Department of Psychology

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)

Address:
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

Number of items: 29.

Article

Stautz, Kaidy and Cooper, Andrew. 2013. Impulsivity-related personality traits and adolescent alcohol use: A meta-analytic review. Clinical Psychology Review, 33(4), pp. 574-592. [Article] (Forthcoming)

Smillie, Luke D., Cooper, Andrew and Pickering, Alan. 2011. Individual differences in reward-prediction-error: extraversion and feedback-related negativity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(5), pp. 646-652. ISSN 1749-5016 [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]

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]

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]

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]

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. 2007. Delay discounting and problem gambling. Analysis of Gambling Behaviour, 1(1), pp. 21-22. [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]

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, 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]

Book Section

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]

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