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). From Remembering to Bare Attention? Mindfulness, Cognition, and Measurement in Psychological Science. A Commentary on Chems‑Maarif et al. (2025). Mindfulness https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-026-02927-2.

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

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

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

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 Singh³, 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.

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.