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Andrew Mathews
Andrew.Mathews@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Andrew Mathews was Senior research scientist of the Emotion group till Sept 2004.
My research interests focus on the cognitive, psycho-physiological and neural processes underlying vulnerability to negative emotions and disorders, particularly anxiety states. Past work with colleagues (e.g. Colin MacLeod, Karin Mogg, Brendan Bradley, Michael Eysenck and others) extending over the last 20 years or so, has established that vulnerability to anxiety states is associated with characteristic styles of processing emotional events.
Please visit the following link for an overview of the research conducted by me and other members of the emotion group on processing styles in anxiety.
Research Interest
Research interests: Cognitive and neural systems involved in emotion and emotional disorders, with particular reference to anxiety.
Current projects include:
- studies of attention to pictures having different emotional meaning
- the effects of training the interpretation of emotionally ambiguous events.
- testing cognitive models of attentional bias in anxiety.
Selected Publications
Please visit the CBU publication link where you can find Andrew Mathews's articles with respective abstracts
Mathews,A, Yiend J., & Lawrence A.D (in press). Individual differences in the modulation of fear-related brain activation by attentional control. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [see Abstract].
Mathews, A. Cognitive approaches to emotion and emotional disorders.
Reference : Annual Review of Psychology, 45, 25-50.
Mathews, A.(1994)Information-processing biases in emotional disorders.In D.M. Clark & C.G. Fairburn (eds), Science and Practice of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, pp.47-66
MATHEWS, A., MACKINTOSH, B.and Fulcher, E.P. (1997) Cognitive biases in anxiety and attention to threat.
Reference : Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1, 340-345.
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