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Defeyter, M. A., Stretesky, P. B., & Pepper, G. V. (2025). A study comparing positive benefits for parents, and their children, of children attending the UK’s holiday activities and food program to parents of non-attendees. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1474400. [Link]

Brown, R.D. & Pepper, G.V. (2024) The Uncontrollable Mortality Risk Hypothesis: Theoretical foundations and implications for public health, Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, 12:1, 86–96, [Link]

Defeyter, M. A., Stretesky, P. B., & Pepper, G. V. (2025). A study comparing positive benefits for parents, and their children, of children attending the UK’s holiday activities and food program to parents of non-attendees. Frontiers in Public Health, 13, 1474400.

Close, H., Vincent, S., Alderson, H., Wilson-Harrop, C., Allen, S., Waters, G. M., Hanson, S., Pepper, G.V. & Neave, N. (2024). What do we know about hoarding behaviours among care-experienced children (CEC)? A systematic review. Cogent Psychology, 11(1), 2416757 [Link].

Neal, C., Pepper, G. V., Shannon, O., Allen, C., & Nettle, D. (2024). Hungry, stressed, or both? An ecological momentary assessment in food secure and insecure populations. Appetite, 199, 107462 [Link].

Neal, C., Pepper, G. V., Shannon, O., Allen, C., Bateson, M., & Nettle, D. (2024, June 6). The daily experience of hunger in UK females with and without food insecurity. Appetite 204, 107732 [Link].

Brown, R. D. & Pepper, G.V. (2024) The Relationship Between Perceived Uncontrollable Mortality Risk and Health Effort: Replication, Secondary Analysis, and Mini Meta-analysis, Annals of Behavioral Medicine; kaad072 [Link].

Neal, C., Pepper, G. V., Allen, C., Shannon, O. M., & Nettle, D. (2024). No effect of hunger on the memory of food images and prices. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 10(3), 303-323 [Link].

Preprint: Pepper, G. V., Walker, M., Storey, N., Wallace, A., Shaw, M., Mullally, S. L., & Nettle, D. (2023). Early life adversity is associated with phenotypic age but not delay discounting in chronologically young people.

Preprint: Mullally, S.L., Grafton-Clarke, D., Mawson, E.R., Unwin, M., Stapleton, M., Webber, K., Dodd, A.L., Pepper, G.V., Cokal, D., Robinson, L.J., Gallagher, P., Watson, S. *(2022). Growing up unloved: the enduring consequence of childhood emotional neglect on the qualia of memory and imagination.

Brown, R. D., Sillence, E., & Pepper, G. V. (2023). Perceptions of control over different causes of death and the accuracy of risk estimations. Journal of Public Health. [Link]

Brown, R. D., Sillence, E., & Pepper, G. V. (2023). Individual Characteristics Associated with Perceptions of Control Over Mortality Risk and Determinants of Health Effort. Risk Analysis. [Link]

Pepper, G. V., Defeyter, M.A., Stretesky, P & Mann, E. (2023) The importance of food in studying economic hardship and wellbeing: Does food insecurity mediate the associations between income and stress & wellbeing in a UK representative sample? Journal of Public Health. [Link]

Neal, C., Pepper, G. V., Allen, C., & Nettle, D. (2023). No effect of hunger on attentional capture by food cues: Two replication studies Appetite. 191: 107065 [Link]

Bateson, M. & Pepper, G. V. (2023) Food insecurity as a cause of adiposity: evolutionary and mechanistic hypotheses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: Biology. 378: 1888 [Link]

Brown, R. D., Sillence E., & G. V. Pepper (2022) A qualitative study of perceptions of control over potential causes of death and the sources of information that inform perceptions of risk. Health psychology and behavioral medicine 10 (1), 632-654. [Link]

Defeyter M.A., Stretesky P., Pepper, G. V. & Shinwell, J. (2021) Bring it on Brum Survey report. An evaluation commissioned by Street Games [Link]

Shinwell, J., Bateson, M., Nettle, D., & Pepper, G. V. (2021). Food insecurity, macronutrient intake and patterns of eating in a sample of UK adults. British Journal of Nutrition. 1-24 [Link]

Brown, R. D., Coventry, L., & Pepper, G. V. (2021). COVID-19: the relationship between perceptions of risk and behaviours during lockdown. Journal of Public Health. [Link]

Brown, R. D., Coventry, L., & Pepper, G. V. (2021). Information seeking, personal experiences, and their association with COVID-19 risk perceptions: demographic and occupational inequalities, Journal of Risk Research, 24:3-4, 506-520. [Link]

Defeyter M.A., Stretesky P., Forsey A., Mann E., Henderson E., Pepper G.V., & Walters P. (2020) Food and coping strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Policy Paper from the Healthy Living Lab & Feeding Britain. [Link]

Defeyter M.A., von Hippel P., Shinwell J., Mann E., Henderson E., Brownlee I., Pepper G.V., Stretesky P., Long M., McKenna J., Daly-Smith A., Lalli G., Bundy D., and Drake L. (2020) Covid-19: Back to School, Rebuilding a Better Future for All Children. A submission (CIE0042) to the Education Select Committee inquiry on The impact of COVID-19 on education and children’s services. [Link]

