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Details for Dr Angela Attwood
| Personal details | |
| Name | Dr Angela Attwood |
| Job title | Senior Research Fellow |
| Department | School of Psychological Science University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | Ph.D |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies European College of Neuropsychopharmacology Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco British Association for Psychopharmacology |
| Keywords | social drugs drug-related stimuli addiction drug use alcohol social cognition smoking cognitive performance |
| Areas of expertise | My research interests are in the effects of social drugs and drug-related stimuli, and the psychological and biological factors that underlie addiction, craving and continued drug use. 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 investigation the relationship between smoking and anxiety, using a carbon dioxide challenge in smokers. I am also interested in conditioned drug effects and sex differences in smoking behaviour and relapse. |