CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:Anne Richards, B.Sc., Ph.D., A.F.B.Ps.S., C.Psychol.
Department of Psychology
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX
Tel (work): 020 7631-6208
Fax: 020 7631-6312
Tel (home): 020 8293 9597
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POSITIONS
2004 -Reader
1998-2004Senior Lecturer
1990-1998Lecturer
Department of Psychology
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX
1987-1990Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
Polytechnic of East London
London E15 4LZ
1985-1987Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
St. George's Hospital Medical School
Cranmer Terrace
Tooting
London SW17 ORE
1984-1985Staff Demonstrator
Department of Psychology
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
EDUCATION
1978-1981University of Leicester
B.Sc. Honours (Psychology) 2(i)
1981-1984University of Leicester, Ph.D.
(Awarded 1985)Thesis: Models of Cerebral Hemisphere Asymmetry
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
Experimental Psychology Society
American Psychological Society
International Society for Research on Emotions
Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society
Cognitive Section of the British Psychological Society
Mathematical and Statistical Section of the British Psychological Society
Member of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive psychotherapies
Member of Institute for Learning and Teaching
RESEARCH INTERESTS
My research interests are primarily in the area of emotion and cognition, particularly anxiety. My research has involved both normal and clinical populations. I am interested in standard behavioural techniques to delineate the different components of anxiety. I am also actively involved in investigating the neurobiological correlates of cognition and emotion. My research includes neurophysiological (ERPs, eyetracking), psychophysiological (SCR, EMGs) and hemodynamic (fMRI) measures. My track record is in the behavioural components of emotion but my research is increasingly moving in the neurobiological direction. Having a background in cognitive psychology enables me to bring the rigour of experimental design and understanding of cognitive processes to the neurobiological domain.
I currently have a lab at Birkbeck where my two post-doc research assistants and my three postgraduate students are based. One student is jointly supervised with Professor Marty Sereno and one with Dr Naz Derakshan. I also have two MSc students attached to the lab. I hold a grant (jointly with Dr Holmes) from the BIAL Foundation to examine ERP and behavioural correlates of conscious and non-conscious processing in anxiety. I also have a grant from the Leverhulme Trust (sole recipient) to examine individual differences in Inattentional Blindness. Dr Holmes and I are awaiting the outcome of a grant application on ERPs and emotional facial recognition from the ESRC.
I am involved in three fMRI projects and several behavioural studies examining the effects of emotion on ambiguity resolution; conscious and non-conscious emotion; emotional influences on processing emotional facial expressions; automatic and strategic influences in the interpretation of ambiguity; attention and emotion.
I have attended many courses on neuroanatomy, EEG, fMRI, in order that I develop my research in this area.
Collaborations include: In addition to my collaborations within Birkbeck, I have additional contacts with Dr J Hadwin, (University of Southampton), Professor Nick Donnelly (University of Southampton), Dr Frank Ryan (CNWL NHS Trust), Dr M Vitkovitch (University of East London), Dr I Blanchette (University of Manchester), Professor L Melnyk (Western Ontario), Dr C Hirsch (Institute of Psychiatry), Dr A Holmes (Roehampton University)
CURRENT TEACHING COMMITMENTS
BSc Psychology
(1)Year 4: Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
(2)Year 4: Project supervision
(3)Year 3: Advanced Research Methods
(4)Year 3: Mini-Projects
In previous years I have taught on many other courses, including:
Year 1 & 2: Cognitive Psychology
Year 4: Critical analysis
Year 3: Abnormal Psychology
Year 2: Social Psychology and Personality
Year 1: Introduction to Research Methods
I have also run several statistics and programming workshops, lead seminars and tutorials.
MSc in Research Methods
Lectures on and workshops in statistics, research methods, E-Prime and other on-line computer packages, affect and information processing.
Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
2008-2010 Dr Emily Hannon, funded by Leverhulme Trust
2008-2010 Emily Bethell, funded by BIAL Foundation
2005-2007 Victoria Hamilton, funded by BIAL Foundation
1999-2001 Dr Isabelle Blanchette, funded by SSRC, Canada
1993-1994 Dr John Reidy, funded by ESRC
1993-1994 Dr Paul Wilson, funded by MRC
PhD Students Supervised
(All submitted within 4-years)
John Reidy, MRC funded, PhD awarded, 1994
Paul Wilson, (PT), Self-Funded, PhD awarded, 2000
Amanda Holmes, MRC funded, PhD awarded, 2001
Kirsten Perkins, School funded, PhD awarded, 2005
Carolyn Rice, School funded, PhD awarded 2006.
