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Dewe, P., Cox, T., & Ferguson, E (1993). Individual strategies for coping with stress at work: a review of progress and directions for future research. Work and Stress, 7, 5-15.

Ferguson, E. (1993). Rotter's locus of control scale: a ten-item two-factor model. Psychological Reports, 73, 1267-1278

Ferguson, E., & Cox, T. (1993). Exploratory factor analysis A users guide. International Journal of Selection and Assessment, 1, 84 - 94.

Ferguson, E., Dodds, A., Flannagan, H., & Ng, L. (1994). Perceived control: distinct but related levels of analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 16, 425-432

Anderson, N., Payne, T., Ferguson, E., & Smith, T. (1994). Assessors decision making: an investigation into information processing and assessor decision strategies in a British assessment centre. Personnel Review, 23, 52-62

Ferguson, E., Payne, T., & Anderson, N. (1994). Occupational personality assessment: theory, structure and psychometrics of the OPQ FMX-5 student. Personality and Individual Differences 17, 217-225

Ferguson, E., Cox, T; Farnsworth, W; Leiter, M & Irving, K. (1994). Nurses' anxieties about biohazards as a function of context and knowledge. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 24, 926-940

Ferguson, E., Dodds, A., Craig, D., Flannigan, H., & Yates, L. (1994). The changing face of adjustment to sight loss: a longitudinal evaluation of rehabilitation. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 9, 287-306

Farnsworth, B., Cox, T., Cox, S., & Ferguson, E. (1994). Managing health and safety in hospitals. British Journal of Nursing. 3, 831-836

Dodds, A., Ferguson, E., Flannigan, H., Hawes, G., & Yates, L. (1994). The concept of adjustment: a structural model. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 88, 487-498

Cox, T., & Ferguson, E. (1994). Subjective assessments of the work environment. Work & Stress, 8, 98-109

Anderson, N., Alkhader, O., Ferguson, E., Patterson, F., & Cunningham-Snell, N. (1995). Human resource management group, University of Nottingham, UK.. International Journal of Assessment and Selection, 3, 62-66

Ferguson, E., & Daniel, E. (1995). The Illness Attitudes Scale (IAS): A psychometric analysis in a non-clinical population. Personality and Individual Differences, 18, 463-469

Ferguson, E., Cox, T., Irving, K., Leiter, M., & Farnsworth, W. (1995). A measure of medical and non-medical students' knowledge and confidence in knowledge of HIV and AIDS: reliability and validity. AIDS Care, 7, 211-228

Ferguson, E., & Cheyne, A. (1995), Reactions to organisational change: main and interactive effects. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, 68, 99-106

Ferguson, E. (1996a). Hypochondriacal concerns: the roles of raw and calibrated medical knowledge. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1, 315-318

Ferguson, E. (1996b) Predictors of future behaviour: A review of the psychological literature on blood donation. British Journal of Health Psychology, 1, 287-308

Ferguson, E. & Cox, T. (1996). An implicit theory of perceived control. European Psychologist, 1, 271-277.

Silvester, J., Ferguson, E. & Patterson, F. (1997). Comparing spoken attributions by German and British engineers: Evaluating a culture change programme. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 6, 103-117

Ferguson, E. & Cox, T. (1997). The functional dimensions of coping scale: theory, reliability and validity. British Journal of Health Psychology, 2 109-129.

Ferguson, E., Singh, A. & Cunningham-Snell, N. (1997). Stress and blood donation: effects of music and previous donation experience. British Journal of Psychology, 88, 277-294

Ferguson, E., Kerrin, M., & Patterson, F. (1997). The use of multidimensional scaling (MDS): A cognitive mapping technique in occupational settings. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 12, 204-214

Ferguson, E. (1997). HIV/AIDS knowledge and HIV/AIDS risk perception: the mediating effects of social comparisons. Work & Stress, 11, 103-117.

