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2018

Hur,Y-J., Gerger,G., Leder,H., McManus,I.C. (2018) Facing the sublime: Physiological correlates of the relationship between fear and the sublime, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000204

Chamberlain,R., Brunswick,N., Siev,S. and McManus,I.C. (2018) Meta-analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuospatial ability in dyslexia, British Journal of Psychology, 109(4), 897-916.

D. Hope, K. Adamson, I. C. McManus, L. Chis, and A. Elder (2018). Using differential item functioning to evaluate potential bias in a high stakes postgraduate knowledge based assessment. BMC Medical Education 18 (64) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1143-0 :1-7, 2018.

C. Taylor, I. C. McManus, and I. Davison (2018). Would changing the selection process for GP trainees stem the workforce crisis? A cohort study using multiple-imputation and simulation. BMC Medical Education 201818:81

J. Dowell, J. Cleland, S. Fitzpatrick, I. C. McManus, S. Nicholson, T. Oppé, K. Petty-Saphon, O. Sierocinska King, S. Thornton, and K. White (2018). The UK medical education database (UKMED) what is it? Why and how might you use it? BMC Medical Education 18 (DOI 10.1186/s12909-017-1115-9) (6):1-8.

McManus,I.C., Buckens,G., Harris,N., Flint,A. Ng,H.L.A., Vovou,F. (2018). Faking handedness: Individual differences in ability to fake handedness, social cognitions of the handedness of others, and a forensic application using Bayes' theorem, Laterality: 23(1), 67-100.

2017

A. Elder, I. C. McManus, A. Patrick, K. Nair, L. Vaughan, and J. Dacre (2017). The value of the physical examination  in clinical practice:  An international survey. Clinical Medicine 17(6):490-498.

McManus,I.C. (2017) Broaden yourself beyond your own subject. Article in UCL Student e-newsletter with Advice to Students [and a picture of me as an undergraduate] https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/students/062017/07062017-advice-from-academics-to-students-3

McManus,I.C. (2017) American Gothic [letter], Times Literary Supplement, Apr 14th 2017, p.6

Page,A.L., McManus,I.C., González,C.P. and Chahboun,C. (2017) Is Beauty in the Hand of the Writer? Influences of Aesthetic Preferences through Script Directions, Cultural, and Neurological Factors: A Literature Review, Frontiers in Psychology, 03 August 2017

Chahboun,S., Flumini,A, Peréz-González,C., McManus,I.C. and Santiago,J. (2017) Reading and writing direction effects on the aesthetic appreciation of photographs, Laterality: 22(3), 313-339.

Rankin,Q., Riley,H., Brunswick,N., McManus,I.C. and Chamberlain,R. (2017) Talking the line: Inclusive strategies for the teaching of drawing, Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 2: 287-304

Ng-Knight,T., Shelton,K.H., Frederickson,N., McManus,I.C. and Rice,F. (2017) Maternal depressive symptoms and adolescent academic attainment: Testing pathways via parenting and self-control, Journal of Adolescence, 62: 61-99

Hur,Y.-J. and McManus,I.C. (2017) Representing the sublime in the VIMAP and empirical aesthetics: Reviving Edmund Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful [...] Physics of Life Reviews, 21 (July 2017), 135-137

McManus,I.C. and Sondheimer,H. (2017) Student selection, in A practical guide for medical teachers (5th edition), editors Dent,J.A., Harden,R.M. and Hunt,D., Elsevier: Edinburgh

2016

Davison, I., McManus, I.C. and Taylor, C. (2016) Evaluation of GP Specialty Selection [Report commissioned by Health Education England], University of Birmingham: School of Education [3.7Mb]. See also https://www.hee.nhs.uk/sites/default/files/documents/GP%20Specialty%20Selection%20Evaluation%20FINAL_0.pdf and https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/attracting-recruiting/medical-recruitment/quality-standards

J. Abeln, L. Fresz, S. A. Amirshahi, I. C. McManus, M. Koch, H. Kreysa, and C. Redies (2016) Preference for well-balanced saliency in details cropped from photographs Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9:704 doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00704

Corballis,M.C., McManus,I.C., Bulman-Fleming,M.B. (2016) Memories of Phil Bryden, Laterality, 21(4-6), 297-311.

McManus,I.C., Van Horn,J.D. Bryden,P.J. (2016) The Tapley and Bryden test of performance differences between the hands: The original data, newer data, and the relation to pegboard and other tasks, Laterality, 21(4-6), 371-396

2015

Mackenzie-Ross,S., McManus,I.C., Harrison,V., & Mason,O. (2015) Reflections on the process of using systematic review techniques to evaluate the literature regarding the neurotoxicity of low level exposure to organophosphate pesticides, Environment International, Online 30th Oct 2015, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/aip/01604120

I. C. McManus, Terry Ng-Knight, Lucy Riglin, Norah Frederickson, Katherine Shelton and Frances Rice (2015) Doctor, builder, soldier, lawyer, teacher, dancer, shopkeeper, vet: exploratory study of which eleven-year olds would like to become a doctor, BMC Psychology, BMC Psychology 2015, 3:38, (doi:10.1186/s40359-015-0094-z).

Devine,O., Harborne,A. and McManus,I.C. (2015) Assessment at UK medical schools varies substantially in volume, type and intensity and correlates with postgraduate attainment, BMC Medical Education.2015, 15:146

Woolf,K., Potts,H., Stott,J., McManus,I.C., Williams,A. and Scior,K. (2015) The best choice? The Psychologist, 28(9), 730-734.

J. Archer, I. C. McManus, K. Woolf, L. Monrouxe, J. Illing, A. Bullock, and T. Roberts (2015) Without proper research funding, how can medical education be evidence based? Brit.Med.J. 350 (h3445): doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h3445.

R. Chamberlain, I. C. McManus, N. Brunswick, Q. Rankin, and H. Riley (2015). Scratching the Surface: Practice, Personality, Approaches to Learning, and the Acquisition of High-Level Representational Drawing AbilityPsychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 9(4), 451-462. 

R. Wakeford, M. L. Denney, K. Ludka-Stempien, J. Dacre, and I. C. McManus (2015). Cross-comparison of MRCGP & MRCP(UK) in a database linkage study of 2,284 candidates taking both examinations: Assessment of validity and differential performance by ethnicity. BMC Medical Education 15 (1 (doi:10.1186/s12909-014-0281-2)).

Riglin, L., Collishaw, S., Shelton, K.H., McManus, I.C., Ng-Knight, T., Sellers, R., Thapar, A.K., Frederickson, N., & Rice, F. (2015). Higher cognitive ability buffers stress-related depressive symptoms in adolescent girls. Development and Psychopathology. FirstView 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579415000310

2014

R. Chamberlain, I. C. McManus, N. Brunswick, Q. Rankin, H. Riley, and R. Kanai (2014). Drawing on the right side of the brain: a voxel-based morphometry analysis of observational drawing. NeuroImage 96:167-173.

I. C. McManus and R. E. Wakeford (2014) Data linkage comparison of PLAB and UK graduates' performance on MRCP(UK) and MRCGP examinations: Equivalent IMG career progress requires higher PLAB pass-marks. Brit.Med.J. 348 (17th April 2014):g2621.

I. C. McManus  (2014) The marking and standard-setting of PLAB Part 2.

I. C. McManus and R. Wakeford (2014)  Assessing the equivalence of PLAB graduates to UK graduates.

J. A. L. Armour, A. Davison, T. D. Spector, and I. C. McManus (2014). Genome-wide association study of handedness excludes simple genetic models. Heredity 112:221-225.

R. Chamberlain, I. C. McManus, H. Riley, and Q. Rankin. Cain's House Task Revisited and Revived: Extending Theory and Methodology for Quantifying Drawing Accuracy (2014). Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts 8 (2):152-167.

S. Mackenzie Ross, I. C. McManus, V. Harrison, and O. Mason (2014). Neurobehavioural problems following low level exposure to organophosphate pesticides: Highlights from a meta-analytic review of the literature. IFEP Bulletin 12 (1):4-12.

I. C. McManus, L. Chis, R. Fox, D. Waller, and P. Tang (2014) Implementing statistical equating for MRCP(UK) Parts 1 and 2. BMC Medical Education 14 (204): doi:10.1186/1472-6920-14-204.

I. C. McManus and K. Stöver (2014) 'Mute, motionless, variegated rectangles': aesthetics and photography. In: The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts, edited by P. P. L. Tinio and J. K. Smith, Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, p. 243-276.

2013

I. C. McManus. iMAP and iMAP2 produce erroneous statistical maps of eye-movement differences (2013) Perception 42 (10):1075-1084.

I. C. McManus, C. Dewberry, S. Nicholson, and J. Dowell (2013) The UKCAT-12 study: Educational attainment, aptitude test performance, demographic and socio-economic contextual factors as predictors of first year outcome in a collaborative study of twelve UK medical schools. BMC Medicine  11 :244:doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-244.

I.C. McManus (2013) UKCAT-12: Technical Report.

I. C. McManus, K. Woolf, J. Dacre, E. Paice, and C. Dewberry (2013) The academic backbone: Longitudinal continuities in educational achievement from secondary school and medical school to MRCP(UK) and the Specialist Register in UK medical students and doctors. BMC Medicine 11:242:doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-242.

I. C. McManus, C. Dewberry, S. Nicholson, J. S. Dowell, K. Woolf, and H. W. W. Potts (2013) Construct-level predictive validity of educational attainment and intellectual aptitude tests in medical student selection: Meta-regression of six UK longitudinal studies. BMC Medicine 11:243:doi:10.1186/1741-7015-11-243.

O. J. Muensterer, W. Berdon, I. C. McManus, A. Oestreich, R. S. Lachman, M. M. Cohen, and S. Done (2013) Ellis-van Creveld syndrome: its history. Pediatric Radiology 43 (8):1030-1036.

K. Woolf, I. C. McManus, H. W. W. Potts, and J. E. Dacre (2013) The mediators of minority ethnic underperformance in final medical school examinations: a longitudinal study. British Journal of Educational Psychology 83:135-159.

Ludka-Stempien, K., Woolf, K. McManus, I.C. (2013) Poor performance on the MRCP(UK) examination predicts license limitations in subsequent medical practice, Presentation, AMEE.

Mackenzie Ross,S., McManus,I.C., Harrison,V., Mason,O. (2013) Neurobehavioral problems following low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides: a systematic and meta-analytic review, Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 43: 21-44.

Bigsby,E. McManus,I.C., McCrorie,P., and Sedgwick,P. (2013)  Which medical students like problem-based learning? Education in Medicine Journal 5(1):e72-e76.

Chamberlain, R., McManus, I.C., Riley,H., Rankin, Q. and Brunswick, N. (2013) Local Processing Enhancements Associated with Superior Observational Drawing are Due to Enhanced Perceptual Functioning, not Weak Central Coherence. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66(7):1448-1466.

