Staff in the Department of Psychology
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Staff list
Dr Caspar Addyman
c.addyman (@gold.ac.uk)
Caspar investigates the cognitive, social and emotional development of babies using a combination of behavioural research and computational modelling.
Professor Michael Banissy
m.banissy (@gold.ac.uk)
Michael is an expert in social neuroscience, studying how we perceive and interact with each other.
Dr Elaine Beattie
e.beattie (@gold.ac.uk)
Elaine's main research interests are personality and associative learning; neuroticism, trait anxiety, and individual differences in fear and disgust reactivity.
Professor Joydeep Bhattacharya
j.bhattacharya (@gold.ac.uk)
Joy is an expert in EEG, and studies complex human behaviour including music, language, aesthetics, decision making and creativity
Dr Herb Blumberg
h.blumberg (@gold.ac.uk)
Herb’s main interests are: small groups and social cognition; peace psychology; social research methods
Dr Marinella Cappelletti
m.cappelletti (@gold.ac.uk)
Marinella is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in studying how the brain learns and how it ages.
Dr Rebecca Chamberlain
r.chamberlain (@gold.ac.uk)
Rebecca’s research sets out to understand how and why individuals create and respond so powerfully to works of art.
Dr Rebecca Charlton
r.charlton (@gold.ac.uk)
Rebecca is an expert in cognitive ageing, studying age-related changes in brain and how they influence cognition and social-cognition.
Dr Gianna Cocchini
g.cocchini (@gold.ac.uk)
Gianna’s expertise is in cognitive neuropsychology, with particular interest on body mental representation and cognitive disorders caused by brain lesions
Dr Andrew Cooper
a.cooper (@gold.ac.uk)
Andrew’s research understands how variations in personality traits is underpinned by emotional and motivational states.
Dr Deborah Custance
d.custance (@gold.ac.uk)
Deborah’s research is in comparative-developmental psychology; studying human and non-human primate behaviour.
Professor Jules Davidoff
j.davidoff (@gold.ac.uk)
Jules researches the mental representation of objects, the relationship between our memory and recognition of them.
Professor Clive Fletcher
c.fletcher (@gold.ac.uk)
Clive is concerned with the influence of personality and cognitive factors in self-assessment and self-awareness.
Professor Jan de Fockert
j.de-fockert (@gold.ac.uk)
Jan is an expert in selective attention, studying how we prioritise the processing of relevant information in our environment.
Professor Jonathan Freeman
j.freeman (@gold.ac.uk)
Jonathan is an expert in media psychology and the human factors of digital media services and products.
Professor Christopher French
c.french (@gold.ac.uk)
Chris is an expert in the area of anomalistic psychology, focusing upon non- paranormal explanations for ostensibly paranormal experiences.
Professor Fiona Gabbert
f.gabbert (@gold.ac.uk)
Fiona is an expert in applied cognitive psychology, studying the reliability of human memory via understanding its strengths and weaknesses.
Dr Lorna Goddard
l.goddard (@gold.ac.uk)
Lorna is an expert in cognition and psychopathology, studying how memory and future thinking interact with emotion and the self-concept.
Agnieszka Golec de Zavala
a.golec (@gold.ac.uk)
Agnieszka is an expert in social and personality psychology studying intergroup relations, prejudice and narcissism, especially collective narcissism.
Professor Alice Gregory
a.gregory (@gold.ac.uk)
Alice is an expert in the science of sleep, studying the links between sleep and psychopathology across the lifecourse
Professor Pam Heaton
p.heaton (@gold.ac.uk)
Pam’s primary research interest is in developmental disorders, especially autism and its relation to musical cognition.
Dr Maria Herrojo Ruiz
M.Herrojo-Ruiz (@gold.ac.uk)
María is an expert in the neuroscience of sensorimotor learning and motor control.
Professor Elisabeth Hill
e.hill (@gold.ac.uk)
Elisabeth’s research concerns cognitive dysfunction across and within neurodevelopmental disorders.
Dr Ashok Jansari
a.jansari (@gold.ac.uk)
Ashok specializes in the field of neuropsychology, mainly in mental brain function we use every day including memory and face-recognition.
Dr Alice Jones
a.jones (@gold.ac.uk)
Alice is the Director of the Unit of School and Family Studies, studying school behaviour and socio-emotional development.
Professor Yulia Kovas
y.kovas (@gold.ac.uk)
Yulia is an expert in psychology and behavioural genetics, studying individual differences and complex processes through which they develop.
