Dr Angela Attwood

Research summary

Research interests

My research interests are in the effects of social drugs and drug-related stimuli, and the psychological and biological factors that underlie addiction and continued drug use. More specifically, my recent research has included the effects of acute alcohol consumption on various aspects of social cognition, including ratings of attractiveness and the perception of emotion in facial cues. We have ongoing work examining cognitive bias to drug-related cues and the effects of attentional retraining procedures on biases and cue reactivity, and I am currently conducting a series of studies investigating the relationship between smoking and anxiety, using a carbon ...

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Biography

I graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2002 with a BSc in Psychology.  I went on to complete a Ph.D. at Birmingham that examined the effects of conditioning to psychostimulant drugs.

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Recent publications

• Mattys, SL, Seymour, F, Attwood, AS & Munafò, MR 2013, ‘Effects of Acute Anxiety Induction on Speech Perception: Are Anxious Listeners Distracted Listeners?’. Psychological Science.
• Attwood, AS, Penton-Voak, IS, Burton, AM & Munafò, MR 2013, ‘Acute Anxiety Impairs Accuracy in Identifying Photographed Faces’. Psychological Science.

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