McManus, I.C., Davison, A., and Armour. J.A.L. (2013) Multi-locus genetic models of handedness closely resemble  single locus models in explaining family data and are compatible with genome-wide association studies. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2013 Jun;1288:48-58. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12102. Epub 2013 Apr 30.

Groothuis,T.G.G., McManus,I.C., Schaafsma,S.M. and Geuze,R.H. (2013) The fighting hypothesis in combat: How well does the fighting hypothesis explain human left-handed minorities? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2013 Jun;1288:100-9. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12164.

McManus,I.C., Elder, A.T. and Dacre,J. (2013) Investigating possible ethnicity and sex bias in clinical examiners: An analysis of data from the MRCP(UK) PACES and nPACES examinations. BMC Medical Education, 13:103.

McManus,I.C., Wu,Wen (2013) "The Square Is … Bulky, Heavy, Contented, Plain, Good-Natured, Stupid …": A Cross-Cultural Study of the Aesthetics and Meanings of Rectangles, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 7(2), 130-139, 2013. 

McManus,I.C. (2013) "The anti-developmental, the anti-narrative, the anti-historical": Mondrian as a paradigmatic artist for empirical aesthetics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 36 (2):152-153.

2012

I. C. McManus (2012) The misinterpretation of the standard error of measurement in medical education: a primer on the problems, pitfalls and peculiarities of the three different standard errors of measurement. Med.Teach. 34 (7):569-576, 2012.

Suitner,C. and McManus, I.C. (2012) Aesthetic asymmetries, spatial agency, and art history: A social psychological perspective. In: Spatial dimensions of social thought, edited by T. W. Schubert and A. Maass, Berlin:De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 277-301.

McManus, I.C., Chamberlain, R., Christopherson, C., Prince-Mobbs, L., Roinson, M. and Stelk, I. (2012) Six tea-towels, one calendar and 1659 children's self-portraits: A developmental study of children drawing faces. Poster presented at ECVP, Algherro, Sardinia, September 2012

McManus, I.C. (2012) Is is true that left-handed people are smarter than right-handed people?, Scientific American Mind, May 2012.

McManus, I.C. & Ludka,K. (2012) Resitting a high-stakes postgraduate medical examination on multiple occasions: nonlinear multilevel modelling of performance in the MRCP(UK) examinations, BMC Medicine 2012, 10:60   (doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-60)

McManus, I.C. (2012) Widening access to medicine for 'under-represented' groups: Defining 'under-represented' is far from straightforward [Editorial], Student BMJ, June 2012, 20: e3407.

McManus, I.C. (2012) Obituary: Peter RichardsBritish Medical Journal, 344: 38. A longer version is available here.

Chamberlain, R, Riley, H., McManus, I.C., Rankin, Q. and Brunswick, N. (2012) The perceptual foundations of drawing ability, Paper presented at the Columbia conference on Drawing and Cognition, October 2011.

Woolf,K., Potts,H.W.W., Patel,S., McManus,I.C. (2012) The hidden medical school: A longitudinal study of how social networks form, and how they relate to academic performance, Medical Teacher: 34, 577-586.

2011

Woolf, K. and McManus, I.C. (2011) Predicting and guiding career success in medicine, pp 297-316 in Medical Education: Theory and Practice, edited by Tim Dornan, Karen Mann, Albert Scherpbier and John Spencer, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

McManus,I.C.  (2011) To BSc or not to BSc... (Editorial) Student BMJ 2011;19:d7559.

Suitner, C, and McManus, I.C. (2011) Aesthetic asymmetries, spatial agency, and art history: A social psychological perspective, pp 277-301 in Spatial dimensions of social thought, edited by Thomas W Schubert and Anne Maas, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

McManus, I.C. (2011)  'Beauty is instinctive feeling': Experimenting on aesthetics and art, pp.169-189  in The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and psychology, edited by Elizabeth Schellekens and Peter Goldie, Oxford University Press.

McManus, I.C. (2011) Review of Rik Smit's The Puzzle of Left-handedness, BBC Focus Magazine, September 2011, p.105.

McManus, I.C., Stöever, K. and Kim, Do. (2011) Arnheim's Gestalt theory of visual balance: Examining the compositional structure of art photographs and abstract images, i-Perception 2(6) 615-647. Note: Due to an error at the proof stage, figure 3 has the correct caption but the wrong image. Click here for the correct image.

McManus, I.C.,  Zhou, A., I'Anson, S., Waterfield, L., Stöver, K. and Cook, R. (2011) The psychometrics of photographic cropping: the influence of colour, meaning, and expertise. Perception 40:332-357, 2011.

McManus, I.C., Jonvik, H.,  Richards,P. and Paice. E. (2011) Vocation and avocation: leisure activities correlate with professional engagement, but not burnout, in a cross-sectional study of UK doctors. BMC Medicine  9:100 (www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/9/100).

McManus,I.C. Simmetria e Asimmetria in Estetica e nell'Arte in the online journal Cultor.   (An Italian translation of McManus, I. C. (2005). Symmetry and asymmetry in aesthetics and the arts. European Review, 13 (Supplement 2), 157-180).

McManus,I.C, Loo,P-W., Chamberlain,R., Riley,H. and Brunswick,N.  Does shape constancy relate to drawing ability? Two failures to replicate, Empirical Studies of the Arts, 29: 191-208.

H. Riley, N. Brunswick, R. Chamberlain, I. C. McManus, and Q. Rankin. Inclusive practice: Research the relationship between mathematical ability and drawing ability in art students, London: RCA, 2011:Include 2011 Proceedings (available at http://include11.kinetixevents.co.uk/rca/rca2011/paper_final/F406_1469.DOC), 2011.

McManus, I.C. (2011) [Letter on how the average is not the same as the mode...],  The Guardian, , 8th January 2011, p.11 

McManus,I.C.,  Ferguson, E., Wakeford, R., Powis,D. and James,D. (2011) Predictive validity of the BioMedical Admissions Test (BMAT): An evaluation and case study. Medical Teacher. 33: 53-57.  For the paper, Emery and Bell's reply and our response as one document, click here.

McManus,I.C.,  Ferguson, E., Wakeford, R., Powis,D. and James,D. (2011) Response to Comments by Emery and Bell, Medical Teacher (33(1): (this issue). Medical Teacher, 33: 60-61. 

Elder,A., McManus, I.C., McAlpine, L. and Dacre,J. (2011) What skills are tested in the new PACES examination? Ann.Acad.Med.Singapore 40:119-125.

Elder,A., McAlpine, L., Bateman, N., Dacre, J., Kopelman, P. and McManus,I.C. (2011) Changing PACES: developments at the examination in 2009. Clinical Medicine 11: 231-234.

Prideaux, D., Roberts, C., Eva,K., Centeno, A., McCrorie, P., McManus, I.C., Patterson,F.,  Powis,D., Tekian,A. and Wilkinson, D. (2011)  Assessment for selection for the health care professions and specialty training: Consensus statement and recommendations from the Ottawa 2010 conference. Medical Teacher 33:215-223.

2010

McManus, I.C. (2010) The Lighter Side [article on Gusatav Theodor Fechner], The Psychologist, 23 (12), 950 (December).

McManus, I.C. (2010) Note: Poetry, the corpus callosum, and visceral asymmetries, Laterality, 15: 659-662.

McManus,I.C. (2010) Evidence-based [Review of Roderick Buchanan's Playing with Fire: The controversial career of Hans J Eysenck], TLS, October 15th, 2010, p.36.

McManus, I.C. (2010) [Review of Helen MacDonald's Possessing the dead: The artful science of anatomy], TLS, October 8th, 2010, p. 26.

McManus, I.C. The Lighter Side [article on fun], The Psychologist, 23 (9): 703.

McManus, I.C. and Furnham,A. (2010) 'Fun, fun, fun': Types of fun, attitudes to fun, and their relation to personality and biographical factors, Psychology, 1: 159-168

Taylor, C., Sippitt, J.M., Collins, G., McManus, C., Richardson, A., Dawson, J., Richards, M. and Ramirez, A.J. (2010) A pre-post test evaluation of the impact of the PELICAN MDT-TME Development Programme on the working lives of colorectal cancer team membersBMC Health Services Research, 10: 187

Tighe, J., McManus, I.C., Dewhurst, N.G., Chis, L. and Mucklow, J. (2010) The standard error of measurement is a more appropriate measure of quality for postgraduate medical assessments than is reliability: an analysis of MRCP(UK) examinations, BMC Medical Education, 2010, 10:40.

McManus,I.C.,  Cook,R. and Hunt, A. Beyond the Golden Section and normative Aesthetics: Why do individuals differ so much in their aesthetic preferences for rectangles? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 4: 113-126.

McManus,I.C. (2010)  Precisely wrong? The problems with the Jones and Martin genetic model of sex differences in handedness and language lateralisation, Cortex. 46:700-702.

McManus, I. C., Chamberlain, R., Loo, P-W., Rankin, Q., Riley, H., Brunswick, N. (2010) Art students who cannot draw: Exploring the relations between drawing ability, visual memory, accuracy of copying, and dyslexia, Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 4: 18-30.

McManus, I.C. & Snowman, J. (2010) A Left-Handed Compliment: A newly discovered, early nineteenth-century lithograph by John Lewis Marks, Laterality, 15: 270-288

McManus, I.C., Rawles, R. Moore, J. and Freegard, M. (2010) Science in the Making: Right Hand, Left Hand. I: A BBC television programme broadcast in 1953. Laterality: 15: 136-165

McManus, I.C., Rawles, R. Moore, J. and Freegard, M. (2010) Science in the Making: Right Hand, Left Hand. II: The duck-rabbit figure. Laterality: 15: 166-185

McManus, I.C., Rawles, R. Moore, J. and Freegard, M. (2010) Science in the Making: Right Hand, Left Hand. III: Estimating historical rates of left-handedness. Laterality: 15: 186-208

McManus, I.C., Nicholls, M. and Vallortigara,G. (2010) Introduction: The right hand and the left hand of history, Laterality: 15: 1-3

2009

McManus,I.C. (2009) The history and geography of human handedness, pp 37-57 in Language lateralization and psychosis (editors: Sommer,I.E.C & Kahn,R.S.), Cambridge University Press. [1.6 Mb]

McManus,I.C. (2009) Beauty, The Psychologist, November 2009, p.923. See also http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2009/10/chris-mcmanus-beauty.html.

McManus,I.C. (2009) Student selection, pp.371-377 in Dent, J.A. and Harden, R.M. A practical guide for medical teachers, 3rd edition, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.