Dr Gustav Kuhn
g.kuhn (@gold.ac.uk)
Gustav is an expert in cognitive psychology, studying how we perceive the world and manipulate people beliefs and experiences
Dr Madoka Kumashiro
m.kumashiro (@gold.ac.uk)
Madoka is a personality and social psychologist whose research interest is in personal growth and well-being.
Dr Karina J Linnell
k.j.linnell (@gold.ac.uk)
Karina studies visual cognition, attention, perception and awareness, as well as cross-cultural and individual differences in these fundamental processes.
Caoimhe McAnena
c.mcanena (@gold.ac.uk)
Caoimhe research interests are in the area of personality disordered offenders, especially sexual offenders.
Dr James Moore
j.moore (@gold.ac.uk)
James is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience of voluntary action
Professor Daniel Müllensiefen
d.mullensiefen (@gold.ac.uk)
Daniel is an expert in music psychology, studying music perception and musical abilities.
Dr Lucy Oldfield
l.oldfield (@gold.ac.uk)
Lucy is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, a BABCP accredited CBT Therapist and a lecturer in Clinical Psychology.
Dr Bonamy Oliver
b.oliver (@gold.ac.uk)
Bonamy is a developmental psychologist and behavioural geneticist specialising in family processes associated with children's wellbeing and mental health.
Dr Diana Omigie
Diana.omigie (@gold.ac.uk)
Diana has research interests that revolve around the behaviour, physiology and neurology of music-induced emotions.
Dr Guido Orgs
g.orgs (@gold.ac.uk)
Dr Guido Orgs is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience of dance and choreography
Professor Alan Pickering
a.pickering (@gold.ac.uk)
Alan’s research aims to understand the cognitive functions and behaviours that are affected by rewards.
Professor Linda Pring
l.pring (@gold.ac.uk)
Developmental psychology and neuroscience, including savant syndrome, is central to Linda’s research.
Dr Caroline Rix
c.rix (@gold.ac.uk)
Caroline is a teaching only member of staff, with particular interest in developing approaches to teaching, as well as internet psychology.
Professor Adam Rutland
a.rutland (@gold.ac.uk)
Adam studies social-cognitive development, prejudice, intergroup relationships, social reasoning and morality.
Dr Adrian Scott
a.scott (@gold.ac.uk)
Adrian has interests in forensic psychology, focussing on stalking, investigative interviewing and eyewitness testimony.
Professor Peter Smith
p.smith (@gold.ac.uk)
Peter is a developmental psychologist, with interests in school bullying, children’s play, and grandparenting.
Professor Lauren Stewart
l.stewart (@gold.ac.uk)
Lauren is an expert on how music is represented in the mind and brain.
Dr Devin Terhune
d.terhune (@gold.ac.uk)
Devin studies the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying time perception and how awareness can be regulated by suggestion.
Professor Tim Valentine
t.valentine (@gold.ac.uk)
Tim works to understand our ability to recognise people’s faces, currently focussing on eyewitness identification.
Professor Max Velmans
m.velmans (@gold.ac.uk)
Max’s research is in consciousness studies, particularly integrating philosophy and psychology in clinical practice.
Dr José van Velzen
j.vanvelzen (@gold.ac.uk)
José’s research focuses on multisensory processing, spatial attention, body representation and sensory processing in the context of motor behaviour.
Dr Keon West
keon.west (@gold.ac.uk)
Keon is an expert in intergroup social psychology, investigating the way we treat people we believe to be different from ourselves.
Dr Gordon Wright
g.wright (@gold.ac.uk)
Gordon studies the personality and behaviour of liars, manipulators, cheats, scammers and fraudsters.
Serra Tekin Eriksson
s.tekineriksson (@gold.ac.uk)
Serra’s research interests are mainly information elicitation and deception detection in police interviews. Evidence disclosure and the role of culture are central to her research.
Dr. Peter Collins
p.collins (@gold.ac.uk)
Peter researches how we make judgments and decisions and how we reason, especially in social and communicative contexts.
Dr Louis Williams
l.williams (@gold.ac.uk)
Louis is a Teaching Fellow who also conducts research into the aesthetic experience using eye-tracking methods.
Dr. Helen Spray
h.spray (@gold.ac.uk)
Helen is a teaching fellow, and her research focuses on cross-cultural differences in perception and perceptual development.
Dr Rotem Perach
r.perach (@gold.ac.uk)
Rotem is a social and health psychology researcher. His main interests include existential motivations, cultural legacy, older persons, and sleep.
