Dr Andrew Cooper BA PhD
Position held:
Lecturer
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7874
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7919 7873
Email:
a.cooper (@gold.ac.uk)
Room 200/4 Whitehead Building,
Department of Psychology,
Goldsmiths, University of London,
New Cross, SE14 6NW
Personality theory; psychometrics and personality assessment; mood induction and cognition; emotion regulation; decision-making; problem gambling.
Teaching
Programme Director for the MSc Foundations in Clinical Psychology and Health Services
For more information visit: http://www.gold.ac.uk/pg/msc-clinical-psychology-health-services/
Research interests
My research interests are broadly located within the areas of personality and emotion. My research in personality has primarily focused on developing an understanding of the biological basis of primary personality traits and using advanced measurement models, namely Item Response Theory, to develop and improve self-report measures of these personality traits. I have also been interested in the interaction between personality traits and mood states in effects on the processing of affect-laden stimuli and creative problem solving.
Some examples of current projects include the following:
1) In collaboration with others at Goldsmiths, we are examining the neural and genetic basis of reward processing and how this relates to personality traits such as extraversion and impulsivity. We are also focusing on how these measures correlate with existing psychometric and behavioural measures of these relevant personality traits.
2) In collaboration with a group at Swansea University, I am currently working on developing a new self-report tool for personality traits relevant to Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (RST). This measurement tool is currently in the pilot stages.
3) I have a series of ongoing projects examining how personality traits such as extraversion and neuroticism interact with mood states to influence various measures of executive functioning and problem solving. For example, a series of projects are currently investigating how mood and personality influence performance on insight versus incremental problem solving tasks.
Selected publications
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew, Tharp, Ian and Pelling, Emma L.. 2010. Individual differences in cognitive control: the role of psychoticism and working memory in set-shifting. British Journal of Psychology, 100(4), pp. 629-643. ISSN 00071269 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Individual differences in reward-prediction-error: Extraversion and feedback-related negativity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, ISSN 1749-5016 [Article]
Cooper, Andrew and Petrides, K. V.. 2010. A psychometric analysis of the trait emotional intelligence questionnaire-short form (TEIQue-SF) using item response theory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(5), pp. 449-457. ISSN 0022-3891 [Article]
Cella, Matteo, Dymond, Simon and Cooper, Andrew. 2010. Impaired flexible decision-making in Major Depressive Disorder. Journal of Affective Disorders, 123(1-2), pp. 207-210. ISSN 0165-0327 [Article]
Perkins, Adam, Cooper, Andrew, Abdellal, Maura, Smillie, Luke D. and Corr, Philip. 2010. Personality and defensive reactions: fear, trait anxiety and threat magnification. Journal Of Personality, 78(3), pp. 1071-1090. [Article]
Dymond, Simon, Cella, Matteo, Cooper, Andrew and Turnbull, Oliver. 2010. The contingency-shifting variant Iowa Gambling Task: an investigation with young adults. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 32(3), pp. 239-248. ISSN 1380-3395 [Article]
Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew, Proitsi, Petroula, Powell, John F. and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Variation in DRD2 dopamine gene predicts extraverted personality. Neuroscience Letters, 468(3), pp. 234-237. ISSN 03043940 [Article]
Cooper, Andrew, Smillie, Luke D. and Corr, Philip J.. 2010. A confirmatory factor analysis of the Mini-IPIP five-factor model personality scale. Personality and Individual Differences, 48(5), pp. 688-691. ISSN 01918869 [Article]
