Publications

International Publications

Papadopoulou, A.-K., Vlachos, F., Badcock, N. A., Phylactou, P., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2023). Exploring cerebral laterality of writing and the relationship to handedness: A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound investigation. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2284407.

Meskó, N., Kowal, M., Láng, A…. Papadatou-Pastou, M., … Han, H. (2023).. Exploring Attitudes Toward “Sugar Relationships” Across 87 Countries: A Global Perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship. Archives of Sexual Behavior.. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-023-02724-1

Jonauskaite, D., Epicoco, D., Al-rasjeed, A.D., ….Papadatou-Pastou, M.,... Mohr, C. (2023). A comparative analysis of colour-emotion associations in 16-88-year old adults from 31 counties. British Journal of Psychology, http://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12687.

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Papadopoulou, A.-K., Samsouris, C., Mundorf, A., Valtou, M.-M., Ocklenburg, S. (2023). Hand preference in stuttering: Meta-analyses. Neuropsychology Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-023-09617-z.

Packheiser, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Koufaki, A., Paracchini, S., Clara C. Stein, C. C., Schmitz, J., & Ocklenburg, S. (2023). Elevated levels of mixed-hand preference in dyslexia: Meta-analyses of 68 studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 154, 105420 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105420

Touloumakos, A. K., Vlachou, E., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2023). “Visual type? Not my type”: A systematic study of the Learning Styles neuromyth employing frequentist and Bayesian statistics. Mind, Brain and Education, 17(3), 1970298. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12380

Vingerhoets, G., Verhelst, H., Gerrits, R., Badcock, N., Bishop, D. V., Carey, D., ... & LICI consortium. (2023). Laterality indices consensus initiative (LICI): A Delphi expert survey report on recommendations to record, assess, and report asymmetry in human behavioural and brain research. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 1-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2023.2199963

Buchanan, E.M., Lewis, S.C., Paris, B. … Papadatou-Pastou, M. …. Zsido, N. (2023). The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01811-7

Kaul, D., Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Learmonth, G. (2023). A meta-analysis of line bisection performance in children. Laterality: Asymmetries of Brain, Behaviour, and Cognition, 28(1), 48-71, https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2022.2147941

Borawski, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Packheiser, J., & Ocklenburg, S. (2022). Handedness in post-traumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 105009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.105009

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Sampanis, P., Koumzis, I., Stefanopoulou, S., Sousani, D., Tsigkou, A., & Badcock, N.A. (2022). Cerebral laterality for writing in right- and left-handers: A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 56(2), 3921-3937 https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15723

Phylactou, P., Traikapi, A., Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Konstantinou, N. (2022). Sensory recruitment in visual short-term memory: A systematic review and meta-analysis of sensory visual cortex interference using transcranial magnetic stimulation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 29, 1594-1629. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02107-y

Dorison, C., Lerner, J. S., Heller, B. H., Rothman, A., Kawachi, I. I., Wang, K., … Papadatou-Pastou, M., … & Coles, N. A. (2022). In COVID-19 health messaging, loss framing increases anxiety with little-to-no concomitant benefits: Experimental evidence from 84 countries. Affective Science, 3, 577-602. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42761-022-00128-3

Kowal, M., Sorokowski, P., Pisanski, K., Valentova, V., …. Papadatou-Pastou, M., … & Zumarraga-Espinosa, M. (2022). Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Evolution and Human Behavior, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.08.003

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration (2022). A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(22) e2111091119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119

Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., ...Papadatou-Pastou, M., … & Matibag, C. J. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 880–895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5

Goozée, R., Barrable, A., Lubenko, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Haddad, M., McKeown, E., Hirani, S. H., Martin, M., & Tzotzoli, P.  (2022). Investigating the feasibility of MePlusMe, an online intervention to support mental health, wellbeing, and study skills in higher education students. Journal of Mental Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2022.2069699

Nastou, E., Ocklenburg, S., Hoogman, M., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2022). Handedness in ADHD: Meta-Analyses. Neuropsychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-021-09530-3