Woolf, K., McManus, I.C., Gill, D. and Dacre, J.E. (2009) The effect of a brief social intervention on the examination results of UK medical students: a cluster randomised controlled trial, BMC Medical Education 2009, 9:35

McManus, I. C. (2009). Bad science [Review of the book Bad Science by Ben Goldacre]. Times Higher Education, 22nd January 2009, pp.52-3.

McManus, I. C., Nicholls, M. and Vallortigara, G. (2009). Editorial commentary: Is LRRTM1 the gene for handedness?, Laterality, 14: 1-2.

Clauser, B. E., Harik, P., Margolis, M. J., McManus, I. C., Mollon, J., Chis, L. & Williams, S. (2009). An empirical examination of the impact of group discussion and examinee performance information on judgments made in the Angoff standard-setting Procedure, Applied Measurement in Education, 22: 1-21.

McManus, I. C. (2009). The brain neuroplastic [Review of the book The brain that changes itself by Norman Doidge]. The Psychologist, 22(1), 40.

2008

Ip, H. & McManus, I. C. (2008). Increasing diversity among clinicians [Editorial]. British Medical Journal, 336, 1082-1083.

McManus, I.C. (2008). Left-right discrimination in medicine. British Medical Journal, 337, 1426-7. 

McManus, I.C. (2008). The book of the week [Review of the book What would you do? Juggling bioethics and ethnography by Charles L. Bosk]. Times Higher Education, 18th December 2008, 50-51.

McManus, I. C. (2008, October 16th). Mirror image of our selves [Review of the book Brainstorming: views and interviews on the mind by Shaun Gallagher]. Times Higher Education, p. 52.

McManus, I. C. (2008). Book reviews [Review of the book The soul in the brain: the cerebral basis of language art and belief by Michael R Trimble]. British Journal of Psychiatry, 193, 175-176.

McManus, I. C. (2008). Charles Dickens: A neglected diagnosis. Dickens Quarterly, 25, 98-106.

McManus, I. C. (2008, May 29). Chris McManus on our spitting image [Review of the book The kingdom of infinite space: a fantastical journey around your head by Raymond Tallis]. Times Higher Education, pp. 44-45.

McManus, I. C. (2008, July 9). Dextrous dilemma [Commentary]. New Scientist, p. 81. [1.93 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (2008). Dr Parker's Latent Library and the death of the author: A philosophical enquiry. Annals of Improbable Research, 14 (2), 10-12.

McManus, I. C. (2008, April 17). Palmistry's digital analogue [Review of the book The finger book: sex, behaviour and disease revealed in the fingers by John T Manning]. Times Higher Education, p. 46.

McManus, I. C. (2008, February 14). Something for the weekend? [Review of the book The humble little condom: a history by Aine Collier]. Times Higher Education, p. 46. [3.2 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C., Elder, A. T., De Champlain, A., Dacre, J. E., Mollon, J., & Chis, L. (2008). Graduates of different UK medical schools show substantial differences in performance on MRCP(UK) Part 1, Part 2 and PACES examinations. BMC Medicine, 6:5.

McManus,I.C. and Goldacre,M.J. (2008). Predicting career destinations, pp 59-78, in Carter, Y.H. and Jackson,N.R, Medical Education and Training - from theory to delivery, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McManus, I. C., Woolf, K., & Dacre, J. (2008). The educational background and qualifications of UK medical students from ethnic minorities. BMC Medical Education, 8:21.

McManus, I. C., Woolf, K., & Dacre, J. E. (2008). Even one star at A level could be "too little, too late" for medical student selection. BMC Medical Education, 8:16.

Woolf, K., Haq, I., McManus, I. C., Higham, J., & Dacre, J. (2008). Exploring the underperformance of male and minority ethnic medical students in first year clinical examinations, Advances in Health Sciences Education, vol. 13, pp. 607-616.

2007

Ayers, S. (Ed.), Baum, A., McManus, I. C., Newman, S., Wallston, K., Weinman, J. et al. (2007). Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dewhurst, N. G., McManus, I. C., Mollon, J., Dacre, J. E., & Vale, J. A. (2007). Performance in the MRCP(UK) Examination 2003-4: Analysis of pass rates of UK graduates in the Clinical Examination in relation to self-reported ethnicity and gender. BMC Medicine, 5:8.

McManus, I. C. (2007, March 2). A pioneering cutter with a conscience [Review of the book [Digging up the dead: uncovering the life and times of an extraordinary surgeon by Druin Burch]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 22-23.

McManus, I. C. (2007, May 4). Disobedient Members [Review of the book Impotence: A cultural history by Angus McLaren]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 21.

McManus, I. C. (2007). Multilevel modelling of PMETB data on trainee supervision and satisfaction. (Report, PMETB).

McManus, I. C. (2007, September 21). Phlegm and nonsense [Review of the book Passions and tempers by Noga Arikha]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 22-23.

McManus, I. C. (2007). Prions, pleasure and purple notes [Review of the books Proust was a neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer and The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science by Cretien van Campen]. Nature, 450, 30.

McManus, I. C. (2007). Stress in health professionals. In S. Ayers, A. Baum, I. C. McManus, S. Newman, K. Wallston, J. Weinman, & R. West (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (2nd ed.) (pp. 500-505). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McManus, I. C. & Hartigan, A. (2007). Declining left-handedness in Victorian England seen in the films of Mitchell and Kenyon. Current Biology, 17, R793-R794.

McManus, I. C. & Powis, D. A. (2007). Testing medical school selection tests. Medical Journal of Australia, 186, 118-119.

McManus, I. C. & Thomas, P. (2007). Eye-centring in portraits: a theoretical and empirical evaluation. Perception, 36, 167-182.

Powis, D. A., Hamilton, J., & McManus, I. C. (2007). Widening access by changing the criteria for selecting medical students. Teaching and Teacher Education, 23, 1235-1245.

Swami, V., Grant, N., Furnham, A., & McManus, I. C. (2007). Perfectly formed? The effect of manipulating the waist-to-hip ratios of famous paintings and sculptures. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 27, 47-62.

Woolf, K., Cave, J., McManus, I. C., & Dacre, J. E. (2007). 'It gives you an understanding you can't get from any book'. The relationship between medical students' and doctors' personal illness experiences and their performance: a qualitative and quantitative study. BMC Medical Education, 7:50.

2006

McManus, I. C. (2006, April 14). 'Accidents' and wild boars in the woods [Review of the art exhibition Handel and the castrati]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 13.

McManus, I. C. (2006, September 29). Brain waves from the sea [Review of the book In search of memory: the emergence of a new theory of mind by Eric R Kandel]. Times Higher Education Supplement.

McManus, I. C. (2006, July 14). Hippocratic oafs, curers of ill repute [Review of the book Bad medicine: doctors doing harm since Hippocrates by David Woottoon and How doctors think: clinical judgement and the practice of medicine by Kathryn Montgomery]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 22-23.

McManus, I. C. (2006). Measuring the culture of C P Snow's Two Cultures. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 24, 219-227.

McManus, I. C. (2006). The modern mythology of the left-handedness of Alexander the Great. Laterality, 11, 566-572.

McManus, I. C. (2006, March 24). Some people are born great, while others just thrust it upon themselves [Review of the book The creating brain: the neuroscience of genius by Nancy C Andreasen]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 30.

McManus, I. C. (2006, May 26). Supertext [Review of the book Inquiring man: the theory of personal constructs]. Times Higher Education Supplement, Textbook Guide, I.

McManus, I. C. (2006, October 20). Wittgenstein would have whistled along [Review of the musical Monty Python's Spamalot]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 13.

McManus, I. C. & Furnham, A. (2006). Aesthetic activities and aesthetic attitudes: Influences of education, background and personality on interest and involvement in the arts. British Journal of Psychology, 97, 555-587.

McManus, I. C., Livingston, G., & Katona, C. (2006). The attractions of medicine: the generic motivations of medical school applicants in relation to demography, personality and achievement. BMC Medical Education, 6:11.

McManus, I. C., Stubbings, G. F., & Martin, N. (2006). Stigmatisation, physical illness and mental health in primary ciliary dyskinesia. Journal of Health Psychology, 11, 467-482.

McManus, I. C., Thompson, M., & Mollon, J. (2006). Assessment of examiner leniency and stringency ('hawk-dove effect') in the MRCP(UK) clinical examination (PACES) using multi-facet Rasch modelling. BMC Medical Education, 6:42.

Whalley, S. & McManus, I. C. (2006). Living with primary ciliary dyskinesia: A prospective qualitative study of knowledge sharing, symptom concealment, embarrassment, mistrust, and stigma. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 6:25.

2005

Corballis, M., McManus, I. C., & Peters, M. (2005). Now we are ten ... Laterality, 10, 1-5.

McManus, I. C. (2005). A thoughtful companion [Review of the book The Oxford Companion to the Mind]. The Psychologist, 18, 158.

McManus, I. C. (2005, February 18). Chris McManus: review [Review of the art exhibition This objective of that object - Tino Seghal]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 11.

McManus, I. C. (2005). Engel, Engels and the side of the angels [Review of the book Biopsychosocial medicine]. Lancet, 365, 2169-2170.

McManus, I. C. (2005, January 29). Letter on Einstein's non-lefthandedness. Guardian, p. 23.

McManus, I. C. (2005). Myers and Medicine. The Psychologist, 18, 748-751.

McManus, I. C. (2005). Reversed bodies, reversed brains and (some) reversed behaviours: Of zebrafish and men. Developmental Cell, 8, 796-797.

McManus, I. C. (2005). Sir James Paget's research on medical education. Lancet, 366, 506-513.

McManus, I. C. (2005). Symmetry and asymmetry in aesthetics and the arts. European Review, 13 (Supplement 2), 157-180. [1.13 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (2005, September 16). Tilting at the windmills of the mind [Review of the book Why life speeds up as you get older: how memory shapes our past by Douwe Draaisma]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 24-25.

McManus, I. C. (2005). Unity in the wild variety of nature, or just variety? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 606-608.

McManus, I. C. (2005). The wealth of distinguished doctors: Retrospective survey. British Medical Journal, 331, 1520-1523.

McManus, I. C. (2005, October 7). Why I ... think introducing SATS for university applicants in Britain is a waste of time. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 16.

McManus, I. C., Iqbal, S., Chandrarajan, A., Ferguson, E., & Leaviss, J. (2005). Unhappiness and dissatisfaction in doctors cannot be predicted by selectors from medical school application forms: A prospective, longitudinal study. BMC Medical Education, 5:38.

McManus, I. C., Lissauer, T., & Williams, S. E. (2005). Detecting cheating in written medical examinations by statistical analysis of similarity of answers: pilot study. British Medical Journal, 330, 1064-1066. [1.70 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C., Mollon, J., Duke, O. L., & Vale, J. A. (2005). Changes in standard of candidates taking the MRCP(UK) Part 1 examination, 1985 to 2002: Analysis of marker questions. BMC Medicine, 3:13.

