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Dr Simone Schnall

  • Address: B201, Portland Square, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +44 (0)1752 584854
  • Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 233 362
  • Email: simone.schnall@plymouth.ac.uk


Role


Undergraduate Examinations Officer

Research Apprenticeship Scheme Coordinator

Equal Opportunities Officer

 

Qualifications & background

 

2003-2005 Research Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

 

2001-2003 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia (Supervisor: Gerald L. Clore)

 

2001 Ph.D. in Experimental Social Psychology

 

 

Roles on external bodies


Editorial Activity

2001 - 2001 Editorial Associate, Narrative Inquiry (Editors: M. Bamberg & A. McCabe)

1999 - 2000 Associate Editor of the Science Section of APAGS Newsletter (American Psychological Association)

 

Ad-Hoc Reviewer

Psychological Science

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Emotion

Cognition and Emotion

Psychological Research

Culture and Psychology

Philosophical Psychology
 

Service on National Committees

1998 - 2000 Representative to the Science Student Council of the American Psychological

                    Association

 

 

 


Teaching interests


Social Psychology (PSY 247, PSYC 378)

Final Year Seminar Option on Cognition and Emotion (PSYC 379)

 


Research interests

 

Simone Schnall studies the relationship between cognitive and affective processes. In particular, she is interested in how embodiment informs and constrains thought and feeling. Currently, she is investigating the interactions between bodily cues, affective states and cognitive variables such as perception, attention and memory.

 

Other research
For further information, see http://www.psy.plymouth.ac.uk/research/ece/

 

Grants & contracts

 

Economic and Social Research Council (UK) First Grant RES-061-25-0119
Title: Moral Judgments in Real and Virtual Environments
Principal Investigator: Simone Schnall
Award Amount:
398,809.

Project Period: Oct. 1, 2007 - Sept. 30, 2010.

 

University of Plymouth, TQEF Research-Informed Teaching Initiative
Title:Immersive Research: Involving Students in New Learning Technologies
Principal Investigators: Simone Schnall; Ruth Weaver, Clare Walsh, Mike Phillips
Award Amount: ₤ 15,700
Project Period: August 31, 2008 - July 31, 2009

British Academy (UK) Small Grant
Title: Exploring Social Presence
Principal Investigator: Simone Schnall
Award Amount: ₤ 7,434.

Project Period: Sept. 1, 2006 - Aug. 31, 2008. 

University of Plymouth, TQEF Research-Informed Teaching Initiative
Title: Student Training in Active Research (STAR)
Principal Investigators: Simone Schnall; Clare Walsh
Award Amount: ₤ 15,000
Project Period: May 1, 2007 - April 30, 2009

National Science Foundation (USA) Grant 518835

Title: Affective Space

Principal Investigator: Gerald L. Clore; Co-Investigators: Simone Schnall, Dennis R. Proffitt

Grant initially awarded to Simone Schnall as Principal Investigator; Change of PI was necessary because of Schnall's move to an institution outside of United States.

Award Amount: $ 574,801.

Project Period: Sept. 1, 2005 - Aug. 31, 2008.

 

National Institute of Mental Health (USA) Grant MH67580

Title: Expressive Behavior and Affective Information Processing

Principal Investigator: Simone Schnall; Co-Investigator: Gerald L. Clore

Award Amount: $ 148,000.

Project Period: Sept. 1, 2003 - Aug. 31, 2005.

 

 


Publications


Schnall, S., Roper, J., & Fessler, D. M. T. (in press). Elevation leads to altruism, above and beyond general positive affect. Psychological Science.


Spellman, B. A., & Schnall, S. (in press). Embodied rationality. Queen's Law Review.


Schnall, S. (in press). Embodiment in affective space: Social influences on the perception of spatial layout. In A. Maas, & T. Schubert (Eds.), Spatial dimensions of social thought. Berlin: De Gruyter.


Schnall, S. (in press). Disgust. In H. Pashler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the mind. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.


