Research

Our 33 members of academic staff consistently produce and publish high impact research spanning all subdisciplines of psychology. The Department of Psychology provides a world-class research environment for postgraduate students in Biological, Cognitive, Social or Developmental Psychology along with more applied aspects such as Educational Psychology, Forensic/Criminological Psychology, Neuroscience (including Neurorehabilitation) and Health Psychology. Much of our research is interdisciplinary both within the department and outside of the department.

The research activities in the Department fall within five research groupings:

• Applied, Clinical and Health Psychology
• Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
• Developmental Psychology
• Social, Emotional and Evolutionary Psychology
• Neuroscience of Learning and Memory

In addition, members of the Department play leading roles in the following research institutes, centres and units:

• Biophysical Sciences Institute
• Centre for the Coevolution of Biology and Culture
• Centre for Vision & Visual Cognition
• Centre for Developmental Psychology
• Cognitive Neuroscience Research Unit
• Durham University Neuroimaging Centre
• North East Consortium for Developmental Research and Training
• Wolfson Research Institute
• Durham University Baby Lab

Recent Publications from the Department of Psychology

• Lough, E., Flynn, E. & Riby, D. M. (2015). Mapping real-world to online vulnerability in young people with developmental disorders: Illustrations from autism and Williams syndrome. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2(1): 1-7.
• Worssam, Christopher J., Meade, Lewis C. & Connolly, Jason D. (2015). Non-obstructing 3D depth cues influence reach-to-grasp kinematics. Experimental Brain Research 233(2): 385-396.
• Chilton, S., Covey, J., Jones-Lee, M., Loomes, G., Pidgeon, N. & Spencer, A. (2015). Response to 'Testing the validity of the "value of prevented fatality" (VPF) used to assess UK safety measures'. Process Safety and Environmental Protection 93: 293-298.
• Smailes, D., Meins, E. & Fernyhough, C. (2015). Associations between intrusive thoughts, reality discrimination and hallucination-proneness in healthy young adults. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 20(1): 72-80.
• Kim, J, Schultz, J, Rohe, T, Wallraven, C & Lee, S-W (2015). Abstract Representations of Associated Emotions in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience
• Hjelmervik, H., Westerhausen, R., Hirnstein, M., Specht, K. & Hausmann, M. (2015). The neuronal correlates of sex differences in left-right confusion. Neuroimage