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Dr Andy Field

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Post:Reader in Psychology
Location:Pevensey 1 2B07
Email:andyf@sussex.ac.uk
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UK:(01273) 877150
International:+44 1273 877150

Biography

Sussex University: Psychology Home Page

  • 2006-Present: 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.
  • 1994-1997: D.Phil. (Psychology), University of Sussex.
  • 1991-1994: B.Sc. Psychology (i), The City University, London.

Awards

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

Research

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.

Teaching

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.

Publications

Selected Research Articles Since 2005 (For a full list click here)

    1. Kelly, V. L., Barker, H., Field, A. P., Wilson, C., & Reynolds, S. (in press). 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.
    2. Field, A. P. & Gillett, R. (in press). How to do a meta-analysis. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.
    3. Lester, K. J., Seal, K., Nightingale, Z. C., & Field, A. P. (in press). Do children learn to interpret ambiguous situations based on how their mothers have interpreted ambiguous situations for them in the past? Journal of Anxiety Disorders.
    4. Huijding, J., Field, A. P., De Houwer, J., van den Bosch, K., Rinck, M., & van Oeveren, M. (2009). A behavioural route to disfunctional representations: The effects of training approach or avoidance tendencies towards novel animals in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47 (6), 471-477.
    5. Field, A. P. & Price-Evans, K. (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), 431-436.
    6. Field, A. P. (2009). Giving your data the bootstrap. The Psychologist, 22(5), 413.
    7. Muris, P., Rassin, E., Smeets, G., Mayer, B., Huijding, J., Remmerswaal, D. & Field, A. P. (2009). Effects of verbal information on fear-related reasoning biases in children. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47(3), 206-214.
    8. Field, A. P. (2009). Can humour make students love statistics. The Psychologist, 22(3), 210-213.
    9. Lester, K. J., Field, A. P., Oliver, S. & Cartwright-Hatton, S. (2009). Do anxious parents interpretive biases towards threat extend into their child’s environment? Behaviour Research and Therapy, 47 (2), 170-174.
    10. Field, A. P. & Nightingale, Z. C. (2009). What if Little Albert had escaped? Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 14(2), 343-351.
    11. Field, A. P., Lawson, J., & Banerjee, R. (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), 214-224.
    12. Field, A. P. & Cartwright-Hatton, S. (2008). Shared and Unique Cognitive Factors in Social Anxiety. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 1(3), 206–222.
    13. Field, A. P., Cartwright-Hatton, S., Reynolds, S. & Creswell, C. (2008). Future Directions for Child Anxiety Theory and Treatment. Cognition and Emotion, 22 (3), 385-394.
    14. Field, A. P. & Lawson, J. (2008). The Verbal Information Pathway to Fear and Subsequent Causal Learning in Children. Cognition and Emotion, 22 (3), 459-479.
    15. Field, A. P., Lascelles, K. R. R., Lester, K. J., Askew, C. & Davey, G. C. L. (2008). Evaluative conditioning: missing, presumed dead. Netherlands Journal of Psychology, 64 (2), 46–64.
    16. Askew, C. & Field, A. P. (2008). The vicarious learning pathway to fear 40 years on. Clinical Psychology Review, 28, 1249-1265.
    17. Askew, C., Kessock-Philip, H. & Field, A. P. (2008). Interactions between the indirect pathways to fear in children: what happens when verbal threat information and vicarious learning combine? Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36 (4), 491-505.
    18. Cartwright-Hatton, S., Field, A. P., Reynolds, S., & Creswell, C. (2008).  Research into anxiety of childhood: playing catch-up (to Olympic standard)  Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36 (4), 377-378.
    19. Price-Evans, K. & Field, A. P. (2008). A Neglectful Parenting Style Mediates the Effect of the Verbal Threat Information Pathway On Children’s Heart Rate Responses to Novel Animals. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36 (4), 473-482.
    20. Muris, P. & Field, A. P. (2008). Distorted cognition and pathological anxiety in children and adolescents. Cognition and Emotion, 22 (3), 395 – 421.
    21. Field, A. P. & Storksen-Coulson (2007). The Interaction of Pathways To Fear in Childhood Anxiety: A Preliminary Study. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 3051-3059.
    22. Field, A. P. & Schorah, H. (2007). The Negative Information Pathway to Fear and Heart Rate Changes in Children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48 (11), 1088-1093.
    23. Askew, C. & Field, A. P. (2007). Vicarious learning and the development of fears in childhood. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 2616-2627.
    24. Brewin, C. R., Kleiner, J. S., Vasterling, J. J., & Field, A. P. (2007). Memory Impairment in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A meta-analytic investigation. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116 (3), 448-463.
    25. Field, A. P., Ball, J. E., Kawycz, N. J. & Moore, H. (2007). Parent-Child Relationships and the Verbal Information Pathway to Fear in Children: Two Preliminary Experiments. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 35, 473-486.
    26.  Lawson, J., Banerjee, R. & Field, A. P. (2007). The effects of verbal information on children’s fear beliefs about social situations. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 45, 21-37.
    27. Miles, J. M. V. & Field, A. P. (2007). Perspectives on significance testing. The Irish Journal of Psychology, 28(1-2), 13-26.
    28. Pincus, T., Burton, K., Vogel, S., & Field, A. P. (2006) Fear avoidance and prognosis in back pain: a systematic review and synthesis of current evidence. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 54 (12), 3999-4010.
    29. Field, A. P. (2006). The Behavioral Inhibition System and the Verbal Information Pathway to Children’s Fears. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 115 (4), 742-752.
    30. Field, A. P. (2006). Is conditioning a useful framework for understanding the development and treatment of phobias? Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 857-875.
    31. Field, A. P. (2006). Watch out for the beast: Fear information and attentional bias in children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35 (3), 431-439.
    32. Field, A. P. (2006). I don’t like it because it eats Brussels sprouts: conditioning preferences in children. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 44, 439-455.
    33. Field, A. P. (2005). Is the meta-analysis of correlation coefficients accurate when population effect sizes vary? Psychological Methods, 10 (4), 444-467.
    34. Field, A. P., & Moore, A. C. (2005). Dissociating the effects of Attention and contingency awareness on evaluative conditioning effects in the visual paradigm. Cognition & Emotion, 19 (2), 217-243.
    35. De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., & Field, A. P. (2005). Associative learning of likes and dislikes: Some current controversies and possible ways forward. Cognition & Emotion, 19 (2), 161-174.

