventions. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review.
Osth, A. F., & Hurlstone, M. J. (2023). Do item-dependent context representations underlie serial order in cognition? Commentary on Logan (2021). Psychological Review, 130, 513-545. [Supplementary Material]
Andreotta, M., Boschetti, F., Farrell, S., Paris, C., Walker, I., & Hurlstone, M. J. (2022). Evidence for three distinct climate change audience segments with varying belief updating tendencies: Implications for climate change communication. Climatic Change, 174(32), 1-29.
Hitch, G. J., Hurlstone, M. J., & Hartley, T. (2022). Computational models of working memory for language. Invited book chapter contribution to Schwieter, J. W., & Zhisheng, W. The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language. Cambridge University Press.
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., Ecker, U. K. H., Ferraro, P. J., Linden, S., Veríssimo, D., … Sutherland, W. J. (2022). Reducing Demand for Overexploited Wildlife Products: Lessons from Systematic Reviews from Outside Conservation Science. Conservation Science and Practice, 4(3), e627.
Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Ecker, U. (2022). A comparison of prebunking and debunking interventions for implied versus explicit misinformation. British Journal of Psychology, 113(3), 591-607.
Wang, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Leviston, Z., Walker, I., & Lawrence, C. (2021). Construal level theory and psychological distancing: Implications for grand environmental challenges. One Earth, 4(4), 482-486.
MacFarlane, D., Tay, L. Q., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2021). Refuting Spurious COVID-19 Treatment Claims Reduces Demand and Misinformation Sharing. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(2), 248-258.
Bezdicek, O., Ballarini, T., Albrecht, F., Libon, D. J., Lamar, M., Ruzika, F., Roth, J., Hurlstone, M. J., Mueller, K., Schroeter, M., & Jech, R. (2021). Serial order recall in working memory across the cognitive spectrum of Parkinson’s disease and neuroimaging correlates. Journal of Neuropsychology, 15(1), 88-111.
Ecker, U. K. H., Butler, L., Cook, J., Hurlstone, M. J., Kurz, T., & Lewandowsky, S. (2020). Using the COVID-19 economic crisis to frame climate change as a secondary issue reduces mitigation support. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 70, 101464.
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Countering demand for unsupported health remedies: Do consumers respond to risks, lack of benefits, or both? Psychology & Health, 36(5), 593-611. [Supplementary Material]
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2020). Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments. Social Science & Medicine, 259, 112790.
Hurlstone, M. J., Price, A., Wang, S., Leviston, Z., & Walker, I. (2020). Activating the legacy motive mitigates intergenerational discounting in the climate game. Global Environmental Change, 60, 1-10. [Supplementary Material] [GitHub Repository]
Rossen, I., Hurlstone, M. J., Dunlop, P. D., & Lawrence, C. (2019). Accepters, fence sitters, or rejecters: Moral profiles of vaccination attitudes. Social Science & Medicine, 224, 23-27. [Supplementary Material]
Andreotta, M., Nugroho, R., Hurlstone, M. J., Boschetti, F., Farrell, S., Walker, I., & Paris, C. (2019). Analyzing social media data: A mixed-methods framework combining computational and qualitative text analysis. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 1766-1781. [Special issue on Using Big Data to Discover Principles of Cognition].
Wang, S., Hurlstone, M. J., Lawrence, C., Leviston, Z., & Walker, I. (2019). Climate change from a distance: Psychological distance and construal level as predictors of pro-environmental engagement. Frontiers in Psychology. [Special issue on the Cognitive Psychology of Climate Change].
Hurlstone, M. J., (2019). Functional similarities and differences between the coding of positional information in verbal and spatial short-term memory. Memory, 14, 1-16.
Xie, B., Hurlstone, M. J., & Walker, I. (2018). Correct me if I’m wrong: A group decision making intervention improves reasoning in the climate stabilization task. Frontiers in Psychology. [Special issue on the Cognitive Psychology of Climate Change]. [Supplementary Material]
MacFarlane, D., Hurlstone, M. J., & Ecker, U. K. H. (2018). Reducing demand for ineffective health remedies: Overcoming the illusion of causality. Psychology & Health, 33, 1472-1489.
- Supplemental Materials for the above paper, which reports the results of a pilot study that preceeeded the main study reported in the published article.
Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Awh, E., Brown, G. D. A., Conway, A., Cowan, N., Donkin, C., Farrell, S., Hitch, G. J., Hurlstone, M. J., Ma, Wei-Ji, Morey, C., Nee, D. E., Rouder, J., Schweppe, J., Vergauwe, E., & Ward, G. (2018). Benchmarks provide common ground for model development: Response to the commentaries of Logie and Vandierendonck. Psychological Bulletin, 144(9), 972-977.
Oberauer, K., Lewandowsky, S., Awh, E., Brown, G. D. A., Conway, A., Cowan, N., Donkin, C., Farrell, S., Hitch, G. J., Hurlstone, M. J., Ma, Wei-Ji, Morey, C., Nee, D. E., Rouder, J., Schweppe, J., Vergauwe, E., & Ward, G. (2018). Benchmarks for models of short-term and working memory. Psychological Bulletin, 144(9), 885-958.
Wang, S., Leviston, Z., Hurlstone, M. J., Lawrence, C., & Walker, I. (2018). Emotions predict policy support: Why it matters how people feel about climate change. Global Environmental Change, 50, 25-40.
Hurlstone, M. J., & Hitch, G. J. (2018). How is the serial order of a visual sequence represented? Insights from transposition latencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44(2), 167-192. [Integral Supplemental Materials] [GitHub Repository]
- Original submission of the above paper, which reports fits of the models to the individual participant data of Experiments 2 and 3 using an approximate maximum-likelihood approach.
Hurlstone, M. J., Wang, S., Price, A., Leviston, Z., & Walker, I. (2017). Cooperation studies of catastrophe avoidance: Implications for climate negotiations. Climatic Change, 140, 119-133.
Rossen, I., Hurlstone, M. J., & Lawrence, C. (2016). Going with the grain of cognition: Applying insights from psychology to build support for childhood vaccination. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1483.
Hartley, T., Hurlstone, M. J., & Hitch, G. J. (2016). Effects of rhythm on memory for spoken sequences: A model and tests of its stimulus-driven mechanism. Cognitive Psychology, 87, 135-178. [Supplementary Material]
Hurlstone, M. J., & Hitch, G. J. (2015). How is the serial order of a spatial sequence represented? Insights from transposition latencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 41, 295-324. [GitHub Repository]
- Supplementary material for the original submission of the above paper, which reports additional simulations of the grouped condition of Experiment 3.
Hurlstone, M. J., Lewandowsky, S., Sewell, B., & Newell, B. (2014). The role of framing and normative messages in building support for climate policies. PLoS ONE. [Data] [Supplementary Material]
Hurlstone, M. J., Hitch, G. J., & Baddeley, A. D. (2014). Memory for serial order across domains: An overview of the literature and directions for future research. Psychological Bulletin, 140, 339-373.
Unsworth, K. L., Russell, S. V., Lewandowsky, S., Lawrence, C., Fielding, K., Heath, J., Evans, A., Hurlstone, M. J., & McNeill, I. (2013). Individual adaptation to climate change and psychological drivers: What about me? Factors affecting individual adaptive coping capacity across different population. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility.
Farrell, S., Hurlstone, M. J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2013). Sequential dependencies in recall of sequences: Filling in the blanks. Memory & Cognition, 41, 938-952. [GitHub Repository]
Hughes, R., Hurlstone, M. J., Marsh, J. E., Vachon, F., & Jones, D. M. (2013). Cognitive control of auditory distraction: Impact of task difficulty, foreknowledge, and working memory capacity supports duplex-mechanism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39, 539-553.
Hughes, R., Vachon, F., Hurlstone, M. J., Marsh, J., Macken, W., & Jones, D. M. (2011). Disruption of cognitive performance by sound: Differentiating two forms of auditory distraction. In Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem.
Online Pieces
Hurlstone, M. J., & Lewandowsky, S. (2015). How to build support for climate policies? Shaping Tommorow’s World.
Theses
Hurlstone, M. J. (2010). The problem of serial order in visuospatial short-term memory. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of York, UK.
Hurlstone, M. J. (2006). Top-down processing and temporal grouping in immediate serial recall. Unpublished MSc thesis, University of York, UK.
Hurlstone, M. J. (2004). The modularity of ordering processes in verbal and spatial short-term memory. Unpublished BSc thesis, University of Leicester, UK.