Social inclusion and health research

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

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Health in Groups

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

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Self-Regulation Lab

In the Self-Regulation Lab, we investigate how people overcome setbacks, conflicts, or unwanted impulses to achieve both short and long-term goals

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Psychophysiology & Human Health Lab

Girl wearing brain cap with man mid experiment

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.

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The world of babies

Photo showing research about how infants imitate people

Emese Nagy’s foetal-neonatal developmental lab

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Socio-ecological well-being (SEW) research lab

In the socio-ecological well-being (SEW) research lab, we study the personality, social, and community determinants of health, happiness, and well-being.

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