This grouping encompasses research from social, developmental and evolutionary psychology and aims to answer questions on how our social experiences impact upon our health outcomes.
Essentially this research aims to understand what makes us the social creatures that we are in part by identifying factors that influence health, lifestyle, social behaviours and outcomes as well as understanding the developmental processes that underpin our sociality.
Our labs
MiniMeLab
Run by Dr Josephine Ross, we investigate the early development of self-awareness
We explore the important role that group identification (one's sense of psychological connectedness to one or more social groups) can play in our health and well-being
We employ psychophysics, electroencephalography (EEG) and multivariate data analysis in order to identify neural and psychological predictors of perceptual experience, metacognition and neurological/psychiatric disorders.