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Dr Angela Rowe

Senior Lecturer

telephone: +44 (0)117 95 46846 email: A.C.Rowe@bris.ac.uk

Room 5D7

Attachment Research Study


Biographical details

I did my undergraduate degree in Applied Psychology at Cardiff University and stayed there to do a PhD. in social psychology with Dr. Kathy Carnelley. I was awarded a doctorate in January 2001 and joined the Department of Experimental Psychology in 1999.

Research interests

My research focuses on the influence of relational schemata of different attachment qualities on perceptions of attachment phenomena, at both information processing and behavioural levels.


Recent and current grants

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship with Abigail Millings. “Adult attachment, partner caregiving, and parenting” (2008). (RES).

Nuffield Foundation grant (SGS/33904, £7,494.40) with Kathy Carnelley. “Adult Attachment and the Inhibition of Dispositional and Primed-Style-Incongruent Information” (2007). Principal Investigator.

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Grant (RES-062-23-0052, £359,815.84) in collaboration with Ian Penton-Voak and Casimir Ludwig “Adult attachment and the perceptual processing of facial expressions of emotion” (2006). Principal Investigator.

British Academy research grant (SG – 43494 for £6059) in collaboration with Marcus Munafò “Attentional training and attachment anxiety in adults” (2006). Principal Investigator.

British Academy research grant (£4,959). “Selective attention to attachment threatening stimuli as a function of attachment style” (2003). Principal Investigator.


Recent publications

Theodoridou, A., Rowe, A. C., Rogers, P. J., & Penton-Voak, I. S., (in press) Oxytocin administration leads to a preference for masculinized male faces.. Psychoneuroendocrinology,

King, D. Rowe, A. C., & Mohr, C. (in press). I trust you - hence I like the things you look at: Gaze cueing and sender trustworthiness influence object evaluation. Social Cognition.

Fussell, N. J., Rowe, A. C., & Mohr, C. (in press). Hemispheric processing of differently-valenced and self-relevant attachment words in middle-aged married and separated individuals.
Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition.

Mohr, C., Rowe, A. C., & Blanke, O. (2010). The influence of sex and empathy on putting oneself in the shoes of others. British Journal of Psychology, 101, 277- 291.

Carnelley, K. B., & Rowe, A. C. (2010). Priming a sense of security: what goes through people’s minds? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships,2, 253-261.

Laura L. Wilkinson, L. L., Rowe, A. C., Bishop, R. J. & Brunstrom, J. M. (in press). Attachment anxiety, disinhibited eating, and body mass index in adulthood. International Journal of Obesity.

Cooper, R. M., Rowe, A. C., Penton-Voak, I. S., & Ludwig, C. (2009). No reliable effects of emotional facial expression, adult attachment orientation, or anxiety on the allocation of visual attention in the spatial cueing paradigm. Journal of Research in Personality, 43, 643-652.

Theodoridou, A., Rowe, A. C., Penton-Voak, I. S., & Rogers, P. J (2009) Oxytocin and social perception: Oxytocin increases perceived facial trustworthiness and attractiveness. Hormones and Behavior, 56, 128-132.

Cooper, R. M., Rowe, A. C., & Penton-Voak, I. S. (2008). The role of trait anxiety in the recognition of emotional facial expressions. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 22, 1120-1127.

Mohr, C., Rowe, A. C., & Crawford, M. (2008). Hemispheric differences in the processing of attachment words. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 30, 471-480.

Penton-Voak, I. S., Rowe, A. C., & Williams, J. (2008). Through rose-tinted spectacles: Relationship satisfaction and representations of partner’s facial attractiveness. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5, 169-182.

Carnelley, K. B., & Rowe, A. C. (2007). Repeated Priming of Attachment Security Influences Later Views of Self and Relationships. Personal Relationships, 14, 307-320.

Rowe, A. C., & Carnelley, K.B. (2005). Hierarchical mapping of attachment networks: A cross-sectional investigation of general attachment style differences in adolescence and young adulthood. Personal Relationships.12, 499-519.

Rowe, A. C., & Carnelley, K.B. (2003). Attachment style differences in the processing of attachment relevant information: Primed style effects on recall, interpersonal expectations and affect. Personal Relationships, 10, 59-75.

Mitchell, J.P., Macrae, C.N., Schooler, J., Rowe, A.C., & Milne, A.B. (2002). Directed Remembering: Subliminal Cues Alter Nonconscious Memory Strategies. Memory, 10, 381-388.

Macrae, C.N., Hood, B.M., Milne, A.B., Rowe, A.C., & Mason, M. F. (2002). Are you looking at me? Eye gaze and person perception. Psychological Science, 13, 460 – 464.

Bennett, P., Rowe, A.C., & Katz, D. (1998). Adherence with asthma prevention medication: A test of the protection motivation theory. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 3, 347-354.

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