{"id":840,"date":"2016-04-08T10:13:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T09:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=840"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T14:08:26","slug":"pregnancy-assumptions-based-on-risk-distortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/04\/08\/pregnancy-assumptions-based-on-risk-distortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnancy assumptions based on risk distortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public assumptions that drinking any alcohol during pregnancy is harmful for the child are the result of distorted communication of risk, rather than actual research, according to a University psychologist.<\/p>\n<p>New research from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/suttonr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professor Robbie Sutton<\/a>, of the School of Psychology, highlights what he describes as the \u2018confirmation bias\u2019 that influences the way scientists present findings on the effects of low to moderate drinking on child development.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Sutton will tell a London conference entitled <em>Policing Pregnancy: A one-day conference on maternal autonomy, risk and responsibility<\/em>\u00a0that the assumption that any drinking is harmful dominates perceptions, even where this is not indicated by evidence.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, please go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/9463\/assumptions-on-alcohol-and-pregnancy-based-on-risk-distortions\" target=\"_blank\">Kent News Centre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public assumptions that drinking any alcohol during pregnancy is harmful for the child are the result of distorted communication of risk, rather than actual research, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2016\/04\/08\/pregnancy-assumptions-based-on-risk-distortion\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140626,109,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}