Dr Angela Attwood
Ph.D
Current positions
Associate Professor
School of Psychological Science
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Research interests
My research interests are in the effects of social drugs and drug-related stimuli, and the psychological and biological factors that underlie addiction and continued drug use. More specifically, my recent research has included the effects of acute alcohol consumption on various aspects of social cognition, including ratings of attractiveness and the perception of emotion in facial cues. We have ongoing work examining cognitive bias to drug-related cues and the effects of attentional retraining procedures on biases and cue reactivity, and I am currently conducting a series of studies investigating the relationship between smoking and anxiety, using a carbon dioxide challenge in smokers. In addition, I have ongoing work examining pharmacological augmentation of cue exposure techniques in smokers.
Consulting
- Transport Research Laboratory
Funding
- Munafò, M.R. (P.I.), Attwood, A.S., McClernon F.J. Effects of varenicline and cognitive bias modification on neural response to smoking related cues. Pfizer Investigator Initiated Research (2010-2012).
- Attwood, A.S. (P.I.), Munafò, M.R., Williams, T. A placebo-controlled study of the effectiveness of D-cycloserine in reducing cue reactivity during cue-exposure therapy in daily cigarette smokers. Global Research Awards for Nicotine Dependence (2010-2011), Project Grant $64,646 (non-fEC).
- Attwood A. S., Scott-Samuel N., Munafò M. R. (2010) Effect of glass shape on drinking rate and drinking topography in social alcohol drinkers. Alcohol Education and Research Council £3,670.
- Attwood A. S., Rogers P. J., Munafò M. R. (2009) Combined effects of acute alcohol and caffeine on cognitive performance and inhibitory control. Funded by UoB, Experimental Psychology small grants £1,180.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Barriers for Local Autistic Children: A parents view on community life
Principal Investigator
Description
A research project bringing together a network of local parents to discuss what they might need from the research community. In turn, this information will be fed back to a…Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
27/02/2020 to 31/07/2020
MRC Confidence in Concept (CiC) - Dr Angela Attwood
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/09/2018 to 31/08/2020
Developing caffeine reduction interventions in quitting smokers (IEU)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
01/04/2018 to 31/12/2020
Developing alcohol labelling interventions: the "what", "who" and "how". (IEU)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Psychological ScienceDates
04/07/2016 to 03/01/2018
Thesis supervisions
Investigating glassware as a choice architecture intervention to reduce alcohol consumption
Supervisors
Unequal Attention Allocation in Multiple Object Tracking
Supervisors
Alcohol related aggression
Supervisors
Harm Reduction Focused Drug Education
Supervisors
The relationship between attentional bias and body image disturbance
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
12/03/2024Do Flavour Descriptions Influence Subjective Ratings of Flavoured and Unflavoured E-Liquids among Non-Smoking and Non-Vaping UK Adolescents?
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a smartwatch-based smoking relapse intervention ('StopWatch')
Evaluating the feasibility and acceptability of a smartwatch-based smoking relapse intervention ('StopWatch')
Assessing the effectiveness of online emotion recognition training in healthy volunteers
Royal Society Open Science
Associations between self-reported sleep quality, fatigue severity, factors associated with successful cessation, and cessation beliefs among regular smokers
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
The relationship between body dissatisfaction and attentional bias to thin bodies in Malaysian Chinese and White Australian women
Royal Society Open Science