Author danny

In a paper led by Vassilis Sideropoulos and Jo Van Herwegen we examine anxiety and worries during the first UK national lockdown of COVID-19 in individuals with Special Education Needs and Disabilities. Published in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Our paper on “The rise of affectivism” is now available online at Nature Human Behaviour. The paper documents the pervasive and increasing impact of research on emotion and other related affective processes suggesting a new approach in academia. It asks… Continue Reading →

Led by Tim Wharton (Brighton), we have just had an interdisciplinary paper (two linguists, a philosopher and two psychologists) accepted on highlighting the links between the thin notion of relevance in the affective sciences and the carefully defined concept of… Continue Reading →

I was recently delighted to accept the invitation of Yang Wu, Desmond Ong and Hyowon Gweon to particpate in a (virtual) pre-conference workshop at the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. I look forward to seeing some old… Continue Reading →

A new paper is to be published in Psychological Review on how affective social learning can bridge the two stories we tell each other about social learning – one cognitive story concerning human infants, and one behavioural story concerning non-human… Continue Reading →

New paper in Nature Human Behaviour to be published shortly featuring some of the leading affective scientists across many disciplines. Currently under embargo.

I have co-authored two new pre-prints linked to the COVID-19 study (details elsewhere). The first introduces the survey and the collaborative project, the second focus on the situation of individuals with Special Education Needs and their families in the UK.

On behalf of the WS-iReach group, we received €2000 from the European Federation Williams Syndrome (FEWS) to hire a statistician to analyse the data from the COVID19 project. Thanks FEWS! Furthermore, we have produced a new preprint in a paper… Continue Reading →

More than 10,000 participants from over 60 countries took the time to complete the survey designed to evaluate how people with Special Education Needs coped with the first few months of the pandemic. Thank you to all our collaborators, and,… Continue Reading →