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Chantelle Wood
@chantellewwood.bsky.social
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Social psychologist/behavioural scientist at the University of Sheffield interested in behaviour change (with a focus on indoor air quality) and prejudice-reduction. Avid foodie/amateur green thumb. She/her
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New paper out on #IndoorAirPollution, demonstrating that indoor PM2.5 concentrations (small particles that we can breathe in and that can harm health) are higher in homes in deprived areas, often exceeding WHO 24-hour limits
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Screenshot of title and abstract from the paper.
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Really enjoyed our launch event yesterday for ‘Air Hub: Engineering Healthier Indoor Environments’, with our amazing partners. Looking forward to collaborating with researchers and stakeholders during this EPSRC @ukri.org funded network led by @abigailhathway.bsky.social
Logo picturing a stylised pair of lungs within an outline of a house, along with the word AirHub.
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Our interdisciplinary paper on improving ventilation in the hospitality sector is now online! We found that a lack of guidance + conflicting priorities were key barriers to ventilation, and examine the effectiveness/acceptability of a motivational + guidance intervention. doi.org/10.1016/j.in...
Paper title: Improving hospitality venue ventilation via behavioural change as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights: 1) Ventilation of small-scale hospitality venues was below recommended standards; 2) Better ventilation barriers included limited guidance, funding, and venue ownership; 3) Motivations towards customer satisfaction conflicted with improving ventilation; 4) Introduction of new guidance increased ventilation actions in 3 of 6 venues; 5) Short-term CO2 monitoring helped to inform venue owners of ventilation performance
May 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Really pleased that our meta-analysis on prejudice confrontation (with @lilitou.bsky.social) has now been published in Psychological Bulletin. We find that confronting prejudice is an effective bias reduction technique (but there is more research to be done!): doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
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Screen shot of the abstract and public significance statement. The abstract reads as follows: Confronting prejudice is a promising strategy for reducing intergroup bias. The current meta-analysis estimated the effects of confronting prejudice on intergroup bias in the confronted person and examined the impact of potential moderators. Eligible studies measured intergroup bias in participants confronted versus not confronted for intergroup bias. A three-level mixed-effects analysis on 91 effect sizes found a significant, medium-sized effect of confronting prejudice on reducing intergroup bias (g+ = 0.54). There was only limited evidence of publication bias. Confrontation was differentially effective at reducing different types of intergroup bias with a medium-to-large effect on using or endorsing stereotypes, small-tomedium effects on behavior and behavioral intentions, and no significant effects on cognitive prejudice. Effects were otherwise largely robust to differences in confrontation, sample, and study design characteristics. Yet, studies predominantly focused on whether confronting the use of stereotypes reduced subsequent use of stereotypes in artificial settings, and primarily sampled U.S.-based, young, White adults, making it difficult to generalize effects to other forms of intergroup bias and populations, particularly in realworld settings. Studies also tended to measure intergroup bias immediately after confrontation, so the duration of effects over longer periods is less clear. To better evaluate the potential of confrontation as a prejudice reduction technique, future research should examine whether confronting prejudice reduces different forms of intergroup bias in more diverse participant samples and settings, over longer periods, and further test theoretical mediators of these effects.
February 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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I had a little chuckle to myself while etching this mini bottle to use for propagating houseplant cuttings. Husband didn’t get the joke. Must be psychology humour! #PsySciSky
January 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Interested in finding out what research we’re doing on indoor air quality? Our overview paper on ‘The INGENIOUS project: Towards understanding air pollution in homes’, led by @niccarslaw.bsky.social ‬has now been published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
January 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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New paper on self-objectification by the brilliant
Zhuo Hu, demonstrating that Lindner & Tantleff-Dunn's Self-Objectification Beliefs and Behaviors Scale is valid for measuring self-objectification in cisgender heterosexual men as well as women- doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
January 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM