Hoarding Research: Relevant Publications

Bates, E., Hamilton, C., Dodd, A., & Neave, N. (2024). The role of emotional regulation, executive functioning, and aggression in hoarding behaviours. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 42: 100894.  

Clark, L., Murphy-Morgan, C., Neave, N., Punton, G., Rivers, H., & Sillence, E. (2025). Investigating experiences of barriers of, and facilitating factors to Mental Health Help-Seeking in individuals with hoarding behaviours. Clinical Psychologist, 1-14. 

Close, H., Wilson, C., Vincent, S., Allen, S., Waters, G., Hanson, S., Pepper, G., Alderson, & Neave, N. (2024). What do we know about hoarding behaviours in care experienced children (CEC)? Cogent Psychology, 11: 2416757.  

Cornelissen, K., Gumancik, J., Scott, J., & Neave, N. (2026). The relationships between hoarding behaviours and disordered eating in a non-clinical adult sample. BMC Psychology, 14: 658.  

Heffernan, T., Hamilton, C., & Neave, N. (2024). Compulsive shopping behaviour and executive dysfunction in young adults. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 31: 248-255. 

McKellar, K., Sillence, E., Neave, N., & Briggs, P. (2024). Digital accumulation behaviours and information management in the workplace: exploring the tensions between digital data hoarding practises, organisational culture and policy. Behaviour and Information Technology, 43: 1206-1218.   

Murphy-Morgan, C., Hodgson, P., Pollet, T., & Neave, N. (2024).  “To make it easier to live you know?”. The impact of hoarding behaviours and social networks on older people’s supported housing decisions. Health and Social Care in the Community, 5513833. 

Neave, N. (2024). Hoarding is a coping strategy which has got out of hand. The Psychologist, 37: 28-29. 

Rivers, H., Collins, C., Neave, N., & Smailes, D. (2026). Associations between aberrant salience and hoarding severity in a community sample. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. doi: 10.1080/13546805.2026.2629986 

Sillence, E., Dawson, J.A., Brown, R., McKellar, K., & Neave, N. (2026). Digital hoarding and personal use digital data. Human-Computer Interaction, 41: 6-25. 

Sillence, E., & Murphy-Morgan, C (2026). A thematic analysis of an online discussion forum for people with problematic hoarding behaviours. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, doi:10.1017/S1352465826101295. 

Wilkinson, J., Schoultz, M., King, H.M., Neave, N., & Bailey, C. (2022). Animal hoarding cases in England: implications for public health services. Frontiers in Public Health: 10:899378.