Human Cognition Current cognitive research includeswork on autobiographical memory, memory and ageing, visuo-spatialworking memory, inhibitory mechanisms in long-termmemory, and the modelling of memory and knowledge systems.


Dr Michelle Arnold (ma61) –Metacognitive judgments and decision-making, the reconstructive nature of memory, judgments of remembering, and the strategic regulation of accuracy.


Dr Barbara Dritschel (bd9) –Mood and memory; problem-solving, effects of neurological impairment; eating disorders; cognitive processing.


Dr Ines Jentzsch (ij7) – Theoretical concepts of mental chronometry and information processing, sequential effects, cognitive interference and control, sensory-motor integration, methodology of ERP analysis, planning and control of voluntary movements.


Dr Akira O’Connor (aro2) – Cognitive and neuroscientific (fMRI) studies of recognition; memory decision-making; subjective memory sensation; and mathematical modelling of memory processes.


Dr Gerry Quinn (jgq) – Visual aspects ofworking memory and the nature of visuo-spatial processing.


Social Psychology Research in this area covers a wide range of issues including collective behaviour and national identity, social processes in memory and social comparison processes in health, intergroup relations and contact, the psychology of stigma and helping behaviour.


Dr Anja Eller (ade1) – Intergroup conflict and contact, social identification and categorisation, extended contact as prejudice reduction tool, threats in intergroup relations, meta- stereotyping.


Professor Malcolm MacLeod (mdm) – Social memory, goal-directed forgetting, social comparison processes, and the perception of relative deprivation.


Professor Steve Reicher (sdr) – Group processes and collective behaviour, processes of mass social influence and political rhetoric, psychology of social change.


Sana Sheikh (ss96) –Moral psychology, motivation and emotion, social developmental and relational processes, gender psychology.


Dr Nicole Tausch (nt20) – Intergroup relations and conflict, prejudice and discrimination, contextual and psychological factors involved in political action and political violence, intergroup contact and social change, social perception and trait attribution.


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