Biography

Sussex University: Psychology Home Page

Employment

• 2010-Present: Professor of Child Psychopathology
• 2006-2010: Reader in Psychology, University of Sussex.
• 2003-2006: Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sussex.
• 2000-2003: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Sussex.
• 1998-2000: Lecturer in Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Awards

• 2007: British Psychological Society Book Award for 'Discovering Statistics Using SPSS: and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll (2^nd Edition)'.
• 2006: British Psychological Society Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Psychology.
• 2001: University of Sussex Teaching Learning and Development Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching.

Fellowships

• 2010: Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences
• 2009: Fellow of the Higher Teaching Academy

Qualifications

• 1994-1997: D.Phil. (Psychology), University of Sussex.
• 1991-1994: B.Sc. Psychology (i), The City University, London.

Children's Fears

Please see our lab website www.cattlab.net

We have been exploring the role of childhood experience in fear acquisition (see Askew & Field, 2008; Field & Davey, 2001; Dadds, Davey & Field, 2001). Our main research intersest are are:

1. How children's fear cognitions, behaviour and physiology are affected by what they hear about new stimuli and situations. How are these effects influenced by how anxious the child is, and contextual factors such as the family environment?
2. How children's fear cognitions, behaviour and physiology are affected by watching other people's reactions to novel stimuli and situations.
3. Do anxious parents transmit their fears to children through the information they give them or their reactions to scary or ambiguous situations?
4. How do different learning experiences interact with each other to create fear?
5. How do anxious children interpret ambiguous verbal information and how does this interpretation affect their memory for that information and their subsequent fear beliefs.
6. What is the effect of TV programs on children's levels of anxiety.

Research Grants

• 2007-2010 £285,064, ESRC Project Grant. Parental Anxiety: Cognitive-Behavioural Processes in the Intergenerational Transmission of Fear to Children. PI with Sam Cartwright-Hatton (University of Manchester) as co-applicant.
• 2005-2007 £15,234, ESRC Research Seminars: Child Anxiety: Developments in Theory and Treatment. PI with Sam Cartwright-Hatton (Manchester), Shirley Reynolds (UEA) Cathy Creswell (Reading) as co-applicants.
• 2002-2005 £130,825, ESRC Project Grant: The role of information in the development of fear beliefs. PI with Robin Banerjee (Sussex) as co-applicant.
• 2000-2001 £37,089, Unilever plc.: Attentional processes in Evaluative Conditioning. Sole applicant.

I teach:

Fear and Anxiety in Children

Research Methods in Psychology

I also do some occasional lectures on Abnormal and Clinical Psychology, Cognition in Clinical Contexts, and The Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence.

See my personal webpage for a whole host of teaching material for statistics and research methods.

Student Consultation

drop in office hours: Monday at 9.00 and Friday at 11.00 during term time.

Field, Andy, Miles, Jeremy and Field, Zoë (2012) Discovering Statistics Using R. Sage Publications. ISBN 978-1446200469

Creswell, Cathy, Shildrick, Sarah and Field, Andy (2011) Interpretation of Ambiguity in Children: A Prospective Study of Associations With Anxiety and Parental Interpretations. Journal of Child and Family Studies. pp. 240-250. ISSN 1062-1024

Broeren, Suzanne, Lester, Kathryn J., Muris, Peter and Field, Andy P. (2011) They are afraid of the animal, so therefore I am too: Influence of peer modeling on fear beliefs and approach-avoidance behaviors towards animals in typically developing children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 49 (1). pp. 50-57. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy P and Lester, Kathryn J (2010) Is There Room for 'Development' in Developmental Models of Information Processing Biases to Threat in Children and Adolescents? Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 13 (4). pp. 315-332. ISSN 10964037

Field, Andy P and Gillett, Raphael (2010) How to do a Meta-Analysis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology-, 63 (3). pp. 665-694. ISSN 007-1102

