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               <h1 class='name text_right'>Dr. Gwenda Simons</h1>\
               <h2 class='text_right'>Departmental Researcher</h2>\
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      <h1>Education</h1>\
         <p>PhD, Psychology, University of Portsmouth, uK (2002)</p>\
         <p>PGCert Research Methods, University of Portsmouth, UK (2001)</p>\
         <p>MA, Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam (UvA), NL (1998)</p>\
      <h1>Research Interests</h1>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>SCARR</h2>\
            <p>In December 2004 I started work as a postdoc on an ESRC project investigating the role of Interpersonal affect in risk taking in collaboration with Dr. Brian Parkinson. Brian Parkinson is the Principal Investigator and grant holder for this project which is part of the ESRC priority network on 'Social Contexts and Responses to Risk' (SCARR).\
               <a href='http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/index.htm'>http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/index.htm</a></p>\
            <p>When you encounter a decision situation where one or more of the possible choice options involve an element of risk, you might not only take your own emotional reaction or existing mood into account, as some research shows, but also consider the (verbal and nonverbal) emotional reaction of people who are close to you (family and friends).  What these people display in their face can either represent their genuine emotional reactions to the risky situation or possibly the emotion they want to express in order to influence your decision. To this purpose, the person might for instance change or exaggerate their facial expression. The goal of the project is to investigate the role of the various (inter)personal affective processes in risk taking.</p>\
            <p>Within the project we have conducted several studies, including 2 diary studies where we asked participants to fill in a questionnaire whenever they make a decision which involves a certain element of risk or uncertainty. The questionnaires were followed by an interview which will be used to explore some of the decision situations, the associated risk and affective responses. </p>\
            <p>We have also completed two experimental studies investigating the effects of visual access to another person's facial expressions during risky decision-making. Both studies involved pairs of participants (contestants and helpers) collaborating in a computer-controlled quiz-game with varying access to the facial expression of the other. In addition to this we have completed an internet survey of risky decision situations and an interaction study which combined the diary methodology with observational and video-cued recall procedures.</p>\
            <p>The project has been completed and we will now concentrate on writing up the remaining studies as well as starting work on a new network grant: EROS.</p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>EROS</h2>\
            <p>The research network, funded by the ESRC, brings together investigators from a number of psychological and health disciplines to study fundamental and applied questions concerning Emotion Regulation of Others and Self (EROS).\
               <a href='http://www.erosresearch.org/'>http://www.erosresearch.org/</a></p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>Facial expression in conversation</h2>\
            <p>This is ongoing research in collaboration with Dr. Marcia Smith Pasqualini, School of Psychology, Avila University, Kansas City, USA. At present we are looking at the patterns of nonverbal behaviour in interactions between spouses and interactions between strangers. Specifically we are looking at the influence of Parkinson's Disease on both the level of expressivity and the pattern of facial expressions (e.g. if A smiles, does B smile; is there a delay in response? etc). Facial expressions were coded with the Facial Action Coding System (Ekman & Friesen, 1978; Ekman, Friesen & Hagen, 2002) as well as subjective rating scales.</p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>Patient education in Parkinson's disease (EduPark)</h2>\
            <p>The aim of this pan-European project, which was carried out with the financial support from the EU, was to develop and evaluate an education programme for people with Parkinson's disease and their carers. The project is based at the University of Portsmouth, Department of Psychology. The education programme, which consists of 8, 1.5 hour sessions, focuses on psycho-social support for patients and carers and deals with issues such as depression, anxiety, the burden of care and social support. The development and implementation stages of the project have now been completed and resulted in a manual in seven different languages. A manual has now been published in each of the 7 countries for the use of professionals wishing to conduct the education programme.</p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>Other research interests</h2>\
            <p>Emotional experience and facial expression in the general population; the influence of social context on facial expressivity; emotional and non emotional facial expressivity in people with Parkinson's Disease (PD); facial expression, emotional experience and mental health (depression and schizophrenia); the relation between emotional experience and eating behaviour; regulation of crying in adults.</p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>Research funding, grants and studentships</h2>\
            <p class='hang'>2007-2008:   A &pound;3614 research grant from the British Academy to Gwenda Simons (PI) and Brian Parkinson for a project entitled: Interpersonal calibration of risk appraisals: effects of others'nonverbal cues on decision making.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>2000-2003:    PhD bursary from the Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>1998-1999:    German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Scholarship. Research project at the University of W&uuml;rzburg, Germany.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>1997:   Erasmus exchange studentship plus additional funding from the University of Amsterdam, NL. Exchange student at the University of W&uuml;rzburg, Germany.</p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>Recent publications</h2>\