McManus, I. C., Powis, D. A., Wakeford, R., Ferguson, E., James, D., & Richards, P. (2005). Intellectual aptitude tests and A levels for selecting UK school leaver entrants for medical school. British Medical Journal, 331, 555-559.

McManus, I. C. & Wysocki, C. J. (2005). Left-handers have a lower prevalence of arthritis and ulcer. Laterality, 10, 97-102.

2004

Berdon, W. E., McManus, I. C., & Afzelius, B. (2004). More on Kartagener's syndrome and the contributions of Afzelius and A.K. Siewert. Pediatric Radiology, 34, 585-586.

Bigsby, E., McManus, I. C., Sedgwick, P., & McCrorie, P. (2004). Which medical students like problem-based learning? Educación Médica, 7(3), 261.

Furnham, A. & McManus, I. C. (2004). Student attitudes to university education. Higher Education Review, 36, 29-38.

McManus, I. C. (2004, July/August). The Aventis Surprize. The Science Reporter: Newsletter of the Association of British Science Writers, p. 8.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Book review [Review of the book Comparative vertebrate lateralization]. Annals of Human Biology, 31, 497-499.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Detecting cheating in medical examinations. Educación Médica, 7(3), 193.

McManus, I. C. (2004, November 26). Doubleplusgood prole-watching on Airstrip One. Times Higher Education Supplement.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Eponymous but anonymous: Who was Dr Siewert? Lancet, 363, 662.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Grappling with the Hydra [Review of the book Handedness and brain asymmetry by Marian Annett]. Cortex, 40, 139-141.

McManus, I. C. (2004, April 9). Grasp on life allowed man to dream [Review of the book The hand by Raymond Tallis]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 25.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Höger Hand, Vänster Hand (G. Grip, Trans.). Stockholm: Fahrenheit Bokförlag.

McManus, I. C. (2004). New Year's resolutions: Mind the gap between intention and behaviour. British Medical Journal, 329, 1413-1414.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Right-left and the scrotum in Greek sculpture. Laterality, 9, 189-199.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Social class data are problematic to interpret [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 329, 800-801.

McManus, I. C. (2004). Social class data are problematic to interpret [Commentary]. BMJ.com.

McManus, I. C. (2004, October 1). Talk is tough when hands are tied [Review of the book Hearing gesture: how our hands help us think by Susan Goldin-Meadow]. Times Higher Education Supplement, pp. 24-25.

McManus, I. C., Buckman, J., & Woolley, E. (2004). Is light in pictures presumed to come from the left side? Perception, 33, 1421-1436.

McManus, I. C. & Drury, H. (2004). The handedness of Leonardo da Vinci: a tale of the complexities of lateralisation. Brain and Cognition, 55, 262-268.

McManus, I. C., Keeling, A., & Paice, E. (2004). Stress, burnout and doctors' attitudes to work are determined by personality and learning style: A twelve year longitudinal study of UK medical graduates. BMC Medicine, 2:29.

McManus, I. C., Martin, N., Stubbings, G. F., Chung, E. M. K., & Mitchison, H. M. (2004). Handedness and situs inversus in primary ciliary dyskinesia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 271, 2579-2582.

McManus, I. C., Mollon, J., Duke, O., & Vale, A. (2004). Changes in standard of candidates taking the MRCP(UK) Part 1 examination, 1985-2002: Analysis of marker questions. Educación Médica, 7(3), 193.

McManus, I. C. & Tomlinson, J. (2004). Objects look different sizes in the right and left eyes. Laterality, 9, 245-265.

Petrides, K. V. & McManus, I. C. (2004). Mapping medical careers: Questionnaire assessment of career preferences in medical school applicants and final year students. BMC Medical Education, 4, 18.

2003

Furnham, A., McManus, I. C., & Scott, D. (2003). Personality, empathy and attitudes to animal welfare. Anthrozoös, 16, 135-146.

Green, D. W., McManus, I. C., & Muncer, S. (2003). Eliciting and representing the causal understanding of a social concept: a methodological and statistical comparison of two methods. Papers on Social Representations/Textes sur les Représentations Sociales, 12, 2.1-2.23.

McManus, I. C. (2003). The arithmetic of risk. Quarterly Journal of Medicine, 96, 235-238.

McManus, I. C. (2003, February 28). Atoms and particles. Times Literary Supplement, p. 17.

McManus, I. C. (2003). How to derive causes from correlations in educational studies [Commentary]. British Medical Journal, 326, 432.

McManus, I. C. (2003). Medical School differences: beneficial diversity or harmful deviations? Quality and Safety in Health Care, 12, 324-325.

McManus, I. C. (2003). Vile poetry and worse taste. Annals of Improbable Research, 9 (2), 15-16.

McManus, I. C., Mitchison, H. M., Chung, E. M. K., Stubbings, G. F., & Martin, N. (2003). Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (Siewert's /Kartagener's Syndrome): Respiratory symptoms and psycho-social impact. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 3:4.

McManus, I. C., Mooney-Somers, J., Dacre, J. E., & Vale, J. A. (2003). Reliability of the MRCP(UK) Part I Examination, 1984-2001. Medical Education, 37, 609-611.

McManus, I. C., Smithers, E., Partridge, P., Keeling, A., & Fleming, P. R. (2003). A levels and intelligence as predictors of medical careers in UK doctors: 20 year prospective study. British Medical Journal, 327, 139-142.

McParland, M., Noble, L. M., Livingston, G., & McManus, I. C. (2003). The effect of a psychiatric attachment on students' attitudes to and intention to pursue psychiatry as a career. Medical Education, 37, 447-454.

2002

Handfield-Jones, R. S., Mann, K. V., Challis, M. E., Hobma, S. O., Klass, D. J., McManus, I. C. et al. (2002). Linking assessment to learning: a new route to quality assurance in medical practice. Medical Education, 36, 949-958.

Hays, R. B., Jolly, B. C., Caldon, L. J. M., McCrorie, P., McAvoy, P. A., McManus, I. C. et al. (2002). Is insight important? Measuring capacity to change performance. Medical Education, 36, 965-971.

McManus, I. C. (2002, October 17). If you change a four-lane highway into a six-lane highway and back again, by how much do you increase its capacity? [Review of the book Reckoning with Risk by Gerd Gigerenzer]. London Review of Books, 24, pp. 34-35.

McManus, I. C. (2002). Medical school applications - a critical situation. British Medical Journal, 325, 786-787.

McManus, I. C. (2002). Right hand, left hand: The origins of asymmetry in brains, bodies, atoms and cultures. London, UK / Cambridge, MA: Weidenfeld and Nicolson / Harvard University Press.

McManus, I. C. (2002). Stress and burnout in doctors. Lancet, 360, 1976.

McManus, I. C., Winder, B. C., & Gordon, D. (2002). The causal links between stress and burnout in a longitudinal study of UK doctors. Lancet, 359, 2089-2090.

McManus, I. C., Winder, B. C., & Paice, E. (2002). How consultants, hospitals, trusts and deaneries affect pre-registration house officer posts: a multilevel model. Medical Education, 36, 35-44.

McManus, I. C., Smithers, E., Partridge, P., & Fleming, P. R. (2002). Intelligence and academic attainment as predictors of medical careers: A twenty-year follow-up. Poster Presented at 10th Ottawa Conference, Ottawa, 13th-17th July.

Paice, E., Moss, F., Heard, S., Winder, B. C., & McManus, I. C. (2002). The relationship between pre-registration house officers and their consultants. Medical Education, 36, 26-34.

Paice, E., Rutter, H., Wetherell, M., Winder, B. C., & McManus, I. C. (2002). Stressful incidents, stress and coping strategies in the pre-registration house officer year. Medical Education, 36, 56-65.

Petrides, K. V. & McManus, I. C. (2002). Mapping medical student career preferences. Poster Presented at 10th Ottawa Conference, Ottawa, 13th-17th July.

2001

Fox, R. A., McManus, I. C., & Winder, B. C. (2001). The shortened Study Process Questionnaire: an investigation of its structure and longitudinal stability using confirmatory factor analysis. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 71, 511-530.

McManus, I. C. (2001). Charles Dickens: A neglected diagnosis? Lancet, 358, 2158-2161.

McManus, I. C. (2001). H C Bastian, Aldous Huxley, and Jonathan Osborne. Lancet, 357, 1210.

McManus, I. C. (2001). Nothing human is alien to me. Medical Education, 35, 1178-1179.

McManus, I. C. (2001). Student selection. In J.A.Dent & R. M. Harden (Eds.), A practical guide for medical teachers (pp. 379-392). Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. [1.32 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C., Winder, B. C., & Gordon, D. (2001). UK doctors' attitudes to the General Medical Council's Performance Procedures 1997 - 1999. Medical Education, 35 (Supplement 1), 60-69.

Miles, A., McManus, I. C., Feinmann, C., Glover, L., Harrison, S., & Pearce, S. (2001). The factor structure of the BDI in facial pain and other chronic pain patients: A comparison of two models using confirmatory factor analysis. British Journal of Health Psychology, 6, 179-196.

Muncer, S., Taylor, S., Green, D. W., & McManus, I. C. (2001). Nurses' representations of the perceived causes of work-related stress: a network drawing approach. Work and Stress, 15, 40-52.

Peters, J. & McManus, I. C. (2001). Good medical practice: Comparing the views of doctors and the general population. Medical Education, 35 (Supplement 1), 52-59.

2000

McManus, I. C. (2000, April 7). Shut your air-holes [Letter]. Times Literary Supplement, p. 21.

McManus, I. C., Gordon, D., & Winder, B. C. (2000). The Duties of a Doctor: UK doctors and Good Medical Practice. Quality in Health Care, 9, 14-22.

McManus, I. C. & Sproston, K. A. (2000). Women in hospital medicine: Glass ceiling, preference, prejudice or cohort effect? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 54, 10-16.

1999

Campbell, A., Muncer, S., McManus, I. C., & Woodhouse, D. (1999). Instrumental and expressive representations of aggression: one scale or two? Aggressive Behavior, 25, 435-444.

Elias, L. J., Bulman-Fleming, M. B., & McManus, I. C. (1999). Visual temporal asymmetries are related to asymmetries in linguistic perception. Neuropsychologia, 37, 1243-1249.

McManus, I. C. (1999). Book reviews [Review of the book Developmental science]. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 475-476.

McManus, I. C. (1999). Colour word usage within languages follows the Berlin and Kay ordering [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22, 724.

McManus, I. C. (1999). The eye captures... Current Biology, 9, R390-R391.

McManus, I. C. (1999). Freud, birth fantasies and appendicectomy [Commentary]. BMJ.com.

