• 2006 - present Seniour Lecturer in Abnormal Psychology, School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, UEA
• 2005 - 2006 Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Science, Open University
• 2001 - 2005 Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Social Science, Open University
• 1995 – 2001 Higher Scientific Officer, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
• 1988 – 1995 Lecturer in Psychology, West Suffolk College, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
• [1983 - 1988 career break for child rearing]
• 1978 – 1983 Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Sussex
• 1979 – 1982 P/T Lecturer in Psychology, Brighton Polytechnic (now Brighton University)
• 1977 – 1978 Scientific Officer, University of Sussex,
• 1972 – 1973 Research Assistant, University of Sussex,

• BSc Experimental Psychology (2.1) 1972 University of Sussex
• DPhil Experimental Psychology 1978 University of Sussex

My research interests centre on Cognitive Biases arising in Emotion, particularly the effects of emotional disorders such as anxiety.  The research seeks to increase understanding of cognitive biases and more particularly to develop techniques for modifying or eliminating biases that are detrimental to mental well-being, or that might alter drinking and smoking behaviour in alcoholics and smokers. In addition, the effects such psychological interventions on mood and disease activity in chronic illness (eg Rheumatoid Arthritis) is being addressed. This work involves collaborations with researchers around the UK, in Australia and the USA.  I hold a Visiting Scientist Position at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge

Selected Publications

Turner, R., Hoppitt, L., Hodgekin, J., Mackintosh, B. & Fowler, D. (In press) Cognitive Bias Modification in the treatment of social anxiety in early psychosis: a single case series. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy.

Brosan, L., Hoppitt, L., Sillence, A., Shelfer, L. & Mackintosh, B. Cognitive Bias Modification for attention and interpretation reduces trait and state anxiety study in a clinically anxious population. (in press)

Salemink, E ., Hertel, P., & Mackintosh, B. (2010). Interpretation training influences memory for prior interpretations. Emotion,10, 903-907.

Hoppitt, L., Mathews, A., Yiend J., & Mackintosh B. (2010). Cognitive mechanisms underlying the emotional effects of bias modification. Cognitive Therapy and Research or Applied Cognitive Psychology 24 (3) 312-325.

Hoppitt, L., Mathews, A., Yiend, J & Mackintosh, B. (2010) Cognitive Bias Modification: The critical role of active training in modifying emotional response. Behavior Therapy, 41, 73-81.

Attwood, A S, O’Sullivan, H, Leonards, U, Mackintosh, B., & Munafò, M. (2008) Attentional Bias Training and Cue Reactivity in Cigarette Smokers. Addiction 103(11), 1875-1882.

Golden, A-M., Dalgleish,T., & Mackintosh, B. (2007) Levels of specificity of autobiographical memories and of biographical memories of the deceased in bereaved individuals with and without complicated grief. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 116(4) 786-795.

Vedhara, K., Brant, H., Adamopoulos, E., Byrne-Davis, L., Mackintosh, B., Hoppitt, L., Tovee, M., Miles, J. & Pennebaker, J. W. (in press). A preliminary investigation into whether attentional bias influences mood outcomes following emotional disclosure. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine.

Marcel, A., Mackintosh, B., Postma, P., Cusack, R., Vuckovich, J., Nimmo-Smith, I., et al. (2006). Is Susceptibility to Perceptual Migration and Fusion Modality-Specific or Multimodal? Neuropsychologia. 44, 693-710.

Holmes, E.A, Mathews, A., Dalgleish, T., & Mackintosh, B. (2006). Positive Interpretation training: effects of mental imagery versus verbal training on positive mood. Invited Paper. Behavior Therapy , 37, 237-247.

Barnard, P., Ramponi, C., Battye, G., & Mackintosh, B. (2005). Anxiety and the deployment of visual attention over time. Visual Cognition, 12 (1), 181-211.

Munafò, Marcus R, Johnstone Elaine C. and Mackintosh, B. (2005) Association of Serotonin Transporter Genotype with Selective Processing of Smoking-Related Stimuli in Current Smokers and Ex-Smokers. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 7 (5) 773-778.

Watkins, E., Moulds, M., & Mackintosh, B. (2005). Comparisons between rumination and worry in a non-clinical population. Behaviour Research and Therapy. 43, 1577-85.

Marcel, A., Postma, P., Gillmeister, H., Cox, S., Rorden, C., Nimmo-Smith, I., Mackintosh, B., Cox, S. (2004). Migration and fusion of tactile sensation: premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction? Neuropsychologia, 42,1749-1767.

Mathews, A., & Mackintosh, B. (2004). Take a closer look: Emotion modifies the boundary extension effect. Emotion, 4 (1) 36-45.

Yiend, J. & Mackintosh, B. (2005). Cognition and Emotion. In N. R. Braisby & A. R. H. Gellatly (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology, 463-506. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0 19 927376 6.

Yiend, J. & Mackintosh, B. (2004). The experimental modification of processing biases. In J. Yiend (Ed.), Cognition, Emotion and Psychopathology: Theoretical, Empirical and Clinical Approaches, 190-210. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McKillop, C., Mackintosh, B. & Watt, S. (2003). Psychology experiments on the Internet: an evaluation of the impact on distance education students. Open Learning, 18(2), 109-119.

Fulcher, E., Mathews, A., Mackintosh, B. & Law, S. (2001). Evaluative learning and the allocation of attention to emotional stimuli. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25(3), 261-280.

Yiend, J., Mathews, A. & Mackintosh, B. (2005) Enduring consequences of experimentally induced biases in interpretation. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 43 (6). pp. 779-797.

Midgley, C. & Mackintosh, B. (2009) Recognising a forgotten killer. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A forgotten Killer. Introducing Health Sciences: A Case Study Approach. C. Midgley Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Parvin, E. & Mackintosh, B. Benefits, Risks and Costs of Screening. In: Screening for Breast Cancer. Introducing Health Sciences: A Case Study Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Item not available from this repository.

Mackintosh, B. & Hoppitt, L. (2009). Cognitive Processing in Anxiety. In Małgosia, Fajkowska & Błażej (Eds.), Cognition and Emotion - Polish translation. Polish Scientific Publishers (peer reviewed).

Hoppitt, L. & Mackintosh, B. (2009) Anxiety and Depression: similarities and differences in cognitive processing. In Małgosia, Fajkowska & Błażej (Eds.), Cognition and emotion - Polish translation. Polish Scientific Publishers (peer reviewed).
 

My background is in teaching Cognitive and Comparative and Biological Psychology at the Universities of Sussex and Brighton and at the Open University, with a specialism in Cognition and Emotion.  Since joining the UEA my role is to take overall responsibility for the Psychology Input for Medical Students within the School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice.  As well as a strong emphasis on communication skills, the aim is to provide medical degree students with useful information about important psychological processes concerned with diagnosis, care and support of both patients and the medical practitioners themselves.  One strand of teaching considers psychological issues from the standpoint of the patient, such as their emotional responses and well-being, imparting information and compliance with treatment and life style interventions.  A complementary strand, considers the doctor, such as the psychological biases inherent in the problem solving task of diagnosis, dealing with exposure to trauma, death and stress.

• Co-coordinator of psychology input for MBBS