It was a third year psychology paper (PSYC 319) and its teacher (Professor Michael Colombo) that first got Damian interested in psychology. After completing his BSc in Zoology, Damian went onto complete his PhD in Professor Colombo's lab. His PhD research focused on how pigeons execute and plan sequences. Damian continues to collaborate with Professor Colombo and Damian's comparative research now employs electrophysiological techniques in order to uncover how sequences are represented at the neural level.
Dr Damian Scarf received his PhD from the University of Otago in 2011. Damian's PhD focused on the representation and planning of sequences in pigeons. During the course of his PhD Damian received a Fulbright scholarship and worked as a visiting researcher in Professor Herb Terrace's Primate Cognition Lab at Columbia University. While at Columbia University, Damian investigated the planning abilities of rhesus monkeys and transitive preference in children. Damian received several other scholarships during his PhD as well as a number of travel grants. At the time his PhD was conferred, Damian had 9 first author publications. Damian's PhD was also placed on the University of Otago Division of Sciences List of Exception PhD Theses.
After completing his PhD Damian went on to be Postdoctoral Fellow, and subsequently a Research Fellow, in Professor Harlene Hayne's child development lab. In Professor Hayne's lab Damian focused on memory development in young children and investigated whether children are born with an innate sense of right and wrong.
In 2013 Damian became a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology. Damian is now the head of the Adolescent Behaviour and Child Development (ABCD) Lab. The current focus of Damian's research is positive youth development in high school students and alcohol consumption in university students.
Riordan, B. C., Conner, T. S., Scarf, D., Winter, T., Mason, A., Anderson-Luxford, D., & Kuntsche, E. (2023). FoMO predicts alcohol use and harms over and above the big five personality traits among university students. Journal of Substance Use. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/14659891.2023.2288846
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Riordan, B., Scarf, D., Merrill, J. E., Lim, M. S. C., & Kuntsche, E. (2023). How is substance use portrayed in digital media and what impacts can it have? Drug & Alcohol Review. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/dar.13784
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Mason, A., Riordan, B. C., Winter, T., Conner, T., Sibley, C., & Scarf, D. (2023). Effects of vaping on uptake and cessation of smoking: Longitudinal analysis in Aotearoa New Zealand adults. Proceedings of the New Zealand Biostatistics Conference. Retrieved from https://events.otago.ac.nz/2023-biostatistics-conference
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Mason, A., Schimanski, I., Treharne, G. J., Rapsey, C., & Scarf, D. (2023). A test of the Three Step Theory for suicide in Aotearoa New Zealand university students. Proceedings of the New Zealand Biostatistics Conference. Retrieved from https://events.otago.ac.nz/2023-biostatistics-conference
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Mason, A., Riordan, B. C., Winter, T., Conner, T., Sibley, C., & Scarf, D. (2023). Is it all one big cloud of smoke? Effects of vaping on uptake and cessation of smoking: Longitudinal analysis in Aotearoa New Zealand adults. Drug & Alcohol Review, 42(Suppl. 1), 197. doi: 10.1111/dar.13749
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Cooper, J. R. H., Scarf, D., & Conner, T. S. (2023). University students’ opinions towards mobile sensing data collection: A qualitative analysis. Frontiers in Digital Health, 5, 1125276. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2023.1125276
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Crampton, P., Bagg, W., Bristowe, Z., Brunton, P., Curtis, E., Hendry, C., … Scarf, D., … Williman, J., & Wilson, D. (2023). National cross-sectional study of the sociodemographic characteristics of Aotearoa New Zealand's regulated health workforce pre-registration students: A mirror on society? BMJ Open, 13, e065380. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065380
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Garcia, C., Grant, E., Treharne, G. J., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Lucassen, M. F. G., Scarf, D., … Rapsey, C. (2023). ‘Is it worth potentially dealing with someone who won't get it?’: LGBTQA+ university students’ perspectives on mental health care. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2023.2235297
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Garcia, C., Grant, E., Treharne, G. J., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Lucassen, M. F. G., Scarf, D., … Rapsey, C. (2023). ‘We’ll be okay together’: Navigating challenges as queer university students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Kōtuitui. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2023.2235297
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Graham, S., Newell, E., Phillips, J. B., Pritchard, M., & Scarf, D. (2023). Curating a body-positive feed? An attempt to mitigate the negative impacts of thin-ideal content on Instagram. Body Image, 46, 168-173. doi: 10.1016/j.bodyim.2023.06.002
