Helen Dodd

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+44 (0) 118 378 6221
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Professor
Areas of interest
- The development of child anxiety
- Cognitive biases in child anxiety
- Parenting and child anxiety
- Anxiety in Williams syndrome.
Teaching
- Undergraduate: Introduction to clinical psychology; Developmental Psychopathology of Anxiety Disorders
- Postgraduate: Master's in Developmental Psychopathology.
Research centres and groups
Psychopathology and Affective NeuroscienceAcademic qualifications
- BSc Applied Psychology, Cardiff
- PhD Cognitive Science.
Publications
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Oliver, B.
ORCID: 0000-0003-0278-8009 , Nesbit, R.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7540-3187 , McCloy, R.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2333-9640 , Harvey, K.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6819-0934 , Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2023) Adventurous play for a healthy childhood: facilitators and barriers identified by parents in Britain. Social Science & Medicine , 323 pp 0. ISSN: 1873-5347 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.115828
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Rendall, S.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Harvey, K. (2022) Controlling feeding practices moderate the relationship between emotionality and food fussiness in young children. Appetite , 178 ISSN: 0195-6663 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2022.106259
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Vogt, J.
ORCID: 0000-0002-3178-2805 , Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Parker, A. , Duffield, F. , Sakaki, M.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1993-5765 (2022) Now you see it, now you don’t: relevance of threat enhances social anxiety-linked attentional bias to angry faces, but relevance of neutral information attenuates it. PLoS ONE , 17 (7). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271752
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Oliver, B.
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Nesbit, R.
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McCloy, R.
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Harvey, K.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2022) Parent perceived barriers and facilitators of children’s adventurous play in Britain: a framework analysis. BMC Public Health , 22 ISSN: 1471-2458 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-13019-w
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Morriss, J.
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Tupitsa, E.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Hirsch, C. (2022) Uncertainty makes me emotional: uncertainty as an elicitor and modulator of emotional states. Frontiers in Psychology , 13 ISSN: 1664-1078 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.777025
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Reardon, T.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9298-091X , Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Hill, C. , Jasper, B. , Lawrence, P. , Morgan, F. , Rapee, R. , Ukoumunne, O. , Violato, M. , Davey, E. , Halliday, G. , Jones, B. , Martineau, L. , McCall, A. , Niekamp, N. , Placzek, A. , Potts, R. , Weisser, T. , Creswell, C. (2022) Minimising young children’s anxiety through schools (MY-CATS): protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an online parent-led intervention compared with usual school practice for young children identified as at risk for anxiety disorders. Trials , 23 (149). pp 0. ISSN: 1745-6215 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06010-8
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Wake, S.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Morriss, J. (2022) Intolerance of uncertainty and novelty facilitated extinction: the impact of reinforcement schedule. British Journal of Psychology , 113 (2). pp. 353-369. ISSN: 0007-1269 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12538
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Rendall, S.
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Harvey, K.
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Tavassoli, T.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2021) Associations between emotionality, sensory reactivity and food fussiness in young children. Food Quality and Preference ISSN: 0950-3293 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104420
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Wake, S.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9737-0678 , Van Reekum, C.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1516-1101 , Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2021) The effect of social anxiety on the acquisition and extinction of low-cost avoidance. Behaviour Research and Therapy , 146 ISSN: 0005-7967 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103967
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Nesbit, R.
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Bagnall, C.
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Harvey, K.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2021) Perceived barriers and facilitators of adventurous play in schools: a qualitative systematic review. Children , 8 (681). pp. 1-25. ISSN: 2227-9067 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8080681
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Nesbit, R. , Maratchi, L. (2021) Development and evaluation of a new measure of children’s play: the Children’s Play Scale (CPS). BMC Public Health , 21 pp 0. ISSN: 1471-2458 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-10812-x
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Fitzgibbon, L.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8563-391X , Watson, B.
