RASPH
The Risk Analysis, Social Processes and Health group consists of 8 members of academic staff from lecturer to professor.
All members share an interest in understanding human decision making processes in relation to judgements about risk and health and safety issues. This involves applying theoretical models in applied settings (e.g. NHS Hospital staff; Private Sector industry, Patient groups) and conducting fundamental experimental work (e.g. gambling and priming tasks, implicit attitudes).
Of particular theoretical interest to this group is the role played by:
- Emotions (e.g. Damasio's somatic markers hypothesis, atributional accounts, appraisal tendencies hypothesis, attributional accounts, risk as feelings hypothesis)
- Contextual variables (e.g. cueing, priming)
- Individual differences (normal personality, abnormal personality, and health anxiety).
More information about the research carried out by the RASPH group can by found on our homepages: http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/research/rasph/
Current Research
Some of the questions we are trying to answer include:
Risk Analysis
- What influences people to take up medical screening?
- How risky are genetically modified treatments perceived by the general public and expert groups?
- What psychological factors influence the acceptance of genetically modified products?
- Why do people take risks on the road?
- What mechanisms lead to the main classes of road traffic collision?
- Do emotions influence risk perception?
Social Processes:
- What occurs in detail during violent episodes?
- What makes people respond violently?
- Are there individual differences in the appraisal of violence?
- What is the role of context in stereotype activation?
- What are the social processes that lead individuals to adopt health behaviour?
- What are the social processes that affect people�s illness perceptions and coping behaviour?
Health:
- What is the role of personality, appraisals and odour in relation to symptom reporting?
- Why do only some people donate blood?
- How does health anxiety influence decision making and responses to stress?
- What do experts and the lay public understand about diseases?
- How does personality influence success in medical training?
- What are the psychological and social factors which underpin deliberate self-harm?
- What are the most effective treatments for self-harm?
Alternatively, follow the links below to find out about the research interests of individual members of staff.
People
Academic staff:
Affiliate Members:
Research fellows:
PhD students:
- Chris Beeley
- Georgina Cox
- Nadja Heym
- Sarah Knowles
- Joanna Leaviss
- Panos Rentzelas
- Josiane Scerri
- Kate Threapleton
- Catherine Thompson
- Susan Tomlinson
- Jane Ward
- Tanya Webb
- Fiona Ulph