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Hinten, A. E., Wolsey, K., Henderson, A. M. E., & Scarf, D. (2023). A survey of screen media access and use in primary school children's households. Children, 10, 28. doi: 10.3390/children10010028
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Mason, A., Riordan, B. C., Morley, K., Winter, T., Haber, P., & Scarf, D. (2023). High risk or risky highs: Understanding the links between alcohol and cannabis use on the transition from suicidal ideation to attempts in Australian men. Archives of Suicide Research. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13811118.2023.2199801
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Mason, A., Riordan, B. C., Winter, T., Conner, T. S., Sibley, C. G., & Scarf, D. (2023). Effects of vaping on uptake and cessation of smoking: Longitudinal analysis in Aotearoa New Zealand adults. Drug & Alcohol Review, 42, 1587-1594. doi: 10.1111/dar.13702
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Riordan, B. C., Winter, T., Carey, K. B., Conner, T. S., Moradi, S., Jang, K., Reid, K. E., Mason, A., & Scarf, D. (2023). A combined web based intervention and ecological momentary intervention for reducing alcohol use among incoming first-year university students: Results from a three-arm randomised controlled trial. Addictive Behaviors, 136, 107471. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107471
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Ruffman, T., Chen, L., Lorimer, B., Vanier, S., Edgar, K., Scarf, D., & Taumoepeau, M. (2023). Exposure to behavioral regularities in everyday life predicts infants' acquisition of mental state vocabulary. Developmental Science, 26, e13343. doi: 10.1111/desc.13343
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Tan, K., Stolte, O., Waitoki, W., & Scarf, D. (2023). How well does psychological research in Aotearoa New Zealand reflect diversity? Journal of the New Zealand College of Clinical Psychologists, 33(1), 79-91. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.8187842
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Tanveer, S., Schluter, P. J., Beaglehole, B., Porter, R. J., Boden, J., Sulaiman-Hill, R., Scarf, D., Dean, S., … Bell, C. (2023). The COVID Psychosocial Impacts Scale: A reliable and valid tool to examine the psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 20, 5990. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20115990
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Winter, T., Riordan, B. C., Pakpour, A. H., Griffiths, M. D., Mason, A., Poulgrain, J. W., & Scarf, D. (2023). Evaluation of the English version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale and its relationship with behavior change and political beliefs. International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, 21, 372-382. doi: 10.1007/s11469-020-00342-9
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Winter, T., Riordan, B. C., Scarf, D., & Jose, P. E. (2023). Experimentally induced changes in authoritarian submission as a response to threat. Scientific Reports, 13, 18699. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-44713-3
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Arahanga-Doyle, H., Shine, B., Treharne, G. J., Hunter, J., Yan, R., Rapana, W., & Scarf, D. (2022). R. Tucker Thompson II: "It was more like Whānau": Social identity during an adventure education programme. In D. Scarf (Ed.), Adventure education and positive youth development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. (pp. 73-93). New York, NY: Nova. doi: 10.52305/DNIB7572
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Buckingham, A., Jang, K., Pritchard, M., Winter, T., Riordan, B. C., & Scarf, D. (2022). A high school where I belong: The relationship between high school belonging and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale (DASS-21). In D. Scarf (Ed.), Adventure education and positive youth development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. (pp. 45-59). New York, NY: Nova. doi: 10.52305/DNIB7572
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Buckingham, A., Riordan, B. C., Pritchard, M., Winter, T., & Scarf, D. (2022). A school-based intervention to promote positive youth development: A pilot experimental study. In D. Scarf (Ed.), Adventure education and positive youth development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. (pp. 1-16). New York, NY: Nova. doi: 10.52305/DNIB7572
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Clarke, H. B., Pritchard, M., Scarf, D., & Hunter, J. A. (2022). They don't stop believin': Sail training produces sustained increases in general and domain-specific self-efficacy in youth. In D. Scarf (Ed.), Adventure education and positive youth development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. (pp. 17-43). New York, NY: Nova. doi: 10.52305/DNIB7572
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McIntyre, L., Schaaf, M., Schaaf, M., Marsters, C. P. E., Scarf, D., Quensell, J., & Jones, S. (2022). Mental health in Pasifika adolescents: Understanding this group within a rugby team environment. In D. Scarf (Ed.), Adventure education and positive youth development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. (pp. 141-154). New York, NY: Nova. doi: 10.52305/DNIB7572
