About
I pursued both my undergraduate degree (Psychology) and PhD (Cognitive Neuroscience) at Aston University, Birmingham, before moving to the University of Southampton as a post-doctoral research fellow (Centre for the Study of Emotion and Motivation). I joined the Psychology team at Derby in October 2006 (seeking fame and fortune!) and have been here ever since, in various roles from UCP Programme Leader to Chair of the Psychology Research Ethics Committee.
Professional interests
PhD Completions
Lauren Kelly
PhD Title: Investigations of the Relationship between Affect and Attentional Biases in Children
Awarded Spring 2014
Kornanong Yuenyongchaiwat
PhD Title:Do cardiovascular responses to mental stress tests predict blood pressure?
Awarded Summer 2013
Kirsten McEwan
PhD Title: Non-conscious processing: Threat, Safeness, Self-esteem and compassionate Mind Games
Awarded Spring 2012
Current PhD Students
PhD Director of Studies for:
Jayne Trovati
PhD Title:Investigations of the relationship between attentional bias, affect and disordered eating in children.
Completion Expected: Autumn 2018
PhD Second Supervisor for:
Mimi Said
PhD Title:The psychology of painkiller use in the general population: A comparison between the UK & Egypt
Completion Expected: Summer 2017
PhD Second Supervisor for:
Julia Wahl
PhD Title: Compassion based interventions (training) with later stage cancer patients
Completion Expected: Summer 2017
PhD Second Supervisor for:
Ann Kirkman
PhD Title: The relationship between pain and optimisim, utilising implicit and explicit measures
Completion Expected: Autumn 2018
PhD Second Supervisor for:
Alistair Turville
PhD Title: Long-term impact of Pain Management Programs on health Related Quality of Life
Completion Expected: Autumnn 2020
Internship Supervisor for:
Daniel Gaffiero, University of Derby
Summer 2016
Kar-Man Chu, University of Birmingham
September 2015 - August 2016
Gabrielle Leciester, University of Derby
Summer 2014
Joana Duarte, University of Coimbra
1 February 2010 - 31 July 2010
Research interests
My main research interests include:
- Emotion processing including well-being, compassion and attentional biases
- Visual attention and a wide range of associated psychological phenomena (e.g. memory, phobias & development)
To aid the comprehensive and robust investigation of research in these (related) fields I have chosen to adopt an integrative approach, and regularly use a wide variety of experimental methods to pursue research questions. These include psychophysiological methods (measures of reaction time and eye tracking), behavioural methods (e.g. questionnaire measures and performance accuracy measures), physiological measues (e.g. stress hormones, blood pressure and heart-rate variability) and neuroimaging methods (measures of MEG, EEG and fMRI).
Recent conferences
Recent Invited Talks
• Evaluation of a compassionate mind training intervention with teachers to improve well-being
Mental Health UK, London 2017
• What drives the prioritisation of threatening information?
International Conference on Emotion & Cognition, University of Allahabad, December 2015
• Using self-compassion and/or touch to aid general well-being and cooping: Implications for physical health care
4th International Conference of the Compassionate Mind Foundation, October 2015
• Self-compassion: Is it useful in emotion regulation, coping or when considering general well-being?
University of Sheffield, October 2014
• Quick, Dirty & All Consuming ...Emotion Processing
University of Leicester, March 2013
Recent Conference Presentations
• Quick, Dirty & All Consuming: The prioritisation of angry faces across domains of attention and memory
BPS Cognitive Section, Nottingham-Trent University, September 2014
• Does compassionate imagery increase physiological and behavioural indices of threat in high self-critics?
1st International Mindfulness Conference, University of Sapienza, Rome. May 2013.
Recent publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
- Maratos, F. A.*, Duarte, J., Barnes, C., McEwan, K., Sheffield, D., & Gilbert, P. (2017). The physiological and emotional effects of touch: Assessing a hand-massage intervention with high self-critics. Psychiatry Research, 250, 221-227.
