Professor Avshalom Caspi FBA

How childhood experiences shape aging and the course of health inequalities across the life span; how genetic differences between people shape the way they respond to their environments; identifying the best ways to assess and measure personality differences between people
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
Psychology, Sociology
Sections
Psychology

Current post

King's College London Professor of Personality Development, Institute of Psychiatry

Duke University Edward M. Arnett Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Steven Tipper FBA

Perception and action; the role of selective attention in perceptual and motor processes, understanding other people via motor simulation processes, the influence of perception and action on emotion.

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Professor Susan Gathercole FBA

The cognitive mechanisms of memory and learning in typical children and adults, their impairments in developmental disorders of learning, and methods of remediation

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Professor Kate Nation FBA

The psychology of language, especially how children learn to read and process written language

Professor Kate Nation FBA (credit John Cairns)

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