Irving, K., Ferguson, E., Cox, T. & Farnsworth, W. (1997). Nurses' evaluations of sources of information about HIV and AIDS. Journal of the Royal Society for Health, 117, 298-303

Miller, A., Ferguson, E., & Simpson, E. (1998). Perceived effectiveness of rewards and sanctions in primary school: adding in the parental perspective. Educational Psychology, 18, 55-64

Ferguson, E., & Patterson, F. (1998). The five factor model of personality: Openness a distinct but related construct. Personality and Individual Differences, 24, 789-796

Ferguson, E. (1998). Hypochondriacal concerns, symptom reporting and secondary gain mechanisms. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 71, 281-295

Franks, D., Ferguson, E., Rolls, S., & Henderson, F. (1999). Self-assessments as predictors of Assessment Centre Outcomes: Raw scores versus accuracy scores. Personnel Review, 28, 124-133

Ferguson, E. (1999). Is there a Gulf War syndrome? The Lancet, 353, 1182

Ferguson, E., Matthews, G., & Cox, T. (1999). The appraisal of life events (ALE) scale: Reliability, and validity. British Journal of Health Psychology, 4, 97-116

Ferguson, E., & Cassaday, H (1999). The Gulf War and illness by association. British Journal of Psychology, 90, 459-476.

Emmett, C., & Ferguson, E. (1999). Oral contraceptive pill use, decisional balance, risk perception and knowledge: An exploratory study. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 17, 327-343.

Ferguson, E. (1999). A facet and factor analysis of typical intellectual engagement (TIE): Associations with locus of control and the five-factor model of personality. Social Behavior and Personality, 27, 545-561

Miller, A., Ferguson, E., & Byrne, I. (2000). Pupils' causal attributions for difficult classroom behaviours. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 85-96

Patterson, F., Ferguson, E., Lane, P., Farrell, K., Martlew, J., & Wells, A. (2000). A competency model of general practice: Implications for selection, training and development. British Journal of General Practice, 50, 188-193.

Ferguson, E., Lawrence, C, & Matthews, G. (2000). Associations between primary appraisals, life events while controlling for depression. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 39, 143-155.

Ferguson, E. (2000). Hypochondriacal concerns and the five-factor model of personality. Journal of Personality, 68, 705-724.

Ferguson, E., Swairbrick, R., Clare, S., Bignell, C & Anderson, C. (2000). Hypochondriacal concerns, somatosensory amplification, and primary and secondary cognitive appraisals. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 73, 355-370

Ferguson, E., Sanders, A., O'Hehir, F., & James, D. (2000). Predictive validity of personal statements and the role of the five factor model of personality in relation to medical training. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 73, 321-344

Randall, R., Ferguson, E., & Patterson F. (2000) Self-assessment accuracy and assessment centre decisions. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 73, 443-459.

Ferguson, E., Farrell, K., Lowe, K., & James, V. (2001). Current perceived risks of blood transfusion: The roles of stakeholder knowledge and perceptions. Transfusion Medicine, 11, 129-135.

Lowe, K., Farrell, K., Ferguson, E., & James, V. (2001). Current perceived risk of transfusion in the UK and relevance to the future of acceptance of blood substitutes. Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Immobilization Biotechnology, 29, 179-189.

Ferguson, E., & Frankis, J. (2001). Sex and sexuality: The effect of group membership on individual's judgements about self and other HIV risk. Journal of Homosexuality, 41, 119-143.

Patterson, F., Lane, P., Ferguson, E., & Norfolk, T. (2001). A competency based selection system for general practitioner registrars. British Medical Journal, 323 (7311), 2-3

Ferguson, E. (2001). The roles of contextual moderation and personality in relation to the knowledge-risk link in the workplace. Journal of Risk Research, 4, 323-340.

Ferguson, E. (2001). Intellect and somatic health: Associations with hypochondriacal concerns, threat appraisals and fainting. Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, 70, 319-327.

Farrell, K., Ferguson, E., James, V., & Lowe, K. (2001). Confidence in the safety of blood for transfusion: The effect of message framing. Transfusion, 41, 1335-1340.

Ferguson, E. (2001). Personality and coping traits: A joint factor analysis. British Journal of Health Psychology,6, 311-325

Miller, A., Ferguson, E., & Moore, E. (2002). Parents' and pupils' causal attributions for difficult classroom behaviour. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 72, 27-40.

