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Patricia L. Lockwood is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and applied psychology.

Their scientific work covers a range of main topics including neural and behavioral psychology studies, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, behavioral health and interventions, mental health research topics, action observation and synchronization, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Lockwood's recent notable papers include:

  • "Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID-19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue," published in 2020 in the British Journal of Health Psychology
  • "National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic," published in 2022 in Nature Communications
  • "Is There a 'Social' Brain? Implementations and Algorithms," published in 2020 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "Computational modelling of social cognition and behaviour-a reinforcement learning primer," published in 2020 in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • "Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort," published in 2021 in Psychological Science

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Matthew A J Apps
  • Jo Cutler
  • Masud Husain
  • Claus Lamm
  • Daniel Drew

Publications by Lockwood have appeared repeatedly in several scientific venues, such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Amygdala Response to Preattentive Masked Fear in Children With Conduct Problems: The Role of Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Essi Viding;Catherine L. Sebastian;Mark R. Dadds;Patricia L. Lockwood

  • Resilience during uncertainty? Greater social connectedness during COVID-19 lockdown is associated with reduced distress and fatigue.

    Jonas P. Nitschke;Jonas P. Nitschke;Paul A. G. Forbes;Nida Ali;Jo Cutler;Jo Cutler

  • Emotion regulation moderates the association between empathy and prosocial behavior.

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Ana Seara-Cardoso;Essi Viding

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

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  • The anatomy of empathy: Vicarious experience and disorders of social cognition.

    Patricia L. Lockwood

  • Neural Responses to Affective and Cognitive Theory of Mind in Children With Conduct Problems and Varying Levels of Callous-Unemotional Traits

    Catherine L Sebastian;Eamon J P McCrory;Charlotte A M Cecil;Patricia L Lockwood

  • Dissecting empathy: high levels of psychopathic and autistic traits are characterized by difficulties in different social information processing domains

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Geoffrey Bird;Geoffrey Bird;Madeleine Bridge;Essi Viding

  • Association of Callous Traits with Reduced Neural Response to Others’ Pain in Children with Conduct Problems

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Catherine L. Sebastian;Catherine L. Sebastian;Eamon J. McCrory;Zoe H. Hyde

  • Distinct Subtypes of Apathy Revealed by the Apathy Motivation Index

    Yuen-Siang Ang;Patricia Lockwood;Matthew A. J. Apps;Kinan Muhammed

  • Neurocomputational mechanisms of prosocial learning and links to empathy.

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Patricia L. Lockwood;Matthew A. J. Apps;Vincent Valton;Essi Viding

  • Prosocial apathy for helping others when effort is required.

    P L Lockwood;M Hamonet;S H Zhang;A Ratnavel

  • Is There a 'Social' Brain? Implementations and Algorithms.

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Patricia L. Lockwood;Matthew A.J. Apps;Matthew A.J. Apps;Steve W.C. Chang

  • The role of the midcingulate cortex in monitoring others' decisions.

    Matthew A J Apps;Matthew A J Apps;Patricia L Lockwood;Joshua H Balsters;Joshua H Balsters

  • Encoding of Vicarious Reward Prediction in Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Relationship with Trait Empathy.

    Patricia. L. Lockwood;Matthew A.J. Apps;Jonathan P. Roiser;Essi Viding

  • Computational modelling of social cognition and behaviour-a reinforcement learning primer.

    Patricia L Lockwood;Miriam C Klein-Flügge

  • Neural Mechanisms of Social Cognition in Primates.

    M K Wittmann;P L Lockwood;Rushworth Mfs.

  • Ventral anterior cingulate cortex and social decision-making.

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Marco K. Wittmann

  • Neural responses to fearful eyes in children with conduct problems and varying levels of callous–unemotional traits

    C. L. Sebastian;E. J. McCrory;M. R. Dadds;C. A. M. Cecil

  • Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Ayat Abdurahman;Ayat Abdurahman;Anthony S. Gabay;Anthony S. Gabay;Daniel Drew

  • National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic

    Jay Van Bavel;Paulo Boggio

  • Neural mechanisms for learning self and other ownership

    P L Lockwood;M K Wittmann;Apps Maj.;M C Klein-Flügge

  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation over human secondary somatosensory cortex disrupts perception of pain intensity.

    Patricia L. Lockwood;Gian Domenico Iannetti;Patrick Haggard

Frequent Co-Authors

Masud Husain
Masud Husain University of Oxford
Essi Viding
Essi Viding University College London
Molly J. Crockett
Molly J. Crockett Yale University
Eamon McCrory
Eamon McCrory University College London
Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm University of Vienna
Geoffrey Bird
Geoffrey Bird University of Oxford
Jonathan P. Roiser
Jonathan P. Roiser University College London
Mark R. Dadds
Mark R. Dadds University of Sydney
Sharon Abrahams
Sharon Abrahams University of Edinburgh
Nicholas W. Wood
Nicholas W. Wood University College London

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