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Overview

Jon May is affiliated with Plymouth University in the United Kingdom. Their research encompasses a range of topics primarily within the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a substantial focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as clinical psychology and social-political dimensions.

The scientist's published works cover diverse topics including sport psychology and performance, motivation and self-concept in sports, behavioral health and interventions, and environmental influences on health such as urban green space. Specific topics of their work include:

  • Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Sports Performance and Training
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Flow Experience in Various Fields

Jon May has contributed to various academic venues, including frequent publications in:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Thinking Skills and Creativity
  • Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity
  • British Journal of Nursing
  • Journal of Rural Studies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Jon May include:

  • Still bleeding: The variegated geographies of austerity and food banking in rural England and Wales, 2020, Journal of Rural Studies
  • Neighbourhood greenspace and smoking prevalence: Results from a nationally representative survey in England, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Delivering digital health: The barriers and facilitators to university-industry collaboration, 2020, Health Policy and Technology
  • The Researcher Toolkit: a preventative, peer-support approach to postgraduate research student mental health, 2021, Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
  • A qualitative investigation of flow experience in group creativity, 2020, Research in Dance Education

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Jackie Andrade
  • David J. Kavanagh
  • Klara Łucznik
  • Jonathan Rhodes
  • Andrew Williams

Overall, Jon May's body of work reflects an interdisciplinary approach bridging psychology with social sciences, particularly emphasizing issues related to health, behavior, motivation, and environmental factors impacting well-being and performance.

Best Publications

  • Imaginary relish and exquisite torture: The elaborated intrusion theory of desire

    David J. Kavanagh;Jackie Andrade;Jon May

  • Bias in interpretation of ambiguous sentences related to threat in anxiety.

    Michael W. Eysenck;Karin Mogg;Jon May;Anne Richards

  • Implicit and explicit memory bias in anxiety.

    Andrew Mathews;Karin Mogg;Jon May;Michael Eysenck

  • Effects of visuospatial tasks on desensitization to emotive memories.

    David J. Kavanagh;Stefanie Freese;Jackie Andrade;Jon May

  • Images of desire: Cognitive models of craving

    Jon May;Jackie Andrade;Nathalie Panabokke;David J. Kavanagh

  • Attentional bias in anxiety: selective search or defective filtering?

    Andrew Mathews;Jon May;Karin Mogg;Michael Eysenck

  • Assessing Vividness of Mental Imagery: The Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire

    Jackie Andrade;Jon May;Catherine Deeprose;Sarah-Jane Baugh

  • The Elaborated Intrusion Theory of desire: a 10-year retrospective and implications for addiction treatments.

    Jon May;David J. Kavanagh;Jackie Andrade

  • Tests of the elaborated intrusion theory of craving and desire: Features of alcohol craving during treatment for an alcohol disorder.

    David J. Kavanagh;Jon May;Jackie Andrade

  • Insensitivity of visual short-term memory to irrelevant visual information.

    Jackie Andrade;Eva Kemps;Yves Werniers;Jon May

  • The Craving Experience Questionnaire: a brief, theory‐based measure of consummatory desire and craving

    Jon May;Jackie Andrade;David J. Kavanagh;Gerald F. X. Feeney

  • Rethinking temporal contiguity and the judgement of causality: effects of prior knowledge, experience, and reinforcement procedure.

    Marc J. Buehner;Jon May

  • Elaborated Intrusion Theory: A Cognitive-Emotional Theory of Food Craving

    Jon May;Jackie Andrade;David J. Kavanagh;Marion Hetherington

  • Measurement of alcohol craving.

    David J. Kavanagh;Dixie J. Statham;Dixie J. Statham;Gerald F. X. Feeney;Gerald F. X. Feeney;Ross McD. Young;Ross McD. Young

  • Use of a clay modeling task to reduce chocolate craving.

    Jackie Andrade;Sally Pears;Jon May;David J. Kavanagh

  • Sensory imagery in craving: From cognitive psychology to new treatments for addiction.

    Jackie Andrade;Jon May;David Kavanagh

  • Brief guided imagery and body scanning interventions reduce food cravings

    Jonathan Hamilton;Sophie Fawson;John May;Jackie Andrade

  • Syndetic modelling

    David J. Duke;Philip J. Barnard;David A. Duce;Jon May

  • Functional Imagery Training to reduce snacking: Testing a novel motivational intervention based on Elaborated Intrusion theory

    Jackie Andrade;Jackie Andrade;Marina Khalil;Jennifer Dickson;Jon May

  • Less food for thought. Impact of attentional instructions on intrusive thoughts about snack foods.

    Jon May;Jackie Andrade;Helen Batey;Lisa-Marie Berry

  • Knowledge mediates the timeframe of covariation assessment in human causal induction

    Marc J. Buehner;Jon May

Frequent Co-Authors

Jackie Andrade
Jackie Andrade Plymouth University
Jason P. Connor
Jason P. Connor University of Queensland
Ross McD. Young
Ross McD. Young University of the Sunshine Coast
Dixie J. Statham
Dixie J. Statham Federation University Australia
Mathew P. White
Mathew P. White University of Vienna
Andrew Mathews
Andrew Mathews King's College London
Michael W. Eysenck
Michael W. Eysenck Royal Holloway University of London
Karin Mogg
Karin Mogg University of Southampton
Matthew J. Gullo
Matthew J. Gullo Griffith University
Sophie K. Scott
Sophie K. Scott University College London

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