| Staff member |
Research area |
| Dr Chris Askew |
- Anxiety disorders
- Fear-related beliefs, attitudes and behaviour
|
| Dr Elisa Back |
- Cognitive development
- Social cognition
- Autism, theory of mind
- Face processing
|
| Chris Barker |
- Emotional disorders
- Imagery
- Subliminal perception
|
| Dr Fiona Barlow-Brown |
- Development of blind children
- Reading development (including both print and Braille)
- Moral development; Development of fear and disgust in children
|
| Dr Georgia Butler |
- Drug use - both licit and illicit substances
- Eating behaviours
- Impulsivity and risk-taking behaviour; Gambling
|
| Dr Anthony Esgate |
- Ergonomics. Laterality
- Psychology of mathematics. Psychology of music
- Sports psychology
|
| Dr Fatima Felisberti |
- Emotion processing
- Face and self-face perception
- Psychology of Art
- Social neurocognition: cooperation, cheating, social memory, self-awareness
- Visual Attention: crowding and motion transparency
|
| Dr Chris Hewer |
- Identity issues/beliefs and behaviour
- Social representations, (democracy, public knowledge of history, love, sex, marriage, psychology)
|
| Dr Petko Kusev |
- Judgement and decision making
- Memory, categorisation and identification
- Behavioural forecasting
|
| Dr Sabira Mannan |
- Visuo-spatial attention and hemi-spatial neglect
- Visual rehabilitation in homonymous hemianopia
- Saccadic eye movements during visual search and real scene inspection
- Cognitive deficits in Parkinson's disease
|
| Dr Julie Morgan |
- Cognitive processes in anxiety disorders
- Rumination as a maintaining factor in psychopathology
- Memory biases in social anxiety (autobiographical and self-defining memories)
|
| Dr Ana Nikcevic |
- Women's health
- Addictive behaviours
- Test anxiety and learning styles; Procrastination
|
| Dr Louisa Pavey |
- Social psychology
- Self-determination and self-affirmation
- Health and pro-social behaviours
- Materialism
- Self-presentation
- Defensive coping strategies
- Self-esteem and reactance
|
| Dr Jessica Prior |
- Parent-child conversations
- Qualitative methods
- Issues concerning facial disfigurement and impairment
|
| Dr Ron Roberts |
- Perceptions of mental health
- People's understanding of history, psychology of war; obedience and authority
- Health psychology
|
| Dr Muthanna Samara |
- Child development
- Bullying
- Aggression
- Anti-social behaviour
|
| Dr Harriet Tenenbaum |
- Children's understanding of science, emotions and social issues (gender, rights)
- Gender development
- Parent-child, sibling and peer interactionn
|
| Professor Philip Terry |
- The behavioural and physiological effects of recreational drugs
- The causes and consequences of drug and alcohol abuse
- Associative conditioning of drug effects
|
| Professor Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau |
- Hypothesis testing, causal reasoning
- Judgment and decision making
- Distributed cognition
|
| Dr Jo Van Herwegen |
- Cognitive development in developmental disorders (Williams Syndrome, Autism, SLI, Down Syndrome)
- Language development
- Pragmatics and social development
|
| Dr Gaelle Villejoubert |
- Judgment and communication of risk and uncertainty
- Choice, decision-making and risk-taking
- Intuitive and deliberative processes
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