ORCID: 0000-0001-7540-3187 , Nesbit, R. (2021) Children’s play and independent mobility in 2020: results from the British Children’s Play Survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , 18 (8). pp 0. ISSN: 1660-4601 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18084334
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Osmanagaoglu, N.
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Creswell, C.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2021) Development of a behavioural measure of intolerance of uncertainty in preadolescent children: adaptation of the beads task. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry , 72 ISSN: 0005-7916 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2021.101654
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Wake, S.
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Morriss, J.
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Johnstone, T.
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Van Reekum, C.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1516-1101 , Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2021) Intolerance of uncertainty, and not social anxiety, is associated with compromised extinction of social threat. Behaviour Research and Therapy , 139 ISSN: 0005-7967 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103818
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 and Lester, K. (2021) Adventurous play as a mechanism for reducing risk for childhood anxiety: a conceptual model. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review , 24 pp. 164-181. ISSN: 1096-4037 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10567-020-00338-w
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Osmanagaoglu, N.
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Creswell, C.
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Snuggs, S.
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Stuijfzand, S.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2021) Evaluating the psychometric properties of the intolerance of uncertainty scale for children in a preadolescent sample. Journal of Anxiety Disorders , 77 ISSN: 0887-6185 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2020.102343
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Pearcey, S.
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Gordon, K.
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Chakrabarti, B.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6649-7895 , Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 , Holldorsson, B. , Creswell, C. (2021) Research review: the relationship between social anxiety and social cognition in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 62 (7). pp. 805-821. ISSN: 0021-9630 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13310
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Morriss, J.
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Biagi, N.
ORCID: 0000-0002-7119-0767 , Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2020) Your guess is as good as mine: a registered report assessing physiological markers of fear and anxiety to the unknown in individuals with varying levels of intolerance of uncertainty. International Journal of Psychophysiology , 156 pp. 93-104. ISSN: 0167-8760 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.07.009
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Stuijfzand, S.
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Stuijfzand, B.
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Reynolds, S.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2020) Anxiety-related attention bias in four- to eight-year-olds: an eye-tracking study. Behavioral Sciences , 10 (12). ISSN: 2076-328X | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs10120194
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Littler, J.
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Haffey, A.
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Wake, S.
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Dodd, H.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1446-5338 (2020) The effect of anonymous computer-mediated communication on state anxiety: an experimental study. Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking , 23 (12). pp. 823-828. ISSN: 2152-2723 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0213
- Dodd, H. , Rayson, H. , Ryan, Z. , Bishop, C. , Parsons, S. , Stuijfzand, B. (2020) Trajectories of anxiety when children start school: the role of behavioural inhibition and attention bias to angry and happy faces. Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 129 (7). pp. 701-712. ISSN: 1939-1846 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/abn0000623
- Rendall, S. , Dodd, H. , Harvey, K. (2020) Behavioural validation of a parent-report measure of child food fussiness. Appetite , 154 ISSN: 0195-6663 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104796
