Psychology
The Centre for the Study of Emotion was established in 2001 by developmental (Vasudevi Reddy), comparative (Kim A Bard), and neuroscientific psychologists (Marcia Smith Pasqualini & the late Professor Anthony Gale) to support convergent interests in emotion research. The Emotion Centre now provides a home for scholarly activities across the following three domains: the nature and processing of emotional expression; emotions and the self; and the neural processing of attention and emotion. A fourth area involves emerging interdisciplinary projects with medicine, robotics, prisons and animal welfare.
Centre director: Prof Kim A Bard
Research areas:
Emerging Interdisciplinary Studies of Emotion
Multimodal Production and Perception of Emotion
Advisory panel:
- Professor Alan Costall, Director, Centre for Human Ecology, Culture & Communication, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth.
- Professor Jaak Panksepp, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University, USA.
- Professor Arvid Kappas , Department of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany.
- Professor Jacqueline Nadel, Development and Psychopathology Group, CNRS, Hôpital de La Salpêtrière , France.
- Professor Shoji Itakura , Department of Psychology, Kyoto University, Japan.
- Professor Suzanne Kaiser, Swiss Center for Affective Science and Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Group, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Dr Marcia Smith Pasqualini, Department of Psychology, Avila University, Kansas City, USA
External Collaborators:
The Centre for the Study of Emotion and The Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, Geneva, Switzerland, have established a scientific cooperation and collaboration.
Emotion Centre members have established collaborations with scientists in the UK, Europe, US, and other international sites. Please see individual homepages.
Funded projects:
(co-sponsored by The Centre for the Study of Emotion)
"Measuring expressive movement in monkeys" R03 grant to Dr. Lisa Parr, Emory University, USA, with Bridget Waller, Co-Investigator, 2007-2009, from National Institutes of Mental Health (NIH- NIMH), US
‘How auditory stimuli affect visual awareness: Investigating the neural correlates of benefiting cross-modal interactions’, Small Research Grant to Conny Kranczioch, from The British Academy, 2007
“FEELIX GROWING: FEEL, Interact, eXpress: a Global appRoach to develOpment With Interdisciplinary grounding”, FP6-IST to Project leader Dr. Lola Canamero, University of Hertfordshire; with Kim Bard, PI for University of Portsmouth, 2006 - 2010, from the European Commission.
ExPERT Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Sherria Hoskins, Co-applicant, funding from HEFCE, 2005- present.
Patient education in Parkinson's disease (EduPark), Marcia Smith Pasqualini with six other partner-countries, funded by European Commission RTD, 2003-2005.
The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship, Professor Jaak Panksepp, to the Psychology Department, University of Portsmouth, 2002-2003.
‘Chimpanzee Emotions: Developing a Facial Action Coding System for chimpanzees’, a Research Interchange Grant directed by Kim A Bard and funded by The Leverhulme Trust, 2002-2006
Mutual gaze in chimpanzees, Kim A Bard with Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University. Funded by The British Council, Japan, 2001.
Activities:
The Emotion Centre holds weekly brown bag lunches providing a forum for informal research discussions, journal club meetings and guest speakers.
The Centre for the Study of Emotion holds more formal monthly meetings.
Additionally, the Centre for the Study of Emotion co-sponsors workshops and conferences, including those listed below.
Forum for the Advancement of Continuing Education (FACE), Sherria Hoskins, co-applicant.
Gestural and Vocal Expression of Emotions in Human and NonHuman Primates, an International Research Seminar, organised by Katja Liebal, Joerg Zinken and Kim A Bard, and funded by the British Psychological Society, 2006-7.
ChimpFACS, an International seminar and workshop, organised by Kim A Bard, Sarah-Jane Vick, and Bridget Waller, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, 2005.
Social Neuroscience of Emotion, organised by Marcia Smith Pasqualini and Kim A Bard, funded by The Wellcome Trust, 2004
Rhythms in Action and Emotion, organised by Vasu Reddy, and funded by The Wellcome Trust, 2002.
Facilities
[Affective & Cognitive Neuroscience Group and to Laboratories and facilities]
Courses taught by members of the centre:
BSc (Hons) Psychology (British Psychological Society accredited)
BSc (Hons) Psychology with Criminology (British Psychological Society accredited)
MSc Psychological Research Methods (PRM: ESRC accredited)
MSc Psychological Research Methods in the Study of Emotion (ESRC accredited)
PhD in Psychology
Contact Information:
Prof. Kim A Bard, Director
Centre for the Study of Emotion
Department of Psychology
King Henry Building, King Henry I Street
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, PO1 2DY
UK