University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is consistently rated as one of the UK’s top academic institutions and a premier world institution. Research on emotion is carried out in the Department of Experimental Psychology which received a 5* - the highest possible grade – in the UK 2001 Research Assessment Exercise Brian Parkinson and Edmund Rolls are recognised as leading international figures in the psychology of emotion. Brian Parkinson is part of the social psychology group at Oxford University which has long been central to research on interpersonal interaction and emotion. His expertise is in emotions in communication and social life. He has led research on affect regulation and the videomediated communication of emotion. He is currently working on a project which assesses the impact of video mediation on real-time emotion-related interpersonal exchanges. Edmund Rolls E. T. Rolls has a research group performing a coordinated approach to the brain mechanisms of emotion using single neuron neurophysiology, neuroimaging, clinical neuropsychology and computational approaches. Parkinson and Rolls are authors of some of the leading books in the psychology of emotion

Dr Brian Parkinson is Fellow of Christ Church College and University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at Oxford. He is a member of the social psychology group at Oxford University which has long been central to research on interpersonal interaction and emotion. His expertise is in emotions in communication and social life. He has led research on affect regulation and the videomediated communication of emotion. He is currently working on a project which assesses the impact of video mediation on real-time emotion-related interpersonal exchanges.

Professor Edmund Rolls is Fellow of Corpus Christi College and Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford. He is Head of the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory. His research group takes a coordinated approach to the brain mechanisms of emotion using single neuron neurophysiology, neuroimaging, clinical neuropsychology and computational approaches. Many of these advances are summarized in two books - Neural Networks and Brain Function by E.T.Rolls and A.Treves, 1998, Oxford University Press and The Brain and Emotion by E.T.Rolls, 1999, Oxford University Press.