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Rankin, V., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Scarf, D., & Hunter, J. A. (2022). How ingroup favoritism functions as a defense against threat. In A. Akande (Ed.), Handbook of racism, xenophobia, and populism: All forms of discrimination in the United States and around the globe. (pp. 387-414). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-13559-0_18
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Zimmerman, H., Jao, C.-W., Pritchard, M., Riordan, B. C., & Scarf, D. (2022). Virtual violence and competition: A failure to demonstrate the negative effects of video games and a note on their potential for youth development. In D. Scarf (Ed.), Adventure education and positive youth development in Aotearoa, New Zealand. (pp. 123-139). New York, NY: Nova. doi: 10.52305/DNIB7572
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Godward, J., Riordan, B. C., Winter, T., Ashton, J. C., Hunter, J., & Scarf, D. (2022). Lung cancer attracts greater stigma than other cancer types in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Oncology, 2022, 2183055. doi: 10.1155/2022/2183055
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Low, A. C. Y., Oh, V. Y. S., Tong, E. M. W., Scarf, D., & Ruffman, T. (2022). Older adults have difficulty decoding emotions from the eyes, whereas Easterners have difficulty decoding emotion from the mouth. Scientific Reports, 12, 7408. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11381-8
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Mason, A., Johnstone, G., Riordan, B. C., Lie, C., Rapsey, C., Treharne, G. J., Jang, K., Collings, S., & Scarf, D. (2022). Understanding Aotearoa New Zealand university students intentions to seek help if experiencing mental distress: A comparison of naturalistic and interventional findings. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 19, 15836. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192315836
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Mason, A., Winter, T., Riordan, B. C., Griffiths, M. D., & Scarf, D. (2022). Evaluation of the English version of the Smartphone Application-Based Addition Scale (SABAS) among an adolescent sample. Psych, 4, 961-968. doi: 10.3390/psych4040071
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Poulgrain, J. W., Bremner, N. M., Zimmerman, H., Jao, C.-W., Winter, T., Riordan, B. C., … Hunter, J., & Scarf, D. (2022). Why so serious? An attempt to mitigate the short-term harmful effects of the film Joker on prejudice toward people with mental illness. Behavioral Sciences, 12(10), 384. doi: 10.3390/bs12100384
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Riordan, B. C., Winter, T., Flett, J. A. M., Mason, A., Scarf, D., Jose, P. E., & Conner, T. S. (2022). Does the fear of missing out moderate the relationship between social networking use and affect: A daily diary study. Psychological Reports, 125(6), 3084-3099. doi: 10.1177/00332941211040441
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Winter, T., Jose, P. E., Riordan, B. C., Bizumic, B., Ruffman, T., Hunter, J. A., … Scarf, D. (2022). Left-wing support of authoritarian submission to protect against societal threat. PLoS ONE, 17(7), e0269930. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0269930
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Winter, T., Riordan, B. C., Scarf, D., & Jose, P. E. (2022). Conspiracy beliefs and distrust of science predicts reluctance of vaccine uptake of politically right-wing citizens. Vaccine, 40, 1896-1903. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.01.039
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Du, K., Hunter, J. A., Scarf, D., & Ruffman, T. (2021). Chinese children's in-group favoritism is affected by age and gender. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 72, 101232. doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101232
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Graham, S., Mason, A., Riordan, B., Winter, T., & Scarf, D. (2021). Taking a break from social media improves wellbeing through sleep quality. Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 24(6), 421-425. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0217
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Johnston, M., Scarf, D., Wilson, A., Millar, J., Bartonicek, A., & Colombo, M. (2021). The effects of hippocampal and area parahippocampalis lesions on the processing and retention of serial-order behavior, autoshaping, and spatial behavior in pigeons. Hippocampus, 31, 261-280. doi: 10.1002/hipo.23287
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Lin, C.-Y., Hou, W.-L., Mamun, M. A., da Silva, J. A., Broche-Pérez, Y., Ullah, I., … Scarf, D., … Pakpour, A. H. (2021). Fear of COVID-19 Scale (FCV-19S) across countries: Measurement invariance issues. Nursing Open, 8, 1892-1908. doi: 10.1002/nop2.855
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Mason, A., Jang, K., Morley, K., Scarf, D., Collings, S. C., & Riordan, B. C. (2021). A content analysis of Reddit users' perspectives on reasons for not following through with a suicide attempt. Cyberpsychology, Behavior & Social Networking, 24(10), 642-647. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2020.0521
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Mason, A., Riordan, B. C., Jang, K., Collings, S. C., & Scarf, D. (2021). A test of the three-way interaction of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide in an Aotearoa New Zealand university sample. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 50(2), 4-8.