Ferguson, E., & Cassaday, H. (2002). Theoretical accounts of Gulf War syndrome: From environmental toxins to psychoneuroimmunology and neurodegeneration. Behavioural Neurology, 13, 133-147

Ferguson, E., James, D., & Madelely, L. (2002). Factors associated with success in medical school: systematic review of the literature. British Medical Journal, 324, 952-957.

Ferguson, E., & Bibby PA. (2002). Predicting future blood donor returns: past behavior, intentions and observer effects. Health Psychology, 21, 513-518

Farrell, K., Ferguson, E., James, V., & Lowe, KC. (2002). Public perception of the risk of HIV infection associated with blood donation: the role of contextual cues. Transfusion, 42, 679-683.

Ferguson, E., James, D., O'Hehir. F & Sanders, A. (2003). A pilot study of the roles of personality, references and personal statements in relation to performance over the 5 years of a medical degree. British Medical Journal, 326, 429-431.

Silvester, J., Patterson, F., Ferguson, E. (2003). Comparing two attributional models of job performance in retail sales: A field study. Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 76, 115-132

Lowe, K.C., & Ferguson, E. (2003). Benefit and risk perceptions in transfusion medicine: blood and blood substitutes. Journal of Internal Medicine, 253, 498-507

Ferguson, E., & Cassaday, HJ. Erskind, J., & Delahaye, G. (2004). Individual differences in the temporal variability in medically unexplained symptom reporting. British Journal of Health Psychology, 9, 219-240

Ferguson, E., Cassaday, HJ., & Bibby, P. (2004). Odors and sounds as triggers for medically unexplained symptoms: A fixed occasion diary study of in Gulf War veterans. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 27, 205-214

Ferguson, E. (2004) Personality as a predictor of hypochondriacal concerns: Results from two longitudinal studies: Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 56, 307-312

Ferguson, E. (2004) Conscientiousness, emotional stability, perceived control and the frequency, recency, rate and years of blood donor behaviour. British Journal of Health Psychology, 13, 293-314

Ferguson, E., Farrell, K., James, V., & Lowe, K. C. (2004). Trustworthiness of information about blood donation and transfusion in relation to associated knowledge and perceptions of risk: An analysis of UK stakeholder groups. Transfusion Medicine, 14, 205-216

Patterson, F., Ferguson, E., Lane, P., & Norfolk, T. (2005) A new selection system to recruit GPRS. British Medical Journal, 330, 711-714

Ferguson, E., & Chandler, S. (2005). A stage model of blood donor behaviour: Assessing voluntary behaviour. Journal of Health Psychology, 10, 359-372

O’Connor DB., Ferguson, E., & O’Connor RC. (2005) Intentions to use hormonal male contraception: The role of message framing, attitudes and stress appraisals. British Journal of Psychology, 96, 351-369

McManus IC., Powis DA., Wakeford, R., Ferguson, E., James, DK., Richards P (2005). Why intellectual aptitude test ate not useful for selecting UK medical students but A-levels could once more be effective. British Medical Journal, 331, 555-559

Ferguson, E., Leaviss, J, Townsend, E., Fleming, P & Lowe, KC. (2005) Perceived safety of donor blood and blood substitutes for transfusion: the role of informational frame, patient groups and stress appraisals. Transfusion Medicine, 15, 401-412.

McManus, IC., Izbal, S., Chandrarajan, A., Ferguson, E., & Leaviss, J. (2005). Unhappiness and dissatisfaction in doctors cannot be predicted by selectors from medical school application forms. BMC: Medical Educations, 5, 38 (doi:10.1186/1472-6920-5-38: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/5/38)

Ferguson, E., Daniels, K., & Jones, D. (2006). Negatively oriented personality and negative job-characteristics as predictors of future psychological and physical symptoms: A meta-analytic structural modelling approach. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 60, 45-52.

Goold, P., Bustard, S., Ferguson, E., Carlin, E., Neale, K., & Bowman, C. (2006). A pilot study in the development of an interactive multimedia learning environment (IMLE) for sexual health interventions: A focus group approach. Health Education Research, 21, 15-25.