- Elander, J., Said, O., Maratos, F. A., Dys, A., Collins, H., & Schofield, M. B. (2017). Development and validation of a short-form Pain Medication Attitudes Questionnaire (PMAQ-14). Pain, 158, 400-407
- Stupple, E. J., Maratos, F. A., Elander, J., Hunt, T. E., Cheung, K. Y., & Aubeeluck, A. V. (2017). Development of the Critical Thinking Toolkit (CriTT): A measure of student attitudes and beliefs about critical thinking. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 23, 91-100
- Elmore, N., Burt, J., Abel, G., Maratos F. A., Montague, J., Campbell, J. & Roland, M. (2016). Investigating the relationship between consultation length and patient experience: a cross-sectional study in primary care. British Journal of General Practice, bjgp-dec16
- Kelly, L., Maratos, F.A.*, Lipka, S., & Croker, S. (2016). Attentional Bias towards Threatening and Neutral Facial Expressions in High Trait Anxious Children. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(3) 343-359
- Richardson, M., McEwan, K., Maratos, F.A., & Sheffield, D. (2016). Joy and calm: how an evolutionary functional model of affect regulation informs positive emotions in nature. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2(4) 308-320
- Yuenyongchaiwat, K., Baker, I., Maratos, F.A., & Sheffield, D. (2016). Do Cardiovascular Responses to Active and Passive Coping Tasks predict Future Blood Pressure 10-Months Later? The Spanish journal of psychology. 19 (E10)
- Owen, S., and Maratos, F. A.* (2016) Recognition of subtle and universal facial expressions in a community-based sample of adults classified with intellectual disability. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 60(4), 344-354
- Maratos, F. A.*, Garner, M., Hogan, A. M., & Karl, A. (2015). When is a Face a Face? Schematic Faces, Emotion, Attention and the N170. AIMS Neurosci, 2, 172-182.
- Duarte, J., McEwan, K., Barnes, C. & Maratos, F.A.* (2015) Do therapeutic imagery practices affect physiological and emotional indicators of threat in high self-critics? Psychology and Psychotherapy: Therapy, Research and Practice 88(3) 270-284
- Maratos, F.A* & Staples, P. (2015) Attentional biases toward familiar and unfamiliar foods in Children: The role of food neophobia. Appetite, 91, 220-225.
- Yuenyongchaiwat, K., Sheffield, D., Baker, I., & Maratos, F.A. (2015). Hemodynamic responses to active and passive coping tasks and the prediction of future blood pressure in Thai participants: A preliminary prospective cohort study. Japanese Psychological Research, 57(4), 288-299.
- Simione L, Calabrese L, Marucci FS, Belardinelli MO, Raffone A, & Maratos, F.A.* (2014) Emotion Based Attentional Priority for Storage in Visual Short-Term Memory PLoS ONE 9(5): e95261. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095261
- McEwan K, Gilbert P, Dandeneau S, Lipka S, Maratos F.A., et al. (2014) Facial Expressions Depicting Compassionate and Critical Emotions: The Development and Validation of a New Emotional Face Stimulus Set. PLoS ONE 9(2): e88783. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088783
- Elander, J., Duarte, J., Maratos, F.A. & Gilbert, P. (2014) Predictors of painkiller dependence among people with pain in the general population. Pain Management 15 (4), 613-624
- Duro, E., Elander, J., Maratos F. A., &Stupple E. J. N., (2013). In Search of Critical Thinking: An Exploration of University Students’ and Tutors’ Understandings. Psychology, Learning & Teaching, 12, 275-281
- Maratos. F.A.*, Rippon, G.,Mogg, K., Bradley, B.P. & Senior, C. (2012)Threatening faces modulate early gamma band activity in occipital cortex. Cognitive Neuroscience 3, 62-68
- Maratos, F.A*. (2011) Temporal processing of emotional stimuli: The capture and release of attention by angry faces, Emotion, 11, 1242-1247 [IF: 3.02]
- Croker, S & Maratos, F.A. (2011) Visual Processing Speeds in Children. Child Development Research, Article ID 450178
- Longe, O., Maratos, F.A., Gilbert, P., Evans, G., Volker,F., Rockliffe, H & Rippon G (2010). Having a word with yourself: Neural correlates of self-criticism and self-reassurance. Neuroimage, 49, 1849-1856
- Maratos, F.A*., Mogg, K, Bradley, B.P, Rippon, G. & Senior, C. (2009). Course threat images reveal oscillations in the amygdala: A magnetoencephalography study. Behavioural, Affective & Cognitive Neurosciences, 9, 133-143
- Maratos F.A*., Mogg, K. & Bradley, B.P. (2008). Identification of angry facial expressions in the attentional blink. Cognition & Emotion, 22, 1340-1352
- Maratos F.A., Anderson S.J., Hillebrand A., Singh K.D & Barnes G. (2007). The spatial distribution and temporal dynamics of brain regions activated during the perception of object and non-object patterns. Neuroimage. 34, 371-383
* = Corresponding Author