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Monds, L. A., Riordan, B. C., Flett, J. A. M., Conner, T. S., Haber, P., & Scarf, D. (2021). How intoxicated are you? Investigating self and observer intoxication ratings in relation to blood alcohol concentration. Drug & Alcohol Review, 40, 1173-1177. doi: 10.1111/dar.13241
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Pakpour, A. H., Liu, C.-h., Hou, W.-L., Chen, Y.-P., Li, Y.-P., Kuo, Y.-J., … Scarf, D. (2021). Comparing fear of COVID-19 and preventive COVID-19 infection behaviors between Iranian and Taiwanese older people: Early reaction may be a key. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, 740333. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.740333
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Raubenheimer, J. E., Riordan, B. C., Merrill, J. E., Winter, T., Ward, R. M., Scarf, D., & Buckley, N. A. (2021). Hey Google! Will New Zealand vote to legalise cannabis? Using Google Trends data to predict the outcome of the 2020 New Zealand cannabis referendum. International Journal of Drug Policy, 90, 103083. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.103083
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Riordan, B. C., Flett, J. A. M., Cody, L. M., Conner, T. S., & Scarf, D. K. (2021). The Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) and event-specific drinking: The relationship between FoMO and alcohol use, harm, and breath alcohol concentration during orientation week. Current Psychology, 40, 3691-3701. doi: 10.1007/s12144-019-00318-6
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Riordan, B. C., Raubenheimer, J., Ward, R. M., Merrill, J. E., Winter, T., & Scarf, D. (2021). Monitoring the sentiment of cannabis-related tweets in the lead up to New Zealand's cannabis referendum. Drug & Alcohol Review, 40, 835-841. doi: 10.1111/dar.13184
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Winter, T., Riordan, B. C., Hunter, J. A., Tustin, K., Gollop, M., Taylor, N., Kokaua, J., Poulton, R., & Scarf, D. (2021). A longitudinal study of mental wellbeing in students in Aotearoa New Zealand who transitioned into PhD study. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 659163. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659163
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O'Brien, K. S., Puhl, R. M., Latner, J. D., Lynott, D., Reid, J. D., Vakhitova, Z., Hunter, J. A., Scarf, D., … Carter, A. (2020). The effect of a food addiction explanation model for weight control and obesity on weight stigma. Nutrients, 12(2), 294. doi: 10.3390/nu12020294
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Riordan, B. C., Cody, L., Flett, J. A. M., Conner, T. S., Hunter, J., & Scarf, D. (2020). The development of a single item FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) scale. Current Psychology, 39, 1215-1220. doi: 10.1007/s12144-018-9824-8
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Ruffman, T., Lorimer, B., Vanier, S., Scarf, D., Du, K., & Taumoepeau, M. (2020). Use of a head camera to examine maternal input and its relation to 10- to 26-month-olds' acquisition of mental and non-mental state vocabulary. Journal of Child Language, 47(6), 1228-1243. doi: 10.1017/s0305000920000240
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Scarf, D. (2019). Symbolic distance. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1515-1
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Arahanga-Doyle, H., Moradi, S., Brown, K., Neha, T., Hunter, J. A., & Scarf, D. (2019). Positive youth development in Māori and New Zealand European adolescents through an adventure education programme. Kōtuitui, 14(1), 38-51. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2018.1508479
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Koni, E., Moradi, S., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Neha, T., Hayhurst, J. G., Boyes, M., Cruwys, T., Hunter, J. A., & Scarf, D. (2019). Promoting resilience in adolescents: A new social identity benefits those who need it most. PLoS ONE, 14(1), e0210521. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210521
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Lord, J., van der Vliet, W., Anderson, P., Colombo, M., & Scarf, D. (2019). Very superstitious? A preliminary investigation of pigeons' body position during a matching-to-sample task under differential and common outcome conditions. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 32. doi: 10.46867/ijcp.2019.32.00.06
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Moradi, S., Jang, K., Pehrson, S., Boden, H., Arahanga-Doyle, H., Hunter, J. A., … Scarf, D. (2019). Express yourself? Ease to express one’s identity mediates the relationship between national belonging and mental health. Kōtuitui, 14(2), 290-304. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2019.1632907
