Overseas Institutional Visit Bonni Crawford School of Psychology Social Punishment Social Reward My PhD Is concerned with the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of social reward and punishment processing ID: 556199
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School of Psychology
Overseas Institutional Visit
Bonni CrawfordSlide2
School of Psychology
Social Punishment
Social Reward
My PhD…
…Is concerned with the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of social reward and punishment processing.
Individual differences investigated with reference to relevant personality variables such as altruistic tendencies, attachment style and the broad autism phenotype.Slide3
School of Psychology
My OIV
1
st
April – 28
th
June
2014
Swiss
Centre for Affective Sciences, University of
Geneva, Switzerland Slide4
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My OIVSlide5
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School of Psychology
The Project
Dr Marcel Meyer
Dr Meyer's work investigates the cognitive, physiological, and neurobiological mechanisms associated with emotion regulation via compassion-focussed and benefit-focussed reappraisals.
Research on emotion regulation and reappraisal has not been within the scope of my PhD; however individual differences in these are likely to be highly relevant to several of my findings
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During the course of my PhD I had made some incidental findings pertaining to several levels of analysis in understanding social dispositions, with particular emphasis on how social motives might relate to individualism and collectivism.
An exciting opportunity to investigate
these results further became available via collaboration on a project run by Dr Marcel Meyer at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. ln this collaborative project we extended the scope of the earlier studies, by investigating the role of emotion-regulation strategies.
This project also employed thermography: high-resolution thermal imaging which can be used to measure minute fluctuations in temperature in the human body. We are investigating links between three 'levels', or aspects, of warmth:- physiological (using thermography)
- affective (emotion regulation via reappraisal)
- interpersonal/social (social dispositions, collectivism).
Cold and Lonely – Literally?
The Project Slide8
The Project
Mind/body connections
Links between different levels of analysis:
Motives
Values
Goals
Traits
Behaviour
Expectations
Links between different ‘levels’ or aspects of warmth:
Physiological (using thermography)
Affective (emotion regulation via reappraisal)
Interpersonal/social
(collectivism and social reward and threat perceptions)Slide9
October 2014 - present
Running main study
Data collection (Marcel)Data analysis (Bonni and Marcel)
School of Psychology
The Project
April 2013
Prof.
Patrik
Vuilleumier
visited Cardiff; we met and discussed mutual research interests
December 2013
Collaborative project with Marcel initiated; application for OIV submitted
January - March 2014
Planning the project, and making arrangements including getting my scales translated into French
April – June 2014
OIV in Geneva.
Setting up pilot study;
Recruiting participants;
Conducting pilot study;
Analysing pilot data;
Refining plans for full study;
Setting up full studySlide10
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New Skills
Naëm
Baron
Technical
Staff
I got my engineering degree in 2010 at ESIEA with a specialization in Virtual Reality (VR) and I have worked within the field of VR and industry before joining the Swiss
Center
for Affective Science. Since 2011, I am in charge of the development of VR in the research subjects conducted in the Brain and
Behavior
Laboratory, operating on a high end immersive system : the BBL-IS. This system provides a high level of immersion to simulate and control a wide variety of situations with multiple stimulations (facial expressions,
olfactive
, HRTF sounds) and recording (physiological sensors, eye-tracker, body-tracker, video) capabilities.
My role is to manage the BBL-IS and to support the researchers by developing the VR applications and the hardware for their experiments.Slide11
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Daily LifeSlide12
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Daily LifeSlide13
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Daily LifeSlide14
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Daily LifeSlide15
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Thanks
Thanks to…
Andrew
Lawrence and the School of Psychology
Patrik Vuilleumier and Marcel Meyer
The ESRC
and Wales DTC