BIOGRAPHY
I obtained a BSc and DPhil in Experimental Psychology from the University of Sussex in 1972, and 1978 respectively, and went on to a number of research and lectureship positions. In most recent years this included positions at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open University, and Senior Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology at the University of East Anglia, before coming to Essex in May, 2012.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
Broadly, my research interests focus on the attentional and interpretive cognitive biases that accompany anxiety and depression, and how these can be modified with the aim of ameliorating anxiety and depressive symptoms. Recent work is focusing on examining potential relationships between these biases, and further developing cognitive theoretical accounts of how they function.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Bowler, J., Mackintosh, B., Dunn , B., Mathews A. & Hoppitt L. (In Press) A comparison of Cognitive Bias Modification for Interpretation and computerised Cognitive Behavior Therapy: effects on anxiety, depression, attentional control and interpretive bias. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Mobini, S., Mackintosh, B., & Reynolds, S. (in press). Clinical Implications of Interpretation Bias in Social Anxiety: An integrative literature review. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training.
Woud, M. L., Dalgleish,T., and Holmes, E. Mackintosh, B., Can We Alleviate Post-traumatic Intrusions Using Computerized Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM)? Initial finding using the trauma film paradigm (in press) Emotion
Turner, R., Hoppitt, L., Hodgekin, J., Mackintosh, B. & Fowler, D. (2011) Cognitive Bias Modification in the treatment of social anxiety in early psychosis: a single case series. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 39, 341–347
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Brosan, L., Hoppitt, L., Sillence, A., Shelfer, L. & Mackintosh, B. (2011) Cognitive Bias Modification for attention and interpretation reduces trait and state anxiety study in a clinically anxious population. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 42, 258 – 264
Salemink, E ., Hertel, P., & Mackintosh, B. (2010). Interpretation training influences memory for prior interpretations. Emotion, 10, 903-907.
Vedhara, K., Brant, H., Adamopoulos, E., Byrne-Davis, L., Mackintosh, B., Hoppitt, L., Tovee, M., Miles, J. & Pennebaker, J. W. (2010). A preliminary investigation into whether attentional bias influences mood outcomes following emotional disclosure. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 17, 195–206
Hoppitt, L., Mathews, A., Yiend, J & Mackintosh, B. (2010) Cognitive Bias Modification: The critical role of active training in modifying emotional response. Behavior Therapy, 41, 73-81.
Hoppitt, L., Mathews, A., Yiend J., & Mackintosh B. (2010). Cognitive mechanisms underlying the emotional effects of bias modification. Applied Cognitive Psychology 24 (3) 312-325.
Yiend, J., Mathews, A., Weston, B., Dunn, B., Cusack, R. & Mackintosh, B. (2008) An Investigation of the Implicit Control of the Processing of Negative Pictures. Emotion. 8 (6), 828-837
Attwood, A S, O’Sullivan, H, Leonards, U, Mackintosh, B., & Munafò, M. (2008) Attentional Bias Training and Cue Reactivity in Cigarette Smokers. Addiction 103 (11), 1875-1882.
Holmes, E.A, Mathews, A., Mackintosh, B., & Dalgleish, T. (2008) The impact of mental imagery on emotion assessed using picture-word cues. Emotion, 8(3), 395-409
Golden, A-M., Dalgleish,T., & Mackintosh, B. (2007) Levels of specificity of autobiographical memories and of biographical memories of the deceased in bereaved individuals with and without complicated grief. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116(4) 786-795
Mackintosh, B., Mathews, A., Yiend, J., Ridgeway, V., & Cook, E. (2006) Induced biases in emotional interpretation endure despite changes in context. Invited Paper. Behavior Therapy,37, 209-222
Holmes, E.A, Mathews, A., Dalgleish, T., & Mackintosh, B. (2006). Positive Interpretation training: effects of mental imagery versus verbal training on positive mood. Invited Paper. Behavior Therapy , 37, 237-247.
