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Overview

Ryan McKay is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a strong focus on Health, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers several topics, including:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Ryan McKay has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, who include:

  • Richard P. Bentall
  • Mark Shevlin
  • Orla McBride
  • Todd K. Hartman
  • Kate Bennett

Their research outputs have appeared most often in the following publication venues:

  • Religion Brain & Behavior
  • International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research
  • PLoS ONE
  • British Journal of Health Psychology
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Notable recent papers by Ryan McKay include:

  • "Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2020, BJPsych Open
  • "COVID-19-related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population," 2020, British Journal of Health Psychology
  • "Refuting the myth of a 'tsunami' of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous," 2021, Psychological Medicine
  • "Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study," 2020, International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Ryan McKay's body of work reflects an emphasis on psychological and social responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including mental health outcomes, vaccine hesitancy, and public health implications across populations in the UK and Ireland.

Best Publications

  • Psychological characteristics associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in Ireland and the United Kingdom.

    Jamie Murphy;Frédérique Vallières;Richard P. Bentall;Mark Shevlin

  • Anxiety, depression, traumatic stress and COVID-19-related anxiety in the UK general population during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Mark Shevlin;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy;Jilly Gibson Miller

  • The evolution of misbelief.

    Ryan T. McKay;Daniel C. Dennett

  • Attractiveness of Facial Averageness and Symmetry in Non-Western Cultures: In Search of Biologically Based Standards of Beauty

    Gillian Rhodes;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Alison Clark;Kieran Lee

  • Do facial averageness and symmetry signal health

    Gillian Rhodes;Leslie A. Zebrowitz;Alison Clark;S. Michael Kalick

  • Religion and morality.

    Ryan McKay;Harvey Whitehouse

  • Wrath of God: religious primes and punishment

    Ryan McKay;Charles Efferson;Harvey Whitehouse;Ernst Fehr

  • The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

    Harvey Whitehouse;Jonathan Jong;Michael D. Buhrmester;Ángel Gómez

  • Schizophrenia and Monothematic Delusions

    Max Coltheart;Robyn Langdon;Ryan McKay

  • Jumping to Conclusions About the Beads Task? A Meta-analysis of Delusional Ideation and Data-Gathering.

    Robert Malcolm Ross;Ryan McKay;Max Coltheart;Robyn Langdon

  • Global evidence of extreme intuitive moral prejudice against atheists

    Will M. Gervais;Dimitris Xygalatas;Dimitris Xygalatas;Ryan T. Mckay;Michiel Van Elk

  • COVID-19-related anxiety predicts somatic symptoms in the UK population.

    Mark Shevlin;Emma Nolan;Marcin Owczarek;Orla McBride

  • “Sleights of mind”: Delusions, defences, and self-deception

    Ryan McKay;Robyn Langdon;Max Coltheart

  • The Illusion of Moral Superiority.

    Ben M Tappin;Ryan T McKay

  • Paranoia, persecutory delusions and attributional biases.

    Ryan McKay;Robyn Langdon;Max Coltheart

  • Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Refuting the myth of a 'tsunami' of mental ill-health in populations affected by COVID-19: evidence that response to the pandemic is heterogeneous, not homogeneous.

    Mark Shevlin;Sarah Butter;Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy

  • Need for closure, jumping to conclusions, and decisiveness in delusion-prone individuals.

    Ryan McKay;Robyn Langdon;Max Coltheart

  • Monitoring the psychological, social, and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the population: Context, design and conduct of the longitudinal COVID-19 psychological research consortium (C19PRC) study.

    Orla McBride;Jamie Murphy;Mark Shevlin;Jilly Gibson-Miller

  • Pandemic buying: Testing a psychological model of over-purchasing and panic buying using data from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Richard P Bentall;Alex Lloyd;Kate Bennett;Ryan McKay

  • The subtleties of error management

    Ryan McKay;Ryan McKay;Charles Efferson

  • The heart trumps the head: Desirability bias in political belief revision.

    Ben M. Tappin;Leslie van der Leer;Ryan T. McKay

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Shevlin
Mark Shevlin University of Ulster
Orla McBride
Orla McBride University of Ulster
Richard P. Bentall
Richard P. Bentall University of Sheffield
Liat Levita
Liat Levita University of Sussex
Kate M. Bennett
Kate M. Bennett University of Liverpool
Philip Hyland
Philip Hyland National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Max Coltheart
Max Coltheart Macquarie University
Robyn Langdon
Robyn Langdon Macquarie University
Thanos Karatzias
Thanos Karatzias Edinburgh Napier University
Harvey Whitehouse
Harvey Whitehouse University of Oxford

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