Moghaddam NG., & Ferguson, E. (2007) Smoking, mood regulation and personality: An event contingent-sampling exploration of potential models and moderation. Journal of Personality, 75, 451478

Silvester, J., Patterson, F., Koczwara A., & Ferguson, E. (2007) ‘Trust me…’: Psychological and behavioral predictors of perceived physician empathy. Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 519-527.

Ingledew D., & Ferguson E. (2007) Personality and riskier sexual behaviour: motivational mediators. Psychology & Health, 22, 291-315.

Ferguson E., Moghaddam NG & Bibby. (2007) Memory bias in health anxiety is related to the emotional valence of health related words. Journal of Psychosomatic Research 62, 263-274.

Powis, D., James, D., & Ferguson, E. (2007) Demographic and socio-economic associations with UCAS tariff scores in applicants to medical school. Medical Education, 41, 242-249

Fleming, P., Ferguson E., Townsend, E., Lowe, KC. (2007) Stakeholder perceptions in transfusion medicine: A Pilot field study on risk and ethics for blood and blood substitutes. Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes and Biotechnology, 35, 149-156

Ferguson, E., & Gallagher, L. (2007) Message Framing with Respect to Decisions About Vaccination: The Roles of Frame Valence, Frame Method and Perceived Risk. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 667-680

Ferguson, E., France, CR, Abraham, C., Ditto, B., & Sheeran. P. (2007) Improving Blood Donor Recruitment and Retention: Integrating Social and Behavioral Science Agendas. Transfusion, 47, 1999-2010.

Jones, F., O’Connor, DB., Conner M., McMillan, B., & Ferguson, E. Impact of Daily Mood, Work Hours, and Iso-Strain Variables on Self-reported Health Behaviors. . Journal of Applied Psychology, 92, 1731-1740

Fleming, P., Townsend, E., Lowe, KC., & Ferguson, E. (2007) Social desirability influences on judgements of biotechnology across the dimensions of risk, ethicality and naturalness. Journal of Risk Research, 10, 989-1003.

Scerri, J., Ferguson, E., & Scerri, C.A. (2007) Health perceptions and adherence to diet. Journal of the Malta College of Pharmacy Practice, 13, 33-36

Ferguson E, Prowse C, Townsend E, Spence A, van Hilten J, & Lowe K. (2008) Acceptability of Blood Substitutes. Journal of Internal Medicine, 263, 244-255

Williams, L.,. O’Connor, RC., Howard, S., Hughes, BM., Johnston, DW., Hay, JL., O’Connor, DB., Lewis, CA., Ferguson, E., Sheehy, N., Grealy MA., & O’Carroll, RE. (2008) Type D Personality Mechanisms of Effect: The Role of Health-Related Behaviour and Social Support. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64, 63-69.

O’Connor, DB., Jones, F., Conner, M., McMillan, B., & Ferguson, E. (2008) Effects of Daily Hassles and Eating Style on Eating Behavior Health Psychology, 27, S20-S31.

James, D., Ferguson, E., Powis, D., Bore, M., Munro, D., Symonds, I., James, B., Yates, J. (2008). Graduate entry to medicine: widening academic and socio-demographic access. Medical Education, 42, 294-300

Fielding D.E., Ferguson E., Baxendale B., Mannion A., & Maxwell Armstrong C. (2008) A Assessing laparoscopic skills in the novice: A comparison of undergraduate and graduate entry medical students Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons, 90,246-249

Ferguson, E., Farrell, K & Lawrence, C. (2008) Blood Donation is an act of Benevolence Rather Than Altruism. Health Psychology, 27, 327-336

Ferguson, E. (2008) Health Anxiety Moderates the Day-Time Cortisol Slope. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 64, 487-494

Philips, T., Ferguson, E., Reeder, T & Barnard, C. (2008) Mate preference towards altruistic traits suggests a link between human altruism and sexual selection. British Journal of Psychology, 99, 555-572

O’Connor D., & Ferguson, E. (2008) Diary methods in health, social and clinical psychology research. Psychologist, 21, 1034-1036.

