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Vince Polito, Paul Liknaitzky (2024). Is microdosing a placebo? A rapid review of low-dose LSD and psilocybin research. Journal of Psychopharmacology, (38), 8, pp. 701–711, https://doi.org/10.1177/02698811241254831.

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Andrew J. Roberts, Simon Handley, Vince Polito (2024). The Consequences of Anthropomorphic and Teleological Beliefs in a Global Pandemic. Behavioral Sciences, (14), 2, pp. 146, https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14020146.

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Thomas Montefiore, Paul Formosa, Vince Polito (2024). Extending the Gamer's Dilemma: empirically investigating the paradox of fictionally going too far across media. Philosophical Psychology, (0), 0, pp. 1–22, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2024.2354432.

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Vince Polito, Andrew J. Roberts, Michael H. Connors, Amanda J. Barnier (2024). Can hypnosis make you ticklish? Using suggestion to modulate agency. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000392.

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Juan-Pablo Morales, Brenda E. Ryan, Vince Polito, Gorka Navarrete, Mayte Vergara, David Huepe (2024). Can beliefs improve mental health? A dive into resilience during pandemic times in South America. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, (9), pp. 100883, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2024.100883.

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Wendy C. Higgins, Victoria Savalei, Vince Polito, Robert M. Ross (2023). Validation of the reading the mind in the eyes test requires an interpretable factor model. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, (120), 52, pp. e2303706120, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2303706120.

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Gemma Perry, Vince Polito, William Forde Thompson (2023). Exploring the Physiological and Psychological Effects of Group Chanting in Australia: Reduced Stress, Cortisol and Enhanced Social Connection. Journal of Religion and Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-023-01967-5.

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Blerida Banushi, Vince Polito (2023). A Comprehensive Review of the Current Status of the Cellular Neurobiology of Psychedelics. Biology, (12), 11, pp. 1380, https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12111380.

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Wendy C. Higgins, Robert M. Ross, Vince Polito, David M. Kaplan (2023). Three threats to the validity of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test: A commentary on Pavlova and Sokolov (2022). Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, pp. 105088, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105088.

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Wendy C. Higgins, Robert M. Ross, Robyn Langdon, Vince Polito (2023). The “Reading the Mind in the Eyes” Test Shows Poor Psychometric Properties in a Large, Demographically Representative U.S. Sample. Assessment, (30), 6, pp. 1777–1789, https://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221124342.

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Irene L. Graafsma, Serje Robidoux, Lyndsey Nickels, Matthew Roberts, Vince Polito, Judy D. Zhu, Eva Marinus (2023). The cognition of programming: logical reasoning, algebra and vocabulary skills predict programming performance following an introductory computing course. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, (35), 3, pp. 364–381, https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2166054.

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Gemma Perry, Vince Polito, Narayan Sankaran, William Forde Thompson (2022). How Chanting Relates to Cognitive Function, Altered States and Quality of Life. Brain Sciences, (12), 11, pp. 1456, https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12111456.

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Dali Geagea, Zephanie Tyack, Roy Kimble, Vince Polito, Bassel Ayoub, Devin B Terhune, Bronwyn Griffin (2022). Clinical hypnosis for Procedural Pain and Distress in Children: A Scoping Review. Pain Medicine, pp. pnac186, https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnac186.

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Andrew Roberts, Simon Handley, Vince Polito (2022). Does Speeded Decision-Making Reveal Tacit Teleological Tendencies?. Collabra: Psychology, (8), 1, https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.38108.

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Vince Polito, Paul Liknaitzky (2022). The emerging science of microdosing: A systematic review of research on low dose psychedelics (1955-2021) and recommendations for the field. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, (139), pp. 104706, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104706.

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Suzanne Hoogeveen, Alexandra Sarafoglou, Balazs Aczel …, Vince Polito et al. (2022). A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being. Religion, Brain & Behavior, (0), 0, pp. 1–47, https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2022.2070255.