McManus, I. C. (1999). Handedness, cerebral lateralization and the evolution of language. In M.C.Corballis & S. E. G. Lea (Eds.), The descent of mind: Psychological perspectives on hominid evolution (pp. 194-217). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

McManus, I. C. (1999). Humphrey, N. 'Cave art, autism, and the evolution of the human mind' [Commentary]. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, 133-134.

McManus, I. C. (1999). Of geminates and gemellology [Editorial]. Laterality, 4, 193-196.

McManus, I. C. (1999). Selection to medical school in Great Britain: Author's reply. British Medical Journal, 318, 939.

McManus, I. C. (1999, March). Unnatural selection. BMA News Review, p. 30.

McManus, I. C., Porac, C., Bryden, M. P., & Boucher, R. (1999). Eye dominance, writing hand and throwing hand. Laterality, 4, 173-192.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., & Winder, B. C. (1999). Do UK medical school applicants prefer interviewing to non-interviewing schools? Advances in Health Sciences Education, 4, 155-165.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., & Winder, B. C. (1999). Intercalated degrees, learning styles, and career preferences: prospective longitudinal study of UK medical students. British Medical Journal, 319, 542-546.

McManus, I. C., Winder, B. C., & Gordon, D. (1999). Are UK doctors particularly stressed? Lancet, 354, 1358-1359.

Steel, C. M., Jackson, D., Sinclair, D. W., Magee, S. R., Levison, D. A., Parratt, D., Bland, J. M., Gore, S. M & McManus, C. (1999). Selection to medical school in Great Britain [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 318, 937a.

1998

Green, D. W., McManus, I. C., & Derrick, B. J. (1998). Cognitive structural models of unemployment and employment. British Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 415-438.

Heffernan, T., Green, D. W., McManus, I. C., & Muncer, S. (1998). Comments on Network analysis and lay interpretation: Some issues of consensus and representation by S.J. Muncer and K.Gillen. British Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 253-254.

McManus, I. C. (1998). Humphrey, N. 'Cave art, autism, and the evolution of the human mind' [Commentary]. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 8, 183-184.

McManus, I. C. (1998, January 23). More joys of PI. Times Literary Supplement, p. 17.

McManus, I. C. (1998). Early death among anaesthetists: A statistical howler [Commentary]. Anaesthesia, 53, 90-91.

McManus, I. C. (1998). Factors affecting likelihood of applicants being offered a place in medical schools in the United Kingdom in 1996 and 1997: retrospective study. British Medical Journal, 317, 1111-1116.

McManus, I. C. (1998). The perils of theoretical imprecision. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition, 17, 1180-1189.

McManus, I. C. (1998). The selection of medical students at British universities in 1996 and 1997: A report to the Council of Heads of Medical Schools. Also available at http://www.medschools.ac.uk/Publications/Pages/The-selection-of-Medical-...

McManus, I. C. (1998). Written by the right hemisphere [Review of the book Of two minds: the revolutionary science of dual-brain psychology by Fredric Schiffer]. Nature, 396, 132.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., & Winder, B. C. (1998). Clinical experience and performance in final examinations: Authors' reply [Commentary]. British Medical Journal, 316, 1984-1985.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., & Winder, B. C. (1998). Clinical experience of UK medical students. Lancet, 351, 802-803.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., Winder, B. C., & Sproston, K. A. (1998). Clinical experience, performance in final examinations, and learning style in medical students: prospective study. British Medical Journal, 316, 345-350.

Saudino, K. J. & McManus, I. C. (1998). Handedness, footedness, eyedness and earedness in the Colorado Adoption Project. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16, 167-174.

Taffinder, N. J., McManus, I. C., Gul, Y., Russell, R. C. G., & Darzi, A. (1998). Effect of sleep deprivation on surgeons' dexterity on laparoscopy simulator. Lancet, 352, 1191.

Taffinder, N., McManus, I. C., Jansen, J., Russell, R., & Darzi, A. (1998). An objective assessment of surgeons' psychomotor skills: validation of the MISTVR laparoscopic simulator. British Journal of Surgery, 85 (Supplement 1), 75.

Taffinder, N., McManus, I. C., Russell, R., & Darzi, A. (1998). An objective assessment of laparoscopic psychomotor skills: The effect of a training course on performance. Surgical Endoscopy, 12, 493.

Taffinder, N., Sutton, C., Fishwick, R. J., McManus, I. C., & Darzi, A. (1998). Validation of virtual reality to teach and assess psychomotor skills in laparoscopic surgery. In J.Westwood, H. Hoffman, D. Stredney, & S. Weghorst (Eds.), Technology and Informatics 50. Proceedings of Medicine meets Virtual Reality, 6, jan 28-31, San Diego, USA (pp. 124-130). Amsterdam: IOS Press.

1997

Baum, A., Newman, S., Weinman, J., West, R., McManus, I. C. (Eds.). (1997). Cambridge handbook of psychology, health and medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Bryden, M. P., Roy, E. A., McManus, I. C., & Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (1997). On the genetics and measurement of human handedness. Laterality, 2, 317-336.

Furnham, A., Tan, T., & McManus, I. C. (1997). Waist-to-hip ratio and preferences for body shape: A replication and extension. Personality and Individual Differences, 22, 539-549.

McManus, I. C. (1997). A monochrome view of colour [Commentary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 204.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Anaesthetists are younger than other doctors [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 315, 314.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Autism and schizophrenia are not due to a single genetic locus. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 2, 226-230.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Book reviews [Review of the book Intellectual development in adulthood: the Seattle longitudinal study by Warner Schaie]. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 390-391.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Employing cognitive behaviour therapy to reduce unemployment [Commentary]. Lancet, 350, 80-81.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Evolutionary Psychiatry [Review of the book Evolutionary psychiatry: a new beginning]. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 90, 174-175.

McManus, I. C. (1997). From selection to qualification: How and why medical students change. In I.Allen, P. Brown, & P. Hughes (Eds.), Choosing tomorrow's doctors (pp. 60-79). London: Policy Studies Institute.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Half a million basic colour words: Berlin and Kay and the usage of colour words in literature and science. Perception, 26, 367-370.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Lifeline. Lancet, 349, 1922.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Medical careers: Stories of a life. Medical Education, 31 (Supplement 1), 31-35.

McManus, I. C. (1997). O brave new world that has Prozac in't! [Review of the book Britain on the couch by Oliver James]. Nature, 390, 44.

McManus, I. C. (1997). The physician-as-scientist; the physician-as-shaman [Review of the book Do we still need doctors? by John D Lantos]. Lancet, 350, 1257.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Physician-poets. Lancet, 349, 655.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Travels of a neuro-romantic [Review of the book The island of the colour-blind by Oliver Sacks]. Nature, 385, 34.

McManus, I. C. (1997). Which doctors die first? Recording the doctors' sex might have led authors to suspect their conclusions [Commentary]. British Medical Journal, 314, 1132.

McManus, I. C. & Cornish, K. M. (1997). Fractionating handedness in mental retardation: What is the role of the cerebellum? Laterality, 2, 81-90.

McManus, I. C., Kidd, J. M., & Aldous, I. R. (1997). Self-perception of communicative ability: Evaluation of a questionnaire completed by medical students and general practitioners. British Journal of Health Psychology, 2, 301-315.

McManus, I. C. & Vincent, C. A. (1997). Can future poor performance be identified during selection? In P.Lens & G. van der Waal (Eds.), Problem Doctors: A conspiracy of silence (pp. 213-236). Amsterdam: IOS Press. [1.11 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. & Weatherby, P. (1997). The golden section and the aesthetics of form and composition: a cognitive model. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 15, 209-232. [1.99 MB pdf]

Richards, P., McManus, I. C., & Allen, I. (1997). British doctors are not disappearing [Editorial]. British Medical Journal, 314, 1567-1568.

1996

Bourassa, D. C., McManus, I. C., & Bryden, M. P. (1996). Handedness and eye-dominance: A meta-analysis of their relationship. Laterality, 1, 5-34.

Bryden, M. P., Corballis, M. C., & McManus, I. C. (1996). Editorial. Laterality, 1, 1-3.

Corballis, M. C., Lee, K., McManus, I. C., & Crow, T. J. (1996). Location of the handedness gene on the X and Y chromosomes. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 67, 50-52.

Cornish, K. M. & McManus, I. C. (1996). Hand preference and hand skill in children with autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 26, 597-609.

Godfrey, R. C. & McManus, I. C. (1996). Can undergraduate assessment be both realistic and reliable? Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, 25, 205-208.

Kitson, A., McManus, I. C., & Pringle, M. (1996). A research base for professional staffing of health services. In M.Peckham & R. Smith (Eds.), Scientific basis of health services (pp. 99-114). London: BMJ Books.

McManus, I. C. (1996). Birth dates and admission to medical school. Lancet, 347, 1120.

McManus, I. C. (1996). Book reviews [Review of the book Longitudinal research on individual development: present status and future perspectives]. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14, 97-98.

McManus, I. C. (1996). Cannon balls [Letter]. Times Literary Supplement.

McManus, I. C. (1996). Commentary: Cram and be damned. Student BMJ, 4, 10.

McManus, I. C. (1996). Drop out rate in medical schools seems reasonable. British Medical Journal, 313, 173.

McManus, I. C. (1996). Engineering quality in health care [Editorial]. Quality in Health Care, 5, 127.

McManus, I. C. (1996). Handedness. In J.G.Beaumont, P. M. Kenealy, & M. J. C. Rogers (Eds.), The Blackwell Dictionary of Neuropsychology (pp. 367-376). Oxford: Blackwell. [1.57 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1996, November 29). The Turin Shroud [Letter]. Times Literary Supplement, p. 17.

McManus, I. C., Bryden, M. P., & Bourassa, D. C. (1996). Handedness and eye-dominance: Explaining the association. Brain and Cognition, 30, 357-358.

McManus, I. C., Corballis, M. C., & Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (1996). Philip Bryden: November 14, 1934 - August 18, 1996. Laterality, 1, 257-268.

McManus, I. C., Lefford, F., Furnham, A. F., Shahidi, S., & Pincus, T. (1996). Career preference and personality differences in medical school applicants. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 1, 235-248.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., Winder, B. C., & Sproston, K. A. (1996). Final examination performance of students from ethnic minorities. Medical Education, 30, 195-200.

Midence, K., McManus, I. C., Fuggle, P., & Davies, S. C. (1996). Psychological adjustment and family functioning in a group of British children with sickle cell disease: Preliminary empirical findings and a meta-analysis. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 35, 439-450.

1995

Bryden, M. P., McManus, I. C., & Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (1995). GBG, hormones, genes, and anomalous dominance: A reply to commentaries. Brain and Cognition, 27, 94-97.

Ellis, J. M., McManus, I. C., & Newton, B. A. (1995). How patients perceive the role of hospital chaplains: a preliminary exploration. Quality in Health Care, 4, 174-177.

