My research interests include connectionist psychology, cognition and emotion, and social cognition. Most of my research has been conducted on evaluative learning, allocation of attention in anxiety, and connectionist modelling. I recently held a research award from the Wellcome Trust (£70,000) examining causal factors in anxiety. For this I collaborated with Andrew Mathews (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge), Dianne Catherwood (University of Gloucestershire), Colin MacLeod (University of Western Australia) and Michelle Craske (UCLA). I previously held another Wellcome Trust research grant from 1997 to 2000 on the acquisition of emotional information, collaborating with Andrew Mathews and Bundy Mackintosh at the Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. My most recent publications are on the issue of awareness in evaluative learning and for this I collaborate with Marianne Hammerl at the University of Deusseldorf.

I am also interested in 'Green Psychology' and the role that established psychological theories can play in persuading and encouraging people to engage in proenvironmental behaviour.

Click here for a list of publications and a brief description of evaluative learning.

Click here for a visual demonstration of evaluative learning with 'subliminal' presentation of pictures of human faces.

Cognitive Psychology

I have written an online introduction to cognitive psychology. Read it here.

Experimental Psychology (coming soon)

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