Students collecting data in the new EEG/ERP suite at Plymouth. Photo:George Brooks

Research

Research in the School of Psychology was rated as 5 in the 2001 RAE, and in the 2008 RAE we submitted 34.5 staff (making us the 12th largest research School of Psychology in the UK), and 85% of our research was rated at international standard.

We have a strong postgraduate community with around 35 PhD students and 20 MSc students. We welcome applications from the UK, EU and overseas.

Research within the school is highly collaborative and interdisciplinary, but is organised around three interlocking themes:

Brain

Internationally excellent research in clinical, cognitive and computational neuroscience, perception, and attention. more

Funded Studentships Available

We have 4 fully funded studentships available in the School of Psychology...

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Cognition

Incorporates research recognised as world-leading in RAE 2008, with particular strengths in decision making, reasoning and memory. more

Behaviour

Encompasses much of the applied research activity, incorporating research in health, social and developmental psychology, and human factors. more

Recent publications

Ganis G, Schendan HE (in press) Visual Imagery Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science

Choma BL, Busseri MA, Sadava SW (in press) Subjective Temporal Trajectories For Subjective Well-Being The Journal Of Positive Psychology

Choma BL, Hodson G, Costello K (in press) Intergroup Disgust Sensitivity As A Predictor Of Islamophobia: The Modulating Effect Of Fear Journal Of Experimental Social Psychology

Wyer NA, Martin D, Pickup T, Macrae CN (in press) Individual Differences In (Non-Visual) Processing Style Predict The Face Inversion Effect Cognitive Science

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Recent research funding

EU (€100,000) Cognitive Neuroscience of Deception (CoND)

ESRC (£220,000) Unconscious plagiarism

ESRC (£246,000) Construal, Processing Style and Memory for Events

MRC (£60,000) Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Randomized Controlled Trial

EU (€100,000) Simulating Brains: Cognition Grounded in the Simulation of Sensorimotor Processes in the Human Neocortex (COGNITSIMS)

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