Patterson, F., Ferguson, E., & Thomas, S. (2008) Using Job Analysis to Identify Core and Specific Competencies for Three Secondary Care Specialties: Implications for Selection and Recruitment. Medical Education, 42, 1195-1204.

Heym, N., Ferguson, E., Lawrence, C. (2008).An evaluation of the relationship between Gray's revised RST and Eysenck's PEN: Distinguishing BIS and FFFS in Carver and White's BIS/BAS scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 45, 709–715

Ferguson, E. (2009) A taxometric analysis of health anxiety. Psychological Medicine, 39, 277-285.

Ferguson, E., Bibby PA., Rosamond, S., O’Grady, C., Parcell, A., Amos, C., McCutcheon, C., & O’Carroll, R. (2009). Alexithymia, Cumulative Cognitive Feedback and Performance on the Iowa Gambling Task: Differential Response Patterns for Alexithymics. Journal of Personality, 77, 883-902

O’Connor, DB., Jones, F., Conner, M., McMillan, B., & Ferguson, E. (2009). Effects of Conscientiousness and Daily Hassles on Health Behaviors. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 37, 184-196

Yates, J., Smith, J., David James, D., Ferguson, E. (2009) Should applicants to Nottingham University Medical School study a non-science A-level? A cohort study. BMC Medical Education, 2009, 9:5 doi:10.1186/1472-6920-9-5

Ferguson. E., Spence^, A., Townsend, E., Prowse, C., Palmer, J., Fleming, P., & Van Hilten, JA. (2009) What Information is Trust by Whom: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Stability of the Information Source-Trust Association for Blood Transfusion. Transfusion, 49, 1637-1648

Ingledew,, D, Markland, D., & Ferguson E. (2010) Motives and Sun-Related Behaviour. Journal of Health Psychology, 15, 8-20

Ingledew, D, Markland, D., & Ferguson E. (2009).Three levels of exercise motivation. Applied Psychology: Health and Wellbeing, 1, 336-355.

Lotfipour, S., Ferguson, E., Leonard, G., Perron, M., Pike, B., Richer, L., Séguin, JR., Toro, R., Veillette, S., Pausova, Z., & Paus, T. (2009) Orbitofrontal Cortex and Drug Use during Adolescence: Role of Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Smoking and BDNF Genotype. Archives of General Psychiatry ,66, 1244- 1252.

Ferguson^, E., Williams^. L., O’Connor, R.., Howard^, S., Hughes^, BM., Johnston DW., Allan^, JA., O’Connor, DB., Lewis, CA., Grealy, MA., & O’Carroll, RE. (2009). A Taxometric Analysis of Type-D Personality. Psychosomatic Medicine, 71, 981-986

Tsim, P., Carty HM., Baxendale, B., Ferguson, E., & Maxwell-Armstrong CA. (In press). Laparoscopic simulator performance: Harrier fighter pilots versus medical and non-medical undergraduates. Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons

James, D., Ferguson, E., Powis, D., Bore, M., Munro, D., Symonds, I., & Yates, J. (in press). Graduate entry to medicine: widening psychometric diversity. BMC: Medical Education

Philips, T., Ferguson, E., & Rijsdijk., F. (2010). A link between altruism and sexual selection: genetic influence on altruistic behaviour and mate preference towards it. British Journal of Psychology (DOI:10.1348/000712610X493494)

Lawrence, C., Deely, X., & Ferguson, E (In press). The black sheep effect and work-related violence: evaluations from multiple perspectives. Journal of Social and Community Psychology

Bibby. PA., & Ferguson, E. (In press). Alexithymia, BIG 5, Sensation Seeking and Loss Aversion. Personality and Individual Differences

Skatova, A., & Ferguson, E. (In press). What Makes People Cooperate? Personality Predicts Contribution in the Public Goods Games. Personality and Individual Differences

McManus, C., Ferguson, E., Wakeford, R., Powis, D., & James, D (In press). Predictive validity of the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT); An evaluation and case study. Medical Teacher