Dr Anna Stone
Senior lecturer in the Psychological Sciences subject area.
Cognition and Neuroscience Research Group, Psychology
I am a senior lecturer in the school of Psychology. I teach on undergraduate and MSc programmes and my main interests are the Psychology of Belief (religion, politics, morals, the paranormal) and reactions to people with facial disfigurement. I am the programmer leader for the BSc Psychology by Distance Learning programme.
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AE 2.11, Stratford Campus
School of Psychology
The University of East London
Stratford Campus
London
E15 4LZ - a.stone@uel.ac.uk +442082234452
Overview
I am interested in why people hold beliefs that are not subject to empirical validation, including moral values, religious or political beliefs or belief in the paranormal e.g., alien visitation, telepathy, pre-cognitive dreams, etc.
I am also interested in how people react to individuals with facial disfigurement. My research has examined emotional responses, the assumptions we make about the skills and abilities of people with unusual faces, how our attention is focused, and how discrimination may arise in employment.
I am currently carrying our research to create a new multi-dimensional questionnaire of belief in the unusual. This questionnaire will be useful to anyone in the field of paranormal belief and experience and will help to explore the origin and consequences of such belief.
I am also looking at the perceptual categorisation of facial disfigurement.
For this and other interesting online psychological research studies in which you can participate, please refer to this website:
http://www.onlinepsychresearch.co.uk/researchers/submit-your-study/
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I am the programme leader for the BSc Psychology by Distance Learning
I am the Responsible Officer for the School of Psychology dealing with breaches of academic regulations.
I teach on the BSc Psychology and the MSc Psychology. I am the module leader for the modules PY6320 Anomalistic Psychology and PY6319 the Psychology of Belief, and I also teach topics in Cognitive Psychology at levels 4 and 5 (modules PY4103 and PY5203). I supervise undergraduate and post-graduate research projects.
PY4103: Introduction to Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
PY5203: Topics in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology
PY6319: The Psychology of Belief
PY6320: Anomalistic Psychology
PY6101 BSc project supervision
PY7155 MSc project supervision
PY7153 Conceptual and Historical issues in Psychology and Social Psychology