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Journal article

NIOLAKI, G., VOUSDEN, J., TERZOPOULOS, A., PURSER, H., KOHNEN, S. and MASTERSON, J., 2025. A brief description of the Spelling Profile Assessment: a new UK spelling test for primary school age children (pilot phase). Assessment and Development Matters, 17 (4), pp. 11-17. ISSN 2040-4069

PURSER, H.R.M., STOJANOVIK, V., JARROLD, C., FARRAN, E.K., THOMAS, M.S.C. and VAN HERWEGEN, J., 2025. Developmental trajectories of grammatical comprehension in individuals with Williams syndrome. First Language. ISSN 0142-7237 (Forthcoming)

FARRAN, E.K., PURSER, H.R.M., JARROLD, C., THOMAS, M.S.C., SCERIF, G., STOJANOVIK, V. and VAN HERWEGEN, J., 2023. Cross-sectional and longitudinal assessment of cognitive development in Williams syndrome. Developmental Science: e13421. ISSN 1363-755X

PURSER, H.R.M. and HARPER, C.A., 2023. Low system justification drives ideological differences in joke perception: a critical commentary and re-analysis of Baltiansky et al. (2021). Humor, 36 (1), pp. 135-150. ISSN 0933-1719

HARPER, C., PURSER, H. and BAGULEY, T., 2022. Do concepts creep to the left and the right? Evidence for ideologically-salient concept breadth judgments across the political spectrum. Social Psychological and Personality Science. ISSN 1948-5506 (Forthcoming)

PURSER, H.R.M., VAN HERWEGEN, J., RANZATO, E. and THOMAS, M.S.C., 2021. The role of context in verbal humor processing in autism. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209: 105166. ISSN 0022-0965

ASHWORTH, M., PALIKARA, O., BURCHELL, E., PURSER, H., NIKOLLA, D. and VAN HERWEGEN, J., 2021. Online and face-to-face performance on two cognitive tasks in children with Williams syndrome. Frontiers in Psychology, 11: 594465. ISSN 1664-1078

PURSER, H.R.M., VAN HERWEGEN, J. and THOMAS, M.S.C., 2020. The development of children's comprehension and appreciation of riddles. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 189: 104709. ISSN 0022-0965

KUSEV, P., PURSER, H., HEILMAN, R., COOKE, A.J., VAN SCHAIK, P., BARANOVA, V., MARTIN, R. and AYTON, P., 2017. Understanding risky behavior: the influence of cognitive, emotional and hormonal factors on decision-making under risk. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. ISSN 1664-1078

KUSEV, P., VAN SCHAIK, P., ALZAHRANI, S., LONIGRO, S. and PURSER, H., 2016. Judging the morality of utilitarian actions: how poor utilitarian accessibility makes judges irrational. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23 (6), pp. 1961-1967. ISSN 1069-9384

FARRAN, E.K., PURSER, H.R.M., COURBOIS, Y., BALLÉ, M., SOCKEEL, P., MELLIER, D. and BLADES, M., 2015. Route knowledge and configural knowledge in typical and atypical development: a comparison of sparse and rich environments. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 7, p. 37. ISSN 1866-1947

COSTA, H.M., PURSER, H.R.M. and PASSOLUNGHI, M.C., 2015. Improving working memory abilities in individuals with Down syndrome: a treatment case study. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, p. 1331. ISSN 1664-1078

PURSER, H.R.M., FARRAN, E.K., COURBOIS, Y., LEMAHIEU, A., SOCKEEL, P., MELLIER, D. and BLADES, M., 2015. The development of route learning in Down syndrome, Williams syndrome and typical development: investigations with virtual environments. Developmental Science, 18 (4), pp. 599-613. ISSN 1467-7687

Chapter in book

KNOWLAND, V.C.P., PURSER, H. and THOMAS, M.S.C., 2015. Cross-Sectional Methodologies in Developmental Psychology. In: J.D. WRIGHT, ed., International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, 2nd ed. Elsevier, pp. 354-360. ISBN 9780080970875

PURSER, H.R.M., 2014. Down syndrome: specificity of deficits and purity of cognitive tasks. In: J. VAN HERWEGEN and D. RIBY, eds., Neurodevelopmental disorders: research challenges and solutions. London: Psychology Press. ISBN 9781848723283

Thesis

PHELAN, H., 2024. The vocabulary gap in pre-school children: a corpus-based analysis and exploration of audio intervention via Action Research. PhD, Nottingham Trent University.