Research by this group includes investigation of causal factors that determine fear acquisition in children and the intergenerational transmission of anxiety from parent to child, models of mood and pathological worrying in adulthood, studies of psychosis, and computer-aided psychological therapies.
Anxiety and mood
- How does our mood affect worry perseveration?
- How does embodiment affect emotional experience in psychopathology?
People: Graham Davey and Fran Meeten
Lab: Mood and Anxiety Research at Sussex - MARS
Psychological therapies
- How can e-health help us to increase access to psychological therapies?
- Who benefits from self-help interventions, and how?
People: Kate Cavanagh
Childhood anxiety
- What are children's emotional reactions to 'scary' TV?
- How do children's emotional reactions to new things and situations develop?
- Can we help anxious parents to raise confident children? Does anxiety impact on parenting?
Faculty: Andy Field. Research staff: Sam Cartwright-Hatton
Psychosis
- What is the the role of neurocognition and symptoms on recovery and remission in psychosis?
- How can psychological interventions promote positive attitudes to mental health, psychosis and help-seeking in primary school children?
- How de people feel when they hear the voice of someone who isn't actually there?
- Can mindfulness help people who experience psychosis?
People: Kathy Greenwood and Mark Hayward
Sussex Psychosis Research Interest group - SPRiG
Symptoms of inattention and distraction
- How well do established laboratory measures address daily-life symptoms of inattention and distraction, as referred to in clinical diagnostic forms and checklists (e.g., for Generalised anxiety disorder or Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)?
- What are the neural bases of attentional disruption in anxiety?
- Can established determinants of distraction be employed to reduce heightened distraction in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
People: Sophie Forster
Emotion Regulation
- Why might people fail to regulate their emotions effectively?
- How do emotion regulation processes influence health, well-being and social functioning?
- How can people improve their ability to regulate their emotions?
People: Eleanor Miles
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