Marcel, A., Mackintosh, B., Postma, P., Cusack, R., Vuckovich, J., Nimmo-Smith, I., et al. (2006). Is Susceptibility to Perceptual Migration and Fusion Modality-Specific or Multimodal? Neuropsychologia. 44, 693-710
Barnard, P., Ramponi, C., Battye, G., & Mackintosh, B. (2005). Anxiety and the deployment of visual attention over time. Visual Cognition, 12 (1), 181-211
Watkins, E., Moulds, M., & Mackintosh, B. (2005). Comparisons between rumination and worry in a non-clinical population. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 43, 1577-85
Munafò, Marcus R, Johnstone Elaine C. and Mackintosh, B. (2005) Association of Serotonin Transporter Genotype with Selective Processing of Smoking-Related Stimuli in Current Smokers and Ex-Smokers. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 7 (5) 773-778
Yiend, J., Mathews, A & Mackintosh, B, (2005) Enduring consequences of experimentally induced biases in interpretation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43 (6). pp. 779-797.
Mathews, A., & Mackintosh, B. (2004). Take a closer look: Emotion modifies the boundary extension effect. Emotion, 4 (1) 36-45,
Marcel, A., Postma, P., Gillmeister, H., Cox, S., Rorden, C., Nimmo-Smith, I., Mackintosh, B., Cox, S. (2004). Migration and fusion of tactile sensation: premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction? Neuropsychologia, 42,1749-1767.
Mackintosh, B., & Mathews, A. (2003). Don't look now: Attentional avoidance of emotionally-valenced cues'. Cognition and Emotion, 17(4), 623-646.
McKillop, C., Mackintosh, B., & Watt, S. (2003). Psychology experiments on the Internet: an evaluation of the impact on distance education students. Open Learning, 18(2), 109-119
Mackintosh, B., Mathews, A., & Holden, E. (2002). Bigger than a breadbox? Attention to distractors may not enhance negative priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28(6), 1323-1329
Fulcher, E., Mathews, A., Mackintosh, B., & Law, S. (2001). Evaluative learning and the allocation of attention to emotional stimuli. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25(3), 261-280
Mathews, A., & Mackintosh, B. (2000). Induced emotional interpretation bias and anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109(4), 602-615
Mathews, A., & Mackintosh, B. (1998). A cognitive model of selective processing in anxiety. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 22(6), 539-560.
Mathews, A., Mackintosh, B., & Fulcher, E. P. (1997). Cognitive biases in anxiety and attention to threat. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1(9), 340-345.
Books chapters
Savulich, G., Yiend, J., & Mackintosh, B. (2011). Ch 16. Cognition and Emotion. In N. R. Braisby & A. R. H. Gellatly (2nd Eds.), Cognitive Psychology,. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Midgley C & Mackintosh BJ (2009) Recognising a forgotten killer. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A forgotten Killer. Introducing Health Sciences: A Case Study Approach. C. Midgley Oxford: Oxford University Press
Parvin, E and Mackintosh, B. (2009) Benefits, Risks and Costs of Screening. In: Screening for Breast Cancer. Introducing Health Sciences: A Case Study Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mackintosh, B. & Hoppitt, L. (2009). Cognitive processing in anxiety. In Małgosia, Fajkowska & Błażej (Eds.), Cognition and emotion - Polish translation. Polish Scientific Publishers (peer reviewed).
Hoppitt, L. & Mackintosh, B. (2009) Anxiety and Depression: similarities and differences in cognitive processing. In Małgosia, Fajkowska & Błażej (Eds.), Cognition and emotion - Polish translation. Polish Scientific Publishers (peer reviewed)
Broad, MA, Harden, B, Cross, JL, Thomas, S, Mackintosh, B, Hoppitt, LC, Quint, M and Rtison, P Anxiety and depression: distinctive and overlapping features in cognitive processing. In: Cognition and Emotion - Polish Translation. Polish Scientific Publishers PWN
Mackintosh, B. (2005). Ethics. In N. Braisby (Ed.), Cognitive Psychology: A Methods Companion, 1-24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yiend, J., & Mackintosh, B. (2005). Cognition and Emotion. In N. R. Braisby & A. R. H. Gellatly (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology, 463-506. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 927376 6
Mackintosh, B. (2005). Ethics. In N. Braisby (Ed.), Cognitive Psychology: A Methods Companion, 1-24. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yiend, J., & Mackintosh, B. (2005). Cognition and Emotion. In N. R. Braisby & A. R. H. Gellatly (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology, 463-506. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 927376 6
Yiend, J., & Mackintosh, B. (2004). The experimental modification of processing biases. In J. Yiend (Ed.), Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology: Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Approaches, 190-210 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Mackintosh, B. (2004). Emotion. In Emotions and Mind, 39-86. Milton Keynes: Open University. ISBN 0 7492 6628 7
