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My research focuses on the study of emotion, the processing of reward in reinforcement learning, and in the psychological mechanisms by which emotions and moods influence decision making in both humans and non-human animals. Topics of particular interest include: Moods, dimensional and discrete theories of emotion, defining animal emotion, subjective emotions, animal consciousness, the measurement of emotion in animals, animal welfare, people’s beliefs about animal sentience and companion animal attachment.