Bateson, M., Aviv, A., Bendix, L., Benetos, A., Ben-Shlomo Y., Bojesen S.E., Cooper, C., Cooper, R., Deary, I.J., Hagg, S., Harris, S.E., Kark, J.D., Kronenberg, F., Kuh, D., Labat, C, Martin-Ruiz, C.M., Meyer, C, Nordestgaard, B.G., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Pepper, G.V., Revesz, D., Said, M.A., Starr, J.M, Syddall, H., Thomson, W.M., van der Harst, P., Whooley, M, von Zglinicki, T., Willeit, P., Zhan, Y & Nettle, D. (2019). Smoking does not accelerate leucocyte telomere attrition: a meta-analysis of 18 longitudinal cohorts. Royal Society Open Science, 6(190420). [Link]

Bulley, A., Miloyan B., Pepper, GV., Gullo, MJ ., Henry, JD., Suddendorf , T. (2019) Cuing both positive and negative episodic foresight reduces delay discounting but does not affect risk taking. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-57. [Link]

Pepper G. V., Bateson, M., Nettle D. (2018) Telomeres as integrative markers of exposure to stress and adversity: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Royal Society Open Science. 5: 180744. [Link]

Bonham T, Pepper G. V., Nettle D. (2018) The relationships between exercise and affective states: A naturalistic, longitudinal study of recreational runners. PeerJ 2018, 6, e4257 [Link].

Pepper, G.V. & Nettle, D. (2017) Strengths, altered investment, risk management, and other elaborations on the behavioural constellation of deprivation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 (e346) [Link].

Pepper, G. V., Corby, D. H., Bamber, R., Smith, H., Wong, N., & Nettle, D. (2017). The influence of mortality and socioeconomic status on risk and delayed rewards: a replication with British participants. PeerJ, 5, e3580 [Link].

Pepper, G.V. & Nettle, D. (2017) The Behavioural Constellation of Deprivation: Causes and consequences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 (e346)[Link].

Bulley, A. & Pepper, G.V. (2017) Cross-country relationships between life expectancy, intertemporal choice and age at first birth. Evolution and Human Behavior [Link].

Bulley, A., Pepper, G.V., & Suddendorf, T. (2017). Commentary on Van Lange et al.: Using foresight to prioritise the present. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40(e79) 15-16 [Link].

McAllister, L.S., Pepper, G.V., Virgo, S. & Coall, D. A. (2016) The Evolved Psychological Mechanisms of Fertility Motivation: Hunting for Causation in a Sea of Correlation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B [PDF]

Pepper, G.V. McAllister, L.S. & Sear, R. (2016) Why demography needs psychologists. The Psychologist 26(1) 26-29. [PDF]

Pepper, G.V., Namdeo, A., Arnott, B., Blundred, C., Sniehotta, F., Araujo-Soares, V. (2015) Cycling in the City: A report of our scoping and piloting work towards evaluating the health impacts of the Cycling in the City programme. An evaluation report written for the Newcastle City Council Public Health team, 1-64. [PDF]

Pepper, G.V. (2015) Cleaner, healthier streets: possible approaches and likely benefits. An evidence review written for the Newcastle City Council Public Health team, 1-27. [PDF]

Pepper, G.V. & Nettle, D. (2014) Out of control mortality matters: the effect of perceived extrinsic mortality risk on a health-related decision. PeerJ 2:e459 [PDF]

Schroeder, K.B., Pepper, G.V. & Nettle, D. (2014) Local norms of cheating and the cultural evolution of crime and punishment: a study of two urban neighbourhoods. PeerJ 2:e450 [Link]

Pepper, G. V. & Nettle, D. (2014) Perceived extrinsic mortality risk and health behaviour: Testing a behavioural ecological model. Human Nature 25(3) [Preprint] [Article]

Nettle, D., Pepper G.V., Jobling, R. et al. (2014) Being there: A brief visit to a neighbourhood induces the social attitudes of that neighbourhood. PeerJ. 2: e236 [Link]

Pepper, G. V. & Nettle, D. (2014). Socioeconomic disparities in health behaviour: An evolutionary perspective. In D. W. Lawson & M. Gibson (Eds.), Applied Evolutionary Anthropology: Darwinian Approaches to Contemporary World Issues. Springer. [View]

Pepper, G. V. & Nettle, D. (2013) Death and the time of your life: experiences of close bereavement are associated with steeper financial future discounting and earlier reproduction. Evolution and Human Behaviour, 34(6): 433-439 [Link] [Poster]

Pepper, G. V. (2007) – Changing the Face of Our Lives, Bulletin of the British Neuroscience Association, spring’07 [Download]

Pepper, G.V. & Roberts, S.C. (2006). Rates of Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy and dietary characteristics across populations. Proceedings. Royal. Society, B 273 2675-2679 [Link]