Emily Hannon, School funded, PhD, awarded 2007
Cornelia Reinhard, (PT), School funded (2002-2009)
Tehereh Anasari (FT) ESRC (Second supervisor) (2006-2009)
Philip Pell, (FT) ESRC funded (2007-2010)
MSc Students Supervised
Roberta Herrick (2004-2006)
Victoria Bradshaw (2007-2009)
Louise Shepheard-Walwyn (2007-2008)
PhD Examining
University of Oxford (2008); University of Western Australia (2008); University of Kent (1999, 2007); University of Cambridge (2000, 2005); University of Sheffield (2005); University of Southampton (2004); Middlesex University (2003); University College London (2003; 2007); Goldsmiths College (2006); Institute of Psychiatry and University of Cambridge (2001); Royal Holloway, University of London (1997, 1998, 2001, 2006; 2007); Institute of Psychiatry and University of Cambridge (2001a, 2001b); St George’s Hospital Medical School, University of London (1995)
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES
I have a heavy administrative load within the School. I am on the School’s Management Committee and I am chair of the Learning and Teaching Committee, and a member of many other committees. I am also highly active at the College level, being a member of the College Learning and Teaching Committee, Science Degree Committee, and Quality Assurance Committee. I have been on numerous Internal Review Panels within the College. I am a member of the College ELQ (Equivalent Level Qualification) Working Party. The new ELQ policy is a major threat to graduate students wishing to retrain in Psychology, and I am responsible for organising new courses for our ELQ students. In addition, I was responsible for our Internal Review that took place in July, and I am heavily involved in the accreditation of the BSc in Psychology by the BPS. I have also been on the School and College Research Committees and appointment/promotion panels.
School Committees
2006-School Management Committee
2005 -Chair of School Learning and Teaching Committee
2005 - 2006 Chair of Ethics Committee (cover for sabbatical leave)
2005-School Resource Committee
2001 - 2005School Computer Committee
2000-2005School Research Committee
1997 -Chair of Laboratory Teachers Group
1997 -Organisation of Demonstrators
1990 - 1997Admissions tutor for undergraduate course.
1989 - Responsible for Sona Participant Panel.
College Committees
2007-Quality Assurance Committee
2007-2008Science and Social Sciences Degrees Committee
2008-Science Degrees Committee
2005 - College Learning and Teaching Committee
2008-Quality Assurance Panel for Internal Review of Spanish and Latin American Studies
2006 -Quality Assurance Panel for Internal Review of Economics
2005 -Quality Assurance College Team for Institutional Audit
2005 - Quality Assurance Panel for Internal Review of Organisational Psychology
2000 - 2003 Clerical, Craft and Manual Staff Review Panel
2000 -Academic Board
1997 - 2005Faculty of Science Representative on College Research Committee
EXTERNAL POSTS
2005 - Consulting Editor for Emotion
2005 - Co-ordinating Examiner for British Psychological Society’s Qualifying Examination.
1998 - 2000European Congress of Psychology Scientific Committee
1994 - 1999Associate Editor for British Journal of Clinical Psychology.
1998 -External Validator for the London Semester Programme
1994 - 2000Chair of Advisory Committee for Diploma in
Psychology/Diploma in Applied Psychology.
1994 -1999Co-ordinating Examiner for British Psychological
Society’s Qualifying Examination
1992 -1994Ordinary Examiner for British Psychological
Society’s Qualifying Examination.
1992 -1995Visiting Examiner at Royal Holloway and Bedford New
College.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Refereed Journals(45 publications, 29 SSCI)
Hadwin, J.A. Donnelly, N., Richards, A., French, C.C., & Patel, U. (in press). Childhood anxiety and attention to emotion faces in a modified Stroop task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. (SSCI)
Derakshan, N., Ansari, T., & Richards, A. (in press). Effects of anxiety on task-switching: Evidence from the mixed antisaccade task. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience.
Hannon, E. & Richards, A. (in press). Inattentional Blindness and the Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Processing Speed - An Individual Differences Approach. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society: Delphi, Greece, May, 2007.
Richards, A., Blanchette, I., Hamilton, V., & Lavda, A. (in press). Cognitive, Emotional and Physiological Components of Emotional Stroop using Associative Conditioning. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society: Delphi, Greece, May, 2007.
