Inaugural Lecture by Professor Gina Grimshaw
Join Professor Gina Grimshaw for her inaugural lecture discusses her own journey through the affective revolution, to her current research using virtual reality
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Thinking with your head and your heart: emotions as core functions of mind
Conventional wisdom often pits thinking against feeling. In this view, emotions are irrational and counterproductive: a source of noise or bias that must be controlled. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The past thirty years have seen an “affective revolution” in the psychological sciences; we now know that emotions are a core aspect of mind, helping people learn from the past, set priorities, and make good decisions.
In her inaugural lecture, Professor Gina Grimshaw will trace her own journey through the affective revolution, from the early days, when “real” cognitive psychologists didn’t study emotion, to her current research in which she and her students are pioneering the use of virtual reality to study authentic emotional states in the lab.