Dr Micheal De Barra
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 129
- Email: micheal.debarra@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265359
Andersson, PA., Vartanova, I., Västfjäll, D., Tinghög, G., Strimling, P., Wu, J., et al. (2024) 'Anger and disgust shape judgments of social sanctions across cultures, especially in high individual autonomy societies'. Scientific Reports, 14 (1). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link
Andrighetto, G., Szekely, A., Guido, A., Gelfand, M., Abernathy, J., Arikan, G., et al. (2024) 'Changes in social norms during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic across 43 countries'. Nature Communications, 15 (1). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 2041-1723 Open Access Link
de Barra, M., Hakimy, K. and de Bruin, M. (2023) 'Signalling need for care: A neglected functional role of medical treatment'. Evolution Medicine and Public Health, 11 (1). pp. 363 - 378. ISSN: 2050-6201 Open Access Link
Brown, RCH. and de Barra, M. (2023) 'A Taxonomy of Non-honesty in Public Health Communication'. Public Health Ethics, 15 (1). pp. 86 - 101. ISSN: 1754-9973 Open Access Link
de Barra, M. and Brown, R. (2023) 'Public health communication should be more transparent'. Nature Human Behaviour, 7 (5). pp. 662 - 664. ISSN: 2397-3374 Open Access Link
Brown, R., de Barra, M. and Earp, B. (2022) 'Broad Medical Uncertainty and the Ethical Obligation for Openness'. Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, 200 (2). pp. 1 - 29. ISSN: 0039-7857 Open Access Link
Eriksson, K., Strimling, P., Gelfand, M., Van Lange, P., de Barra, M. and 103 other authors. (2021) 'Perceptions of the appropriate response to norm violation in 57 societies'. Nature Communications, 12 (1). pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 2041-1723 Open Access Link
de Barra, M., Cownden, D. and Jansson, F. (2019) 'Aversive medical treatments as a signal of need for support: a mathematical model'. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1. pp. e4. ISSN: 2513-843X Open Access Link
Gon, G., de Bruin, M., de Barra, M., Ali, S., Oona, C., Graham, W., et al. (2018) 'Hands washing, glove use, and avoiding recontamination before aseptic procedures at birth: A multicenter time-and-motion study conducted in Zanzibar'. American Journal of Infection Control, 47 (2). pp. 149 - 156. ISSN: 0196-6553 Open Access Link
de Barra, M., Scott, CL., Scott, NW., Johnston, M., de Bruinarijn, M., Nkansah, N., et al. (2018) 'Pharmacist services for non-hospitalised patients (Review)'. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2018 (9). pp. CD013102. ISSN: 1469-493X Open Access Link
Curtis, V. and de Barra, M. (2018) 'The structure and function of pathogen disgust'. Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences, 373 (1751). pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 0962-8436 Open Access Link
Strimling, P., de Barra, M. and Eriksson, K. (2018) 'Asymmetries in punishment propensity may drive the civilizing process'. Nature Human Behaviour, 2 (2). pp. 148 - 155. ISSN: 2397-3374 Open Access Link
de Barra, M. (2017) 'Reporting bias inflates the reputation of medical treatments: A comparison of outcomes in clinical trials and online product reviews'. Social Science and Medicine, 177. pp. 248 - 255. ISSN: 0277-9536 Open Access Link
Tybur, JM., Inbar, Y., Aarøe, L., Barclay, P., Barlowe, FK., de Barra, M., et al. (2016) 'Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations'. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (44). pp. 12408 - 12413. ISSN: 0027-8424 Open Access Link
Eriksson, K., Coultas, JC. and de Barra, M. (2016) 'Cross-Cultural Differences in Emotional Selection on Transmission of Information'. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 16 (1-2). pp. 122 - 143. ISSN: 1567-7095 Open Access Link
de Barra, M., Eriksson, K. and Strimling, P. (2014) 'How feedback biases give ineffective medical treatments a good reputation'. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16 (8). pp. e193. ISSN: 1438-8871 Open Access Link
de Barra, M., Islam, MS. and Curtis, V. (2014) 'Disgust sensitivity is not associated with health in a rural Bangladeshi sample'. PLoS ONE, 9 (6). pp. e100444 - e100444. ISSN: 1932-6203 Open Access Link
De Barra, M., deBruine, LM., Jones, BC., Mahmud, ZH. and Curtis, VA. (2013) 'Illness in childhood predicts face preferences in adulthood'. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34 (6). pp. 384 - 389. ISSN: 1090-5138
De Barra, M. and Curtis, V. (2012) 'Are the pathogens of out-groups really more dangerous?'. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 35 (2). pp. 85 - 86. ISSN: 0140-525X
Fleischman, DS., Webster, GD., Judah, G., De Barra, M., Aunger, R. and Curtis, VA. (2011) 'Sensor recorded changes in rates of hand washing with soap in response to the media reports of the H1N1 pandemic in Britain'. BMJ Open, 1 (2). pp. e000127 - e000127. ISSN: 2044-6055
Curtis, V., de Barra, M. and Aunger, R. (2011) 'Disgust as an adaptive system for disease avoidance behaviour'. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 366 (1563). pp. 389 - 401. ISSN: 0962-8436