      Books

        1. Field, A. P., & Miles, J. M. V. (in press). Discovering statistics using SAS: and sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. London: Sage
        2. Hadwin, J. A. & Field, A. P. (Eds.) (in press). Information processing biases and anxiety: a developmental perspective. Chichester: Wiley.
        3. Silverman, W. K. & Field, A. P. (Eds.) (in press). Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Research, Assessment and Intervention (2nd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
        4. Field, A. P. (2009). Discovering statistics using SPSS: and sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll (3rd edition). London: Sage.
        5. Field, A. P. (2009). Descobrindo a estatistica usando o SPSS (2a edição). Porto Alegre, Brazil: Artmed. (Translated by LoríViali).
        6. Field, A. P., Cartwright-Hatton, S., Reynolds, S. & Creswell, C. (2008). Child anxiety: Theory and treatment. Hove: Psychology Press.
        7. Davey, G. C. L., Albery, I. P., Chandler, C., Field, A. P., Jones, D., Messer, D., Moore, S., Stirling, C. (2008). Complete Psychology (2nd edition). London: Arnold.
        8. Field, A. P. (2005). Discovering statistics using SPSS: and sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll (2nd edition). London: Sage.
        9. De Houwer, J., Baeyens, F., & Field, A. P. (Eds.) (2005). Associative learning of likes and dislikes. Hove: Psychology Press.
        10. Davey, G. C. L. (ed.)(2005). Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology (Editor of the Research Methods section and author of 206 entries). London: Arnold Books.
        11. Davey, G. C. L., Albery, I. P., Chandler, C., Field, A. P., Jones, D., Messer, D., Moore, S., Stirling, C. (2004). Complete Psychology. London: Arnold.
        12. Field, A. P. (2003). Clinical Psychology. Exeter: Crucial.
        13. Field, A. P., & Hole, G. (2003). How to design and report experiments. London: Sage.
        14. Field, A. P. (2000). Discovering statistics using SPSS for Windows: advanced techniques for the beginner. London: Sage.
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