Carl Senior

Reader in Psychology, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCert.

Psychology, SW 509b

School of Life & Health Sciences,  
Aston University, Aston Triangle
Birmingham B4 7ET, England

TEL: +44 (0)121 204 4068 FAX: +44 (0)121 204 4090

All office appointments: https://wass.aston.ac.uk/wass/  

I am a Reader in Psychology in the School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, UK. I am also a member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (1998-),British Academy of Management (2008–), British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (2006–2008) and The New York Academy of Sciences (2000–2006). I have been a member of The British Psychological Society (since 1998 and C.Psychol since 2008), and a full member of the Division of Occupational Psychology (2009-) and Division of Teachers and Researchers in Psychology (2011-) and in 2011 I was elected to the Fellowship of The British Psychological Society (AFBPsS, 2011). 

I have a longstanding research interest in ‘social’ cognitive neuroscience. As such, I examine the cognitive factors that moderate our behaviour in groups and I do so from different perspectives. For over a decade, I have examined a range of behavioural moderators e.g., perception of faces, beauty, social status etc and have published extensively in various high impact journals. Recently, I have become interested in exploring ‘applied’ social cognitive neuroscience and use educational or organisational scenarios as a means to examine the cognitive mechanisms of group behaviour in an applied context.    

CALL FOR PAPERS

Society, Organizations and the Brain: building towards a unified cognitive neuroscience.

                Frontiers in Human Neuroscience                     

Current years publications (Current H-Index: 24) 

Gohier B, Senior C, Young AW, Brittain PJ, El Hage W, Law V, Phillips M.L, & Surguladze S.A. (2013). Gender differences in the sensitivity to negative stimuli: Cross-modal affective priming study. European Psychiatry. 28(2). 74-80   

Tissington P, & Senior C. (2013). Use of social media to enable medical teams to work virtually (and better). The Lancet. 381(9876). 11. 

Gohier B, Senior C, Radua J, El Hage W, Phillips M.L, & Surguladze S.A (2013, in press). Genetic modulation of the response bias to facial displays of anger or happiness. European Psychiatry

I am also Associate Editor for the journals, Cognitive Neuroscience and Frontiers in Cognitive Science (please contact me if you would like to discuss a potential submission).     

Ph.D Students

Elaine Foley ‘Multimodal imaging of dynamic face perception’ : Successfully defended (04/2012).

Steffen Fixson ‘Salesperson relationship building activities and new retail product offerings’: Successfully defended (12/2012).

Baljit Gill ‘Factors driving mature student participation in higher education’: Due to submit (09/2014).

Holly O’ Broin ‘Selection for short-term project team members: developmental stability as an indicator for effective teamwork skills’: Due to submit (12/2014).

Please contact me directly for current PhD opportunities.

Dr Carl Senior / Aston University / last updated 05/2013.