Psychology Research Group staff
Dr Sue McHale
BSc (Hons), PhD
Phone 0114 225 2409
E-mail s.l.mchale@shu.ac.uk
Research interests
- dopamine mediated reward mechanisms and stress
- psychological impact of alopecia
Publications 2001 - present
Hunt N. McHale S. The psychological impact of alopecia. The Psychologist. (in press).
Garforth, J. McHale, S.L. Meehan, A. (2006). Executive Attention, task selection and attention-based learning in a neurally controlled simulated robot. Neurocomputing 69 1923-1945.
Hunt, N. and McHale, S. (2005). Reported experiences of persons with alopecia areata. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 10(1). 1-18. (0.263)
Scope, A., Empson, J.M., McHale, S.L., and Nabuzoka, D. The identification of children with behavioural manifestations of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, in mainstream school: The developmnet of the Scope Classroom Observation Checklist. Emotional Behavioural Difficulties. 12(4).
McHale S. Cannabis use: Implications for health psychologists. Health Psychology Update. 15: 3 28-30.
Hunt, N and McHale S. (2005).Clinical review: The Psychological impact of alopecia. British Medical Journal.331; 951-95.
Hunt, N and McHale, S. (2005). Psychological impact of alopecia. Health Psychology Update. 14, 3 35-37
Hunt, N and McHale, S. (2004). Coping with Alopecia. Sheldon Press.
Garforth J, McHale S, Meehan A (2001) Problems of Attentional Behaviour in Autonomous Robotic Systems. In Ella M. Atkins and Lorraine M. Fesq (Eds), Robust Autonomy, AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University, Ca., USA; SS-01-06, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, Ca., USA, 2001, p71-75
Conference proceedings
Day., C.J. McHale, S.L.Francis, J (2006). Relationship between personality and taste preference. Appetite 47 262
Garforth, J, McHale, S., Meehan, A. 2003) Neural Executive Attentional Control in Robots. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003.
Garforth, J, McHale, S., Meehan, A. (2001). Executive Attentional Control in Autonomous Robotic Systems; The Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, Maebashi City, Japan, October 23-26, 2001 World Scientific, Singapore.
