- Chaudhuri, Soma; Pickering, Alan; Dooley, Maura and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2024. Beyond the words: Exploring individual differences in the evaluation of poetic creativity. PLoS ONE, 19(10), e0307298. ISSN 1932-6203
- du Rocher, Andrew R. and Pickering, Alan. 2024. Social interaction anxiety, social phobia, and cognitive control: controlled reactions to facial affect during an emotional face flanker task. Current Psychology, 43(5), pp. 4129-4141. ISSN 1046-1310
- Stolz, Christopher; Pickering, Alan and Mueller, Erik M.. 2023. Dissociable feedback valence effects on frontal midline theta during reward gain versus threat avoidance learning. Psychophysiology, 60(5), e14235. ISSN 0048-5772
- du Rocher, Andrew R. and Pickering, Alan. 2022. STAI-Anxiety and STAI-Depression Revisited. Journal of Individual Differences, 43(4), pp. 206-215. ISSN 1614-0001
- Smith, Kaile; Pickering, Alan and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2022. The Creative Life: A Daily Diary 牛牛资源 of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals. Creativity Research Journal, 34(4), pp. 460-479. ISSN 1040-0419
- Lloyd-Cox, James; Pickering, Alan and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2022. Evaluating creativity: how idea context and rater personality affect considerations of novelty and usefulness. Creativity Research Journal, 34(4), pp. 373-390. ISSN 1040-0419
- Kale, Dimitra; Pickering, Alan and Cooper, Andrew. 2020. Examining the relationship between impulsivity-related personality traits and e-cigarette use in adults. Addictive Behaviors, 106, 106348. ISSN 0306-4603
- Kale, Dimitra; Pickering, Alan and Cooper, Andrew. 2020. Examining the Psychometric Properties of the CEAC (Comparing e-Cigarette and Cigarette) Questionnaire and Its Usefulness as a Predictor of e-Cigarette Use. Substance Use & Misuse, 55(1), pp. 147-155. ISSN 1082-6084
- Smillie, Luke D.; Jach, Hayley K. M.; Hughes, David M.; Wacker, Jan; Cooper, Andrew and Pickering, Alan. 2019. Extraversion and Reward-Processing: Consolidating Evidence from an Electroencephalographic Index of Reward-Prediction-Error. Biological Psychology, 146, 107735. ISSN 0301-0511
- du Rocher, Andrew and Pickering, Alan. 2018. The effects of social anxiety on emotional face discrimination and its modulation by mouth salience. Cognition and Emotion, 33(4), pp. 832-839. ISSN 0269-9931
- du Rocher, A. R. and Pickering, Alan. 2017. Trait anxiety, infrequent emotional conflict, and the emotional face Stroop task. Personality and Individual Differences, 111, pp. 157-162. ISSN 0191-8869
- Kuhn, Gustav; Pickering, Alan and Cole, Geoff G.. 2016. Rare鈥� Emotive Faces and Attentional Orienting. Emotion, 16(1), pp. 1-5. ISSN 1528-3542
- Pickering, Alan; Smillie, Luke D. and DeYoung, Colin G.. 2016. Neurotic Individuals are not Creative Thinkers. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(1), pp. 1-2. ISSN 1364 6613
- Pickering, Alan and Pesola, Francesca. 2014. Modeling dopaminergic and other processes involved in learning from reward prediction error: contributions from an individual differences perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, pp. 1-20. ISSN 1662-5161
- Cooper, Andrew; Duke, Eilish; Pickering, Alan and Smillie, Luke D.. 2014. Individual differences in reward prediction error: Contrasting relations between feedback-related negativity and trait measures of reward sensitivity, impulsivity and extraversion. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 248. ISSN 1662-5161
