Professor Robert Rogers

Academic Background

Robert is an experimental psychologist, with a background in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He gained a BA in Philosophy from King's College London and an MSc in Information Technology from Imperial College London. Robert holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Cambridge University. His post-doctoral research, also Cambridge, investigated the cognitive dysfunctions associated with substance misuse. Robert was appointed University Lecturer in (non-clinical) psychology of the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University in October 1999 and Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2007. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford, and an associate of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Robert is also a chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS).

Undergraduate Teaching

Experimental psychology.

Postgraduate Teaching

Clinical and neurobiological substrates of gambling; the relationship between mood and risky behaviours; neurochemistry of social behaviour.

Research Interests

Robert's current research interests include clinical and psychological aspects of online gambling; the neural substrates of cognitive biases in gambling behaviour; bipolar disorder and gambling; serotonin and social judgments in depression. His research uses a mixture of survey, laboratory-based, brain-imaging and pharmacological methods, with healthy and clinical samples.

Links

See also Department of Experimental Psychology website.