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Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Trust and interdependence; Motivated cognition and relationship maintenance; Risk, vulnerability and uncertainty regulation; Romantic relationships; Consent & Intimate Partner Violence

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Hyperscanning; Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience; Attachment; Bio-Behavioural and Interpersonal Neural Synchrony; Caregiving; Epigenetics; (Functional) Magnetic Resonance Imaging - (f)MRI

Professor, Department of Psychology

Research interests: In my research, I am trying to understand how people judge, reason, and make decisions in situations of uncertainty.; My current research interests are centred on two key topics: (i) exploring the reasons and mechanisms behind why individuals do or do not correct their errors, and (ii) examining the psychology of human behaviours and cognition in relation to antimicrobial resistance.; Why people expect antibiotics even when not needed?; Risk and probability communication; Why people (do not) correct their own errors in judgments and reasoning (e.g., intuitive and deliberate errors, effect of feedback)

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Boredom; Nostalgia; Economic psychology; Emotion; Meaning in life

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Understanding brain networks underpinning higher order cognitive functions in the human brain

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Emotion; Hormones; Oxytocin; Social Behaviour; Social Cognition; Social Perception; Wellbeing; Mental Health

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Climate and ecological emergency; Existential and symbolic threats; Pain and sensory threats; Emotional facial expressions; Self-harm and trauma

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: imitation; facial mimicry; action processing; development of the mirror neuron system;

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS); Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS); Mirror neurons; Stress & Ageing; Nature-based socal prescribing

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Face and emotion processing in infancy.; The development of body representation and tactile localisation.; The development of the neural basis of shared touch.; Perinatal mental health.

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Interoception; Interoceptive Development; Interoception and its links to Mental Health Development during Adolescence

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: body representations; interoception; hunger and satiety; multisensory development

Executive Dean (Science and Health) - Professor (R), Department of Psychology

Research interests: Social language processing in normal and special populations (e.g., bilinguals, brain damaged, aging); Emotional and attitudinal language processing across different cultures; Motivational prosody processing; Event-related brain potentials; How teachers' tone of voice can influence students' wellbeing and behaviour

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Human values; Stereotypes and prejudice; Political psychology; Working from home/remote work; Cross-cultural research; Similarities

Lecturer, Department of Psychology

Research interests: I am interested in most topics relating to food and eating behaviour - Everything from making food choices to food consumption. The majority of my research includes children learning to eat disliked or novel foods and how parents may facilitate learning through feeding practices.

Head of Department - Reader, Department of Psychology

Research interests: Sense of Agency; Metacognition; Action Understanding; Multisensory Integration; Neurodiversity