Original Research, Commentary, and Perspectives

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Wagner, E., Alon, N., Barnby, J.M., Abend, O. (2025) Mind your theory: Theory of Mind goes deeper than reasoning. Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the ACL.

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Kingston, J. L., Ellett, L., Burgess, H., Richards, L., & Barnby, J. M. (2025; In Review). Social exclusion increases paranoia and reduces self and other learning flexibility in adolescents. 

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Arribas, M., Barnby, J. M., Patel, R., McCutcheon, R. A., Kornblum, D., Shetty, H., … & Oliver, D. (2025). Longitudinal evolution of the transdiagnostic prodrome to severe mental disorders: a dynamic temporal network analysis informed by natural language processing and electronic health records. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-12.

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Barnby, J. M., Nguyen, J., Griem, J., Wloszek, M., Burgess, H., Richards, L., … Fonagy, P. (2025). Self-Other Generalisation Shapes Social Interaction and Is Disrupted in Borderline Personality Disorder. Elife, 14.

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Barnby, J.M. (2024) Resolving Uncertainties in a Social World. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 9(11), 1079-1080. (Commentary on Lamba et al. 2024)

Rhoads, S., Gu, X., Barnby, J.M. (2024) Advancing Computational Psychiatry Through A Social Lens. Nature Mental Health

Moutoussis, M., Barnby, J.M., Durant, A., Croal, M., Rutledge, R., Mason, L. (2024). Impressions about harm are formed rapidly and then refined, modulated by serotonin. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Alon, N., Schulz, L., Moutoussis, M., Bell, V., Dayan, P., Barnby, J. M. (2024). (Mal)adaptive mentalising in the cognitive hierarchy, and its link to paranoia. Computational Psychiatry. 8(1), 159–177

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Alon, N., Barnby, J. M., Schulz, L., Rosenschein, J. S., & Dayan, P. (2024). Detecting and Deterring Manipulation in a Cognitive Hierarchy. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.01870.

Barnby, J. M., Alon, N., Bellucci, G., Schilbach, L., Frith, C., & Bell, V. (2024; Under Review). A Standard Framework for Social Cognition: Interoperable algorithms for inference and representation.

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Barnby, J. M., Haslbeck, J. M., Rosen, C., & Harrow, M. (2024). Modelling the Longitudinal Dynamics of Paranoia in Psychosis: A Temporal Network Analysis Over 20 Years. Schizophrenia Research. 

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Barnby, J. M., Bell, V., Deeley, Q., Mehta, MA., Moutoussis, M. (2024). D2/D3 dopamine supports the precision of mental state inferences and self-relevance of joint social outcomes. Nature Mental Health. 2, 562-573

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Arribas M., Barnby, J.M., Patel, R., …. McGuire, P., Fusar-Poli, P., Oliver, D. (2024; Under Review) Longitudinal evolution of the transdiagnostic prodrome to severe mental disorders: a dynamic temporal network analysis informed by natural language processing and electronic health records.

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Barnby, J.M., Dayan, P. & Bell, V. (2023). Formalising social representation to explain psychiatric disorder. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2391. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.12.004

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Barnby, J.M., Park, S., Baxter, T., Rosen, C., Brugger, P., Alderson-Day, B. (2023). The Felt Presence experience: From cognition to the clinic. The Lancet Psychiatry. 

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Barnby, J.M., Mehta, M.A., Moutoussis, M. (2022). The computational relationship between reinforcement learning and social inference in paranoia. PLOS Computational Biology, 18 (7).

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Barnby, J.M., Raihani, N., Dayan, P. (2022). Knowing me, knowing you: interpersonal similarity improves predictive accuracy and reduces attributions of harmful intent. Cognition.

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Barnby, J.M., Dean, R., Burgess, H., Kim, J., Teunisse, A.K., MacKenzie, L., Robinson, G., Dayan, P., Richards, L.J. (2022). Increased persudability and credulity in people with corpus callosum dysgenesis. Cortex.