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Scarf, D., Smith, C. D., Jaswal, V. K., Magnuson, J., & Terrace, H. (2018). Chunky Monkey? The spontaneous temporal chunking of simultaneous chains by Humans (Homo Sapiens) and rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). In A. Ibáñez-Contreras & B. Hernandez-Godinez (Eds.), Studies of rhesus monkeys and their behaviors. (pp. 39-58). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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Hinten, A. E., Labuschagne, L. G., Boden, H., & Scarf, D. (2018). Preschool children and young adults' preferences and expectations for helpers and hinderers. Infant & Child Development, 27(4), e2093. doi: 10.1002/icd.2093
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Imuta, K., Scarf, D., Carson, S., & Hayne, H. (2018). Children’s learning and memory of an interactive science lesson: Does the context matter? Developmental Psychology, 54(6), 1029-1037. doi: 10.1037/dev0000487
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Johnston, M., Clarkson, A. N., Gowing, E. K., Scarf, D., & Colombo, M. (2018). The effects of nidopallium caudolaterale inactivation on serial-order behaviour in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Neurophysiology, 120(3), 1143-1152. doi: 10.1152/jn.00167.2018
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Riordan, B. C., Conner, T. S., Flett, J. A. M., Droste, N., Cody, L., Brookie, K. L., Riordan, J. K., & Scarf, D. K. (2018). An intercept study to measure the extent to which New Zealand university students pre-game. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 42(1), 30-34. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12754
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Riordan, B. C., Conner, T. S., Thrul, J., Flett, J. A. M., Carey, K. B., & Scarf, D. (2018). Just a first-year thing? The relations between drinking during Orientation Week and subsequent academic year drinking across class years. Substance Use & Misuse, 53(9), 1501-1510. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2017.1415354
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Scarf, D., Johnston, M., & Colombo, M. (2018). Pigeons (Columba livia) learn a four-item list by trial and error. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132(3), 234-239. doi: 10.1037/com.0000124
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Scarf, D., Kafka, S., Hayhurst, J., Jang, K., Boyes, M., Thomson, R., & Hunter, J. A. (2018). Satisfying psychological needs on the high seas: Explaining increases self-esteem following an Adventure Education Programme. Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning, 18(2), 165-175. doi: 10.1080/14729679.2017.1385496
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Scarf, D., & Colombo, M. (2017). Serial list learning. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1507-1
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Boden, H., Labuschagne, L. G., Hinten, A. E., & Scarf, D. (2017). Episodic foresight beyond the very next event in 3- and 4-year-old children. Developmental Psychobiology, 59(7), 927-931. doi: 10.1002/dev.21544
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Hunter, J. A., Platow, M. J., Moradi, S., Banks, M., Hayhurst, J., Kafka, S., Iversen, G., Scobie, O., Scarf, D., … Ruffman, T. (2017). Subjective belonging and in-group favoritism. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 73, 136-146. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2017.06.010
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Labuschagne, L. G., Cox, T.-J., Brown, K., & Scarf, D. (2017). Too cool? Symbolic but not iconic stimuli impair 4-year-old children's performance on the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm. Behavioural Processes, 36-39. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.11.014
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Riordan, B. C., Conner, T. S., Flett, J. A. M., & Scarf, D. (2017). A text message intervention to reduce first year university students’ alcohol use: A pilot experimental study. Digital Health, 3. doi: 10.1177/2055207617707627
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Riordan, B. C., Scarf, D., Moradi, S., Flett, J. A. M., Carey, K. B., & Conner, T. S. (2017). The accuracy and promise of personal breathalysers for research: Steps toward a cost-effective reliable measure of alcohol intoxication? Digital Health, 3. doi: 10.1177/2055207617746752
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Ruffman, T., Lorimer, B., & Scarf, D. (2017). Do infants really experience emotional contagion? Child Development Perspectives, 11(4), 270-274. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12244
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Scarf, D., Boden, H., Labuschagne, L. G., Gross, J., & Hayne, H. (2017). "What" and "where" was when? Memory for the temporal order of episodic events in children. Developmental Psychobiology, 59(8), 1039-1045. doi: 10.1002/dev.21553