Muris, Peter and Field, Andy P (2010) The Role of Verbal Threat Information in the Development of Childhood Fear. "Beware the Jabberwock!". Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 13 (2). pp. 129-150. ISSN 1096-4037

Hadwin, JA (2010) Information processing biases and anxiety: a developmental perspective. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-470-99819-9

Kelly, Vicky L, Barker, Helen, Field, Andy P, Wilson, Charlotte and Reynolds, Shirley (2010) Can Rachman's indirect pathways be used to un-learn fear? A prospective paradigm to test whether children's fears can be reduced using positive information and modelling a non-anxious response. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 48 (2). pp. 164-170. ISSN 0005-7967

Lester, Kathryn J., Seal, Katherine, Nightingale, Zoë C. and Field, Andy P. (2010) Are children's own interpretations of ambiguous situations based on how they perceive their mothers have interpreted ambiguous situations for them in the past? Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 24 (1). pp. 102-108. ISSN 0887-6185

Field, Andy and Miles, Jeremy (2010) Discovering statistics using SAS : (and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll). SAGE. ISBN 9781849200912

Huijding, Jorg, Field, Andy, De Houwer, Jan, Vandenbosch, Katrien, Rinck, Mike and Van Oeveren, Machteld (2009) A behavioral route to dysfunctional representations: the effects of training approach or avoidance tendencies towards novel animals in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47 (6). pp. 471-477. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy P and Price-Evans, Khanya (2009) The Behavioral inhibition system moderates the effect of the verbal threat information pathway on children's heart rate responses to novel animals. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47 (5). pp. 431-436. ISSN 0005-7967

Wright, D B and Field, A P (2009) Methods - Giving your data the bootstrap. The Psychologist, 22 (5). pp. 412-413. ISSN 0952-8229

Field, Andy (2009) Can humour make students love statistics? The Psychologist, 22 (3). pp. 210-213. ISSN 0952-8229

Muris, Peter, Rassin, Eric, Mayer, Birgit, Smeets, Guus, Huijding, Jorg, Remmerswaal, Daniëlle and Field, Andy (2009) Effects of verbal information on fear-related reasoning biases in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47 (3). pp. 206-214. ISSN 0005-7967

Lester, Kathryn, Field, Andy, Oliver, Samantha and Cartwright-Hatton, Samantha (2009) Do anxious parents interpretive biases towards threat extend into their child's environment? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47 (2). pp. 170-174. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy (2009) Discovering statistics using SPSS: and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. ISM (London, England) . SAGE. ISBN 9781847879066

Askew, Chris, Kessock-Philip, Hannah and Field, Andy P (2008) What Happens When Verbal Threat Information and Vicarious Learning Combine? Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36 (4). pp. 491-505. ISSN 1352-4658

Price-Evans, Khanya and Field, Andy (2008) A neglectful parenting style moderates the effect of the verbal threat information pathway on children's heart rate responses to novel animals. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36 (4). pp. 473-482. ISSN 1352-4658

Muris, Peter and Field, Andy P. (2008) Distorted cognition and pathological anxiety in children and adolescents. Cognition and Emotion, 22 (3). pp. 395-421. ISSN 0269-9931

Field, Andy P. and Lawson, Joanne (2008) The Verbal Information Pathway to Fear and Subsequent Causal Learning in Children. Cognition and Emotion, 22 (3). pp. 459-479. ISSN 0269-9931

Field, Andy P, Cartwright-Hatton, Sam, Reynolds, Shirley and Creswell, Cathy (2008) Future Directions for Child Anxiety Theory and Treatment. Cognition & Emotion, 22 (3). 385 - 394. ISSN 0269-9931

Field, Andy, Lawson, Joanne and Banerjee, Robin (2008) The verbal threat information pathway to fear in children: The longitudinal effects on fear cognitions and the immediate effects on avoidance behavior. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117 (1). pp. 214-224. ISSN 0021-843X

Field, Andy and Cartwright-Hatton, Samantha (2008) Shared and Unique Cognitive Factors in Social Anxiety. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 1 (3). pp. 206-222.