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Dali Geagea, Bronwyn Griffin, Roy Kimble, Vince Polito, Devin B. Terhune, Zephanie Tyack (2022). Hypnotherapy for procedural pain, itch, and state anxiety in children with acute burns: a feasibility and acceptability study protocol. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, (8), 1, pp. 58, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-01017-z.

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Stephanie Howarth, Simon Handley, Vince Polito (2022). Uncontrolled logic: intuitive sensitivity to logical structure in random responding. Thinking & Reasoning, (28), 1, pp. 61–96, https://doi.org/10.1080/13546783.2021.1934119.

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Emma Constance Williams, Vince Polito (2022). Meditation in the Workplace: Does Mindfulness Reduce Bias and Increase Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?. Frontiers in Psychology, (13), https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.747983.

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Amanda J. Barnier, Devin B. Terhune, Vince Polito, Erik Z. Woody (2022). A componential approach to individual differences in hypnotizability.. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, (9), 2, pp. 130–140, https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000267.

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Joseph M. Rootman, Pamela Kryskow, Kalin Harvey, Paul Stamets, Eesmyal Santos-Brault, Kim P. C. Kuypers, Vince Polito, Francoise Bourzat, Zach Walsh (2021). Adults who microdose psychedelics report health related motivations and lower levels of anxiety and depression compared to non-microdosers. Scientific Reports, (11), 1, pp. 22479, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01811-4.

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Andrew J. Roberts, Simon J. Handley, Vince Polito (2021). The design stance, intentional stance, and teleological beliefs about biological and nonbiological natural entities. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (120), 6, pp. 1720–1748, https://doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000383.

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Regine Zopf, Veronika Kosourkhina, Kevin R. Brooks, Vince Polito, Ian D. Stephen (2021). Visual body-size adaptation and estimation of tactile distance. British Journal of Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12514.

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H. Dressler, S. Bright, V. Polito (2021). Exploring the relationship between microdosing, personality and emotional insight: A prospective study. Journal of Psychedelic Studies, (5), 1, pp. 9–16, https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2021.00157.

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Daly Geagea, Zephanie Tyack, Roy Kimble, Lars Eriksson, Vince Polito, Bronwyn Griffin (2021). Hypnotherapy for Procedural Pain and Distress in Children: A scoping Review Protocol. Pain Medicine, pnab038, https://doi.org/10.1093/pm/pnab038.

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Gemma Perry, Vince Polito, William Forde Thompson (2021). Rhythmic Chanting and Mystical States Across Traditions. Brain Sciences, (11), 1, pp. 101, https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11010101.

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Gemma Perry, Vince Polito (2021). Music and Healing Rituals. From Mozart in the office to Metallica at the Gym: The Psychology and Science of Music, pp. 197–204.

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Vince Polito, Michael Hitchens (2021). Digital media impacts multiple aspects of self-representation: An investigation of flow, agency, presence, character identification, and time perception. Psychology of Popular Media, (10), 3, pp. 303–318, https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000330.

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Warren Tierney, Jay H. Hardy, Charles R. Ebersole, Keith Leavitt, Domenico Viganola, Elena Giulia Clemente, Michael Gordon, Anna Dreber, Magnus Johannesson, Thomas Pfeiffer, Hiring Decisions Forecasting Collaboration, Eric Luis Uhlmann (2020). Creative destruction in science. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, (161), pp. 291–309, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2020.07.002.

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Andrew J. Roberts, Colin A. Wastell, Vince Polito (2020). Teleology and the intentions of supernatural agents. Consciousness and Cognition, (80), pp. 102905, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.102905.

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Vince Polito, Richard J. Stevenson (2019). A systematic study of microdosing psychedelics. PLOS ONE, (14), 2, pp. e0211023, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211023.

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Anne Castles, Vince Polito, Stephen Pritchard, Thushara Anandakumar, Max Coltheart (2018). Do nonword reading tests for children measure what we want them to? An analysis of year 2 error responses. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, (23), 2, pp. 153–165, https://doi.org/10/gfs2qt.

