Research clusters

Individual Differences and Adult Psychopathology

The Individual Differences and Psychopathology cluster is one of the largest groups in the UK researching into personality, intelligence and clinical conditions such as depression and anxiety. A recent emphasis has been on behavioural genetics and gene-behaviour association studies.

Dr.Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Personality, intelligence, creativity, psychometric testing, consumer  behaviour, psychology of art and music, human performance, learning and  individual differences.

Dr. Andrew Cooper: Personality theory; psychometrics and personality assessment; mood induction and cognition; emotion regulation; decision-making; problem gambling.

Prof. Chris French: The psychology of paranormal belief and ostensibly paranormal  experiences. The effects of emotion on cognitive processes.

Dr. Alice Gregory: An interdisciplinary approach to the development of  sleep problems, anxiety, depression and the concurrent and longitudinal  associations between these phenotypes.

Dr. Yulia Kovas: Aetiology of individual differences in learning/cognitive  abilities and disabilities and aetiology of common psychopathology and addiction. Genetic and environmental factors involved in covariation and comorbidity between different aspects of learning, cognition, and psychopathology. The links between abnormal and normal. Behavioural Genetics (Twin studies and Molecular studies). Neuroimaging. Environmental studies (psychology and education).

Prof. Alan Pickering: Memory; neuropsychology; attention; amnesia; frontal lobe functions; personality and personality disorder; schizophrenia; psychological statistics;  psychopharmacology; neural networks; learning.

Prof. Jane Powell: Neuropsychology; brain injury; rehabilitation after brain injury;  psychopharmacology; cognitive assessment; assessment of disability and handicap;  addiction; motivation and motivational impairments.