Fact, A. E. & Stake, M. I. (1995). Sentence at the department of corrections. Lancet, 346, 498.

Green, D. & McManus, I. C. (1995). Cognitive structural models: the perception of risk and prevention in coronary heart disease. British Journal of Psychology, 86, 321-336.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Achilles' right heel: the vulnerabilities of the right shift theory. Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive/ Current Psychology of Cognition, 14, 565-574.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Examining the educated and the trained. Lancet, 345, 1151-1153.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Familial sinistrality: the utility of calculating exact genotype probabilities for individuals. Cortex, 31, 3-24. [1.09 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1995). Foreword. In A. Wright The beginner's guide to colour psychology. London: Kyle Cathie Ltd.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Humanity and the medical humanities. Lancet, 346, 1143-1145.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Increased mortality in women doctors [Letter]. Lancet, 345, 796-797.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Medicine and books [Review of the book Cognitive assessment for clinicians by John R Hodges]. British Medical Journal, 310, 608.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Medicine and books [Review of the book New pathways to medical education: learning to learn at Harvard Medical School]. British Medical Journal, 311, 67.

McManus, I. C. (1995). Pruritus [Letter]. Lancet, 345, 1584.

McManus, I. C. & Kitson, C. M. (1995). Compositional geometry in pictures. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 13, 73-94.[2Mb]

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1995). Medical schools and racial discrimination: Comparison between medical schools is unjustified [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 310, 1530-1531.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1995, February 24). Skewed selection needs rethink. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 13.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., Winder, B. C., Sproston, K. A., & Styles, V. (1995). Medical school applicants from ethnic minorities: identifying if and when they are disadvantaged. British Medical Journal, 310, 496-500.

Richards, P. & McManus, I. C. (1995). Medical schools and racial discrimination [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 310, 1606.

Woodruff, P. W. R., McManus, I. C., & David, A. S. (1995). Meta-analysis of corpus callosum size in schizophrenia. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 58, 457-461.

1994

Bryden, M. P., McManus, I. C., & Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (1994). Evaluating the empirical support for the Geschwind-Behan-Galaburda model of cerebral lateralization. Brain and Cognition, 26, 103-167. [3.21 MB pdf]

Bryden, M. P., McManus, I. C., & Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (1994). GBG, BMB, R&L, X&Y ... Reply to commentaries. Brain and Cognition, 26, 312-326.

Corballis, M. C., Lee, K., McManus, I. C., & Crow, T. J. (1994). Evidence for the location of the handedness gene on the sex chromosomes. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 67, 401-402.

Grimshaw, G. M., McManus, I. C., & Bryden, M. P. (1994). Controlling for stimulus dominance in dichotic listening tasks: A modification of lambda. Neuropsychology, 8, 278-283.

McManus, I. C. (1994). Department of theatrical medicine? [Editorial]. Lancet, 344, 767.

McManus, I. C. (1994). Interpreting results of observational research: Requires more, not less, statistical analysis [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 309, 1158.

McManus, I. C. (1994). Knowing the knowledge [Editorial]. Quality in Health Care, 3, 67-68.

McManus, I. C. (1994). Science in schools: decline and fall? [Editorial]. British Medical Journal, 308, 284-285.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., Winder, B. C., & Sproston, K. A. (1994, October 21). Prescription failing students [Letter]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 14.

McManus, I. C., Vincent, C. A., Thom, S., & Kidd, J. (1994). Come insegnare l'arte di communicare agli studenti degli anni clinici. MEDIC: Metodologia e didattica clinica, 2, 205-212.

1993

Douse, N. A. & McManus, I. C. (1993). The personality of fantasy game players. British Journal of Psychology, 84, 505-509.

Madge, N., Diamond, J., Miller, D., Ross, E., McManus, I. C., Wadsworth, J. et al. (1993). The National Childhood Encephalopathy Study: a ten year follow-up. A report on the behavioural and educational outcomes after serious, acute, neurological illness in early childhood. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology (Supplement No. 68), 35 (7). London: MacKeith Press.

McManus, I. C. (1993). Book review [Review of the book Mending minds: a guide to the new psychiatry of depression, anxiety, and other serious mental disorders by L L Heston]. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 56, 117.

McManus, I. C. (1993). Drawbacks of league tables for hospital operations. Times, p. 19.

McManus, I. C. (1993). Ultrasonography and handedness: Don't confuse direction with degree [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 307, 563-564.

McManus, I. C., Bryden, M. P., & Bulman-Fleming, M. B. (1993). Handedness and autoimmune disease. Lancet, 341, 891-892.

McManus, I. C. & Bryden, M. P. (1993). Handedness on Tristan da Cunha: The genetic consequences of social isolation. International Journal of Psychology, 28, 831-843.

McManus, I. C. & Bryden, M. P. (1993). The neurobiology of handedness, language and cerebral dominance: A model for the molecular genetics of behaviour. In M.H.Johnson (Ed.), Brain development and cognition: A reader (pp. 679-702). Oxford: Blackwell. [1.22 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C., Cheema, B., & Stoker, J. (1993). The aesthetics of composition: a study of Mondrian. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 11, 83-94.

McManus, I. C., Lefford, F., Furnham, A. F., & Shahidi, S. (1993). Career preference and personality in medical school applicants. Medical Education, 27, 104.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., Winder, B. C., Sproston, K. A., & Vincent, C. A. (1993). The changing clinical experience of British medical students. Lancet, 341, 941-944.

McManus, I. C., Shergill, S., & Bryden, M. P. (1993). Annett's theory that individuals heterozygous for the right shift gene are intellectually advantaged: Theoretical and empirical problems. British Journal of Psychology, 84, 517-537. [1.17 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C., Sproston, K. A., Winder, B. C., & Richards, P. (1993). The experience of medical education: changing perceptions of final-year students. Medical Education 27, 103.

McManus, I. C. & Vincent, C. A. (1993). Selecting and educating safer doctors. In C.A.Vincent, M. Ennis, & R. J. Audley (Eds.), Medical accidents (pp. 80-105). Oxford: Oxford University Press. [1.28 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C., Vincent, C. A., Thom, S., & Kidd, J. (1993). Teaching communication skills to clinical students. British Medical Journal, 306, 1322-1327.

McManus, I. C., Winder, B. C., Sproston, K. A., Styles, V. A., & Richards, P. (1993). Why do medical school applicants apply to particular schools? Medical Education, 27, 116-123.

On practise, practice, and praxis [Editorial]. (1993). Lancet, 342, 1002-1003.

Seddon, B. M. & McManus, I. C. (1993). The incidence of left-handedness. (Unpublished).

Shaw, D. & McManus, I. C. (1993). The handedness of Kerrs and Carrs. British Journal of Psychology, 84, 545-551.

Sproston, K. A., Winder, B. C., & McManus, I. C. (1993). Sex differences in career aspirations and knowledge of medical school applicants. Medical Education 27, 107-108.

Wakeford, R., Foulkes, J., McManus, I. C., & Southgate, L. (1993). MRCGP pass rate by medical school and region of postgraduate training. British Medical Journal, 307, 542-543.

Wakeford, R., Foulkes, J., McManus, I. C., & Southgate, L. (1993). Pass rate in MRCGP examination [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 307, 1355-1356.

Winder, B. C., Sproston, K. A., McManus, I. C., & Richards, P. (1993). Aptitudes and career preferences in medical school applicants. Medical Education 27, 106.

1992

Brewin, C. R., Firth-Cozens, J., Furnham, A. F., & McManus, I. C. (1992). Self-criticism in adulthood and recalled childhood experience. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 101, 561-566.

Bryden, M. P. & McManus, I. C. (1992). Dispelling myths about left-handedness. International Journal of Psychology, 27, 400.

Bryden, M. P. & McManus, I. C. (1992). Relations between handedness and immune disorders. Poster presented at International Neuropsychological Society meeting, San Diego, California, Feb 7th 1992.

Bryden, M. P. & McManus, I. C. (1992). Relations between handedness and immune disorders. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 14, 89.

Cornell, E. & McManus, I. C. (1992). Differential survey response rates in right and left-handers. British Journal of Psychology, 83, 39-43.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Are paw preference differences in HI and LO mice the result of specific genes or of heterosis and fluctuating asymmetry? Behavior Genetics, 22, 435-451.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Book review [Review of the book The international handbook of addiction behaviour Llana Belle Glass]. AIDS Care, 4, 355.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Book shelf [Review of the books The Lop-sided Ape by Michael C Corballis and The Left-hander Syndrome by Stanley Coren]. Lancet, 339, 1467-1468.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Does performance improve when candidates resit a post-graduate examination? Medical Education, 26, 157-162.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Neuropsychology and the localisation of cortical function. In M.Weller & M. Eysenck (Eds.), The scientific basis of psychiatry (2 ed., pp. 163-176). London: W B Saunders.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Psychology in Medicine. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

McManus, I. C. (1992). Reversed cerebral asymmetry and breast cancer. Lancet, 339, 1055.

McManus, I. C. & Bryden, M. P. (1992). The genetics of handedness, cerebral dominance and lateralization. In I.Rapin & S. J. Segalowitz (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology, Volume 6, Section 10: Child neuropsychology (Part 1) (pp. 115-144). Amsterdam: Elsevier. [2.22 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. & Bryden, M. P. (1992). Handedness of parents and sex of progeny: Failure to replicate the results of James (1986). Journal of Theoretical Biology, 159, 439-442.

McManus, I. C. & Lockwood, D. N. J. (1992). Medical education, training and research. In E.R.Beck, D. L. H. Patterson, S. Newman, & S. Lonsdale (Eds.), In good health? The status of the NHS (pp. 123-148). London: Chapman and Hall. [2.32 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C., Murray, B., Doyle, K., & Baron-Cohen, S. (1992). Handedness in childhood autism shows a dissociation of skill and preference. Cortex, 28, 373-381.

Moss, F. & McManus, I. C. (1992). The anxieties of new clinical students. Medical Education, 26, 17-20.

Powis, D. A., McManus, I. C., & Cleave-Hogg, D. (1992). Selection of medical students: Philosophic, political, social and educational bases. Teaching and Learning in Medicine, 4, 25-34.

Van Horn, J. D. & McManus, I. C. (1992). Ventricle-brain ratio in schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 161, 715.

Van Horn, J. D. & McManus, I. C. (1992). Ventricular enlargement in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of studies of the ventricle-brain ratio. British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 687-697.

Why are most people right-handed? (1992). UCL Science, 6, 9.

1991

Bryden, M. P., McManus, I. C., & Steenhuis, R. E. (1991). Handedness is not related to self-reported disease incidence. Cortex, 27, 605-611.

Mann, J. & McManus, I. C. (1991). Causal inter-relations between psychological well-being and disease severity in HIV infection and AIDS. In M.Johnston, M. Herbert, & T. Marteau (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, Oxford July 1990 (pp. 80-81). Leicester: British Psychological Society.

