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List of works by Damian Scarf

"What" and "where" was when? Memory for the temporal order of episodic events in children

scientific article published on 21 August 2017

A Brief Orientation Week Ecological Momentary Intervention to Reduce University Student Alcohol Consumption

scientific article published on July 2015

A Content Analysis of Reddit Users' Perspectives on Reasons for Not Following Through with a Suicide Attempt

A Longitudinal Study of Depression Before, During, and Following the COVID-19 Nation-Wide Lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published on 27 January 2022

A Longitudinal Study of Mental Wellbeing in Students in Aotearoa New Zealand Who Transitioned Into PhD Study

A longitudinal study of mental wellbeing in students that transition into PhD study

A positional coding mechanism in pigeons after learning multiple three-item lists.

scientific article published on 11 February 2010

A spoon full of studies helps the comparison go down: a comparative analysis of Tulving's spoon test.

scientific article

A text message intervention to reduce first year university students’ alcohol use: A pilot experimental study.

scientific article published in January 2017

A tutorial on the use of informative Bayesian priors for minority research

An intercept study to measure the extent to which New Zealand university students pre-game

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Apes, feathered apes, and pigeons: differences and similarities

Are There Differences in "Intelligence" Between Nonhuman Species? The Role of Contextual Variables

scientific article published on 21 August 2020

Association between experience of racial discrimination and hazardous alcohol use among Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Association of Viewing the Films Joker or Terminator: Dark Fate With Prejudice Toward Individuals With Mental Illness

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Brain cells in the avian 'prefrontal cortex' code for features of slot-machine-like gambling

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Childhood Memories

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Children's Learning and Memory of an Interactive Science Lesson: Does the Context Matter?

scientific article published on 18 December 2017

Chinese children's in-group favoritism is affected by age and gender

Columban Simulation Project 2.0: Numerical Competence and Orthographic Processing in Pigeons and Primates

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Comparing Fear of COVID-19 and Preventive COVID-19 Infection Behaviors Between Iranian and Taiwanese Older People: Early Reaction May Be a Key

Conspiracy Beliefs and Distrust of Science Predicts Reluctance of Vaccine Uptake of Politically Right-Wing Citizens

Crafting minds and communities with Minecraft.

scientific article

Do 'literate' pigeons (Columba livia) show mirror-word generalization?

scientific article published on 13 July 2017

Do Infants Really Experience Emotional Contagion?

Does the Fear of Missing Out Moderate the Relationship Between Social Networking Use and Affect? A Daily Diary Study

scholarly article

Drawing a close to the use of human figure drawings as a projective measure of intelligence

scientific article

Editorial: The Comparative Psychology of Intelligence: Macphail Revisited

Effectiveness of a Combined Web-Based and Ecological Momentary Intervention for Incoming First-Year University Students: Protocol for a 3-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial (Preprint)

Effectiveness of a Combined Web-Based and Ecological Momentary Intervention for Incoming First-Year University Students: Protocol for a 3-Arm Randomized Controlled Trial.

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Effectiveness of a combined Web Based and Ecological Momentary Intervention for incoming first-year university students: Protocol for a three-arm randomised controlled trial

Effects of nidopallium caudolaterale inactivation on serial-order behavior in pigeons ( Columba livia)

scientific article published on 06 June 2018

Effects of vaping on uptake and cessation of smoking: Longitudinal analysis in Aotearoa New Zealand adults

scientific article published on 27 June 2023

Episodic foresight beyond the very next event in 3- and 4-year-old children.

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Evaluation of the English Version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and Its Relationship with Behavior Change and Political Beliefs

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Evaluation of the English Version of the Smartphone Application-Based Addiction Scale (SABAS) among an Adolescent Sample

scientific article published on 19 December 2022

Evaluation of the English version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and its relationship with behavior change and political beliefs

Express yourself? Ease to express one’s identity mediates the relationship between national belonging and mental health

Eye movements during list execution reveal no planning in monkeys (Macaca fascicularis).

scientific article published in October 2009

Eye movements reveal planning in humans: A comparison with Scarf and Colombo's (2009) monkeys

scientific article published in April 2014

Failure to demonstrate competitive video game play increases aggressive affect, cognition, or behavior

Fear of COVID‐19 Scale (FCV‐19S) across countries: Measurement invariance issues

Geographical disparity in editorial boards of journals in psychology may be even more extreme

Golden Rule or valence matching? Methodological problems in Hamlin et al.

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Gollin's (1965) levels-by-levels approach: the importance of manipulating the task dimension when assessing age-related changes and individual differences in decision making.