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Scarf, D., Corballis, M. C., Güntürkün, O., & Colombo, M. (2017). Do 'literate' pigeons (Columba livia) show mirror-word generalization? Animal Cognition, 20(5), 999-1002. doi: 10.1007/s10071-017-1116-4
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Scarf, D., Hayhurst, J. G., Riordan, B. C., Boyes, M., Ruffman, T., & Hunter, J. A. (2017). Increasing resilience in adolescents: The importance of social connectedness in adventure education programmes. Australasian Psychiatry, 25(2), 154-156. doi: 10.1177/1039856216671668
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Smith, C. D., & Scarf, D. (2017). Spacing repetitions over long timescales: A review and a reconsolidation explanation. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 962. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00962
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Kafka, S., Hayhurst, J. G., Boyes, M., Scarf, D., Ruffman, T., & Hunter, J. A. (2016). Charting a course to self-esteem: Evidence from four independent studies showing elevated self-esteem following in a 10-day voyage. In F. Holloway (Ed.), Self-esteem: Perspectives, influences and improvement strategies. (pp. 195-230). Nova Science.
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Riordan, B. C., Flett, J. A. M., Conner, T. S., & Scarf, D. (2016). Text message interventions for alcohol use: Current research and future directions. In W. Gutierrez (Ed.), Alcohol consumption: Patterns, influences and health effects. (pp. 185-191). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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Riordan, B. C., Flett, J. A. M., Lam, T., Conner, T. S., & Scarf, D. (2016). The Jekyll and Hyde of our drinking: Event specific drinking, intervention, and prevention. In W. Gutierrez (Ed.), Alcohol consumption: Patterns, influences and health effects. (pp. 129-165). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
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Scarf, D., Boy, K., Uber Reinert, A., Devine, J., Güntürkün, O., & Colombo, M. (2016). Orthographic processing in pigeons (Columba livia). PNAS, 113(40), 11272-11276. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1607870113
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Scarf, D., Moradi, S., McGaw, K., Hewitt, J., Hayhurst, J. G., Boyes, M., Ruffman, T., & Hunter, J. A. (2016). Somewhere I belong: Long-term increases in adolescents’ resilience are predicted by perceived belonging to the in-group. British Journal of Social Psychology, 55(3), 588-599. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12151
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Scarf, D., Stuart, M., Johnston, M., & Colombo, M. (2016). Visual response properties of neurons in four areas of the avian pallium. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 202(3), 235-245. doi: 10.1007/s00359-016-1071-6
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Hayne, H., Imuta, K., & Scarf, D. (2015). Memory development during infancy and early childhood across cultures. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (Vol. 15). (2nd ed.) (pp. 147-154). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.23062-6
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Hayne, H., Scarf, D., & Imuta, K. (2015). Childhood memories. In J. D. Wright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences (Vol. 3). (2nd ed.) (pp. 465-470). Oxford, UK: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.51025-3
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Kumst, S., & Scarf, D. (2015). Your wish is my command! The influence of symbolic modelling on preschool children's delay of gratification. PeerJ, 3, e774. doi: 10.7717/peerj.774
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Payne, G., Taylor, R., Hayne, H., & Scarf, D. (2015). Mental time travel for self and other in three- and four-year-old children. Memory, 23(5), 675-682. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2014.921310
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Riordan, B. C., Conner, T. S., Flett, J. A. M., & Scarf, D. (2015). A brief Orientation Week ecological momentary intervention to reduce university student alcohol consumption. Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs, 76(4), 525-529. doi: 10.15288/jsad.2015.76.525
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Riordan, B. C., Flett, J. A. M., Hunter, J. A., Scarf, D. K., & Conner, T. S. (2015). Fear of missing out (FoMO): The relationship between FoMO, alcohol use, and alcohol-related consequences in college students. Annals of Neuroscience & Psychology, 2, 7. Retrieved from http://www.vipoa.org/neuropsychol/2/7
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Riordan, B. C., Scarf, D., & Conner, T. S. (2015). Is Orientation Week a gateway to persistent alcohol use in university students? A preliminary investigation. Journal of Studies on Alcohol & Drugs, 76(2), 204-211.