- Rigato, Silvia; Bremner, Andrew J.; Mason, Luke; Pickering, Alan; Davis, Robert and Van Velzen, Jose L.. 2013. The electrophysiological time course of somatosensory spatial remapping: vision of the hands modulates effects of posture on somatosensory evoked potentials. European Journal of Neuroscience, 38(6), pp. 2884-2892. ISSN 0953-816X
- Brotherton, Robert; French, Christopher C. and Pickering, Alan. 2013. Measuring Belief in Conspiracy Theories: The Generic Conspiracist Beliefs Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 279. ISSN 1664-1078
- Pickering, Alan; Cooper, Andrew; Smillie, Luke and Corr, Philip. 2013. On the shoulders of giants. The Psychologist, 26(1), pp. 22-25. ISSN 0952-8229
- Cochrane, Mary; Petch, Ian and Pickering, Alan. 2012. Aspects of cognitive functioning in schizotypy and schizophrenia: Evidence for a continuum model. Psychiatry Research, 196(2/3), pp. 230-234. ISSN 0165-1781
- Perkins, Adam M; Inchley-Mort, Sophie L; Pickering, Alan; Corr, Philip J and Burgess, Adrian P. 2012. A facial expression for anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 102(5), pp. 910-924. ISSN 0022-3514
- Smillie, Luke D.; Cooper, Andrew and Pickering, Alan. 2011. Individual differences in reward-prediction-error: extraversion and feedback-related negativity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(5), pp. 646-652. ISSN 1749-5016
- Powell, Jane H.; Dawkins, Lynne; West, Robert; Powell, John and Pickering, Alan. 2011. Erratum to: Relapse to smoking during unaided cessation: clinical, cognitive and motivational predictors. Psychopharmacology, 215(3), p. 607. ISSN 0033-3158
- Tharp, Ian J. and Pickering, Alan. 2011. Individual differences in cognitive-flexibility: The influence of spontaneous eyeblink rate, trait psychoticism and working memory on attentional set-shifting. Brain and Cognition, 75(2), pp. 119-125.
- Pickering, Alan. 2010. Stop! In the Name of Conflict: Breaking into the Heart of Behavioural Inhibition? European Journal of Personality, 24(5), ISSN 0890-2070
- Smillie, Luke D.; Cooper, Andrew; Proitsi, Petroula; Powell, John F. and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Variation in DRD2 dopamine gene predicts extraverted personality. Neuroscience Letters, 468(3), pp. 234-237. ISSN 03043940
- Powell, Jane H.; Dawkins, Lynne; West, Robert; Powell, John and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Relapse to smoking during unaided cessation: clinical, cognitive and motivational predictors. Psychopharmacology, 212(4), pp. 537-549. ISSN 0033-3158
- Cochrane, Mary; Petch, Ian and Pickering, Alan. 2010. Do measures of schizotypal personality provide non-clinical analogues of schizophrenic symptomatology? Psychiatry Research, 176(2-3), pp. 150-154.
- Tharp, Ian J. and Pickering, Alan. 2009. A note on DeCaro, Thomas, and Beilock (2008): Further data demonstrate complexities in the assessment of information鈥搃ntegration category learning. Cognition, 111(3), pp. 410-414. ISSN 0010-0277
- Dawkins, Lynne; Powell, Jane H.; Pickering, Alan; Powell, John F. and West, Robert. 2009. Patterns of change in withdrawal symptoms, desire to smoke, reward motivation and response inhibition across 3 months of smoking abstinence. Addiction, 104(5), pp. 850-858. ISSN 0965-2140
- Powell, Jane H.; Dawkins, Lynne; Pickering, Alan and West, Robert. 2007. A double-blind placebo-controlled experimental study of nicotine: II-Effects on response inhibition and executive functioning. Psychopharmacology, 190(4), pp. 457-468. ISSN 00333158
