Academic Profile
Simone Schnall
University Lecturer in Social Psychology
Research
Simone Schnall is the Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory, and 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.
Funding for Schnall’s research has been provided by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the National Science Foundation (USA), National Institute of Mental Health (USA), and private foundations. Altogether Schnall has been awarded over £1,000,000 in research funding since 2003.
Further information about the research conducted by Schnall and her collaborators, including reprints of publications, can be found on the laboratory website: http://www.sdp.cam.ac.uk/cece
Teaching
In addition to teaching on numerous social psychology topics for Part I (Paper 3) and Part II (Psy 1, Psy 3, Psy 4) of the undergraduate curriculum, Schnall teaches statistics as part of the INT1 paper, and coordinates undergraduate research projects that are conducted for INT1. Schnall further lectures on the MPhil course, and supervises numerous MPhil and PhD students.
Schnall served as Course Organiser of Psy 4: Current Topics in Social Psychology (2009-2010) and in 2010 developed and launched a new paper, Psy 3: Biological and Cognitive Psychology, for which she is Course Organiser. This paper covers the connection of brain, body, and behaviour; specific topics include neuroanatomy, neuroendocrinology and neurophysiology, as well as learning, memory, judgment, decision making, and intelligence.
General Contribution
Schnall is the Part II Deputy Chair of Assessments for the entire PPSIS Faculty and Part II Examiner for Psy1, Psy3 and Psy4, and serves a member of the Departmental Ethics Review Board.
Outside of the university, Schnall is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College, and Consulting Editor for the APS-flagship journal, Perspectives in Psychological Science (Impact Factor: 5.27). She is further one of the founding organisers, together with Brian Meier and Norbert Schwarz, of the SPSP Preconference on Embodiment in Social and Personality Psychology
Schnall’s research findings routinely receive coverage in the popular press, such as the New York Times, Economist, New Scientist, Times Higher Education and many international news media (click here for recent media attention).
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- Position: University Lecturer in Social Psychology
- E-mail: ss877@cam.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1223 334529
- Fax: +44 (0) 1223 334550
- Address: Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Free School Lane, Cambridge CB2 3RQ
- Website: Social and Developmental Psychology
- 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