Professor Marcus Munafo and Dr Angela Attwood run one of a few UK-based laboratories that specialise in the application of the carbon dioxide (CO2) challenge to human participants. The CO2 challenge induces stress that models general anxiety at lower doses (e.g., 7.5%) and panic-like symptoms at higher doses (e.g., 35%). Therefore, using this model, they are able to examine the relationship between stress and numerous variables of interest (e.g. drug taking behaviour, cognitive performance, motor function, emotional biases). They are also extremely experienced in the application of pharmacological challenges (particularly alcohol) that can be used to examine the effects of drugs on mood, performance and physiological responses.

The Bristol Cognitive Development Centre focuses on cognitive development in young children. It has excellent links with the city's schools and wider community and a strategic partnership with the @Bristol Science museum. The centre's research is mainly behavioural and staff are particularly interested in evaluating interventions that may have implications for education and growth in the intellectual potential of the child.

There is a great deal of expertise within the School in the area of food and behaviour. Professor Peter Rogers and Dr Jeff Brunstrom have worked extensively with the food industry on basic and applied research on appetite, satiety, portion size decisions, food choice and the acquisition of food preferences. For example, they have experience in applying 'traditional' preload, test meal designs, and have also developed novel and improved methods for measuring the satiety and 'expected satiety' effects of foods and food ingredients. A further specialism is assessment of the mood and cognitive performance effects of dietary constituents, including caffeine. The research involves field and internet studies, randomised controlled trials, as well as laboratory-based experimental studies carried out in the School's newly refurbished Nutrition and Behaviour Unit laboratories. There is also fruitful collaboration with experts in other Schools, and with other research facilities at the University of Bristol.

Dr Roland Baddeley and Dr Nick Scott-Samuel, in collaboration with Professor Innes Cuthill (School of Biological Sciences) and Dr Adam Shohet (QinetiQ), have expertise in camouflage of both static and moving targets.