Ryan McKay

Department of Psychology
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX
United Kingdom
Email: ryantmckay[at]mac[dot]com

 

Papers

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McKay, R. (in press). Delusional inference. Mind & Language. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. (in press). Isn’t it ironic? A review of ‘Why Everyone (Else) is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind’. Evolution & Human Behavior. DOWNLOAD

Harrison, J. & McKay, R. (in press). Delay discounting rates are temporally stable in a matching procedure using theoretical and ‘Area under the Curve’ analyses. The Psychological Record.

Bourrat, P., Baumard, N. & McKay, R. (2011). Surveillance cues enhance moral condemnation. Evolutionary Psychology, 9(2), 193-199. DOWNLOAD

Coltheart, M., Langdon, R. & McKay, R. (2011). Delusional belief. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 271–98. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Efferson, C., Whitehouse, H. & Fehr, E. (2011). Wrath of God: Religious primes and punishment. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278, 1858–1863. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.2125 DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Mijovic-Prelec, D. & Prelec, D. (2011). Protesting too much: Self-deception and self-signaling (Commentary on von Hippel and Trivers). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34(1), 34-35. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. (in press). Delusions. To appear in H. Pashler, T. Crane, M. Kinsbourne, F. Ferreira & R. Zemel (Eds.) The Encyclopedia of the Mind. SAGE.

McKay, R. & Efferson, C. (2010). The subtleties of error management. Evolution & Human Behavior, 31, 309-319. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. & Kinsbourne, M. (2010). Confabulation, delusion, and anosognosia: Motivational factors and false claims. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 15(1/2/3), 288-318. (Also printed in R. Langdon & M. Turner (Eds.) Delusion and confabulation. Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science series. Series edited by Coltheart, M. Psychology Press.) DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Arciuli, J., Atkinson, A., Bennett, E. & Pheils, E. (2010). Lateralisation of self-esteem: An investigation using a dichotically presented auditory adaptation of the Implicit Association Test. Cortex, 46, 367–373. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. & Dennett, D. (2009). The evolution of misbelief (Target article); Our evolving beliefs about evolved misbelief (Response to commentaries). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32(6), 493-561. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2009). "Sleights of mind": Delusions and self-deception. In T. Bayne & J. Fernandez (Eds.) Delusion and Self-Deception: Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation (pp. 165-185). Hove: Psychology Press.

Baird, A. D. & McKay, R. T. (2008). Psychological factors in retrograde amnesia: Self-deception and a broken heart. Neurocase, 14(5), 400-413. DOWNLOAD

Langdon, R., McKay, R. & Coltheart, M. (2008). The cognitive neuropsychological understanding of persecutory delusions. In D. Freeman, R. Bentall & P. Garety (Eds.), Persecutory Delusions: Assessment, Theory, and Treatment (pp. 221-236). New York: Oxford University Press.

Coltheart, M., Langdon, R. & McKay, R. (2007). Schizophrenia and monothematic delusions. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33(3), 642-647. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. & Anderson, M. (2007). Reconciling psychodynamic and neurological perspectives on denial. Cortex, 43, 1102-1103. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. & Cipolotti, L. (2007). Attributional style in a case of Cotard delusion. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 349-359. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). Jumping to delusions? Paranoia, probabilistic reasoning and need for closure. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12(4), 362-376.

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). Models of misbelief: Integrating motivational and deficit theories of delusions. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 932-941.

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2007). The defensive function of persecutory delusions: An investigation using the Implicit Association Test. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12(1), 1-24. DOWNLOAD

Dennett, D. & McKay, R. (2006). A continuum of mindfulness (Commentary on Mesoudi et al.). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(4), 353-354. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2006). Need for closure, jumping to conclusions and decisiveness in delusion-prone individuals. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 194(6), 422-426.   DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2006). The Persecutory Ideation Questionnaire. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 194(8), 628-631. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2005). Paranoia, persecutory delusions and attributional biases. Psychiatry Research, 136, 233-245. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R., Langdon, R. & Coltheart, M. (2005). "Sleights of mind": Delusions, defences and self-deception. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 10(4), 305-326. DOWNLOAD

McKay, R. (2004). Hallucinating God? The cognitive neuropsychiatry of religious belief and experience. Evolution and Cognition, 10(1), 114-125.

Rhodes, G., Yoshikawa, S., Clark, A., Lee, K., McKay, R. & Akamatsu, S. (2001). Attractiveness of facial averageness and symmetry in non-Western cultures: In search of biologically based standards of beauty. Perception, 30, 611-625. Pion Limited, London.   DOWNLOAD

Rhodes, G., Zebrowitz, L. A., Clark, A., Kalick, S. M., Hightower, A. & McKay, R. (2001). Do facial averageness and symmetry signal health? Evolution & Human Behavior, 22(1), 31-46. DOWNLOAD