Blanchette, I., Richards, A., Melnyk, L., & Lavda, A. (in press). Reasoning about emotional issues following shocking terrorist attacks: A comparison of three samples. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.
Richards, A., French, C.C., Nash, G., Hadwin, J. & Donnelly, N. (2007). A comparison of selective attention and interpretation processing biases in typically developing children high and low in self-report trait anxiety. Development and Psychopathology, 19, 481-495.(SSCI)
Blanchette, I., Richards, A., & Cross, A. (2007). Anxiety and the interpretation of ambiguous facial expressions: The influence of contextual cues.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 60, 1011-1116.(SSCI)
Richards, A., Blanchette, I., & Munjiza, J. (2007). Contextual influences in the resolution of ambiguity in anxiety. Cognition and Emotion, 21, 879-890.
Holmes, M., Richards, A., & Green, S.E. (2006). Anxiety and sensitivity to eye gaze versus neutral faces. Brain and Cognition. 60, 282-294.(SSCI)
Davelaar, E.J., Hannon, E., & Richards, A. (2005). Strategy use in the operation span task. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society: Stresa, Italy.
Richards A., & Blanchette, I. (2004). Independent manipulation of emotion in an emotional Stroop task using classical conditioning. Emotion, 4, 275-281.(SSCI)
Blanchette, I., & Richards, A. (2004). Reasoning about emotional and neutral materials: Is logic affected by emotion? Psychological Science, 15, 1:745-752.(SSCI)
Keogh, E., Bond, F.W., French, C.C., Richards, A., & Davis, R. (2004). Test anxiety, susceptibility to distraction and examination performance. Advances in Test Anxiety Research,17, 241-252.
Blanchette, I., & Richards, A. (2003). Reasoning about emotional and non-emotional contents: A study of conditional reasoning. In: R. Alterman and D. Kirsh (Eds.). Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society: Boston, MA, US.
Blanchette, I., & Richards, A. (2003). Anxiety and the interpretation of ambiguous stimuli: Beyond the emotion-congruent effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 132, 294-309.
Hadwin, J.A., Donnelly, N., French, C.C., Richards, A., Watts, A., & Daley, D. (2003). The influence of children's self-report trait anxiety and depression on visual search for emotional faces. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 44, 432-444.
Richards, A., French, C.C., Calder, A. J., Webb, B., Fox, R., & Young, A. W. (2002). Anxiety-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions. Emotion, 2,273-287.(SSCI)
Vitkovitch, M., Bishop, S., Dancey, C., & Richards, A. (2002). Stroop interference and negative priming in patients with multiple sclerosis. Neuropsychologia, 40,1570-1576.(SSCI)
Richards, A., French, C.C., Keogh, E., & Carter, C. (2000).Test anxiety, inferential reasoning and working memory load. Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 13, 87-109.
Richards, A., Richards, L.C., & McGeeney, A. (2000). Anxiety-related Stroop interference in adolescents. Journal of General Psychology, 127, 327-333.(SSCI)
Richards, A. (1999). The effects of cueing target location and response mode on interference and negative priming using a visual selection paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52A, 449-463.(SSCI)
Richards, A., French, C. C., Adams, C., Eldridge, M., & Papadopoulou, E. (1999). Implicit memory and anxiety: perceptual identification of emotional stimuli. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 11, 67-86.(SSCI)
Richards, A., French, C. C., & Harris, P. (1998). Mistakes around the clock: Errors in memory for the orientation of numerals. Journal of Psychology, 132, 42-46.(SSCI)
Tower, R. K., Kelly, C., & Richards, A. (1997). Individualism, collectivism and reward allocation: A cross-cultural study in Britain and Russia. British Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 331-345.(SSCI)
Reidy, J., & Richards, A. (1997). A memory bias for threat in high-trait anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences, 23, 653-663.(SSCI)
Reidy, J., & Richards, A. (1997). Anxiety and memory: A recall bias for threatening words in high anxiety. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 35, 531-542.(SSCI)
Hadwin, J., Frost, S., French, C.C., & Richards, A. (1997). Cognitive processing and anxiety in mainstream children: Trait anxiety and interpretation bias. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 106, 486-490.(SSCI)
Richards, A., French, C. C., & Randall, F. (1996). Anxiety and the use of strategies in the processing of a sentence-picture verification task. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105, 132-136.(SSCI)
Richards, A,. French, C. C., & Harris, P. R. (1996). Does clock-watching make you clockwise? Memory, 4, 49-58.(SSCI)
French, C. C., Richards, A., & Schofield, E. J. C. (1996). Hypomania, anxiety and the emotional Stroop. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 35, 617-626.(SSCI)
Richards, A., French, C. C., & Dowd, R. (1995). Hemisphere asymmetry and the processing of emotional words in anxiety. Neuropsychologia, 33, 835-841.(SSCI)
French, C. C. & Richards, A. (1993). Clock this! An everyday example of a schema-driven error in memory. British Journal of Psychology, 84, 249-253.(SSCI)
Richards, A., French, C. C., & Reynolds, A. (1993). Anxiety and the spelling and use in sentences of threat/neutral homophones. Current Psychology Research and Reviews, 12, 18-25
French, C. C., & Richards, A. (1992) Word association norms for a set of threat/neutral homographs. Cognition and Emotion, 6, 65-87.