            <p class='hang'>Parkinson, B, Roper, A., & Simons, G. (2007). Reasonable and Unreasonable Anger in Everyday Life: A Prospective Diary Study. Accepted for publication <i>EJSP</i></p>\
            <p class='hang'>Macht, M. Gerlich, C. Ellgring, H. Schradi, M. Bay&eacute;s Rusi&ntilde;ol, A. Crespo, M., Prats, A., Viemer&ouml;, V. Lankinen, A., Ricci Bitti, P.E., Candini, L., Spliethoff-Kamminga, N. de Vreugd, J.,  Simons, G., Smith Pasqualini, M. C. , Thompson, S. B. N., Taba, P., Krikmann, U. & Kanarik,  E. (2007).  Patient education in Parkinson's disease: Formative evaluation of a standardized programme in seven European countries. <i>Patient Education and Counselling</i>, 65 (2), 245-252.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2006). <i>Investigating naturalistic decision-making using computerized diaries.</i> SCARR Working Paper 16.\
               <a href='http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/papers/papers.htm'>http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/papers/papers.htm</a></p>\
            <p class='hang'>Smith Pasqualini, M. C., & Simons, G. (2006). <i>Patient education for people with Parkinson's disease and their carers: A manual</i> (edited book).  Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G., Thompson, S. B. N., & Smith Pasqualini, M. C. (2006). An innovative education programme for people with Parkinson's disease and their carers. <i>Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 12</i> (8), 478-485.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2006). Interpersonal affect and risky decision making. In C. Douilliez & P. Philippot (Eds.) <i>CERE Second European Conference on Emotion: Proceedings</i>, (pp 81).</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G., Smith Pasqualini, M. C., Reddy, V., & Wood, J. (2004). Emotional facial expressivity in people with Parkinson's disease. <i>Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 10</i>, 521-535.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G., Ellgring, J. H., & Smith Pasqualini, M.C. (2004). Control of facial expression in Parkinson's Disease. In A. Kappas (Ed.), <i>ISRE 2000: Proceedings of the XIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions, 16-20 August 2000, Quebec City</i> (pp 353-354). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: ISRE Publications/ University of Amsterdam, FMG/ Department of Psychology/ Amsterdam.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G., Ellgring, J. H., & Smith Pasqualini, M.C. (2003). Disturbance of spontaneous and posed facial expressions in Parkinson's disease. <i>Cognition and Emotion, 17</i>, 759-778.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Macht, M. & Simons, G. (2000). Emotions and eating in everyday life. <i>Appetite, 35</i>, 65-71.</p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>Manuscripts in preparation</h2>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G & Parkinson, B. (2008). <i>Time-dependent observational and diary methodologies for assessing social referencing and interpersonal emotion regulation.</i> Manuscript under review.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Parkinson, B, & Simons, G. (2008). <i>Affecting Others: Emotion Contagion and Social Appraisal in Everyday Decision-Making.</i> Manuscript under review.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Parkinson, B, Simons, G. & Trombello, J.  (2008). <i>Facing Uncertainty:  Video Access to Partners' Expressions in a Collaborative Quiz-Game.</i> Manuscript under review.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Ellgring, H., Beck-Dossler, K., Gaebel, W. & Woelwer, W. (2008).  <i>Facial expression in male and female schizophrenia patients. </i>Manuscript in preparation.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G., Smith Pasqualini, M. C., Reddy, V. & Wood (2008). <i>Facial expression during interactions: does it matter who you talk to?</i> Manuscript in preparation.</p>\
         <h2 class='text_left'>Recent conference presentations & invited seminars</h2>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. (2008, Nov). <i>The choices we make: The impact of other people's affective communications on our decisions.</i> Invited seminar to be presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2008, July). <i>The effect of other people's affective communications on risky decision making.</i> Paper presented at the 12th European conference of facial expression in Geneva, Switzerland.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2008, June). <i>Methods for assessing social referencing of risk perception.</i> Paper presented at the ESRC Research Methods Festival 2008 in Oxford, UK</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2008, June). <i>Interpersonal affect and everyday decision-making: Effects and underlying processes.</i> Poster presented at the 15th General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social psychology (EAESP) in Opatija, Croatia.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2007, July). <i>She thinks I am wrong! Adult social referencing in a decision task.</i> Poster presented at the XVIth Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotions (ISRE) in Coolum, Queensland, Australia.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2007, June). <i>Interpersonal Communication and Risk.</i> Paper presented during the 'Methodological developments in risk perception and communication' symposium at the 16th SRA Europe Conference (Building bridges: Issues for future risk research) in The Hague, the Netherlands.</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. (2007, March). <i>I can no longer read you like a book! Reduced facial expressivity in Parkinson's disease and its consequences.</i> Invited seminar presented at the Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, UK</p>\
            <p class='hang'>Simons, G. & Parkinson, B. (2006, May). <i>Interpersonal affect and risky decision making.</i> Paper presented at the Second European Conference on Emotion of the Consortium of European Researchers on Emotion (CERE) in Louvain la Neuve, Belgium. </p>\
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