Schnall, S. (in press). Affect, mood and emotions. In B. McGaw, E. Baker & P. P. Peterson (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (3rd edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier.


Schnall, S., Benton, J., & Harvey, S. (2008). With a clean conscience: Cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments. Psychological Science, 19, 1219-1222.


Schnall, S., Harber, K. D., Stefanucci, J., & Proffitt, D. R. (2008). Social support and the perception of geographical slant. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1246-1255.


Schnall, S., Jaswal, V., & Rowe, C. (2008). A hidden cost of happiness in children. Developmental Science, 11, F25-F30.


Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G. L., & Jordan, A. H. (2008). Disgust as embodied moral judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1096-1109.


Centerbar, D. B., Schnall, S., Clore, G. L., & Garvin, E. (2008). Affective incoherence: When affective concepts and embodied reactions clash. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94, 560-578.


Clore, G. L., & Schnall, S. (2008). Affective coherence: Affect as embodied evidence in attitude, advertising and art. In Semin, G. R., & Smith, E. R. (Eds.), Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches (pp. 211-236). New York: Cambridge University Press.


Schnall, S. & Laird, J. D. (2007). Facing fear: Expression of fear facilitates processing of emotional information. Social Behavior and Personality, 35, 513-524.


Schnall., S. (2007). Karl Duncker. In J. Valsiner (Ed.), Thinking in Psychological Science: Ideas and their makers (17-38). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction/Aldine.


Schnall, S. (2005). The pragmatics of emotion language. Psychological Inquiry, 16, 28-31.


Clore, G. L., & Schnall, S. (2005). The influence of affect on attitude. In D. Albarracin, B. Johnson, & M. P. Zanna (Eds.), Handbook of attitudes (pp. 437-489). Mahwah: Erlbaum.


Schnall, S., & Clore, G. L. (2004). Emergent meaning in affective space: Congruent conceptual relations and spatial relations produce positive evaluations. Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1209-1214.


Schnall, S., & Laird, J. D. (2003). Keep smiling: Enduring effects of facial expressions and postures on emotional experience. Cognition and Emotion, 17, 787-797.


Schnall, S., Abrahamson, A., & Laird, J. D. (2002). Premenstrual syndrome and misattribution: A self-perception, individual differences perspective. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 24, 214-227.


Schnall, S., (1999). Life as the problem: Karl Dunker's context. From Past to Future: Papers on the History of Psychology, 1, 13-28.


Schnall, S., & Gattis, M. (1998). Transitive inference by visual reasoning. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 929-934.

 

Reports & invited lectures

 

 


Other academic activities
  


Additional information

 

Research Coverage in Popular Press

 

New Scientist: Friends turn mental mountains into molehills. 15 June, 2008.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19826604.600-friends-turn-mental-mountains-into-molehills.html


Times Higher Education: If you want better results, depress your pupils. 2 June, 2008.
http://www.tes.co.uk/search/story/?story_id=2631674


Sunday Telegraph: Sad children do better than happy ones in school. 31 May, 2008.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2059149/Sad-children-do-better-than-happy-ones-in-school.html


Dallas Morning News: Whistle while you work? Unhappiness may actually be a better way to get things done. 3 June 2008.
http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/06/whistle-while-you-work-unhappi.html


San Diego Union Tribune: I'm feeling down, but my grades are up. June 17, 2008.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080617/news_1c17wellnewm.html


Times of India: A friend can ease out your worries. 18 June, 2008.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Man-Woman/A_friend_can_ease_out_your_worries/articleshow/3138053.cms


Calcutta Telegraph: Don’t be happy, children. 9 June 2008.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080609/jsp/knowhow/story_9382925.jsp


Der Focus: Traurige Schüler sind aufmerksamer. 6 June, 2008.
http://www.focus.de/schule/lernen/forschung/lernforschung-traurige-schueler-sind-aufmerksamer_aid_306625.html


Süddeutsche Zeitung: Psychologie unter Freunden: Hilfreiche Anwesenheit. 16 June, 2008.
http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/artikel/181/180624/