- Steel, Craig; Hemsley, David and Pickering, Alan. 2007. Associations between schizotypal personality traits and the facilitation and inhibition of the speed of contextually cued responses. Psychiatry Research, 150(2), pp. 131-141. ISSN 01651781
- Pickering, Alan; Dawkins, Lynne; Powell, Jane H. and West, Robert. 2006. A double-blind placebo controlled experimental study of nicotine: I - effects on incentive motivation. Psychopharmacology, 189(3), pp. 355-367. ISSN 00333158
- Smillie, Luke D.; Pickering, Alan and Jackson, Chris J.. 2006. The new reinforcement sensitivity theory: Implications for personality measurement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10(4), pp. 320-335. ISSN 10888683
- Pickering, Alan; Davidoff, Jules B.; Fagot, J. and Goldstein, J.. 2006. Cross-species differences in color categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13(2), pp. 275-280. ISSN 10699384
- Ayers, S and Pickering, Alan. 2005. Women's expectations and experience of birth. Psychology and Health, 20(1), pp. 79-92. ISSN 0887-0446
- Cochrane, M and Pickering, Alan. 2004. The influence of schizotypal personality on measures of executive function in healthy individuals. Schizophrenia Research, 67(1), pp. 243-244. ISSN 0920-9964
- Maddox, W Todd; Ashby, F Gregory; Ing, A David and Pickering, Alan. 2004. Disrupting feedback processing interferes with rule-based but not information-integration category learning. Memory & Cognition, 32(4), pp. 582-591. ISSN 0090-502X
- Junger, Marianne; West, Robert; Maassen, Gerard; Train, Helen; Pickering, Alan; Taylor, Eric and West, Anne. 2004. Delinquency and accidents in children. The ADHD Report, 12(3), pp. 6-15. ISSN 1065-8025
- Powell, Jane H.; Pickering, Alan; Dawkins, Lynne; West, Robert and Powell, John F.. 2004. Cognitive and psychological correlates of smoking abstinence, and predictors of successful cessation. Addictive Behaviors, 29(7), pp. 1407-1426. ISSN 03064603
- Valentine, Tim; Darling, S. and Pickering, Alan. 2003. Characteristics of eyewitness identification that predict the outcome of real lineups. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 17(8), pp. 969-993. ISSN 08884080
- O'Tuathaigh, CMP; Salum, C; Young, AMJ; Pickering, Alan; Joseph, MH and Moran, PM. 2003. The effect of amphetamine on Kamin blocking and overshadowing. Behavioural Pharmacology, 14(4), pp. 315-322. ISSN 0955-8810
- Pickering, Alan; Hemsley, D.; Gray, N. and Gray, J.. 2002. The partial reinforcement extinction effect in humans: Effects of schizophrenia, schizotypy and low doses of amphetamine. Behavioural Brain Research, 133(2), pp. 333-342. ISSN 01664328
- Steel, C; Hemsley, DR and Pickering, Alan. 2002. Distractor cueing effects on choice reaction time and their relationship with schizotypal personality. British journal of clinical psychology, 41(2), pp. 143-156. ISSN 0144-6657
- Peters, Emmanuelle R; Nunn, Julia A; Pickering, Alan and Hemsley, David R. 2002. Perceptual organization deficits in psychotic patients. Psychiatry Research, 110(2), pp. 125-135. ISSN 0165-1781
- Steel, C; Haworth, EJ; Peters, E; Hemsley, DR; Sharma, T; Gray, JA; Pickering, Alan; Gregory, L; Simmons, A; Bullmore, ET and Williams, SCR. 2001. Neuroimaging correlates of negative priming. Neuroreport, 12(16), pp. 3619-3624. ISSN 0959-4965
- McCartan, Denise; Bell, Robert; Green, Jonathan F; Campbell, Clarke; Trimble, Karen; Pickering, Alan and King, David J. 2001. The differential effects of chlorpromazine and haloperidol on latent inhibition in healthy volunteers. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 15(2), pp. 96-104. ISSN 0269-8811