Richards, A., & French, C. C. (1992). An anxiety-related bias in semantic activation when processing threat/neutral homographs. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 45, 503-525.(SSCI)
Richards, A., French, C. C., Johnson, W., Naparstek, J., & Williams, J. (1992). Effects of mood manipulation on performance of an emotional Stroop task using mixed and blocked presentation. British Journal of Psychology, 83, 479-491.(SSCI)
Eysenck, M. W., Mogg, K., May, J., Richards, A., & Mathews, A. (1991). The interpretation of ambiguity related to threat in anxiety. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100, 144-150.(SSCI)
Richards, A., & French, C. C. (1991). Effects of encoding and anxiety on implicit and explicit memory performance. Personality and Individual Differences, 12, 131-139.(SSCI)
French, C. C., & Richards, A. (1990). The relationship between handedness, anxiety and questionnaire response patterns. British Journal of Psychology, 98, 57-61.(SSCI)
Richards, A., & French, C. C. (1990). Central versus peripheral presentation of stimuli in an emotional Stroop task. Anxiety Research, 3, 41-49.
Richards, A., & Whittaker, T. M. (1990). Effects of anxiety and mood manipulation in autobiographical memory. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 28, 145-153.(SSCI)
Mathews, A., Richards, A., & Eysenck, M. W. (1989). The interpretation of homophones related to threat in anxiety states. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 98, 31-34.(SSCI)
Richards, A., & Millwood, B. (1989). Colour-identification of differentially valenced words in anxiety. Cognition and Emotion, 3, 171-176.
Richards, A., & Beaumont, J. G. (1988). Mixed-list presentation and visual field asymmetry: attempts to differentially activate the two hemispheres. Behavioral Brain Research, 30, 135-143.
Richards, A., & French, C. C. (1987). The effects of independently validated strategies on visual hemifield asymmetries. British Journal of Psychology, 78, 163-181.(SSCI)
Book Chapters
Richards, A. (2004). The resolution of ambiguity and anxiety. In J. Yiend (Ed.) Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology: Theoretical, empirical and clinical directions (Festschrift in honour of Andrew Mathews). CambridgeUniversity Press.
Book Reviews
Richards, A. (1997). Review of ‘Current Controversies in the Anxiety Disorders’. By R.M. Rapee (ed.) British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 36, 155.
Richards, A. (1993). Review of "Mood and Memory". By D. Kuiken (ed). Applied Cognitive Psychology, 7, 87-88.
Richards, A. (1992). Review of "International Review of Studies of Emotion (Vol 1)." By K. T. Strongman (ed.) The Psychologist, 5, 367-368.
Richards, A. (1989). Review of "Applied Cognitive Psychology." By P. Barber, Applied Cognitive Psychology, 3, 352-353.
Richards, A. (1989). Review of "Introduction to Neuropsychology." By J. G. Beaumont. Biological Psychology, 29, 205-206.
Articles Submitted for Publication
Richards, A & Blanchette, I. (submitted). Associative conditioning and anxiety: nonconscious and conscious effects of emotion.
Blanchette, I. & Richards, A. (submitted). Psychophysiological correlates of conditioned emotional processing.
Richards, A. & Blanchette, I. (invited paper and chapter). Interpretation, judgment and reasoning in anxiety. Cognition and Emotion. Invited paper for special journal issue and a book.
Richards, A. & Blanchette, I. (Invited paper and chapter). Cognitive and physiological correlates of anxiety.
Hannon, E. & Richards, A. (near submission). Inattentional Blindness: behavioural and phenomenological aspects.