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Greenburgh, A., Barnby, J.M., Delpech, R., Kenny, A., Bell, V., & Raihani, N. (2021). What motivates avoidance in paranoia? Three failures to find a betrayal aversion effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 97, 104206.

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Hampshire, A., Trender, W., Chamberlain, S. R., Jolly, A. E., Grant, J. E., Patrick, F., Mazibuko, N., Williams, S. C. R., Barnby, J.M., Hellyer, P., & Mehta, M. A. (2021). Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19. EClinicalMedicine, 101044. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101044

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Barnby, J.M., Bell, V., Deeley, Q., Mehta, M.A. (2020) Dopamine manipulations modulate paranoid social inferences in healthy people. Translational Psychiatry (10), 214. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-020-00912-4

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Barnby, J.M., Bell, V., Mehta, M.A., Moutoussis, M. (2020) Reduction in social learning and policy uncertainty about intentional social threat underlies paranoia: evidence from modelling a modified serial dictator game. PLOS Computational Biology. 16(10): e1008372. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008372

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Hertz, U., Bell, V., Barnby, J. M., McQuillin, A., Bahrami, B. (2020) The communication of metacognition for social strategy in psychosis: an exploratory study, Schizophrenia Bulletin Open. https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgaa058

Bolton, L., The Association of Black Humanists, Fonseca, A., Tracy, D., & Barnby, J. M. (2020). The Consequences of Apostasy: How Changing Core Social and Personal Religious Beliefs Affect Sense of Self, Mental Health, and Identity. Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/wbyve

Waters, F., Barnby, J.M., Blom, J.D. (2020) Hallucination, imagery, dreaming: Towards an integrated model of stimulus-independent perception based on Parish’s classic continuum hypothesis. Royal Society Philosophical Transactions B. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0701

Barnby, J.M., Bell, V., Deeley, Q., Robinson, O., Raihani, N., Mehta, M. (2020) Paranoia, sensitisation and social inference: findings from two large-scale, multi-round behavioural experiments. Royal Society Open Science, 7 (3). 

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Barnby, J.M., Bell, V., Sheridan-Rains, L., Mehta, M., Deeley, Q. (2019) Beliefs are multidimensional and vary in stability over time – psychometric properties of the Beliefs and Values Inventory (BVI). PeerJ, 7:e6819

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Davelaar, E., Barnby J.M., Almasi, S., Eatough, V. (2018) Differential subjective experiences in learners and non-learners in EEG neurofeedback: piloting a mixed-method approach. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.  doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00402

Barnby, JM and Mehta, M (2018) Psilocybin and Mental Health – Don’t Lose Control, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 9, 293. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00293

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Lloyd-Evans, B., Lamb, D., Barnby, JM., Eskinazi, M., Turner, A., Johnson, S. (2018) Mental health crisis resolution teams and crisis care systems in England: a national survey, British Journal of Psychiatry Bulletin, 1-6. doi: 10.1192/bjb.2018.19

Barnby, JM and Fonesca, A (2017) Digital blind-spots: the role of symptom severity and user experience in digital intervention adherence, Open Science Framework. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/594TB

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Barnby, J.M. & Bell, V. (2017) The Sensed Presence Questionnaire (SenPQ): Initial Psychometric Validation of a Measure of the “Sensed Presence” Experience. PeerJ. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3149

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Barnby, J.M., Bailey, N.W., Chambers, R., & Fitzgerald, P.B., (2015) How similar are the changes in neural activity resulting from mindfulness practice in contrast to spiritual practice? Consciousness and Cognition, 36, 219-232.

Writing for a public audience

Barnby, J.M. (2020) Immersive experiences can help us understand altered states. Psyche + Aeon.

Barnby, J.M. (2018) Beyond expectations. The Psychologist, 31, 82-85.

Other

Barnby, J.M. (2016). Re(Mind) Reflective Tool (V1.1) [Mobile application software]. Retrieved from http://snappy.appypie.com/html5/remind-7023e152332b