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Vince Polito, Amanda J. Barnier, Michael H. Connors (2018). Hypnotic clever hands: Agency and automatic responding.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, (147), 6, pp. 815–828, https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000451.

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Lydia Barnes, Genevieve McArthur, Britta Biedermann, Peter de Lissa, Vince Polito, Nicholas Badcock (2018). No meditation-related changes in the auditory N1 during first-time meditation. International Journal of Psychophysiology, (127), pp. 26–37, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.03.003.

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Colin Klein, Peter Clutton, Vince Polito (2018). Topic modeling reveals distinct interests within an online conspiracy forum. Frontiers in Psychology, (9), pp. 189, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00189.

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Regine Zopf, Vince Polito, James Moore (2018). Revisiting the link between body and agency: Visual movement congruency enhances intentional binding but is not body-specific. Scientific Reports, (8), 1, pp. 196, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18492-7.

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Max Coltheart, Rochelle Cox, Paul Sowman, Hannah Morgan, Amanda Barnier, Robyn Langdon, Emily Connaughton, Lina Teichmann, Nikolas Williams, Vince Polito (2018). Belief, delusion, hypnosis, and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Cortex, (101), pp. 234–248, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.01.001.

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Jeffrey Arnold, Jaime Ashander, Dean Attali, Robert Bagchi, Research Bazaar, Erin Becker, Benjamin D. Best, Mik Black, John Blischak, Philipp Boersch-Supan, Ben Bolker, Lisa Breckels, Karl Broman, Olivia Burge, Kyriakos Chatzidimitriou, Remi Daigle, Harriet Dashnow, Lachlan Deer, Noel Faux, Scott Funkhouser, Ivan Gonzalez, Pip Griffin, Martin J. Hadley, David J. Harris, Liz Ing-Simmons, Luke W. Johnston, Bernhard Konrad, Katherine Koziar, Hannah Kronenberg, Mateusz Kuzak, Rebecca Lange, Conrad Leonard, Willem Ligtenberg, Helen Lindsay, Andrew Lonsdale, Andrew MacDonald, Kunal Marwaha, Fernando Mayer, Robert McDonald, Francois Michonneau, James Mickley, Bill Mills, Nora Mitchell, Tim Moore, Elise Morrison, Sarah Munro, Jeffrey Oliver, Braden Owsley, Sam Penrose, Vince Polito, Diego Rabatone Oliveira, Marvin Reich, Timothy Rice, Scott Ritchie, Kieran Samuk, Pat Schloss, Henry Senyondo, Raniere Silva, Clare Sloggett, Adam H. Sparks, Robert Syme, Marc Sze, Yuka Takemon, Andy Teucher, Simon Thelwall, Damian Thomas, Kathe Todd-Brown, Drew Tyre, Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva, Thea Van Rossum, Kara Woo, Tom Wright, Luke Zappia, Naupaka Zimmerman (2017). Software carpentry: R for reproducible scientific analysis. NA, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.838770.

Andras Kolto, Vince Polito (2017). Changes in the sense of agency during hypnosis: The Hungarian version of the Sense of Agency Rating Scale (SOARS-HU) and its relationship with phenomenological aspects of consciousness. Consciousness and Cognition, (49), pp. 245–254, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.02.009.

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Devin B. Terhune, Vince Polito, Amanda J. Barnier, Erik Z. Woody (2016). Variations in the sense of agency during hypnotic responding: insights from latent profile analysis. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, (3), 4, pp. 293–302, https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000107.

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Britta Biedermann, Peter de Lissa, Yatin Mahajan, Vince Polito, Nicolas Badcock, Michael H. Connors, Lena Quinto, Linda Larsen, Genevieve McArthur (2016). Meditation and auditory attention: An ERP study of meditators and non-meditators. International Journal of Psychophysiology, (109), pp. 63–70, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2016.09.016.