- Ayers, Susan and Pickering, Alan. 2001. Do women get posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of childbirth? A prospective study of incidence. Birth, 28(2), pp. 111-118. ISSN 0730-7659
- Bateman, Andrew; Culpan, Jane; Pickering, Alan; Powell, Jane H.; Scott, Oona and Greenwood, Richard. 2001. The effect of aerobic training on rehabilitation outcomes after recent severe brain injury: A randomized controlled evaluation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 82(2), pp. 174-182. ISSN 00039993
- Pickering, Alan. 2000. Dynamic thresholds for controlling encoding and retrieval operations in localist (or distributed) neural networks: The need for biologically plausible implementations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23(04), pp. 488-489. ISSN 0140-525X
- Peters, Emmanuelle R; Pickering, Alan; Kent, Andrew; Glasper, Anthony; Irani, Mondana; David, Anthony S; Day, Samantha and Hemsley, David R. 2000. The relationship between cognitive inhibition and psychotic symptoms. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 109(3), pp. 386-395. ISSN 0021-843X
- West, Robert; Train, Helen; Junger, Marianne; West, Anne and Pickering, Alan. 1999. Accidents and problem behaviour. The Psychologist, 12(8), pp. 395-397. ISSN 0952-8229
- Pickering, Alan. 1999. Personality correlates of the dopaminergic facilitation of incentive motivation: Impulsive sensation seeking rather than extraversion? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(03), pp. 534-535. ISSN 0140-525X
- Salum, Cristiane; Roque da Silva, Ant么nio and Pickering, Alan. 1999. Striatal dopamine in attentional learning: a computational model. Neurocomputing, 26, pp. 845-854. ISSN 0925-2312
- Pickering, Alan. 1999. The neural bases of recollection and familiarity: Preliminary tests of the Aggleton--Brown mode. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 22(03), pp. 465-466. ISSN 0140-525X
- Pickering, Alan; Corr, PJ and Gray, JA. 1999. Interactions and reinforcement sensitivity theory: A theoretical analysis of Rusting and Larsen (1997). Personality and Individual Differences, 26(2), pp. 357-365. ISSN 0191-8869)
- Abrahams, Sharon; Morris, RG; Polkey, CE; Jarosz, JM; Cox, TCS; Graves, M and Pickering, Alan. 1999. Hippocampal involvement in spatial and working memory: a structural MRI analysis of patients with unilateral mesial temporal lobe sclerosis. Brain and Cognition, 41(1), pp. 39-65. ISSN 0278-2626
- Pickering, Alan and Gray, Jeffrey A. 1999. The neuroscience of personality. Handbook of personality: Theory and research, 2, pp. 277-299.
- Corr, Philip J; Pickering, Alan and Gray, Jeffrey A. 1997. Personality, punishment, and procedural learning: a test of J. A. Gray's anxiety theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73(2), pp. 337-344. ISSN 0022-3514
- Gray, NS; Pickering, Alan; Gray, JA; Jones, Steven H; Abrahams, S and Hemsley, DR. 1997. Kamin blocking is not disrupted by amphetamine in human subjects. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 11(4), pp. 301-311. ISSN 0269-8811
- Pickering, Alan. 1997. The conceptual nervous system and personality: From Pavlov to neural networks. European Psychologist, 2(2), pp. 139-163. ISSN 1016-9040
- Abrahams, S; Goldstein, LH; Al-Chalabi, A; Pickering, Alan; Morris, RG; Passingham, RE; Brooks, DJ and Leigh, PN. 1997. Relation between cognitive dysfunction and pseudobulbar palsy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 62(5), pp. 464-472. ISSN 0022-3050