Pfeifer, L. S., Schmitz, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Peterburs, J., Paracchini, S., & Ocklenburg, S. (2022). Handedness in twins: Meta-analyses. BMC Psychology, 10:11 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00695-3

Packheiser, J., Schmitz, J., Stein, C. C., Pfeifer, L. S., Berretz, G., Papadatou-Pastou, M., ... & Ocklenburg, S. (2021). Handedness and depression: A meta-analysis across 87 studies. Journal of Affective Disorders, 294, 200-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.07.052

Westerhausen, R., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2021). Handedness and midsagittal corpus callosum morphology: A meta-analytic evaluation. Brain Structure and Function. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-021-02431-4

Wang K., Goldenberg A., Dorison, C.A., Miller, J.K., Uusberg, A., Lerner, J.S., Gross, J.J., Agesin, B.B., Bernardo, M., Campos, O., Eudave, L., Grzech, K., Ozery, D.H., Jackson, E.A., Luis Garcia, E.O., Drexler, S.M., Jurković, A.P., Rana, K., Wilson, J.P., …Papadatou-Pastou, M., ... Moshontz, H. (2021) A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behavior, 5, 1089–1110 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01173-x

Learmonth, G., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2021). A meta-analysis of line bisection and landmark task performance in older adults. Neuropsychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-021-09505-4

Isparta, S., Kaya, U., Sahin, O., Safak, C. E., Ozer, I. Y., Heath, S., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Demirbas, Y. S. (2021). The first assessment of a dog bite prevention program for pre-school children in Turkey. Journal of Veterinary Behavior, 46, 79-86  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jveb.2021.05.008

Papadatou-Pastou*, M., Panagiotidou, D.A., Abbondanza, F., Fischer, U., Paracchini, S., & Karagiannakis, G. (2021). Hand preference and Mathematical Learning Difficulties: New data from Greece, the United Kingdom, and Germany and two meta-analyses of the literature. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 6, 1-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2021.1906693

Buchanan, E. M., Crain, S. E., Cunningham, A. L., Johnson, H. R., Stash, H., Papadatou-Pastou, M., ... & Aczel, B. (2021). Getting Started Creating Data Dictionaries: How to Create a Shareable Data Set. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 4(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245920928007

Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J., K., … Papadatou-Pastou, M., ...Chartier, C. (2020). Social perception of faces around the world: To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behavior, 5, 159-160. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2

Packheiser, J., Schmitz, J., Berretz, G., Carey, D., Paracchini, S., Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Ocklenburg, S. (2020). Four meta-analyses across 164 studies on atypical footedness prevalence and its relation to handedness.  Scientific Reports, 10, 14501. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71478-w

Ram, V., Schaposnik, L. P., Konstantinou, N., Volkan, E., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Manav, B., Jonauskaite, D., & Mohr, C. (2020). Extrapolating continuous color emotions through deep learning. Physical Review Research, 2, 033350. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.033350

Jonauskaite, D., Abu-Akel, A., Dael, N., Oberfeld, D., Abdel-Khalek, A. M., Al-Rasheed, A. S., Antonietti, J.-P., ...Papadatou-Pastou, M. & … Mohr, C. (2020). Universal patterns in color-emotion associations are further shaped by linguistic and geographic proximity. Psychological Science, 31(10), 1245–1260. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620948810

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Touloumakos, A.K., Koutouveli, C., & Barrable, A. (2020). The Learning Styles neuromyth: When the same term means different things to different teachers. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00485-2.