Askew, Chris and Field, Andy P. (2008) The vicarious learning pathway to fear 40 years on. Clinical Psychology Review, 28. pp. 1249-1265. ISSN 0272-7358

Field, Andy, Cartwright-Hatton, Samantha, Reynolds, Shirley and Creswell, Cathy (2008) Child anxiety: theory and treatment. Cognition and Emotion . Psychology Press. ISBN 9781841698519

Field, Andy P. and Schorah, Hannah (2007) The verbal information pathway to fear and heart rate changes in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48 (11). pp. 1088-1093.

Brewin, Chris R, Kleiner, Jennifer Sue, Vasterling, Jennifer J and Field, Andy P (2007) Memory for emotionally neutral information in posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analytic investigation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116 (3). pp. 448-463.

Field, A P and Storksen-Coulson, H (2007) The Interaction of Pathways To Fear in Childhood Anxiety: A Preliminary Study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45 (12). pp. 3051-3059. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy P, Ball, Jess E, Kawycz, Nicola J and Moore, Harriett (2007) Parent-Child Relationships and the Verbal Information Pathway to Fear in Children: Two Preliminary Experiments. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 35. pp. 473-486.

Field, A P and Askew, C (2007) Vicarious learning and the development of fears in childhood. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 45. pp. 2616-2627.

Lawson, Joanne, Banerjee, Robin and Field, Andy (2007) The effects of verbal information on children's fear beliefs about social situations. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45 (1). pp. 21-37. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy (2006) Is conditioning a useful framework for understanding the development and treatment of phobias? Clinical Psychology Review, 26. pp. 857-875.

Field, Andy (2006) The behavioral inhibition system and the verbal information pathway to children's fears. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115 (4). pp. 742-752. ISSN 0021-843X

Field, Andy P (2006) Watch Out for the Beast: Fear Information and Attentional Bias in Children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35 (3). pp. 431-439. ISSN 1537-4416

Field, Andy P (2006) I don't like it because it eats sprouts: Conditioning preferences in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44 (3). pp. 439-455. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy (2005) Is the meta-analysis of correlation coefficients accurate when population correlations vary? Psychological Methods, 10 (4). pp. 444-467. ISSN 1082-989X

Field, Andy (2005) Discovering statistics using SPSS; and sex, drugs and rock'n'roll (2nd ed). Sage.

Field, Andy and Davey, Graham (2005) Experimental Methods in Clinical Research. In: A handbook of research methods in clinical and health psychology. Oxford University Press, pp. 175-184.

Field, Andy (2005) Learning to Like (and dislike): Associative Learning of Preferences. In: New Directions in Human Associative Learning. LEA, pp. 221-252.

Field, Andy (2005) Meta-Analysis. In: A handbook of research methods in clinical and health psychology. Oxford University Press, pp. 295-308.

De Houwer, Jan, Baeyens, Frank and Field, Andy (2005) Associative learning of likes and dislikes: some current controversies and possible ways forward. Psychology Press.

Andrea, H, Beurskens, A J H M, Kant, I J, Davey, G C L, Field, A P and van Schayck, C P (2004) The relation between pathological worrying and fatigue in a working population. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 57 (4). pp. 399-407. ISSN 0022-3999

Field, Andy P and Morgan, Julie (2004) Post-event processing and the retrieval of autobiographical memories in socially anxious individuals. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 18 (5). pp. 647-663. ISSN 0887-6185

Field, Andy P (2003) Can meta-analysis be trusted? The Psychologist, 16 (12). pp. 642-645. ISSN 0952-8229

Field, A P and Lawson, J (2003) Fear information and the development of fears during childhood: effects on implicit fear responses and behavioural avoidance. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41 (11). pp. 1277-1293. ISSN 0005-7967