- Ayers, S and Pickering, Alan. 1997. Psychological factors and ultrasound: differences between routine and high-risk scans. Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, 9(2), pp. 76-79. ISSN 0960-7692
- Pickering, Alan. 1997. New approaches to the study of amnesic patients: what can a neurofunctional philosophy and neural network methods offer? Memory, 5(1-2), pp. 255-300. ISSN 0965-8211
- Abrahams, S; Pickering, Alan; Polkey, CE and Morris, RG. 1997. Spatial memory deficits in patients with unilateral damage to the right hippocampal formation. Neuropsychologia, 35(1), pp. 11-24. ISSN 0028-3932
- Pickering, Alan; Hernaiz, H and Gray, JA. 1997. El uso del reforzamiento verbal en la teor铆a de Gray: Un estudio piloto. Revista de psicolog铆a general y aplicada: Revista de la Federaci贸n Espa帽ola de Asociaciones de Psicolog铆a, 50(1), pp. 61-71. ISSN 0373-2002
- White, REB; Pickering, Alan and Spathis, GS. 1996. Mood disorder and chronic hypercalcemia. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 41(4), pp. 343-347. ISSN 0022-3999
- Gray, NS; Pickering, Alan and Gray, JA. 1996. Increased schizotypy scores in normal subjects following the oral administration of d-amphetamine. Schizophrenia Research, 18(2), p. 119. ISSN 0920-9964
- Page, Michael PA; Howard, Robert J; O'Brien, John T; Burtonthomas, MS and Pickering, Alan. 1996. Use of neural networks in brain SPECT to diagnose Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 37(2), pp. 195-200. ISSN 0161-5505
- Tata, Philip R; Leibowitz, Judy A; Prunty, Mark J; Cameron, Mary and Pickering, Alan. 1996. Attentional bias in obsessional compulsive disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 34(1), pp. 53-60. ISSN 0005-7967
- Morris, Robin G; Pickering, Alan; Abrahams, Sharon and Feigenbaum, Janet D. 1996. Space and the hippocampal formation in humans. Brain Research Bulletin, 40(5), pp. 487-490. ISSN 0361-9230
- Corr, Philip J; Pickering, Alan and Gray, Jeffrey A. 1995. Personality and reinforcement in associative and instrumental learning. Personality and Individual Differences, 19(1), pp. 47-71. ISSN 0191-8869
- Corr, Philip J; Pickering, Alan and Gray, Jeffrey A. 1995. Sociability/impulsivity and caffeine-induced arousal: Critical flicker/fusion frequency and procedural learning. Personality and Individual Differences, 18(6), pp. 713-730. ISSN 0191-8869
- Pickering, Alan; D铆az, Amelia and Gray, Jeffrey A. 1995. Personality and reinforcement: An exploration using a maze-learning task. Personality and Individual Differences, 18(4), pp. 541-558. ISSN 0191-8869
- Gray, Nicola S; Pickering, Alan and Gray, Jeffrey A. 1994. Psychoticism and dopamine D2 binding in the basal ganglia using single photon emission tomography. Personality and Individual Differences, 17(3), pp. 431-434. ISSN 0191-8869
- Tata, Philip R; Rollings, J; Collins, M; Pickering, Alan and Jacobson, RR. 1994. Lack of cognitive recovery following withdrawal from long-term benzodiazepine use. Psychological Medicine, 24(01), pp. 203-213. ISSN 0033-2917
- Peters, Emmanuelle R; Pickering, Alan and Hemsley, David R. 1994. "Cognitive inhibition" and positive symptomatology in schizotypy. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 33(1), pp. 33-48. ISSN 0144-6657
- Peters, ER; Pickering, Alan and Hemsley, DR. 1994. Gestalt Processing and Psychotic Symptoms. Schizophrenia Research, 11(2), p. 157.
