1. Overseas Institutional Visit
School of Psychology
Overseas Institutional Visit
Bonni Crawford

2. School of Psychology
My PhD…
…Is concerned with the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of social reward and punishment processing.
Social Punishment
Social Reward
Individual differences investigated with reference to relevant personality variables such as altruistic tendencies, attachment style and the broad autism phenotype.

3. School of Psychology
My OIV
1st April – 28th June 2014
Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
State main purpose of OIV (research project) here.

4. School of Psychology
My OIV
LaBNIC is the Laboratory for Behavioral Neurology and Imaging of Cognition.

5. School of Psychology
LaBNIC – A very large, multidisciplinary research group. And that’s just one lab group within the interdisciplinary Centre for Affective Sciences!

6. School of Psychology
The Project
Dr Meyer's work investigates the cognitive, physiological, and neurobiological mechanisms associated with emotion regulation via compassion-focussed and benefit-focussed reappraisals.
Research on emotion regulation and reappraisal has not been within the scope of my PhD; however individual differences in these are likely to be highly relevant to several of my findings.
Dr Marcel Meyer

7. Cold and Lonely – Literally?
The Project
Cold and Lonely – Literally?
During the course of my PhD I had made some incidental findings pertaining to several levels of analysis in understanding social dispositions, with particular emphasis on how social motives might relate to individualism and collectivism. 
An exciting opportunity to investigate these results further became available via collaboration on a project run by Dr Marcel Meyer at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences. ln this collaborative project we extended the scope of the earlier studies, by investigating the role of emotion-regulation strategies.
This project also employed thermography: high-resolution thermal imaging which can be used to measure minute fluctuations in temperature in the human body. We are investigating links between three 'levels', or aspects, of warmth:
- physiological (using thermography)
- affective (emotion regulation via reappraisal)
- interpersonal/social (social dispositions, collectivism).

8. The Project Mind/body connections
Links between different levels of analysis:
Motives
Values
Goals
Traits
Behaviour
Expectations
Links between different ‘levels’ or aspects of warmth:
Physiological (using thermography)
Affective (emotion regulation via reappraisal)
Interpersonal/social (collectivism and social reward and threat perceptions)

9. The Project October 2014 - present April 2013 January - March 2014
School of Psychology
The Project
October present
Running main study
Data collection (Marcel)
Data analysis (Bonni and Marcel)
April 2013
Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier visited Cardiff; we met and discussed mutual research interests
January - March 2014
Planning the project, and making arrangements including getting my scales translated into French
December 2013
Collaborative project with Marcel initiated; application for OIV submitted
April – June 2014
OIV in Geneva.
Setting up pilot study;
Recruiting participants;
Conducting pilot study;
Analysing pilot data;
Refining plans for full study;
Setting up full study

10. New Skills Naëm Baron Technical Staff
School of Psychology
New Skills
Naëm Baron
Technical Staff
I got my engineering degree in 2010 at ESIEA with a specialization in Virtual Reality (VR) and I have worked within the field of VR and industry before joining the Swiss Center for Affective Science. Since 2011, I am in charge of the development of VR in the research subjects conducted in the Brain and Behavior Laboratory, operating on a high end immersive system : the BBL-IS. This system provides a high level of immersion to simulate and control a wide variety of situations with multiple stimulations (facial expressions, olfactive, HRTF sounds) and recording (physiological sensors, eye-tracker, body-tracker, video) capabilities.
My role is to manage the BBL-IS and to support the researchers by developing the VR applications and the hardware for their experiments.

11. School of Psychology
Daily Life

12. School of Psychology
Daily Life

13. School of Psychology
Daily Life

14. School of Psychology
Daily Life

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16. Thanks Thanks to… The ESRC and Wales DTC
School of Psychology
Thanks
Thanks to…
The ESRC and Wales DTC
Patrik Vuilleumier and Marcel Meyer
Andrew Lawrence and the School of Psychology