Conference Papers and Invited Talks
Richards, A., & Blanchette, I. Cognitive and psychophysiological aspects of emotional processing in anxiety. STAR conference, 2008, Birkbeck College, July.
Richards, A. & Holmes, A. Event-related brain potential correlates of conscious and non-conscious processing in anxiety. Abstract presented at BIAL Foundation. Porto, Portugal, 26-29th March, 2008.
Richards, A., Blanchette, I., Hamilton, V., & Lavda, A. The emotional Stroop effect: Cognitive, emotional, and physiological aspects. Invited paper. BIAL Foundation. Porto, Portugal, 26-29th March, 2008.
Richards, A., Blanchette, I., Hamilton, V., & Lavda, A. The emotional Stroop effect: Cognitive, emotional, and physiological components. Poster. BIAL Foundation. Porto, Portugal, 26-29th March, 2008.
Richards, A. Anxiety and context in the resolution of ambiguity. Special workshop on cognition and emotion interactions in human and non-human animals. Centre for Research in Evolutionary Anthropology and Centre for Research in Cognition, Emotion and Interaction. Roehampton University, 21st February, 2008. Invited paper
Anasari, L., Derakshan, N., & Richards, A. Effects of anxiety on task switching: Evidence from the antisaccade task. (Poster) Society for Psychophysiological Research, Savannah, Georgia, 17-21 October, 2007.
Hannon, E. & Richards, A. Inattentional Blindness and the Effects of Working Memory Capacity and Processing Speed - An Individual Differences Approach. Cognitive Science Conference (Joint European Meeting), Delphi, Greece, May, 2007.
Richards, A., Blanchette, I., Hamilton, V., & Lavda, A. Cognitive, Emotional and Physiological Components of Emotional Stroop using Associative Conditioning. Cognitive Science Conference (Joint European Meeting), Delphi, Greece, May, 2007.
Blanchette, I., Richards, A., Melnyk, L., & Lavda, A. Reasoning about terrorism: Belief bias in syllogistic reasoning following the London bombings. 2nd annual NET Meeting, September, 2006.
Lavda, A., Blanchette, I., Richards, A. & Hamilton, V. Facial expressions are better predictors of the Stroop interference than explicit emotional ratings. Poster, BPS, September, 2006.
Richards, A. Time-course of ambiguity resolution and anxiety.Dynamics of information processing: choice, attention, emotion. Birkbeck Affective Cognitive Science Symposium, June 30th, 2006
Richards, A.,& Blanchette, I. Anxiety and the resolution of ambiguity. Invited paper in symposium Clinical Cognition: biases in interpretation, attention and working memory. BABCP Conference, Warwick 19th – 21st July, 2006
Richards, A., & Blanchette, I. The emotional Stroop effect: Cognitive, emotional and physiological aspects. Abstract, BIAL Foundation, 6th Symposium. 29th March - 1st April, 2006.
Blanchette, I., Richards, A., Melnyk, L & Lavda, L. Logic and emotion after the London terrorist attacks: A tale of three cities.The Association for Psychological Sciences: 18th Annual Convention. New York, 25th to 28th May, 2006.
Hannon, E., & Richards, A. Individual differences in inattentional blindness. BPS Cognitive Section, University of Leeds, Leeds, 2005.
Davelaar, E.J., Hannon, E., & Richards, A. Strategy use in the operation span task. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society: Stresa, Italy, 2005.
Richards, A. & Blanchette, I. Anxiety and the resolution of ambiguous facial expressions within congruent and incongruent contexts. European Congress of Psychology, Granada, July, 2005.
Richards, A., & Blanchette, I. Independent manipulation of emotion in an Emotional Stroop task. 1st CERE conference. Amsterdam, May14-17, 2004.
Keogh, E., Bond, F. W., French, C.C., Richards, A. & Davis, R. E. Test anxious worry, distraction and examination performance. 25th Stress and Anxiety Research Society Annual Conference, Amsterdam, July 2004.
Blanchette, I. & Richards, A. The effect of emotion on conditional reasoning. 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. July 31 – August 7, 2003, Boston.
Richards, A. ‘The resolution of ambiguity and anxiety’. Invited talk, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, 2nd June, 2003.
Richards, A., French, C.C., Zanelli, J., Calder, A., & Young, A.W. Interpretation and context effects associated with anxiety. Invited Paper. BPS Cognitive Section, University of Kent, Canterbury, 2002.