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Viv Burr – Featured in Chapter 2: Theoretical approaches to psychology
Viv Burr is Reader in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield. She is a member of the editorial board for Personal Construct: Theory and Practice and Slayage. Her research interests are social psychology, social constructionism, Personal Construct Psychology; gender; the psychology of media and popular culture; and qualitative methods. View her staff profile. |
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Lance Workman – Featured in Chapter 2: Theoretical approaches to psychology
Lance Workman is Head of Psychology at the School of Social Sciences at Bath Spa University and Head of the Biopsychology Research Unit (BPU). He is a consultant editor for the high impact international journal Animal Behaviour and is on the editorial board of The Psychologist. His teaching and research interests lie in biological and evolutionary psychology. View his staff profile. |
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Susan Blackmore – Featured in Chapter 6: Parapsychology
Susan Blackmore is a freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth. Her research interests include memes, evolutionary theory, consciousness, and meditation. She blogs for the Guardian and Psychology Today, and often appears on radio and television. Visit her site. |
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Mark Griffiths – Featured in Chapter 8: Substance dependence and abuse
Mark Griffiths is Professor of Gambling Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is a Chartered Psychologist and Director of the International Gaming Research Unit. His research interests are in the psychology of addictive behaviours, gambling, internet use, sexual behaviour and excessive behaviour (e.g. gambling, videogames, internet), social responsibility in gambling, and teaching and learning in higher education. View his staff profile. |
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Brian Parkinson – Featured in Chapter 10: Emotion
Brian Parkinson is University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at Oxford University and Fellow of Christ Church. He is a member of the social psychology group at Oxford which has long been central to research on interpersonal interaction and emotion. He was the editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology for five years (January 2004-December 2008). His research focuses on emotions in communication and social life. |
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Jane Ogden – Featured in Chapter 12: Application: health psychology
Jane Ogden is Professor in Health Psychology at the University of Surrey. Her research interests are in eating behaviour and obesity, communication in the consultation, and women's health. View her staff profile. |
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Andy Young – Featured in Chapter 14: Pattern recognition
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Vicki Bruce – Featured in Chapter 14: Pattern recognition
Vicki Bruce is Professor of Psychology at Newcastle University. She is President of the Experimental Psychology Society. Her research interest is in all aspects of human face perception and person memory, including face recognition and recall by eye-witnesses and gaze and other aspects of social cognition. View her staff profile. |
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Elizabeth Loftus – Featured in Chapter 21: Application: cognition and the law
Elizabeth Loftus is Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Her research has focused on human memory, eyewitness testimony and courtroom procedure. She has published many books on memory, including Eyewitness Testimony, Witness for the Defense, and The Myth of Repressed Memory. View her staff profile. |
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Chris Frith – Featured in Chapter 22: Social perception
Chris Frith is Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychology at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. After several years researching schizophrenia his interests turned to brain imaging and social neuroscience. He is author of Schizophrenia: a very short introduction (with Eve Johnstone) and Making up the Mind: How the Brain Creates our Mental World. View his staff profile. |
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Celia Kitzinger – Featured in Chapter 25: Prejudice and discrimination
Celia Kitzinger is Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Conversation Analysis at the University of York. Her research interests are in conversation analysis, childbirth issues, help-lines and counselling interactions, feminism, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex issues. View her staff profile. |
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Alex Haslam – Featured in Chapter 27: Obedience
Alex Haslam is Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Exeter and a former Commonwealth Scholar at Macquarie University (Sydney) and Jones Scholar at Emory University (Atlanta). His current research interests are in psychology in organizations, the social psychology of stereotyping, prejudice and tyranny, and research methodology. He is currently a consultant editor for a number of journals including Scientific American Mind. View his staff profile. |
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Steve Duck – Featured in Chapter 28: Interpersonal relationships
Steve Duck was the Founder and first Editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and has written or edited 50 books on relationships. He has been Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Iowa since 1986 and was recently appointed a Collegiate Administrative Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. |
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Barbara Krahé – Featured in Chapter 29: Aggression and antisocial behaviour
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Hans-Werner Bierhoff – Featured in Chapter 30: Altruism and prosocial behaviour
Hans-Werner Bierhoff is Professor of Social Psychology at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. He is author of Prosocial Behaviour and has written many scholarly books, chapters and articles on topics in social psychology. His main research interests are prosocial behaviour, proactive behaviour, fairness in social relationships and narcissism. |
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Susan Golombok – Featured in Chapter 32: Early experience and social development
Susan Golombok is Professor of Family Research and Director of the Centre for Family Research at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the impact on children’s psychological development, and on parent–child relationships, of new family forms. She is author of Parenting: What really counts? View her staff profile. |
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Vasudevi Reddy – Featured in Chapter 34: Cognitive development
Vasudevi Reddy is a Professor of Developmental and Cultural Psychology at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests are in the origins and development of social cognition, mainly in young infants. She is the author of How Infants Know Minds. View her staff profile. |
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Jane Kroger – Featured in Chapter 37: Adolescence
Jane Kroger is Professor of Developmental Psychology at University of Tromsø, Norway. She has been researching issues in both adolescent and adult identity development for some 40 years. Her most recent book is Identity Development: Adolescence through Adulthood. |
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Terri Apter – Featured in Chapter 38: Adulthood
Terri Apter is a psychologist, writer and Senior Tutor at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her research focuses on family dynamics and work/family balance. She explored young people's difficult transition to adulthood in The Myth of Maturity: What Teenagers Need from Parents to Become Adults in which she coined the now familiar term ‘thresholders’. Visit her site. |
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Graham Davey – Featured in Chapter 44: Psychopathology
Graham Davey is Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in Experimental Psychopathology and Anxiety Disorders, including conditioning models of anxiety and fear; evolutionary vs. acquired models of specific phobias, the causes of perseverative psychopathologies such as pathological worrying and obsessive-compulsive checking, and the role of the disgust emotion in psychological disorders. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology. View his staff profile.
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David Canter – Featured in Chapter 46: Application: criminological psychology
David Canter is currently Director of the International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology at the University of Huddersfield. David has published more than 300 academic papers and 50 books, including his award-winning Criminal Shadows, and has contributed to many TV documentaries. Visit his site. |
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Rom Harré – Featured in Chapter 49: Free will and determinism, and reductionism
Rom Harré is Distinguished Research Professor in the Psychology Department of Georgetown University in Washington DC. He combines this with the post of Director of the Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social sciences at the London School of Economics. His publications include Modelling: Gateway to the Unknown and Cognitive Science: A Philosophical Introduction. |