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Ntolka, E., Schmitz, J., Martin, M., Munafo, M. R., Ocklenburg, S., & Paracchini, S. (2020). Human handedness: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 146(6): 481-524.   https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000229

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Campbell-Thompson, L., Barley, E., Haddad, M., Lafarge, C., McKeown, E., Simeonov, L., & Tzotzoli. P. (2019). Exploring the feasibility and acceptability of the contents, design and functionalities of an online intervention promoting mental health, wellbeing and study skills in Higher Education students. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 13 (1), 51. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-019-0308-5

Packheiser, J., Schmitz, J., Berretz, G., Rook, N., Abdelkader Serir, A., Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Ocklenburg, O. (2019). Handedness and sex effects on lateral biases in human cradling: Three meta-analyses. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 104, 30-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2019.1578228

Jonauskaite, D., Wicker, J., Mohr, C., Dael, N., Havelka, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Zhang, M., & Oberfeld, D. (2019). A machine learning approach to quantifying the specificity of color-emotion associations and their cultural differences. Royal Society Open Science, 6: 190741. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190741

Mohammadi, H., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2019). Cerebral laterality as assessed by hand preference measures and developmental stuttering. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 1-23.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2019.1621329

Ocklenburg, S., Isparta, S., Peterburs, J., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2019). Paw preferences in cats and dogs: Meta-analysis. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2019.1578228

Jonauskaite, D., Mohr, C, Abdel Khalek, A., Abu-Akel, A. …. Papadatou-Pastou, M. ...Zhang, M. (2019). The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 66, 101350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350

Arvanitis, A., Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Hantzi, A. (2019). Agreement in the ultimatum game: An analysis of interpersonal and intergroup context on the basis of the consensualistic approach to negotiation. New Ideas in Psychology, 45, 15-26.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2018.12.005

Papadatou-Pastou*, M., Gritzali, M., & Barrable, A. (2018). Educational neuromyths using the case of learning styles: Lack of agreement between teachers’ judgments of their students’ Learning Styles, self-assessed Learning Styles, and students’ intelligence. Frontiers in Education: Educational Psychology, 3, 105.  https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2018.00105

Ntolka, E., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2018). Right-handers have negligibly higher IQ scores than left-handers: Systematic review and meta-analyses. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 84,376-393.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.08.007

Barrable, A., Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Tzotzoli, P. (2018). Supporting mental health, wellbeing and study skills in higher education: Αn online intervention system. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 12(1), 54. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-018-0233-z

Goozée, R., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Barley, E., Haddad, M., & Tzotzoli, P. (2018). Survey to inform the development of an online support system for higher education Students. Health, 10(03), 351.  https://doi.org/10.4236/health.2018.103028

Markou^, P., Ahtam, B., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2017). Elevated levels of atypical handedness in autism: Meta-analyses. Neuropsychology Review, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-017-9354-4

Papadatou-Pastou*, M., & Martin, M. (2017). Cerebral laterality for language is related to adult salivary testosterone levels but not digit ratio (2D: 4D) in men: A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound study. Brain and Language, 166, 52-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2016.12.002

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Martin, M., & Mohr, C. (2017). Salivary testosterone levels are unrelated to handedness or cerebral lateralization for language. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 22(2), 123-156.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2016.1149485

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Haliou, E., & Vlachos, F. (2017). Brain knowledge and the prevalence of neuromyths among prospective teachers in Greece. Frontiers in Psychology: Educational Psychology, 8, 804.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00804

Kondyli, D., Stathopoulou, D., Badcock, N. A., & Papadatou-Pastou*, M. (2017). Cerebral laterality for the generation of silent and written language in male and female right- and left-handers: A functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound study. Acta Neuropsychologica, 15(4), 407-432. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.7480

Papadatou-Pastou^*, M., Goozee^, R., Payne, E., Barrable, A., & Tzotzoli, P. (2017). A review of web-based support systems for students in higher education. International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 11(1), 59.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s13033-017-0165-z

Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Sáfár, A. (2016). Handedness prevalence in the deaf: Meta-analyses. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 60, 98-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.11.013

Touloumakos, A. K., Goozée, R., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Barley, E., Haddad, M., & Tzotzoli, P. (2016). Online support system for students in higher education: Proof-of-concept study. Digital Health, 2, 2055207616655012.  https://doi.org/10.1177/2055207616655012