- Wake, S. , van Reekum, C. , Dodd, H. , Morriss, J. (2020) The impact of intolerance of uncertainty and cognitive behavioural instructions on safety learning. Cognitive Therapy and Research , 44 (5). pp. 931-942. ISSN: 0147-5916 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10113-4
- Morriss, J. , Wake, S. , Lindner, M. , McSorley, E. , Dodd, H. (2020) How many times do I need to see to believe? The impact of intolerance of uncertainty and exposure experience on safety-learning and retention in young adults. International Journal of Psychophysiology , 153 pp. 8-17. ISSN: 0167-8760 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.04.012
- Stuijfzand, S. , Chakrabarti, B. , Reynolds, S. , Dodd, H. (2019) Look out captain, I hear an ambiguous alien! A study of interpretation bias and anxiety in young children. Behaviour Research and Therapy , 121 ISSN: 0005-7967 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2019.103450
- Hudson, J. , Murayama, K. , Meteyard, L. , Morris, T. , Dodd, H. (2019) Early childhood predictors of anxiety in early adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology , 47 (7). pp. 1121-1133. ISSN: 0091-0627 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0495-6
- Pearcey, S. , Alkozei, A. , Chakrabarti, B. , Dodd, H. , Murayama, K. , Stuijfzand, S. , Creswell, C. (2018) Do clinically anxious children cluster according to their expression of factors that maintain child anxiety?. Journal of Affective Disorders , 229 pp. 469-476. ISSN: 0165-0327 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.12.078
- Majdandžić, M. , Lazarus, R. , Oort, F. , van der Sluis, C. , Dodd, H. , Morris, T. , de Vente, W. , Byrow, Y. , Hudson, J. , Bogels, S. (2018) The structure of challenging parenting behavior and associations with anxiety in Dutch and Australian children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology , 47 (2). pp. 282-295. ISSN: 1537-4424 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2017.1381915
- Stuijfzand, S. , Creswell, C. , Field, A. , Pearcey, S. , Dodd, H. (2018) Is anxiety associated with negative interpretations of ambiguity in children and adolescents? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry , 59 (11). pp. 1127-1142. ISSN: 0021-9630 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12822
- Osmanagaoglu, N. , Creswell, C. , Dodd, H. (2018) Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety and worry in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis. Journal of Affective Disorders , 225 pp. 80-90. ISSN: 0165-0327 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2017.07.035
- Stuijfzand, S. and Dodd, H. (2017) Young children have social worries too: validation of a brief parent report measure of social worries in children aged 4–8 years. Journal of Anxiety Disorders , 50 pp. 87-93. ISSN: 0887-6185 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2017.05.008
- Pass, L. , Mastroyannopoulou, K. , Coker, S. , Murray, L. , Dodd, H. (2017) Verbal information transfer in real-life: when mothers worry about their child starting school. Journal of Child and Family Studies , 26 (8). pp. 2324-2334. ISSN: 1062-1024 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0735-3
- Dodd, H. , Vogt, J. , Turkileri, N. , Notebaert, L. (2017) Task relevance of emotional information affects anxiety-linked attention bias in visual search. Biological Psychology , 122 pp. 13-20. ISSN: 0301-0511 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2016.01.017
- Ooi, J. , Dodd, H. , Stuijfzand, B. , Walsh, J. , Broeren, S. (2016) Do you think I should be scared? The effect of peer discussion on children's fears. Behaviour Research and Therapy , 87 pp. 23-33. ISSN: 0005-7967 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2016.08.009
- McGrath, L. , Oates, J. , Dai, Y. , Dodd, H. , Waxler, J. , Clements, C. , Weill, S. , Hoffnagle, A. , Anderson, E. , MacRae, R. , Mullett, J. , McDougle, C. , Pober, B. , Smoller, J. (2016) Attention bias to emotional faces varies by IQ and anxiety in Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 46 (6). pp. 2174-2185. ISSN: 1573-3432 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-016-2748-y
- Lazarus, R. , Dodd, H. , Majdandžić, M. , de Vente, W. , Morris, T. , Byrow, Y. , Bogels, S. , Hudson, J. (2016) The relationship between challenging parenting behaviour and childhood anxiety disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders , 190 pp. 784-791. ISSN: 0165-0327 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2015.11.032
- Ooi, J. , Dodd, H. , Walsh, J. (2015) Shared cognition in childhood anxiety: interpretation bias in preschool children and their parents. Journal of Child and Family Studies , 24 (11). pp. 3413-3422. ISSN: 1573-2843 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-015-0143-5
- Dodd, H. , Stuijfzand, S. , Morris, T. , Hudson, J. (2015) Child anxiety and the processing and ambiguity. Cognitive Therapy and Research , 39 (5). pp. 669-677. ISSN: 0147-5916 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-015-9689-1
