Melanie K. T. Takarangi

No evidence of protection: Imaginary bulletproof glass fails to reduce psychological harm in content moderation

Chloe McDonough, Sarah Lewitzka, Victoria M. E. Bridgland, Ella K. Moeck et autres

Content moderators exposed to graphic content online are at risk of negative mental health outcomes including depression, anxiety and distressing intrusive thoughts—a hallmark symptom of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Yet, there is little research on strategies to protect people exposed to graphic …

What is the relationship between stress and prospective memory in everyday environments?

Kaleisha J. Condello, Taylor L. Swain, Tiana Petropoulos, Nadine S. J. Stirling et autres

Prospective memory (PM) – remembering to perform future intentions (Rummel et al., 2023, Prospective memories in the wild: Predicting memory for intentions in natural environments. Memory & Cognition, 51(5), 1061–1075. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01379-y) – is essential for maintaining daily functioning and fulfilling important obligations …

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Emotional armour in the digital age: building adolescents’ emotion regulation skills for managing exposure to negative online content.

Ella Moeck, Melanie K. T. Takarangi, Nadine Stirling, Victoria Bridgland et autres

Our prior research shows adolescents (aged 14-17; and young adults aged 17-24) regularly encounter, and even deliberately seek, negative content online (e.g., self-harm, violent death, animal abuse). Concerningly, that exposure is associated with involuntary intrusive memories of the content, elevated depression, anxiety, …

On the guardianship of JARMAC.

Melanie K. T. Takarangi

This editorial outlines the vision and priorities of the new Editor of the Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (JARMAC), framing editorial leadership through the Māori concept of kaitiakitanga—guardianship grounded in responsibility, care, trust, and stewardship across generations. The editor …

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I think I will forget: exploring the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and prospective memory in everyday life

Lea Krätzig, Taylor L. Swain, Melanie K. T. Takarangi

People with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms often report impaired prospective memory (PM) – the ability to remember future intentions. However, evidence for the relationship between PTSD symptoms and PM performance in the general population varies by assessment method. To minimise self-report …

I think I will forget: exploring the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and prospective memory in everyday life

Lea Krätzig, Taylor L. Swain, Melanie K. T. Takarangi

= 262) completed 16 researcher-dictated PM tasks over four days and reported subjective PM, PTSD symptoms, and metacognitive beliefs (i.e. beliefs about own cognitive processes, including confidence in memory ability). We examined the relationship between PM and PTSD symptoms and whether metacognitive …

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I think I will forget: exploring the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and prospective memory in everyday life

Lea Krätzig, Taylor L. Swain, Melanie K. T. Takarangi

People with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms often report impaired prospective memory (PM) – the ability to remember future intentions. However, evidence for the relationship between PTSD symptoms and PM performance in the general population varies by assessment method. To minimise self-report …

The role of negative cognitions, dissociation, and meta-awareness in the relationship between mind-wandering and depression: A serial mediation model.

Diane M. Nayda, Melanie K. T. Takarangi

Mind-wandering is associated with negative mood and depression.Factors potentially affecting this relationship include negative cognitions (i.e., perseverative thinking and brooding) and meta-awareness (i.e., explicit awareness of thoughts).However, how meta-awareness contributes to the relationship is unclear.Because meta-awareness characteristics (e.g., not being aware of …

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Mandatory Reporting of Adverse Childhood Events Identified in the Context of Data Collection: A South Australian Experience

Damien W. Riggs, Dan Thorpe, Lara King, Amy Duke et autres

Key Practitioner Messages Researchers benefit from training about reporting abuse identified or disclosed in the context of data collection. Strategies for mitigating parental gatekeeping of disclosures of abuse during data collection are important. Researchers should be given clear guidance about their legal …

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Disgust reactions to a remembered trauma analogue are similarly persistent to fear reactions.

Sasha Cox, Lucy A. Matson, Melanie K. T. Takarangi

= 118), we replicated our second experiment using a 1-week delay. Disgust and fear faded similarly when the intensity of emotional reactions was maximized at encoding, but when these emotional reactions were matched at an initial moderately intense level, disgust persisted more …

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Exploring Individual Differences That Predict Enhanced Attention and Memory Toward Disgust

Paul Garrett, Ella Moeck, Melanie K. T. Takarangi

Online consent risk-warnings about negative psychological side-effects do not change participant expectations or cause negative psychological side-effects

Nadine S. J. Stirling, Victoria M. E. Bridgland, Melanie K. T. Takarangi

Risk-warnings delivered as part of informed consent in psychological trauma-related research potentially cause negative outcomes for participants (e.g. Abu-Rus et al., Citation2019; Bridgland & Takarangi, Citation2021). For instance, risk-warnings might suggest psychological side-effects (e.g. distress) to participants, causing them to expect to …

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