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Essi Viding
University College London, UK www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/staff/cehp-staff/e_viding What does your research focus on? My research focuses on understanding different developmental pathways to persistent antisocial behavior. I have a particular interest in a subgroup of children who not only have behavioral problems, but also have callous-unemotional traits. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you? It is puzzling to meet children with callous-unemotional traits. They seem to lack empathy for others and do not appear to care much about social affiliation. I want to understand what makes them that way and what could be done to help their social integration.
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26th Conference of the EHPS
The 26th Conference of the European Health Psychology Society will be held August 21st-25th, 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. For more information visit: http://www.ehps.net/index.php/Conferences/ehps-conferences.html
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Ergonomics & Human Factors
Ergonomics & Human Factors 2012 will be held April 16-19, 2012, Blackpool, UK. For more information visit: http://www.ergonomics.org.uk/events/ehf2012
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Lauri Nummenmaa
Aalto University, Finland http://users.utu.fi/latanu What does your research focus on? I study the brain basis of emotions and social cognition. Using the multimodal brain-imaging approach, I aim to understand the neural circuitry that enables us to navigate the social and physical world unharmed. In particular, I am interested in how the brain automatically processes the emotional and social cues conveyed by other people, and how this enables our brains to tune our behavior and mental processes to manage, for example, social interactions. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you? I simply stumbled upon brain imaging.
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Maarten Vansteenkiste
Ghent University, Belgium www.vopspsy.ugent.be/en/developmental-psychology/maarten-vansteenkiste.html www.selfdeterminationtheory.org What does your research focus on? I focus on motivational dynamics in my research. I am to understand how different reasons for engaging in an activity and pursuing different goals are related to outcomes, such as performance, persistence, learning, and well-being. Often, it is assumed that better outcomes will follow when people are more strongly motivated to engage in an activity.
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Lars Schwabe
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany http://www.cog.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/larss.html What does your research focus on? At the intersection of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and endocrinology, my research focuses on how stressful experiences influence cognitive processes. In particular, I am interested in how stress and stress hormones shape our memories and how they affect the interactions of multiple, declarative and non-declarative memory systems. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you? To use the words of Jane Austen: ‘‘If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory.
