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Dr Robbie Cooper

Research Associate

telephone: +44 (0)117 95 46847 email: Robbie.Cooper@bris.ac.uk

Room 5D27a

Biographical Details

I graduated with an MA (Hons) in Psychology from Dundee University in 2000. I moved to Stirling University in 2001 where I completed an MSc in Psychological Research Methods and then a PhD (Social Cognition) supervised by Steve Langton and Vicki Bruce. I joined the Department of Experimental Psychology at Bristol University in September 2006 where I am currently a Research Associate.

Research Interests

Keywords: Anxiety, Social Cognition, Face Perception, Attention, Emotion, Adult Attachment

Most recently my colleagues and I have been working on the following issues:

- Developing a model for Generalised Anxiety Disorder based on the inhalation of 7.5% CO2.
- Examining evidence for publication bias in the area of anxiety and attention to emotion.
- Comparing the processing of photographic and real faces using eye movement recording.
- Assessing the role of attachment orientation in the processing of emotional faces.

Publications

Pearson, R. M., Cooper, R. M., Penton-Voak, I. S., Lightman, S., & Evans, J. (in press). Depressive symptoms in early pregnancy disrupt attentional processing of infant emotion. Psychological Medicine.

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. download

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(7), 1120-1127. download

Hunt, A. R, Cooper, R. M., Hungr, C., & Kingstone, A. (2007). The effect of emotional faces on eye movements and attention. Visual Cognition, 15(5), 513-531. download

Cooper, R. M., & Langton S. R. H. (2006). Attentional bias to angry faces using the dot-probe task? It depends when you look for it. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 44(9), 1321-1329. download

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