Academic

Books

Kempton, H. (2026). Mindfulness through Science and Verse: Finger Pointing at the Moon. Routledge.

Buttle, H. (2006). Repetition blindness: An illustration of the complexity of visual perceptual phenomena. In C. M. Fletcher-Flinn, & G. M. Haberman (Eds.), Cognition and language: Perspectives from New Zealand. Bowen Hills (Queensland, Australia): Australian Academic Press.

Carr, S. C., Fletcher, R. B., Atkins, S. G., Stillman, J. A., Clarke, S, & Buttle, H. (2008) “From Groups to Teams: Assessing Individual Differences in Preparedness for Team Work?”  In J. Deller (Ed.), Personality at Work: Readings in Applied Organizational Behavior from the Luneburg Symposium. Mering (Germany): Rainer Hampp Verlag

Journal Articles

Kempton, H. (2026) Authenticity without Essence: A Buddhist-Cognitive Critique of the ‘True Self’ in Spiritual Identity. Philosophy and Realistic Reflection, 3 (1), 142-169. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55121/prr.v3i1.889 Invited submission (APC waived).

Kempton, H. & Waila, K. (2025) Mindful solitude as an antidote and antonym to loneliness: a historic and therapeutic Buddhist perspective. Special Issue of Religions – Buddhist Meditation: Culture, Mindfulness, and Rationality, 16(11), 1439, https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16111439 (Q1 Religious Studies)

Nalinda D. Liyanagedera , Corinne A. Bareham, Heather Kempton, and Hans
W. Guesgen (2025). Machine Learning-based Comparative Analysis of Subject-independent EEG Data Classification across Multiple Meditation and Non-meditation Sessions, Sensors, 25, 6876. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25226876 (Q1 Instrumentation)

Nalinda D. Liyanagedera, Corinne Bareham, Sunil Lal, Heather Kempton and Hans W. Guesgen (2025), Novel Machine Learning-driven Comparative Analysis of CSP, STFT, and CSP-STFT Fusion for EEG Data Classification across Multiple Meditation and Non-meditation Sessions in BCI Pipeline Brain Informatics, 12, 1.

Capizzi, R. & Kempton, H. (2023) Nature connection, mindfulness, and wellbeing: A network analysis. OBM Integrative and Complimentary Medicine, 8, 4,  doi:10.21926/obm.icm.2304050.

Nalinda D. Liyanagedera, Ali Abdul Hussain ¹, Amardeep Singh ³, Sunil Lal ¹, Heather Kempton ⁴ and Hans W. Guesgen (2023). Common Spatial Pattern for Classification of Loving Kindness Meditation for Single and Multiple Sessions. Brain Informatics, 10, 24.

Ghanbari, M. Kempton, H. M., & Kreplin, U. (2022) Mindfulness or Expectancy? Mindfulness as a label leads to expectancy effects. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research. DOI: 10.1002/capr.12589

Kempton, H. M. (2022). Holy be the lay: A way to mindfulness through Christian poetry. OBM Integrative and Complimentary Medicine, 7 (1), doi: 10.21926/obm.icm.2201011. “Among all the articles published in the first quarter in 2022 of our journal, we are quite sure that your article deserves to be the cover of this Issue book.” Cover story (50 words) and picture provided.

Smith, J., Kempton, H. M., Williams, M., & Van Ommen, C.  (2021). Mindfulness as Practice: A Network Analysis of FMI data, https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4rymb, Counselling and Psychotherapy Research.

Carr, S. C. et al. (2021) “Our Fair Trade Coffee Tastes Better” Of course it will, but When and How? Journal of Consumer Affairs. DOI: 10.111/joca.12416.

Endro, W. T. W., Shepherd, M., Kempton, H., van Ommen, C. (2021). The Co-Design of a chat telepsychotherapy manual for Indonseians with minor depression – A research protocol. Journal of Innovation in Psychology, Education, and Didactics, 25 (2), 115-130. doi:10.29081/JIPED.2021.25.2.01

Kempton, H. M. (2020).  Use of poetry in secular mindfulness guidance. Mindfulness, 11(6), pp. 1546-1556. DOI: 10.1007/s12671-020-01370-1).

Buttle, H. (2015) Measuring a Journey without Goal: Meditation, Spirituality, and Physiology, BioMed Research International, vol. 2015, Article ID 891671, doi:10.1155/2015/891671

Mokhtari, S., & Buttle, H. (2015). The Effect of Observers’ Mood on the Local Processing of Emotional Faces: Evidence from Short-Lived and Prolonged Mood States. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 11(1), 14-21.

Buttle, H. (2015). Complex cognitions and motive questioning: Internet discussions of speeding in New Zealand driving news. Road & Transport Research, 24 (3), 3-13.

Buttle, H. (2013). More than the sum of my parts: A cognitive psychologist reflects on mindfulness/meditation experience. Reflective Practice: International and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2013.835718

Hodgson, J., Buttle, H., Conridge, B., Gibbons, D., and Robinson, J. (2013). Phonics instruction and early reading: professional views from the classroom. National Associtaion for the Teaching of English: https://ukla.org/wp-content/uploads/NATE_Phonics_and_early_reading_report.pdf

Buttle, H., & Cheung, K. (2011). Mere exposure effects for different styles of internet advertising. Cognitive Technology, 16, 1, 23-31.

Buttle, H. (2011). Attention and Working Memory in Mindfulness-Meditation Practices. Journal of Mind and Behavior, 32, 2, 123-134.

Buttle, H., & East, J. (2010). Traditional facial tattoos disrupt face recognition processes. Perception, 39, 12, 1672-1674.

Buttle, H. (2010). Repetition Blindness for face identity but not for facial expressions. Perceptual and Motor skills, 110, 1, 245-256.

James, S., & Buttle, H. (2008). Attitudinal Differences towards Mental Health Services between Younger and Older New Zealand Adults. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 37, 33-43.

Buttle, H. & Westoby, N. (2006). Brand logo and name association: It’s all in the name. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 1181-1194.

Buttle, H., Ball, C., Zhang, J, & Raymond, J. E. (2005). Semantic association of brand images at the implicit level: Evidence of repetition blindness. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 19, 1199-1210.

Buttle, H., & Raymond, J.E. (2003). High familiarity enhances visual change detection for face stimuli. Perception and Psychophysics, 65 (8), 1296-1306.