DR. STEPHEN M. WILLIAMS
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Sole author
unless otherwise stated (when always first author)
BOOKS
Psychology on the Couch:
The Discipline Observed. 1988 Harvester.
Environment and Mental
Health. 1994
John Wiley.
Psychology: The Study of
Mind.
1996 First and Best in Education.
Key Articles in
Psychology.
1997 First and Best in Education.
(i)
Refereed titles
Acta
Psychologica 75, 279-292, 1990. A response-type reaction time
effect found in the S. Sternberg high-speed memory scanning paradigm. With C
Cooper & J Hunter.
Cognitive
Systems 1, 187-205, 1986. Advantage for speech from the right side of
the sensory field: Two facts and an interpretation.
Cortex
17, 465-470,
1981. Immediate free recall of monaurally presented word lists.
Cortex
22,
319-324, 1986. A group test of auditory lateral advantage.
Cortex
22, 325-326,
1986. Factor analysis of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory.
Cortex
25, 523-528,
1989. A journal bibliography of behavioural dichotic laterality of normals for
natural speech.
Current
Psychology 6, 458-464, 1987. Repeated exposure and the attractiveness of
synthetic speech: An inverted-U relationship.
Intl.
Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology 9, 192, 1987. The first
wave of interest in laterality.
Intl.
Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology 10, 49-50, 1988.
Bibliographic analysis of monaural ear differences: A wave past its crest.
Intl.
Journal of Clinical Neuropsychology 11, 192-193, 1989. The
Annett handedness questionnaire: Factor analysis and relation to telephone ear
Intl.
Journal of Group Tensions 20, 227-232, 1990. One consequence of
segregated education in a divided community. With PJ Orr.
Journal
of Environmental Management 21, 63-67, 1985. How familiarity of a
landscape affects appreciation of it.
Journal
of Environmental Management 24, 359-363, 1987. Metapsychology of the
environment.
Journal
of Environmental Management 31, 157-162, 1990. The analysis of ecological
attitudes in town and country. With R McCrorie.
Journal
of Genetic Psychology 148, 469-478, 1987. Handedness and academic
performance at school: Matter for neuropathology?
Neuropsychologia
20, 457-464,
1982. Dichotic lateral asymmetry: The effects of grammatical structure and
telephone usage.
Neuropsychology
4, 43-48,
1990. Implications for normals of
reports on the "mere exposure" effect in amnesics.
Neuropsychology
5, 43-48,
1991. Handedness inventories: Edinburgh vs Annett.
Perceptual
and Motor Skills 59, 895-898, 1984. Superiority of the left cerebral
hemisphere for word recognition with nonverbal central fixation.
Perceptual
and Motor Skills 60, 994, 1985. Alphabetical name-order and memory
for sentences.
Perceptual
and Motor Skills 62, 351-354, 1986. Negative effects of recency even
following first recall after filled delay.
Perceptual
and Motor Skills 62, 461-462, 1986. A written response bias in the
discrimination of recency
Perceptual
and Motor Skills 65, 97-98, 1987. Stimulus-independence of dichotic
testing for perceptual asymmetry: sentences versus unrelated words.
Perceptual
and Motor Skills 66, 499-502, 1988. The need to supplement clinical
with experimental-normal studies of hemispheric asymmetry.
Personality
and Individual Differences 6, 399-400, 1985. Conceptual systems of Open
University students.
Psychological
Reports 63, 208-210, 1988. The cerebral hemispheres as a mapping
system.
Psychological
Reports 64, 785-786, 1989. Findings with the group technique for
demonstrating right-sided advantage for speech.
Psychology
22, 47-70,
1985. Memory for unilateral speech.
Psychology
24,
62-65, 1987. Handedness and preferred ear for telephoning.
Psychology
25, 42-43,
1988. The cerebral hemispheres as a whole rather than as parts.
Social
and Behavioral Sciences Documents 16, 52, 1986. MS #7220.
Repeated exposure to computer graphics images: The disappearance of a
relationship.
Social
and Behavioral Sciences Documents 17, 18, 1987. MS #2799.
Experimental confirmation of an overexposure effect: Stimulus dependence of
experimental exposure effects.
Social
and Behavioral Sciences Documents 17, 43-44, 1987. MS #2819.
Over-creative neurologizing: the case of "functional
decussation".
Social
and Behavioral Sciences Documents 18, 1988. A journal
bibliography of selected topics within handedness research.
Studies
in Education 6, 25-31, 1988. Knowledge and religious identity in Northern
Ireland.
The
Psychological Record 38, 393-398, 1988. A survey of psychologists'
metapsychological presuppositions.
(ii)
Other publications
In JP Wroughton (Ed) Bath in the Age of Reform. 1972, Bath:
Morgan Press. Pp 32-46. The New Poor
Law in Bath.
British Postal Chess Federation Information Circular (quarterly)
Between Aug, 1995 and Feb, 1999 appeared a series of 10 articles on chess
psychology, history and philosophy.
British Psychological Society Psychobiology Section
Newsletter 18, 1993. Review of I Gottesman Schizophrenia
Genesis.
Chess Monthly 57(5), 41, 1992. Giving up chess.
Chessex 1(8), 12, 1997. Calling left-handed
chess players.
Contemporary Review 260, 195-196, 1992. A guest of
Northern Ireland.
European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems
(ESSCS) Newsletter 2, 7-11, 1985. The inimical null hypothesis.
ESSCS Newsletter 4, 4-9, 1986. Aspects of metapsychology.
ESSCS Newsletter 7, 13, 1991. Review of P Kline Psychology Exposed.
ESSCS Newsletter 9, 14-17 1994. Review of R Efron The Decline and Fall of Hemispheric
Specialization.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments, (database of tests)
1991: two tests.
Irish Journal of Psychology 6, 182-183,1984. In
search of hemispheric asymmetry. (DPhil thesis abstract).
Irish Psychologist:: one letter and one conference
abstract.
Laterality Newsletter, pp
3-7, 2001. Unobtrusive observation of a sample of all ages (chess-players): 26
out of 244 (10.7%) write with the left hand.
OU Working Papers, 1979. Classifying the educational aims of correspondence tutors in the
OU.
The Good Book Guide. Regular book reviews.
The Left-Hander 11, 1992. The left-handedness of
life.
The Psychologist, letters and conference
abstracts.
The Unitarian 1602, 93, 2000. Colchester Unitarian Fellowhip
Letters in Belfast Telegraph, Chess Monthly, Coleraine
Chronicle, Colchester Gazette, New Social Democrat, PC Plus, The Author, The
Independent
Discoveries in computational
number theory.
Last updated: 14 December 2001