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Staniland, J., Colombo, M., & Scarf, D. (2015). The Generation Effect or simply generating an effect? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 129(4), 329-333. doi: 10.1037/a0039450
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Imuta, K., Hayne, H., & Scarf, D. (2014). I want it all and I want it now: Delay of gratification in preschool children. Developmental Psychobiology, 56(7), 1541-1552. doi: 10.1002/dev.21249
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Scarf, D., Millar, J., Pow, N., & Colombo, M. (2014). Inhibition, the final frontier: The impact of hippocampal lesions on behavioral inhibition and spatial processing in pigeons. Behavioral Neuroscience, 128(1), 42-47. doi: 10.1037/a0035487
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Scarf, D., Smith, C., & Stuart, M. (2014). A spoon full of studies helps the comparison go down: A comparative analysis of Tulving’s spoon test. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 893. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00893
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Scarf, D., Terrace, H., Colombo, M., & Magnuson, J. S. (2014). Eye movements reveal planning in humans: A comparison with Scarf and Colombo's (2009) monkeys. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 40(2), 178-184. doi: 10.1037/xan0000008
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Imuta, K., Scarf, D., & Hayne, H. (2013). The effect of verbal reminders on memory reactivation in 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children. Developmental Psychology, 49(6), 1058-1065. doi: 10.1037/a0029432
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Imuta, K., Scarf, D., Pharo, H., & Hayne, H. (2013). Drawing a close to the use of human figure drawings as a projective measure of intelligence. PLoS ONE, 8(3), e58991. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058991
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Scarf, D., Gross, J., Colombo, M., & Hayne, H. (2013). To have and to hold: Episodic memory in 3- and 4-year-old children. Developmental Psychobiology, 55(2), 125-132. doi: 10.1002/dev.21004
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Colombo, M., & Scarf, D. (2012). Neurophysiological studies of learning and memory in pigeons. Comparative Cognition & Behavior Reviews, 7, 23-43. doi: 10.3819/ccbr.2012.7002
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Scarf, D., Imuta, K., Colombo, M., & Hayne, H. (2012). Social evaluation or simple association? Simple associations may explain moral reasoning in infants. PLoS ONE, 7(8), e42698. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042698
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Scarf, D., Terrace, H. S., & Colombo, M. (2011). Planning abilities of monkeys. In R. M. Williams (Ed.), Monkeys: Biology, behavior and disorders. (pp. 137-150). New York: Nova.
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Scarf, D., & Colombo, M. (2011). Knowledge of the ordinal position of list items in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 37(4), 483-487. doi: 10.1037/a0023695
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Scarf, D., Danly, E., Morgan, G., Colombo, M., & Terrace, H. S. (2011). Sequential planning in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Animal Cognition, 14(3), 317-324. doi: 10.1007/s10071-010-0365-2
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Scarf, D., Hayne, H., & Colombo, M. (2011). Pigeons on par with primates in numerical competence. Science, 334(6063), 1664. doi: 10.1126/science.1213357
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Scarf, D., Miles, K., Sloan, A., Goulter, N., Hegan, M., Seid-Fatemi, A., … Colombo, M. (2011). Brain cells in the avian 'prefrontal cortex' code for features of slot-machine-like gambling. PLoS ONE, 6(1), e14589. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014589
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Scarf, D., & Colombo, M. (2010). A positional coding mechanism in pigeons after learning multiple three-item lists. Animal Cognition, 13, 653-661. doi: 10.1007/s10071-010-0315-z
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Scarf, D., & Colombo, M. (2010). Representation of serial order in pigeons (Columba livia). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 36(4), 423-429. doi: 10.1037/a0020926
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