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Hey Google! will New Zealand vote to legalise cannabis? Using Google Trends data to predict the outcome of the 2020 New Zealand cannabis referendum

scientific article published on 17 December 2020

High Risk or Risky Highs: Understanding the Links Between Alcohol and Cannabis Use on the Transition From Suicidal Ideation to Attempts in Australian Men

scientific article published on 7 May 2023

Holding a mirror to society? Sociodemographic diversity within clinical psychology training programmes across Aotearoa

scientific article published on 17 May 2019

How intoxicated are you? Investigating self and observer intoxication ratings in relation to BAC

scholarly article

How intoxicated are you? Investigating self and observer intoxication ratings in relation to blood alcohol concentration

How to Flourish Well: Moral Centrality as an Indicator of Low Egoistic Consequences of Living a Flourishing Life

I want it all and I want it now: Delay of gratification in preschool children

scientific article published on 19 August 2014

Increasing resilience in adolescents: the importance of social connectedness in adventure education programmes.

scientific article published on 27 September 2016

Indigenous People in Aotearoa New Zealand are Overrepresented in Cannabis Convictions

2021 scholarly article

Inhibition, the final frontier: the impact of hippocampal lesions on behavioral inhibition and spatial processing in pigeons.

scientific article published in February 2014

Is orientation week a gateway to persistent alcohol use in university students? A preliminary investigation

scientific article published on March 2015

Just a First-Year Thing? The Relations Between Drinking During Orientation Week and Subsequent Academic Year Drinking Across Class Years.

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Knowledge of the ordinal position of list items in pigeons

scientific article published on October 1, 2011

Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat

Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat

scientific article published on 19 July 2022

Lung cancer attracts greater stigma than other cancer types in Aotearoa New Zealand

Making Clear the Value of Basic Behavioral Research. Commentary: A Crisis in Comparative Psychology: Where Have All the Undergraduates Gone?

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Mental time travel for self and other in three- and four-year-old children

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

Monitoring the sentiment of cannabis-related tweets in the lead up to New Zealand's cannabis referendum

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Orthographic processing in pigeons (Columba livia).

scientific article published on 16 September 2016

Out of touch? The shortcoming of New Zealand's amended Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act (2012) for the Rugby World Cup (2015)

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

Pigeons (Columba livia) learn a four-item list by trial and error

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Pigeons on par with primates in numerical competence.

scientific article published in December 2011

Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme

Preschool children and young adults' preferences and expectations for helpers and hinderers

Proceedings of the 14th annual conference of INEBRIA: New York, NY, USA, September 14–15, 2017.

scientific article published on 14 September 2017

Promoting resilience in adolescents: A new social identity benefits those who need it most

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Psychological predictors of vaping uptake among non‐smokers: A longitudinal investigation of New Zealand adults

scientific article published on 4 March 2024

Representation of serial order in pigeons (Columba livia)

scientific article published on October 1, 2010

Representation of serial order in pigeons (Columbia livia)

2011 doctoral thesis by Damian Kieron Scarf at University of Otago

Representation of serial order: a comparative analysis of humans, monkeys, and pigeons.

scientific article published on 10 March 2008

Satisfying psychological needs on the high seas: explaining increases self-esteem following an Adventure Education Programme

Sequential planning in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).

scientific article

Social evaluation or simple association? Simple associations may explain moral reasoning in infants

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Somewhere I belong: Long-term increases in adolescents' resilience are predicted by perceived belonging to the in-group.

scientific article published on 23 July 2016

Spacing Repetitions Over Long Timescales: A Review and a Reconsolidation Explanation

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Subjective belonging and in-group favoritism

Taking a Break from Social Media Improves Wellbeing Through Sleep Quality

scientific article published on 31 December 2020

Television Format and Children's Executive Function.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Effect of a Food Addiction Explanation Model for Weight Control and Obesity on Weight Stigma

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

The Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and event-specific drinking: The relationship between FoMO and alcohol use, harm, and breath alcohol concentration during orientation week

scholarly article

The accuracy and promise of personal breathalysers for research: Steps toward a cost-effective reliable measure of alcohol intoxication?

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The association between New Zealand adolescents' normative perceptions of pornography use and their frequency of pornography use

scientific article published on 25 September 2020

The development of a single item FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) scale

The effect of verbal reminders on memory reactivation in 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children.

scientific article published on 23 July 2012

The effects of hippocampal and area parahippocampalis lesions on the processing and retention of serial-order behavior, autoshaping, and spatial behavior in pigeons

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

The formation and execution of sequential plans in pigeons (Columba livia).

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The generation effect or simply generating an effect?

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To have and to hold: episodic memory in 3- and 4-year-old children.

scientific article published on 27 December 2011

Too cool? Symbolic but not iconic stimuli impair 4-year-old children's performance on the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm

scientific article published on 28 November 2016

Unethical pro-organizational behavior and flourishing: An investigation of why, how, and under what circumstances

Use of a head camera to examine maternal input and its relation to 10- to 26-month-olds' acquisition of mental and non-mental state vocabulary

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

Very superstitious? A preliminary investigation of pigeons’ body position during a matching-to-sample task under differential and common outcome conditions

Visual acuity: Bird vision offers sharp insight.

scientific article published in October 2013

Visual response properties of neurons in four areas of the avian pallium.

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

When too much of a novel thing may be what's "bad": commentary on Fisher, Godwin, and Seltman (2014)

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

Why So Serious? An Attempt to Mitigate the Short-Term Harmful Effects of the Film Joker on Prejudice toward People with Mental Illness

scientific article published on 7 October 2022

Why science? Scientists share their stories

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Your wish is my command! The influence of symbolic modelling on preschool children's delay of gratification.

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