Marchant-Haycox, S. E., McManus, I. C., & Wilson, G. D. (1991). Left-handedness, homosexuality, HIV infection and AIDS. Cortex, 27, 49-56.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Book reviews [Review of the book Computer applications in Psychiatry and Psychology]. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 1, 183-184.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Book shelf [Review of the book Handedness and developmental disorder D V M Bishop]. Lancet, 337, 902.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Book shelf [Review of the books Measuring human problems: a practical guide and Human psychopharmacology, vol 3: measures and methods]. Lancet, 338, 41-42.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Designer data (correspondence). Nature, 354, 427.

McManus, I. C. (1991). The genetics of dyslexia. In J.F.Stein (Ed.), Vision and Visual Dysfunction: Volume 13, Dyslexia (pp. 94-112). London: MacMillan Press. [1.77 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1991). How will medical education change? Lancet, 337, 1519-1521.

McManus, I. C. (1991). The inheritance of left-handedness. In G.R.Bock & J. Marsh (Eds.), Ciba Foundation Symposium 162: Biological asymmetry and handedness (pp. 251-281). Chichester: Wiley. [1.46 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1991, March 29). Letter to the editor. Times Education Supplement.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Membership examinations and Royal College finances. Lancet, 337, 414-415.

McManus, I. C. (1991). Only fools and angels [Review of the television programme Your life in their hands]. British Medical Journal, 302, 1157-1158.

McManus, I. C. & Bryden, M. P. (1991). Geschwind's theory of cerebral lateralization: Developing a formal causal model. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 237-253. [1.80 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. & Lockwood, D. N. J. (1991). Berlin, Bohemia and Budapest by bicycle. St.Mary's Gazette, 97, 26-27.

Weir, C. G., McManus, I. C., & Kiely, B. (1991). Evaluation of the teaching of statistical concepts by interactive experience with Monte Carlo simulations. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 61, 240-247.

1990

Examining the Royal Colleges' examiners [Editorial]. (1990). Lancet, 335, 443-445.

Kemp, R. I., McManus, I. C., & Pigott, T. (1990). Sensitivity to the displacement of facial features in negative and inverted images. Perception, 19, 531-543.

McManus, I. C. (1990). Book shelf [Review of the book Rebel with a cause: the autobiography of Hans Eysenck]. Lancet, 335, 1064.

McManus, I. C. (1990). Book shelf [Review of the book Tomorrow's doctors: the path to successful practice in the 1990s by Benjamin H Natelson]. Lancet, 335, 1246-1247.

McManus, I. C. (1990). Left-handedness and maternal age [Letter]. New England Journal of Medicine, 323, 1426-1427.

McManus, I. C. (1990). Nine ladies laid bare? [Review of the book Before the gates of excellence: the determinants of creative genius by R Ochse]. British Medical Journal, 301, 998-999.

McManus, I. C. (1990). Unsigned editorials [Letter]. Lancet, 335, 916.

McManus, I. C. & Jeffs, S. (1990). Fractal dimensionality and preference for synthetic random dot patterns. In Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Empirical Aesthetics, Budapest, Aug 22-25 (pp. 203-206).

McManus, I. C., Maitlis, S. L., & Richards, P. (1990). Identifying medical school applicants from ethnic minorities. Studies in Higher Education, 15, 57-73.

McManus, I. C., Naylor, J., & Booker, B. L. (1990). Left-handedness and myasthenia gravis. Neuropsychologia, 28, 947-955.

McManus, I. C., Tunnicliffe, N., & Fleming, P. R. (1990). The independent effects of intelligence and educational achievements in predicting final examination success [Abstract]. Medical Education, 24, 181-184.

Pass and fail rates at Royal College examinations. (1990). Lancet, 335, 1585.

Shaaban, M. A., Abdul, A. M., Bahr, G. M., Stanford, J. L., Lockwood, D. N. J., & McManus, I. C. (1990). Revaccination with BCG: its effects on skin tests in Kuwaiti senior school children [Abstract]. European Respiratory Journal, 3, 187-191.

1989

Botros, W. A., Ankier, S. I., Priest, R. G., McManus, I. C., Steinert, J., & Samier, Z. Y. (1989). Clinical assessment and performance tasks in depression: a comparison of amitriptyline and trazodone. British Journal of Psychiatry, 155, 479-482.

The dangers of not going to bed [Editorial]. (1989). Lancet, 1, 138-139.

Economics for medical students [Editorial]. (1989). Lancet, 2, 200.

In England now. (1989). Lancet, 2, 1446.

Lockwood, D. N. J. & McManus, I. C. (1989). The bicycle path to Rome. British Medical Journal, 29, 1588-1589.

McManus, I. C. (1989). Book shelf [Review of the book A practical guide to clinical teaching in medicine]. Lancet, 333, 934.

McManus, I. C., Maitlis, S. L., & Richards, P. (1989). Shortlisting of applicants from UCCA forms: the structure of pre-selection judgements. Medical Education, 23, 136-146.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1989). Reliability of short-listing in medical student selection. Medical Education, 23, 147-151.

McManus, I. C., Richards, P., & Maitlis, S. L. (1989). Prospective study of the disadvantage of people from ethnic minority groups applying to medical schools in the United Kingdom. British Medical Journal, 298, 723-726.

McManus, I. C. & Wakeford, R. (1989). A core medical curriculum [Editorial]. British Medical Journal, 298, 1051.

Stefan, M. D. & McManus, I. C. (1989). The concept of disease: its evolution in medical students. Social Science and Medicine, 29, 791-792.

Tooth, D., Tonge, K., & McManus, I. C. (1989). Anxiety and study methods in pre-clinical students: causal relation to examination performance. Medical Education, 23, 416-421.

1988

Critical questions; critical incidents; critical answers [Editorial]. (1988). Lancet, 2, 1373-1374.

Cruickshank, J. K., Knight, J., Newell, A., Dalgleish, A. G., Porter, J., Klenerman, P. et al. (1988). Tropical spastic paraparesis and HTLV-I: Viral prevalence among relatives of UK patients in Britain and Jamaica. West Indian Medical Journal, 37 (Supplement), 64.

McManus, I. C. (1988). The MD and MS degrees in Britain. British Medical Journal, 297, 115-117.

McManus, I. C. (1988). Patronage, promotion and policy [Review of the book Doctors and their careers by Isobel Allen]. Lancet, 331, 1327-1328.

McManus, I. C., Lockwood, D. N. J., Stanford, J. L., Shaaban, M. A., Ati, M. A., & Bahr, G. M. (1988). Recognition of a category of responders to group ii slow-grower associated, antigens amongst Kuwaiti senior school children, using a statistical model. Tubercle, 69, 275-281.

McManus, I. C., Sik, G., Cole, D. R., Mellon, A. F., Wong, J., & Kloss, J. (1988). The development of handedness in children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 6, 257-273.

Morgan, M. J. & McManus, I. C. (1988). The relationship between brainedness and handedness. In F.C.Rose, R. Whurr, & M. Wyke (Eds.), Aphasia (pp. 85-130). London: Whurr Publishers. [2.70 MB pdf]

Richards, P., McManus, I. C., & Maitlis, S. (1988). Reliability of interviewing in medical student selection. British Medical Journal, 296, 1520-1521.

1987

Crimlisk, H. & McManus, I. C. (1987). The effect of personal illness experience on career preference in medical students. Medical Education, 21, 464-467.

Diagnosis: logic and psychologic [Editorial]. (1987). Lancet, 1, 840-841.

Lockwood, D. N. J., McManus, I. C., Stanford, J. L., Thomas, A., & Abeyagunawardana, D. V. P. (1987). Three types of response to mycobacterial antigens [Abstract]. European Journal of Respiratory Diseases, 71, 348-355.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Book reviews [Review of the book Investigating abnormal behaviour]. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 60, 299.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Book reviews [Review of the book Language, aphasia and the right hemisphere by Chris Code]. Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 6, 354-355.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Book reviews [Review of the book Left, right, hand and brain: the right shift theory by Marian Annett]. Psychological Medicine, 17, 523-525.

McManus, I. C. (1987, July 10). Hands and feats. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 13.

McManus, I. C. (1987). On the one hand, on the other hand: statistical fallacies in laterality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 282-283.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Physician heal thyself [Review of the book The wound and the doctor by G Bennett]. Lancet, 329, 1079-1080.

McManus, I. C. (1987). Reviews of books [Review of the book Medicine and the behavioural sciences by Michael J Pritchard]. Lancet, 329, 661-662.

McManus, I. C. (1987). What makes some children short-sighted? [Letter]. Lancet, 330, 1267-1268.

McManus, I. C. & Kemp, R. I. (1987). Professor Audley and the Margaret Thatcher illusion. UCL Psychology, 7.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1987). Choice and ordering of medical school applications: cause for concern. Lancet, 330, 33-35.

Richards, P. & McManus, I. C. (1987). Prejudice against doctors and students from ethnic minorities [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 294, 575.

Woolf, J. & McManus, I. C. (1987). Medical stereotypes and medical realities. British Medical Journal, 294, 1660.

1986

Arndt, C. B., Guly, U. M. V., & McManus, I. C. (1986). Pre-clinical anxiety: the stress associated with a viva voce examination. Medical Education, 20, 274-280.

Lockwood, D. N. J., Goldman, L. H., & McManus, I. C. (1986). Clinical experience of clerks and dressers: a three-year study of Birmingham medical students. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 79, 38-42.

Lockwood, D. N. J., Goldman, L. H., & McManus, I. C. (1986). Surgical dressers: the theatre experience of junior clinical students. Medical Education, 20, 216-221.

McManus, I. C. (1986). Book reviews [Review of the book Left side, right side: a review of laterality research by A Beaton]. British Journal of Psychology, 77, 419-421.

McManus, I. C. (1986). Reviews of books [Review of the book Bedside manners: the troubled history of doctors and patients by Edward Shorter]. Lancet, 328, 608.

McManus, I. C. (1986). Reviews of books [Review of the book Implementing problem-based medical education]. Lancet, 327, 775.

McManus, I. C., Kemp, R. I., & Grant, J. (1986). Differences between fingers and hands in tapping ability: dissociation between speed and regularity. Cortex, 22, 461-474.

McManus, I. C. & Neale, M. (1986). Behaviour genetics [Letter]. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 39, 143.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1986). Admission for medicine in the United Kingdom: a structural model of background factors. Medical Education, 20, 181-186.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1986). Prospective survey of performance of medical students during preclinical years. British Medical Journal, 293, 124-127.

Morton, A. D. & McManus, I. C. (1986). Attitudes to and knowledge about the acquired immune deficiency syndrome: lack of a correlation. British Medical Journal, 293, 1212.