Davey, Graham C L, Startup, Helen M, Zara, Ayten, MacDonald, C Benie and Field, Andy P (2003) The perseveration of checking thoughts and mood-as-input hypothesis. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 34 (2). pp. 141-160. ISSN 0005-7916

Field, Andy P and Moore, Annette C (2003) Dissociating the effects of attention and contingency awareness on evaluative conditioning effects in the visual paradigm. Cognition & Emotion, 19 (2). pp. 217-243. ISSN 0269-9931

Davey, Graham CL, Field, Andy P and Startup, Helen M (2003) Repetitive and iterative thinking in psychopathology: anxiety-inducing consequences and a mood-as-input mechanism. In: Obsessive compulsive disorder: theory, research, and treatment. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 79-99. ISBN 0471494445

Field, Andy (2003) Clinical Psychology. Crucial, Exeter.

Field, A P, Hamilton, S J, Knowles, K A and Plews, E L (2003) Fear information and social phobic beliefs in children: a prospective paradigm and preliminary results. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41 (1). pp. 113-123. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy P and Hole, Graham (2003) How to design and report experiments. Sage. ISBN 9780761973829

Field, Andy (2003) The problems in using Fixed-effects models of meta-analysis on real-world data. Understanding Statistics, 2. pp. 77-96.

Lescelles, Kristy R R, Field, Andy P and Davey, Graham C L (2003) Using foods as CSs and body shapes as UCSs: A putative role for associative learning in the development of eating disorders. Behavior Therapy, 34 (2). pp. 213-235. ISSN 0005-7894

Field, Andy P (2001) When All Is Still Concealed: Are We Closer to Understanding the Mechanisms Underlying Evaluative Conditioning? Consciousness and Cognition, 10 (4). pp. 559-566. ISSN 1053-8100

Field, Andy P, Argyris, Nicolas G and Knowles, Karina A (2001) Who's afraid of the big bad wolf: a prospective paradigm to test Rachman's indirect pathways in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 39 (11). pp. 1259-1276. ISSN 0005-7967

Field, Andy P (2001) Meta-analysis of correlation coefficients: A Monte Carlo comparison of fixed- and random-effects methods. Psychological Methods, 6 (2). pp. 161-180. ISSN 1082-989X

Field, Andy and Davey, Graham (2001) Conditioning models of childhood anxiety. In: Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents: research, assessment, and intervention. Cambridge University Press, pp. 187-211. ISBN 9780521789660

Dadds, MR, Davey, Graham and Field, Andy (2001) Developmental aspects of conditioning processes in anxiety disorders. In: The developmental psychopathology of anxiety. Oxford University Press, pp. 205-230.

Davey, Graham C L and Field, Andy P (2000) The "benefit" of Pavlovian conditioning - performance models, hidden costs, and innovation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23 (2). pp. 253-254. ISSN 0140-525X

Field, Andy P (2000) Evaluative Conditioning Is Pavlovian Conditioning: Issues of Definition, Measurement, and the Theoretical Importance of Contingency Awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 9 (1). pp. 41-49. ISSN 1053-8100

Field, Andy P (2000) I like it, but I'm not sure why: Can evaluative conditioning occur without conscious awareness? Consciousness and Cognition, 9 (1). pp. 13-36. ISSN 1053-8100

Field, Andy P and Davey, Graham C L (1999) Reevaluating evaluative conditioning: A nonassociative explanation of conditioning effects in the visual evaluative conditioning paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 25 (2). pp. 211-224. ISSN 0097-7403

Field, Andy P and Davey, Graham C L (1998) Evaluative Conditioning: Arti-fact or -fiction?-A Reply to Baeyens, De Houwer, Vansteenwegen, and Eelen (1998). Learning and Motivation, 29 (4). pp. 475-491. ISSN 0023-9690