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Staff Research Interests

Carolyn Choudhary cchoudhary@qmu.ac.uk

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and issues of lateralisation relevant to findings of increased prevalence of PTSD in left handers. Effects of the fear response in healthy left/right handers on cognitive tasks (emotional Stroop, visual/verbal memory) relevant to deficits in people with PTSD; theories concerning the origins of left handedness.

 

Vivienne Chisholm vchisholm@qmu.ac.uk

Social development; communication; adjustment to chronic illness and disability

 

Steve Darling sdarling@qmu.ac.uk

Theoretical and applied aspects of Human memory. Especially memory for people and for information about people, memory for visual information, socio-cognitive influences on memory and prospective memory.

 

Karen Goodall kgoodall@qmu.ac.uk

Attachment adult mental health and psychopathology; learning disabilities; belief formation; development of naïve theories in children

 

Michele Hipwell mhipwell@qmu.ac.uk

Stress and stress management, mindfulness meditation, behaviour change and sustainability

 

Joanne Fox jfox@qmu.ac.uk

Chronic pain; pain in the workplace; psychosocial influence on pain; personality change in dementia

 

Chris McVittie cmcvittie@qmu.ac.uk

Discourse; communication; health; identities

 

 

Duncan Robb drobb@qmu.ac.uk

Acquired neurological disorders and rehabilitation; cognitive development in children

 

Stuart Wilson swilson@qmu.ac.uk

Religious/superstitious/paranormal beliefs; evolution and cognition; cognition and cultural phenomena; anomalous experiences.

 

Clare Uytman cuytman@qmu.ac.uk

Body image, Embodiment, Living with amputation, Psychosocial adjustment.

 

Future Research

Carolyn Choudhary

Mechanisms underlying classic/emotional Stroop tasks

 

Vivienne Chisholm

Social development; communication; adjustment to chronic illness and disability

 

Steve Darling

Relationship between memory and learning disabilities; structure of knowledge about people; social influences on memory, lateral biases in perception. Applied aspects: real-world face recognition; the effect of visual displays on memory.

Karen Goodall

Attachment and schizotypy and cognitive function; children’s naïve theories of biology; learning disabilities; cognitive models in superstitious individuals

 

Michele Hipwell

Community engagement and sustainability, evaluation of training in motivational interviewing for community groups, mindfulness meditation for cardiac rehabilitation

 

Joanne Fox

Chronic pain; pain in the workplace; psychosocial influence on pain; personality change in dementia

 

Chris McVittie

Communication in healthcare settings; discourse and technologies; identities, religion and prejudice.

 

Duncan Robb

Technology and rehabilitation

 

Stuart Wilson

Vitalistic reasoning in adults; adaptive cognition; modelling paranormal beliefs.

 

Clare Uytman

IPA, Patient perspectives, Email interview methodology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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