1985

Batheja, M. & McManus, I. C. (1985). Handedness in the mentally handicapped. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 27, 63-68.

Lockwood, D. N. J., Goldman, L. H., & McManus, I. C. (1985). Student audit of clinical teaching: a three-year study. British Medical Journal, 291, 719-721.

McManus, I. C. (1985). Handedness, language dominance and aphasia: a genetic model. Cambridge University Press: Psychological Medicine, Monograph Supplement No.8. [3.73 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1985). Medical Students: Origins, selection, attitudes and culture. (MD thesis, University of London).

McManus, I. C. (1985). On testing the right shift theory: a reply to Annett. British Journal of Psychology, 76, 31-34.

McManus, I. C. (1985). Right- and left-hand skill: failure of the right shift model. British Journal of Psychology, 76, 1-16. [1.98 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1985). Writing hand position, birth stress, and familial factors. Current Psychological Research and Reviews, 4, 195-203.

McManus, I. C., Edmondson, D., & Rodger, J. (1985). Balance in pictures. British Journal of Psychology, 76, 311-324.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1985). Admission to medical school [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 290, 319-320.

Richards,P. & McManus, I.C (1985) Selection of medical students: Is it fair? , St Mary's Gazette, 9 (1), 17.

1984

Beaumont, G., Young, A., & McManus, I. C. (1984). Hemisphericity: a critical review. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 1, 191-212. [1.13 MB pdf]

Cruickshank, J. K., Croft, P. R., & McManus, I. C. (1984). Fat arms, cuff size and blood pressure re-assessed. Journal of Hypertension, 2, 554.

Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N. & McManus, I. C. (1984). Blood group and socio-economic class. Nature, 309, 395-396.

McManus, I. C. (1984, September 21). A question of quality and emphasis [Letter]. Times Higher Education Supplement, p. 2.

McManus, I. C. (1984). Bookshelf [Review of the book A handbook for clinical teachers]. Medical Teacher, 6, 113.

McManus, I. C. (1984). The genetics of handedness in relation to language disorder. In F.C.Rose (Ed.), Advances in Neurology, vol 42: Progress in Aphasiology (pp. 125-138). New York: Raven Press.

McManus, I. C. (1984). In defence of poesie. St. Mary's Gazette, 90, 14-15.

McManus, I. C. (1984). The inheritance of asymmetries in man and flatfish. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 7, 731-733.

McManus, I. C. (1984). The power of a procedure for detecting mixture distributions in laterality data. Cortex, 20, 421-426.

McManus, I. C. & Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N. (1984). Human assortative mating for height: non-linearity and heteroscedasticity. Human Biology, 56, 617-623.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1984). An audit of admission to medical school: 1. Acceptances and rejects. British Medical Journal, 289, 1201-1204.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1984). An audit of admission to medical school: 2. Shortlisting and interviews. British Medical Journal, 289, 1288-1290.

McManus, I. C. & Richards, P. (1984). An audit of admission to medical school: 3. Applicants' perceptions and proposals for change. British Medical Journal, 289, 1365-1367.

Wilkins, A., Nimmo-Smith, I., Tait, A., McManus, I. C., Della Sala, S., Tilley, A. et al. (1984). A neurological basis for visual discomfort. Brain, 107, 989-1017. [1.55 MB pdf]

1983

Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N., McManus, I. C., Maclarnon, A. M., & Lanigan, P. M. (1983). The association between phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) tasting ability and psychometric variables. Behavior Genetics, 13, 191-196.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Basic colour terms in literature. Language and Speech, 26, 247-252.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Bimodality of blood pressure levels. Statistics in Medicine, 2, 253-258.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Book reviews [Review of the book The alcoholic brain: CT scan and psychological findings by Maria A Ron]. Psychological Medicine, 13, 923-944.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Book reviews [Review of the book Lateral preferences and human behaviour]. British Journal of Psychology, 74, 418-419.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Conference registration [Letter]. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 36, 423.

McManus, I. C. (1983). The interpretation of laterality. Cortex, 19, 187-214. [1.29 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1983). Journal Club. Medical Teacher, 5, 154-155.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Neuropsychology and the localisation of cognitive function. In M.Weller (Ed.), The scientific basis of psychiatry (pp. 81-95). London: Bailliere Tindall.

McManus, I. C. (1983). Pathological left-handedness: Does it exist? Journal of Communication Disorders, 16, 315-344. [1.26 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1983). Smoking, personality and reasons for smoking. Psychological Medicine, 13, 895-896.

McManus, I. C., Ankier, S. I., Norfolk, J., Phillips, M., & Priest, R. G. (1983). Effects on psychological performance of the benzodiazepine, loprazolam, alone and with alcohol. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 16, 291-300.

McManus, I. C. & Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N. (1983). Biosocial correlates of cognitive abilities. Journal of Biosocial Science, 15, 289-306.

1982

Davey, P. G., Cruickshank, J. K., McManus, I. C., Mahood, B., Snow, M. H., & Geddes, A. M. (1982). Bacterial meningitis - ten years experience. Journal of Hygiene, 88, 383-401.

McManus, I. C. (1982). A-level grades and medical student selection. British Medical Journal, 284, 1654-1656.

McManus, I. C. (1982). The distribution of blood pressure. Clinical Science 62, 30P-31P.

McManus, I. C. (1982). The distribution of skull asymmetry in man. Annals of Human Biology, 9, 167-170.

McManus, I. C. (1982). The social class of medical students. Medical Education, 16, 72-75.

McManus, I. C. & Weeks, S. J. (1982). Smoking, personality and reasons for smoking. Psychological Medicine, 12, 349-356.

Wienrich, A. M., Wells, P. A., & McManus, I. C. (1982). Handedness, anxiety and sex differences. British Journal of Psychology, 73, 69-72.

1981

Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N., Maclarnon, A. M., Lanigan, P. M., & McManus, I. C. (1981). Foot-length asymmetry, sex and handedness. Science, 212, 1416-1417.

McManus, I. C. (1981). Book reviews [Review of the book Perception of pictures vol 1: Alberti's window - the projective model of pictorial information]. British Journal of Psychology, 72, 514-515.

McManus, I. C. (1981). Handedness and birth stress. Psychological Medicine, 11, 485-496. [1.20 MB pdf]

McManus, I. C. (1981). Psychology: Degree course guide 1981-1982. Cambridge: Careers Research and Advisory Centre.

McManus, I. C. (1981). Puff volume increases when low-nicotine cigarettes are smoked [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 283, 1186.

McManus, I. C. (1981). Wing-folding in Drosophila. Animal Behaviour, 29, 626-627.

McManus, I. C., Jones, A. L., & Cottrell, J. (1981). The aesthetics of colour. Perception, 10, 651-666. [1.54 MB pdf]

1980

McManus, I. C. (1980). The aesthetics of simple figures. British Journal of Psychology, 71, 505-524.

McManus, I. C. (1980). Handedness in twins: a critical review. Neuropsychologia, 18, 347-355.

McManus, I. C. (1980). Left-handedness and epilepsy. Cortex, 16, 487-492.

McManus, I. C. (1980, September 12). Living, eating and attribution [Letter]. Times Literary Supplement, 995.

McManus, I. C. (1980). Season of birth of left-handers. Archives of Neurology, 37, 63.

1979

McManus, I. C. (1979). The determinants of laterality in man. (PhD thesis, University of Cambridge).

McManus, I. C. (1979). Psychology: Degree course guide 1979-1980. Cambridge: Careers Research and Advisory Centre.

McManus, I. C. & Lockwood, D. N. J. (1979). Medical school admission policies [Letter]. Lancet, 313, 106-107.

McManus, I. C. & Mascie-Taylor, C. G. N. (1979). Hand-clasping and arm-folding: a review and a genetic model. Annals of Human Biology, 6, 527-558. [1.42 MB pdf]

1978

Fleming, S. & McManus, I. C. (1978, July 26). The image on the cloth. World Medicine, pp. 58-60.

Hedgecoe, J., Tresidder, J. & Platt, J. (1978). The art of colour photography [Scientific consultant]. London: Mitchell Beazley.

Lockwood, D. N. J., Croft, R. D., Graffy, J., Cruickshank, J. K., McManus, I. C., Fink, C. et al. (1978). Decline of the first MB [Letter]. Lancet, 311, 983.

McManus, I. C. (1978). The horizontal-vertical illusion and the square. British Journal of Psychology, 69, 369-370.

McManus, I. C. (1978). Materia non medica: The Plague at Prato. British Medical Journal, 2, 483.

McManus, I. C. (1978, March 10). Natural speech [Letter]. Times Literary Supplement, 285.

McManus, I. C. (1978, November 29). Taking the Piss. World Medicine, pp. 84-87.

McManus, I. C. (1978, June 2). The Turin Shroud [Letter]. Times Literary Supplement, 614.

McManus, I. C., Isbister, J. N., & Lockwood, D. N. J. (1978). Smoking behaviour in medical students [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 1, 175.

1977

McManus, I. C. (1977). Materia non Medica: Lawrence the Enigma. British Medical Journal, 2, 313.

McManus, I. C. (1977). Predominance of left-sided breast tumours. Lancet, 310, 297-298.

McManus, I. C. (1977). Professional indemnity [Letter]. British Medical Journal, 1, 1415.

McManus, I. C. (1977). Unnatural selection. Queen's Medical Magazine, 69, 10-12.

McManus, I. C., Lockwood, D. N. J., & Cruickshank, J. K. (1977). The pre-registration year: chaos by consensus. Lancet, 309, 413-417.

1976

Cruickshank, J. K. & McManus, I. C. (1976). Getting into medicine. New Society, 35, 112-113.

McManus, I. C. (1976). Archive for research data [Letter]. Lancet, 307, 1188.

McManus, I. C. (1976). Scrotal asymmetry in man and in ancient sculpture. Nature, 259, 426. [1.67 MB pdf]

1975

Blount, P., Holmes, J., Rodger, J., Coltheart, M., & McManus, I. C. (1975). On the ability to discriminate original from mirror-image reproductions of works of art. Perception, 4, 385-389.

McManus, I. C. (1975). Life expectation of Italian renaissance artists. Lancet, 305, 266-267.

1973

Humphrey, N. K. & McManus, I. C. (1973). Status and the left cheek. New Scientist, 59, 437-439.

McManus, I. C. (1973). Pain perception [Letter]. New Scientist, 58, 124.

McManus, I. C. & Humphrey, N. K. (1973). Turning the left cheek. Nature, 243, 271-272.

1972

McManus, I. C. (1972). An experimental analysis of aesthetic responses of human subjects to rectangles. (Unpublished BA thesis, University of Cambridge). [2.07 MB pdf]

1969

McManus, I. C. (1969). An analysis of the variation in form of the dog-whelk under different ecological conditions. Enquiry, 5, 31-33.