- D\'\iaz, Amelia and Pickering, Alan. 1993. The relationship between Gray's and Eysenck's personality spaces. Personality and Individual Differences, 15(3), pp. 297-305. ISSN 0191-8869
- Pickering, Alan. 1993. Schizophrenia: In context or in the garbage can? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16(1), pp. 205-206. ISSN 0140-525X
- Pickering, Alan. 1993. The hippocampus and space: are we flogging a dead (sea-) horse? Hippocampus, 3(1), pp. 113-114. ISSN 1050-9631
- Powell, Jane H.; Pickering, Alan; Wyke, Maria and Goggin, T. 1993. The effects of anti-hypertensive medication on learning and memory. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 35(2), pp. 105-113. ISSN 0306-5251
- Gray, NS; Pickering, Alan; Hemsley, DR; Dawling, S and Gray, JA. 1992. Abolition of latent inhibition by a single 5 mg dose ofd-amphetamine in man. Psychopharmacology, 107(2), pp. 425-430. ISSN 0033-3158
- Meudell, Peter R; Mayes, Andrew R; MacDonald, C; Pickering, Alan and Fairbairn, Andrew F. 1991. Korsakoff amnesics are poor at judging the sequence of two tones. Cortex, 27(3), pp. 431-439. ISSN 0010-9452
- Paller, Ken A; Mayes, Andrew R; McDermott, Mark; Pickering, Alan and Meudell, Peter R. 1991. Indirect measures of memory in a duration-judgement task are normal in amnesic patients. Neuropsychologia, 29(10), pp. 1007-1018. ISSN 0028-3932
- Shoqeirat, Mohammed A; Mayes, Andrew; MacDonald, Christopher; Meudell, Peter and Pickering, Alan. 1990. Performance on tests sensitive to frontal lobe lesions by patients with organic amnesia: Leng & Parkin revisited. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 29(4), pp. 401-408. ISSN 0144-6657
- Mayes, A. R.; Baddeley, A. D.; Cockburn, J.; Meudell, P R.; Pickering, Alan and Wilson, B.. 1989. Why are amnesic judgements of recency and frequency made in a qualitatively different way from those of normal people? Cortex, 25(3), pp. 479-488. ISSN 0010-9452
- Pickering, Alan; Mayes, Andrew R and Fairbairn, Andrew F. 1989. Amnesia and memory for modality information. Neuropsychologia, 27(10), pp. 1249-1259. ISSN 0028-3932
- Mayes, Andrew R; Meudell, Peter R; Mann, David and Pickering, Alan. 1988. Location of lesions in Korsakoff's syndrome: neuropsychological and neuropathological data on two patients. Cortex, 24(3), pp. 367-388. ISSN 0010-9452
- Pickering, Alan; Mayes, AR and Shoqeirat, M. 1988. Priming Tasks in Normal Subjects: What Do They Reveal About Amnesia? Practical Aspects of Memory: Clinical and educational implications, 2,
- Mayes, Andrew R; Pickering, Alan and Fairbairn, Andrew. 1987. Amnesic sensitivity to proactive interference: Its relationship to priming and the causes of amnesia. Neuropsychologia, 25(1), pp. 211-220. ISSN 0028-3932
- Meudell, PR; Mayes, AR; Ostergaard, A and Pickering, Alan. 1985. Recency and frequency judgements in alcoholic amnesics and normal people with poor memory. Cortex, 21(4), pp. 487-511. ISSN 0010-9452
- Mayes, AR; Meudell, PR and Pickering, Alan. 1985. Is organic amnesia caused by a selective deficit in remembering contextual information? Cortex, 21(2), pp. 167-202. ISSN 0010-9452
Professor Alan Pickering
Alan’s research aims to understand the cognitive functions and behaviours that are affected by rewards.
Staff details
Position
Emeritus Professor
School
Subject
Website
Summary
In my research I want to understand why certain people learn especially well when they are rewarded, whereas other people do no benefit as much when their behaviour is reinforced by rewards. This may have something to do with the way that particular brain pathways, and receptors on certain brain cells, operate differently in differently people. It seems that these differences might be found on brain pathways and receptors that particularly rely upon a chemical called dopamine. A group of colleagues and students, who work on these and related topics, form the 牛牛资源 Affective Science and Personality (GASP) lab.
