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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1984 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Geoffrey Beattie is affiliated with Edge Hill University in the United Kingdom and conducts research primarily within the fields of social sciences, psychology, and neuroscience. Their work encompasses several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, education, genetics, experimental and cognitive psychology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics covered in Geoffrey Beattie's research include:

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Geoffrey Beattie has contributed to several recent publications. Notable papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "Personality and climate change mitigation: a psychological and semiotic exploration of the sustainable choices of optimists," 2021, published in Semiotica
  • "Carbon Footprint Choice Task," 2020, published in PsycTESTS Dataset

Other papers involving frequent collaborators, some of whom have co-authored with Beattie, are:

  • "Portrayals of autism in the British press: A corpus-based study," 2022, published in Autism
  • "Gender and family-role portrayals of autism in British newspapers: An intersectional corpus-based study," 2024, published in Autism
  • "Prosopagnosia is highly comorbid in individuals with probable developmental coordination disorder," 2024, published in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Frequent co-authors of Geoffrey Beattie include Themis Karaminis, Costas Gabrielatos, Ursula Maden-Weinberger, Laura McGuire, and Katherine Maw.

The venues where Beattie's work has been published most often include:

  • Autism
  • Semiotica
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

In 1984, Geoffrey Beattie received the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society.

Best Publications

  • The Psychology of Language and Communication

    Geoffrey Beattie;Andrew W. Ellis

  • Gesture and Silence as Indicators of Planning in Speech

    Brian Butterworth;Geoffrey Beattie

  • Do iconic hand gestures really contribute anything to the semantic information conveyed by speech? An experimental investigation

    Geoffrey Beattie;Heather Shovelton

  • Mapping the range of information contained in the iconic hand gestures that accompany spontaneous speech.

    Geoffrey Beattie;Heather Shovelton

  • Interruption in conversational interaction, and its relation to the sex and status of the interactants*

    Geoffrey W. Beattie

  • Contextual Probability and Word Frequency as Determinants of Pauses and Errors in Spontaneous Speech

    Geoffrey W. Beattie;B.L. Butterworth

  • Visible Thought: The New Psychology of Body Language

    Geoffrey Beattie

  • Turn-taking and interruption in political interviews: Margaret Thatcher and Jim Callaghan compared and contrasted

    Geoffrey W. Beattie

  • An experimental investigation of the role of iconic gestures in lexical access using the tip‐of‐the‐tongue phenomenon

    Geoffrey Beattie;Jane Coughlan

  • An experimental investigation of some properties of individual iconic gestures that mediate their communicative power

    Geoffrey Beattie;Heather Shovelton

  • Floor apportionment and gaze in conversational dyads

    Geoffrey W. Beattie

  • Pragmatic aspects of representational gestures: Do speakers use them to clarify verbal ambiguity for the listener?

    Judith Holler;Geoffrey Beattie

  • A further investigation of the cognitive interference hypothesis of gaze patterns during conversation

    Geoffrey W. Beattie

  • Why is Mrs Thatcher interrupted so often

    Geoffrey W. Beattie;Anne Cutler;Mark Pearson

  • Do Iconic Hand Gestures Really Contribute to the Communication of Semantic Information in a Face-to-Face Context?

    Judith Holler;Heather Shovelton;Geoffrey Beattie

  • Talk: An Analysis of Speech and Non-Verbal Behaviour in Conversation

    Geoffrey Beattie

  • Planning units in spontaneous speech: some evidence from hesitation in speech and speaker gaze direction in conversation

    Geoffrey W. Beattie

  • How iconic gestures and speech interact in the representation of meaning: Are both aspects really integral to the process?

    Judith Holler;Geoffrey Beattie

  • Sequential temporal patterns of speech and gaze in dialogue

    Geoffrey W. Beattie

  • Gestures, pauses and speech: An experimental investigation of the effects of changing social context on their precise temporal relationships

    Geoffrey Beattie;Rima Aboudan

  • Iconic hand gestures and the predictability of words in context in spontaneous speech.

    Geoffrey Beattie;Heather Shovelton

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew W. Ellis
Andrew W. Ellis University of York
Judith Holler
Judith Holler Max Planck Society
Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Christopher J. Spencer
Christopher J. Spencer Queen's University
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield

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