Cella, Matteo, Dymond, Simon and Cooper, Andrew. 2009. Impairment in flexible emotion-based learning in hallucination- and delusion-prone individuals. Psychiatry Research, 170(1), pp. 70-74. ISSN 01651781 [Article]
Cooper, Andrew and Aucote, Helen. 2009. Measuring the psychological consequences of breast cancer screening: a confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychological Consequences Questionnaire. Quality of Life Research, 18(5), pp. 597-604. ISSN 0962-9343 [Article]
Aucote, Helen and Cooper, Andrew. 2009. Relationships between body fatness, small-screen sedentary activity and regionality among schoolchildren in Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal Of Rural Health, 17(3), pp. 141-146. [Article]
Cella, Matteo, Cooper, Andrew, Dymond, Simon and Reed, Phil. 2008. The relationship between dysphoria and proneness to hallucination and delusions among young adults. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 49(6), pp. 544-550. ISSN 0010440X [Article]
Cooper, Andrew and Gomez, Rapson. 2008. The development of a short form of the sensitivity to punishment and sensitivity to reward questionnaire. Journal of Individual Differences, 29(2), pp. 90-104. ISSN 1614-0001 [Article]
Gomez, Rapson and Cooper, Andrew. 2008. Reinforcement sensitivity theory and mood induction studies. In: Philip J. Corr, ed. The reinforcement sensitivity theory of personality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 291-316. ISBN 9780521617369 [Book Section]
Cooper, Andrew, Gomez, Rapson and Buck, Emily. 2008. The relationships between the BIS and BAS, anger and responses to anger. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(2), pp. 403-413. ISSN 01918869 [Article]
Cooper, Andrew, Smillie, Luke D. and Jackson, Chris J.. 2008. A trait conceptualization of reward-reactivity. Journal of Individual Differences, 29(3), pp. 168-180. ISSN 1614-0001 [Article]
Cooper, Andrew, Gomez, Rapson and Aucote, Helen. 2007. The Behavioural Inhibition System and Behavioural Approach System (BIS/BAS) scales: measurement and structural invariance across adults and adolescents. Personality and Individual Differences, 43(2), pp. 295-305. ISSN 01918869 [Article]
Cella, Matteo, Dymond, Simon, Cooper, Andrew and Turnbull, Oliver. 2007. Effects of decision-phase time constraints on emotion-based learning in the Iowa Gambling Task. Brain and Cognition, 64(2), pp. 164-169. ISSN 02782626 [Article]
Cooper, Andrew. 2007. Delay discounting and problem gambling. Analysis of Gambling Behaviour, 1(1), pp. 21-22. [Article]
Cooper, Andrew, Perkins, Adam M. and Corr, Philip J.. 2007. A confirmatory factor analytic study of anxiety, fear, and Behavioral Inhibition System measures. Journal of Individual Differences, 28(4), pp. 179-187. ISSN 1614-0001 [Article]
Gomez, Rapson, Cooper, Andrew and Gomez, Andre. 2005. An item response theory analysis of the Carver and White (1994) BIS/BAS Scales. Personality and Individual Differences, 39(6), pp. 1093-1103. ISSN 01918869 [Article]
Gomez, Rapson, Cooper, Andrew, McOrmond, Rhonda and Tatlow, Sara. 2004. Gray's reinforcement sensitivity theory: comparing the separable and joint subsystems. Hypotheses in the predictions of pleasant and unpleasant emotional information processing. Personality and Individual Differences, 37(2), p. 289. ISSN 01918869 [Article]
Richards, Jeffrey C., Cooper, Andrew and Winkelman, John H.. 2003. Interoceptive accuracy in nonclinical panic. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 27(4), pp. 447-461. ISSN 01475916 [Article]
Gomez, Rapson, Gomez, Andre and Cooper, Andrew. 2002. Neuroticism and extraversion as predictors of negative and positive emotional information processing: comparing Eysenck's, Gray's, and Newman's theories. European Journal of Personality, 16(5), pp. 333-350. ISSN 0890-2070 [Article]
Gomez, Rapson, Cooper, Andrew and Gomez, Andre. 2000. Susceptibility to positive and negative mood states: test of Eysenck’s, Gray’s and Newman’s theories. Personality and Individual Differences, 29(2), pp. 351-365. ISSN 01918869 [Article]