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Overview

Steven Muncer is a researcher affiliated with Teesside University in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans several fields within psychology and social sciences, with a particular focus on areas intersecting mental health, disability support, and public health.

Their research interests notably include:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Down syndrome and Intellectual Disability Research
  • Disability Education and Employment

Muncer's main fields of study comprise psychology, where they have contributed to three publications, and broader social sciences with two publications. Their subfields include clinical psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and safety research.

The scientist has authored recent papers such as:

  • "Investigating the link between sleep quality and belief in conspiracy theories" (2025), published in Journal of Health Psychology
  • "An investigation into the factor structure of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for People with Learning Disabilities" (2023), appearing in Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Muncer has collaborated with several frequent co-authors, including Daniel Jolley, Iwan Dinnick, Lauren Burgin, Sophie Ryan, and Olivia Morgan-Finn.

Additionally, their book publication record includes the title The Social Child (2021), published by Psychology Press eBooks, which has accumulated citations over time.

The primary venues for their research dissemination are:

  • Journal of Health Psychology
  • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research

Best Publications

  • Psychometric analysis of the empathy quotient (EQ) scale.

    Steven J. Muncer;Jonathan Ling

  • VIRTUAL COMMUNITY CARE? SOCIAL POLICY AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMPUTER MEDIATED SOCIAL SUPPORT

    Roger Burrows;Sarah Nettleton;Nicholas Pleace;Brian Loader

  • Teacher stress and coping strategies used to reduce stress.

    Vicky Austin;Surya Shah;Steven Muncer

  • Control over social interactions: an important reason for young people's use of the Internet and mobile phones for communication?

    Dominic E. Madell;Steven J. Muncer

  • Social representation of aggression as an explanation of gender differences: A preliminary study

    Anne Campbell;Steven Muncer;Edward Coyle

  • Psychometric analysis of the Empathy Quotient (EQ)

    C. Allison;S. Baron-Cohen;S.J. Wheelwright;M.H. Stone

  • Sex and social representations of aggression: A communal-agentic analysis

    Anne Campbell;Steven Muncer;Bernard Gorman

  • The Dark Triad personality: Attractiveness to women

    Gregory Louis Carter;Anne C. Campbell;Steven Muncer

  • Models of anger and aggression in the social talk of women and men.

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  • Women and crime An evolutionary approach

    Andrea Campbell;Steven Muncer;Daniel Bibel

  • Reliability of health information on the Internet: an examination of experts' ratings.

    Mark Craigie;Brian Loader;Roger Burrows;Steven Muncer

  • Nurses' cognitive structural models of work-based stress.

    Shirley Taylor;Bob White;Steven Muncer

  • The relationship between empathy and Machiavellianism: An alternative to empathizing–systemizing theory

    J. Andrew;M. Cooke;S.J. Muncer

  • Sex differences in aggression: social representation and social roles

    Andrea Campbell;Steven Muncer

  • Can compassionate healthcare be measured? The Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Scale™

    Beth A. Lown;Steven J. Muncer;Raymond Chadwick

  • Intent to harm or injure? Gender and the expression of anger.

    Andrea Campbell;Steven Muncer

  • Psychometrics and Life History Strategy: The Structure and Validity of the High K Strategy Scale:

    Lee T. Copping;Anne Campbell;Steven Muncer

  • Back from the beach but hanging on the telephone? English adolescents' attitudes and experiences of mobile phones and the internet.

    Dominic Madell;Steven Muncer

  • Instrumental and expressive representations of aggression: One scale or two?

    Anne Campbell;Steven Muncer;I.C. McManus;David Woodhouse

  • Sex differences in aggression: Does social representation mediate form of aggression?

    Anne Campbell;Manuela Sapochnik;Steven Muncer

  • The Dark Triad: Beyond a ‘male’ mating strategy

    Gregory Louis Carter;Anne C. Campbell;Steven Muncer

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen D. Evans
Stephen D. Evans University of Leeds
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
Carrie Allison
Carrie Allison University of Cambridge
Sally Wheelwright
Sally Wheelwright University of Sussex
Joni Holmes
Joni Holmes MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

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