On the web
- Twitter account -
- Personal homepage -
- Lab homepage - forthcoming
- Google Scholar -
- ResearchGate -
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- M眉llensiefen, Daniel; Davies, Christopher; Dossman, Lauri; Hansen, Jon Ludvig and Pickering, Alan. 2013. Implicit and Explicit Effects of Music on Brand Perception in TV Ads. In: C Ringe; K Bronner and R Hirt, eds. Audio Branding Academy Yearbook 2012/2013. Hamburg: Audio Branding Academy, pp. 139-153. ISBN 9783832978785
- Ferguson, Eamonn; Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Pickering, Alan and Weiss, Alexander. 2011. Five Into One Doesn鈥檛 Go: A Critique of the General Factor of Personality. In: Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic; Sophie von Stumm and Adrian Furnham, eds. The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Individual Differences. London: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4443-3438-8
- Pickering, Alan and Corr, Philip. 2008. J.A.Gray's reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) of personality. In: Gregory Boyle; Gerald Matthews and Donald Saklofske, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Personality: Theory and Assessment Personality Measurement and Testing (Volume 2). London, New Delhi and Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp. 239-255. ISBN 9781412946520
Article
- Lloyd-Cox, James; Pickering, Alan; Beaty, Roger and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2025. Towards Greater Computational Modeling in Neurocognitive Creativity Research. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 19(6), pp. 1383-1401. ISSN 1931-3896
- Chaudhuri, Soma; Pickering, Alan and Bhattacharya, Joydeep. 2025. Evaluating poetry: Navigating the divide between aesthetical and creativity judgments. Journal of Creative Behavior, 59(1), e683. ISSN 0022-0175
- Kale, Dimitra; Pickering, Alan and Cooper, Andrew. 2025. Electronic cigarette use among adult smokers: longitudinal associations with smoking and trait impulsivity. Journal of Substance Use, 30(1), pp. 46-53. ISSN 1465-9891
Report
- Warren, Fiona; Preedy-Fayers, Katherine; McGauley, Gill; Pickering, Alan; Geddes, Kingsley Norton John R and Dolan, Bridget. 2003. Review of treatments for severe personality disorder. Other. Home Office Research, Development and Statistics Directorate.
- Junger, M; West, R; Train, H; Pickering, Alan; Taylor, E and West, A. 1998. Childhood accidents and their relationship with problem behaviour. Technical Report. Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, London.
Thesis
- Pickering, Alan. 1987. Does amnesia arise from a specific deficit in memory for contextual information. Doctoral thesis, University of Manchester
Research Interests
I have a wide-range of research interests, but currently they focus on the following topics
- The biological bases of personality traits (such as extraversion, anxiety-neuroticism, impulsivity, schizotypy) and their influence on cognitive and motivational processes.
- Psychopathologies (anxiety, addiction, schizophrenia) that might be related to the above personality traits and cognitive-motivational processes.
- Dopamine, reward and behaviour.
- Computational models of reinforcement, learning and cognitive control.
- Statistical methods in psychology.
With Dr Andrew Cooper I coordinate the 牛牛资源 Affective Science and Personality (GASP) Lab. The lab webpage is forthcoming.
Selected publications (linked to ongoing research)
Pickering, A. D., & Pesola, F. (2014). Modeling dopaminergic and other processes involved in learning from reward prediction error: contributions from an individual differences perspective. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 740.
Kuhn, G., Pickering, A., & Cole, G. G. (2016). 鈥淩are鈥� emotive faces and attentional orienting. Emotion, 16(1), 1鈥�5.
Smillie, L. D., Cooper, A. J., & Pickering, A. D. (2011). Individual differences in reward-prediction-error: extraversion and feedback-related negativity. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 6(5), 646鈥�652.
Smillie, L. D., Cooper, A. J., Proitsi, P., Powell, J. F., & Pickering, A. D. (2010). Variation in DRD2 dopamine gene predicts extraverted personality. Neuroscience Letters, 468(3), 234鈥�237.
Smillie, L. D., Pickering, A. D., & Jackson, C. J. (2006). The new reinforcement sensitivity theory: Implications for personality measurement. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 10, 320鈥�335.
Pickering, A. D., & Gray, J. A. (2001). Dopamine, appetitive reinforcement, and the neuropsychology of human learning : An individual differences approach. In A. Eliasz & A. Angleitner (Eds.), Advances in research on temperament (pp. 113鈥�149). Lengerich, Germany: PABST Science Publishers.