Dr. Brian Parkinson s Research And Teaching Positions At...

Dr. Brian Parkinson completed his undergraduate and postgraduate education at Manchester University. Additionally Dr. Parkinson held research and teaching positions at Liverpool, Leicester, and Sheffield Universities. Prior to coming to Oxford in 2000, he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Brunel University. Furthermore, he served as Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology, Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion, and is currently the co-editor of the Cambridge University Press book series called Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction (http://www.ox.ac.uk). Scope of Research Dr. Parkinson’s primary research focus has been on how emotions have an demonstrative impact on other people. This notion suggests that†¦show more content†¦Furthermore, an observational study of romantic partners conducted by Dr. Parkinson, found that people used certain expressions to elicit a response from their significant other. Depending on the level of emotion and romantic investment of their partner resulted in different responses (Parkinson, Simons, Niven, 2016). Dr. Parkinson’s research and methodologies intended to understand and interpret emotion from a different perspective than typical sociologists or psychologists. His strategies involve exploring day-to-day social situations, where emotion is always a permanent fixture; affecting interpersonal relationships, both in a positive and negative manner. Strategically, Parkinson designates emotion as real-life interactions between people, and their emotions expressed in terms of gesticulation, movement, dialogue, and reticent. The Emotion and Social Relation Research Group Founded in 2001, the group is comprised of postgraduate students, exchange students, and other researchers who all have at least one area of interest in common: emotion. The research group examines emotions as a process, something directly correlated to emotions, and behaviors exhibited in interpersonal and group related settings. Investigations of noteworthy questions utilize several methods, laboratory and field experiments, assessment of video-recordings of staged and real-life interactions,