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Stephen C. Pritchard, Regine Zopf, Vince Polito, David Michael Kaplan, Mark A. Williams (2016). Non-hierarchical influence of visual form, touch and position cues on embodiment, agency and presence in virtual reality. Frontiers in Psychology, (7), pp. 1649, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01649.

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Pamela Marsh, Vince Polito, Subba Singh, Max Coltheart, Robyn Langdon, Anthony Harris (2016). A quasi-randomized feasibility pilot study of specific treatments to improve emotion recognition and mental-state reasoning impairments in schizophrenia. BMC Psychiatry, (16), 1, pp. 360, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1064-6.

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Vince Polito, Michael Connors (2016). Towards a science of internal experience: Conceptual and methodological issues in hypnosis and meditation research. Hypnosis and meditation: Toward an integrative science of conscious planes, pp. 171–187.

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Vince Polito, Robyn Langdon, Amanda J. Barnier (2015). Sense of agency across contexts: Insights from schizophrenia and hypnosis. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, (2), 3, pp. 301–314, https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000053.

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Vince Polito, Flavie Waters, Doris McIlwain (2015). Sense of agency: Theory, methods, and application. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, (2), 3, pp. 207–209, https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000073.

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Vince Polito, Amanda J. Barnier, Kevin M. McConkey (2014). Defining hypnosis: Process, product, and the value of tolerating ambiguity. The Journal of Mind-Body Regulation, (2), 2, pp. 118–120.

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Vince Polito, Amanda J. Barnier, Erik Z. Woody, Michael H. Connors (2014). Measuring agency change across the domain of hypnosis. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, (1), 1, pp. 3–19, https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000010.

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Michael H. Connors, Peter W. Halligan, Amanda J. Barnier, Robyn Langdon, Rochelle E. Cox, Jocelyn Elliott, V Polito, Max Coltheart (2014). Hypnotic analogues of delusions: The role of delusion proneness and schizotypy. Personality and Individual Differences, (57), pp. 48–53, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2013.09.012.

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Michael Connors, Amanda Barnier, Robyn Langdon, Robyn Cox, Vince Polito, Max Coltheart (2014). Delusions in the hypnosis laboratory: Modeling different pathways to mirrored-self misidentification. Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, (1), 2, pp. 184–198, https://doi.org/10.1037/css0000001.

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Michael H. Connors, Amanda J. Barnier, Robyn Langdon, Rochelle E. Cox, V. Polito, Max Coltheart (2013). A laboratory analogue of mirrored-self misidentification delusion: The role of hypnosis, suggestion, and demand characteristics. Consciousness and Cognition, (22), 4, pp. 1510–1522, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.10.006.

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Vince Polito, Amanda J. Barnier, Erik Z. Woody (2013). Developing the Sense of Agency Rating Scale (SOARS): An empirical measure of agency disruption in hypnosis. Consciousness and Cognition, (22), 3, pp. 684–696, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2013.04.003.

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Pamela Marsh, Robyn Langdon, Jonathan McGuire, Anthony Harris, Vince Polito, Max Coltheart (2013). An open clinical trial assessing a novel training program for social cognitive impairment in schizophrenia. Australasian Psychiatry, (21), 2, pp. 122–126, https://doi.org/10.1177/1039856213475683.

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Pamela Marsh, Jonathan McGuire, Vince Polito, B. Lee, Robyn Langdon, Thushara Anandakumar, Jilly Atwell, Gemma Luckett, Anna Surev, Anthony Harris, Max Coltheart (2013). SoCog: Manual for mental-state reasoning and emotion recognition training. Sydney: Macquarie University. NA.

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Vince Polito, Robyn Langdon, Jac Brown (2010). The experience of altered states of consciousness in shamanic ritual: The role of pre-existing beliefs and affective factors. Consciousness and Cognition, (19), 4, pp. 918–925, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2010.05.013.

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Robyn Langdon, Jen McLaren, Vince Polito, Max Coltheart, Philip B. Ward (2007). Willed action in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research, (150), 2, pp. 193–197, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2006.03.027.

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