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Goozée, R., Barley, E. A., Haddad, M., & Tzotzoli, P. (2015). Online intervention,‘MePlusMe’, supporting mood, wellbeing, study skills, and everyday functioning in students in higher education: A protocol for a feasibility study. BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 1(1), 1-10.  https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-015-0029-8

Papadatou-Pastou, M., & Tomprou^, D. M. (2015). Intelligence and handedness: Meta-analyses of studies on intellectually disabled, typically developing and gifted individuals. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 56, 151-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.06.017

Kyriakides, L., Creemers, B. P. M., Papastylianou, D., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2014). Ιmproving the school learning environment to reduce bullying: An experimental study. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 58(4), 453-478.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2013.773556

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Martin, M., & Munafò, M.R. (2013). Measuring hand preference: a comparison among different response formats using a selected sample. Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition, 18(1), 68-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/1357650X.2011.628794

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Miskowiak, K., Williams, J. M. G., & Harmer, C.J. (2012). Acute antidepressant drug administration and autobiographical memory recall: An fMRI study. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 25(5), 364-372. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027969

Martin, M., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Jones, G. V., & Munafò, M. (2010) Sex and location as determinants of handedness: reply to Vuoksimaa and Kaprio (2010). Psychological Bulletin, 136(3), 348-350.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0019215

Bishop, D. V. M., Watt, H., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2009). An efficient and reliable method for measuring cerebral lateralisation during speech with functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound, Neuropsychologia, 47, 587-590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.09.013

Gilmore, C., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2009). Patterns of individual differences in conceptual understanding and arithmetical skill: A meta-analysis. Special Issue of Mathematical Thinking and Learning on “Young Children’s Understanding and Application of the Addition-Subtraction Inverse Principle”, 11(1), 25-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/10986060802583923

Papadatou-Pastou, M., Martin, M., Munafò, M. R., & Jones, G. V. (2008). Sex differences in left-handedness: A meta-analysis of 144 studies, Psychological Bulletin, 134(5), 677-99.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0012814

Miskowiak, K., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Cowen, P. J., Goodwin, G. M., Norbury, R., & Harmer, C. J. (2007). Single dose antidepressant administration modulates the neural processing of self-referent personality trait word, NeuroImage, 37(3), 904-911. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.05.036

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Publications in Greek Journals

Papadopoulou, A.-K, Vlachos, F., & Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2022). Cerebral lateralization of language in children at risk for dyslexia: A review of neuroscientific evidence. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience & Mental Health, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.26386/obrela.v5i2.228

Τόμπρου, Δ. Μ., Ντόλκα, Ε., & Παπαδάτου-Παστού, Μ. (2017). Το νευροβιολογικό υπόστρωμα της νοημοσύνης: Ανατομικά και λειτουργικά χαρακτηριστικά του εγκεφάλου που συνδέονται με γνωστικές ικανότητες. Ψυχολογία, 22(1), 14-29. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.23264

Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2015). Functional magnetic resonance imaging: The hemodynamic inverse problem. Eleftherna: Annual Review of the Psychology Department, University of Crete, 6, 39-64.
https://ejournals.lib.uoc.gr/index.php/eleftherna/article/view/104/70

Κουφάκη, Α., & Παπαδάτου-Παστού, Μ. (2014). Δυσλεξία και εγκεφαλική ασυμμετρία. Ανασκόπηση μελετών ανατομικής και λειτουργικής απεικόνισης. Ψυχολογία, 21(4), 379-394. https://doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.23508

Παπαδάτου-Παστού, Μ., Κουφάκη, Α., Ράντου, Ν. Μ., & Τόμπρου, Δ. Μ. (2013). Λειτουργικός διακρανιακός υπέρηχος Doppler: αρχές λειτουργίας και εφαρμογές στη μελέτη της ημισφαιρικής επικράτησης της γλώσσας. Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 10, 61-77.

Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2011). Are connectionist models neurally plausible? A critical appraisal. Encephalos: Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 48(1), 5-12.

Papadatou-Pastou, M. (2011). Handedness and language lateralization: Why are we right-handed and left- brained? Hellenic Journal of Psychology, 8, 248-265.

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