- Dodd, H. , Hudson, J. , Williams, T. , Morris, T. , Lazarus, R. , Byrow, Y. (2015) Anxiety and attentional bias in preschool-aged children: an eyetracking study. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology , 43 (6). pp. 1055-1065. ISSN: 0091-0627 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-014-9962-x
- van Bergen, P. , Graham, L. , Sweller, N. , Dodd, H. (2014) The psychology of containment: mis/representing emotional and behavioural difficulties in Australian schools. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties , 20 (1). pp. 64-81. ISSN: 1363-2752 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632752.2014.947101
- Morris, T. , Hudson, J. , Dodd, H. (2014) Risk-taking and inhibitory control in behaviourally inhibited and disinhibited preschool children. Personality and Individual Differences , 71 pp. 113-117. ISSN: 0191-8869 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.07.037
- Broeren, S. , Newall, C. , Dodd, H. , Hudson, J. (2014) Longitudinal investigation of the role of temperament and stressful life events in childhood anxiety. Development and Psychopathology , 26 (2). pp. 437-449. ISSN: 1469-2198 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579413000989
- Willis, M. , Dodd, H. , Palermo, R. (2013) The relationship between anxiety and the social judgements of approachability and trustworthiness. PLoS ONE , 8 (10). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0076825
- Ng, A. , Dodd, H. , Gamble, A. , Hudson, J. (2013) The relationship between parent and child dysfunctional beliefs about sleep and child sleep. Journal of Child and Family Studies , 22 (6). pp. 827-835. ISSN: 1573-2843 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-012-9637-6
- Dodd, H. , Hudson, J. , Morris, T. , Wise, C. (2012) Interpretation bias in preschool children at risk for anxiety: a prospective study. Journal of Abnormal Psychology , 121 (1). pp. 28-38. ISSN: 1939-1846 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0024589
- Hudson, J. and Dodd, H. (2012) Informing early intervention: preschool predictors of anxiety disorders in middle childhood. PLoS ONE , 7 (8). ISSN: 1932-6203 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042359
- Hudson, J. , Dodd, H. , Bovopoulos, N. (2011) Temperament, family environment and anxiety in preschool children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology , 39 (7). pp. 939-951. ISSN: 0091-0627 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-011-9502-x
- Dodd, H. , Hudson, J. , Lyneham, H. , Wuthrich, V. , Morris, T. , Monier, L. (2011) Self-ratings and observer-ratings of social skill: a manipulation of state social anxiety in anxious and non-anxious children. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology , 2 (4). pp. 571-585. ISSN: 2043-8087 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5127/jep.019211
- Dodd, H. and Porter, M. (2011) There’s that scary picture: attention bias to threatening scenes in Williams syndrome. Neuropsychologia , 49 (2). pp. 247-253. ISSN: 0028-3932 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.11.023
- Dodd, H. and Porter, M. (2011) Interpretation of ambiguous situations: evidence for a dissociation between social and physical threat in Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 41 (3). pp. 266-274. ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-010-1048-1
- Hudson, J. , Dodd, H. , Lyneham, H. , Bovopoulos, N. (2011) The role of temperament and family environment in the development of anxiety disorder: two-year follow-up. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry , 50 (12). pp. 1255-1264. ISSN: 0890-8567 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2011.09.009
- Dodd, H. , Porter, M. , Peters, G. , Rapee, R. (2010) Social approach in preschool children with Williams syndrome: the role of the face. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research , 54 (3). pp. 194-203. ISSN: 0964-2633 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2009.01241.x
- Dodd, H. and Porter, M. (2010) I see happy people: attention bias towards happy but not angry facial expressions in Williams syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry , 15 (6). pp. 549-567. ISSN: 1464-0619 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13546801003737157
- Dodd, H. , Schniering, C. , Porter, M. (2009) Beyond behaviour: is social anxiety low in Williams syndrome. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , 39 (12). pp. 1673-1681. ISSN: 0162-3257 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-009-0806-4
- Dodd, H. and Porter, M. (2009) Psychopathology in Williams Syndrome: the effect of individual differences across the life span. Journal of mental health research in intellectual disabilities , 2 (2). pp. 89-109. ISSN: 1931-5872 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19315860902725867