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Nicola S. Gray is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom and specializes primarily in Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology. Their research spans several subfields including Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics of Nicola Gray's work cover areas such as Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, and Sexual Offending, as well as the impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health. Other significant themes include Mental Health Treatment and Access, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Maternal Mental Health during Pregnancy and Postpartum, and Personality Traits and Psychology.

Among Nicola Gray's recent publications are:

  • The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Well-Being and Psychological Distress: Impact Upon a Single Country, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Secondary school students' perception of the online teaching experience during COVID-19: The impact on mental wellbeing and specific learning difficulties, 2021, British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • Reliability and validity of the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised in the assessment of risk for institutional violence: A cautionary note on DeMatteo et al. (2020), 2020, Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Development and psychometric properties of the Knowledge and Attitudes to Mental Health Scales (KAMHS): a psychometric measure of mental health literacy in children and adolescents, 2021, BMC Pediatrics
  • Psychological distress and resilience in first responders and health care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Nicola Gray include:

  • Robert J. Snowden
  • Nicola J. Simkiss
  • Jennifer Pink
  • James Knowles
  • Chris O'Connor

The venues where Nicola Gray most frequently publishes are:

  • BMC Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Psychology Public Policy and Law
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment

Best Publications

  • Gambling Near-Misses Enhance Motivation to Gamble and Recruit Win-Related Brain Circuitry

    Luke Clark;Andrew J. Lawrence;Frances Astley-Jones;Nicola Gray

  • Abolition of latent inhibition in acute, but not chronic, schizophrenics

    N. S. Gray

  • Latent inhibition in drug naive schizophrenics: relationship to duration of illness and dopamine D2 binding using SPET

    N.S. Gray;L.S. Pilowsky;J.A. Gray;R.W. Kerwin

  • Prediction of violence and self-harm in mentally disordered offenders: a prospective study of the efficacy of HCR-20, PCL-R, and psychiatric symptomatology.

    Nicola S. Gray;Charlotte Hill;Andrew Mcgleish;David Timmons

  • Abolition of latent inhibition by a single 5 mg dose of d-amphetamine in man.

    N. S. Gray;A. D. Pickering;D. R. Hemsley;S. Dawling

  • An implicit test of the associations between children and sex in pedophiles.

    Nicola Susan Gray;Anthony Brown;Malcolm J. MacCulloch;Jennifer Smith

  • Eye-movements reduce the vividness, emotional valence and electrodermal arousal associated with negative autobiographical memories

    Alastair L. Barrowcliff;Nicola S. Gray;Thomas Charles Augustus Freeman;Malcolm J. MacCulloch

  • Predicting future reconviction in offenders with intellectual disabilities: the predictive efficacy of VRAG, PCL-SV, and the HCR-20.

    Nicola Susan Gray;Suzanne Fitzgerald;John Taylor;Malcolm J. MacCulloch

  • A taxometric analysis of the Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL:SV): further evidence of dimensionality.

    Glenn D. Walters;Nicola Susan Gray;Rebecca L. Jackson;Kenneth W. Sewell

  • The relationship between trauma and beliefs about hearing voices: a study of psychiatric and non-psychiatric voice hearers.

    E. M. Andrew;Nicola Susan Gray;Robert Jefferson Snowden

  • Faking of the implicit association test is statistically detectable and partly correctable

    Dario Cvencek;Anthony G. Greenwald;Anthony S. Brown;Nicola S. Gray

  • Predicting violent reconvictions using the HCR-20

    Nicola S. Gray;John Taylor;Robert Jefferson Snowden

  • Forensic psychology: Violence viewed by psychopathic murderers.

    Nicola Susan Gray;Malcolm J. MacCulloch;Malcolm J. MacCulloch;Jennifer Smith;Mark Morris

  • Relative efficacy of criminological, clinical, and personality measures of future risk of offending in mentally disordered offenders: a comparative study of HCR-20, PCL:SV, and OGRS.

    Nicola Susan Gray;Robert Jefferson Snowden;Sophie MacCulloch;Helen Phillips

  • Effects of nicotine and amphetamine on latent inhibition in human subjects.

    J. C. Thornton;S. Dawe;C. Lee;C. Capstick

  • Effects of d-amphetamine and haloperidol on latent inhibition in healthy male volunteers.

    Veena Kumari;Paul A. Cotter;Owen F. Mulligan;Stuart A. Checkley

  • Impulsivity and psychopathy: Associations between the Barrett Impulsivity Scale and the Psychopathy Checklist revised

    Robert Jefferson Snowden;Nicola Susan Gray

  • Methylphenidate treatment for bulimia nervosa associated with a cluster B personality disorder.

    Mae S. Sokol;Nicola S. Gray;Amy Goldstein;Walter H. Kaye

  • Case reports of olanzapine treatment of anorexia nervosa

    Maria C. La Via;Nicola Gray;Walter H. Kaye

  • Which schizotypal dimensions abolish latent inhibition

    Nicola Susan Gray;Michelle Fernandez;Jayne Williams;Roy Allan Ruddle

  • Implicit measurement of sexual associations in child sex abusers: role of victim type and denial.

    Anthony Brown;Nicola Susan Gray;Robert Jefferson Snowden

  • Risk Assessment in Offenders With Mental Disorders Relative Efficacy of Personal Demographic, Criminal History, and Clinical Variables

    Helen K. Phillips;Nicola S. Gray;Sophie I. MacCulloch;Julie Taylor

  • BRIEF REPORTS An Implicit Test of the Associations Between Children and Sex in Pedophiles

    Nicola S. Gray;Anthony S. Brown;Malcolm J. MacCulloch;Jennifer Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Jefferson Snowden
Robert Jefferson Snowden Cardiff University
David R. Hemsley
David R. Hemsley King's College London
Alan Pickering
Alan Pickering Goldsmiths University of London
Craig S. Neumann
Craig S. Neumann University of North Texas
Philip J. Corr
Philip J. Corr City, University of London
Steven Jones
Steven Jones Lancaster University
Raymond A. Knight
Raymond A. Knight Brandeis University
John L. Taylor
John L. Taylor Northumbria University
Donald R. Lynam
Donald R. Lynam Purdue University West Lafayette
Robert D. Hare
Robert D. Hare University of British Columbia

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