Conceptual development: innate representational capacities and the mechanisms that allow humans to transcend them; the acquisition (over evolutionary, historical and ontogenetic time frames) of physical, biological, and mathematical concepts.
Elected 2007
The experimental analysis of self and identity (including motivated self-enhancement and narcissism), sense of authenticity and the emotion of nostalgia
Environmental risk perception, risk communication and engaging citizens with sustainability and technology policy choices and behaviours; including climate change, low carbon energy, net zero technologies, and emerging technologies
Psychology
