Lowe, Rob - Swansea University - College of Human and Health Sciences

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Over the past few years, I have been involved in research projects encompassing a range of issues relevant to both health and social psychology. Work on stress and coping has formed a significant part of my research activity. This has focused on two issues: firstly, the association between ways of coping and adjustment to illness, and secondly, how emotion-related appraisals are linked to choice of coping strategies. I also have an interest in process models and how these might be applied to understanding behaviour motivation. There are two strands to this work. The first is whether and how cognitive and evaluative processes might be related to health behaviour. As such, recent and on-going work has focused on associations between behaviour and attitudes (both conscious and automatic), visual attention, and memory. The second strand examines underlying mechanisms involved in the processing of socially-relevant information, and uses neural networks for modelling attitudes and allied constructs. Additionally, I have recently begun looking at perceptions of the self, leading to an on-going project examining computer gamers' on-line profiles. Health Anxiety and Post Traumatic Stress: The Psychological Impact of Venous Thromboembolism (current) Student name: Chloe Harrison PhD Other supervisor: Prof Paul Bennett Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe Other supervisor: Dr Stephen Johnston The impact of Attachment Styles, Religious Beliefs and Coping Strategies in the context of Anxiety and Post-traumatic Stress (current) Student name: Badra Alghanami PhD Other supervisor: Prof Paul Bennett Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe ''The predictive nature of Illness beliefs, Emotions and Action tendencies on coping and recovery in Cardiac Surgery patients: Why do people cope in the way that they do?'' (current) Student name: Heather Watkins PhD Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe Other supervisor: Prof Paul Bennett 'The Impact of Motivation and Impulsivity on Persistence of Diet and Exercise' (awarded 2016) Student name: Paula Foscarini-Craggs PhD Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe Other supervisor: Prof Michelle Lee Other supervisor: Dr Vicky Lovett 'On the Plasticity of Human Mating Strategies' (awarded 2015) Student name: Andrew Thomas PhD Other supervisor: Dr Steve Stewart-Williams Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe 'Living with an ICD: Developing a brief psychological intervention for patients living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator' (awarded 2014) Student name: Nina Humphreys PhD Other supervisor: Prof Paul Bennett Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe Predicting and Preventing Obesity and Weight Gain (awarded 2013) Student name: Louise Cleobury PhD Other supervisor: Prof Michelle Lee Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe Intergroup relations and intergroup bias (awarded 2007) Student name: Christine Dobbs PhD Other supervisor: Prof David Benton Other supervisor: Dr Rob Lowe

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Lowe, R. & Norman, P. (2016). Information processing in illness representation: Implications from an associative-learning framework.. Health Psychology https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa31053 doi:10.1037/hea0000457 Humphreys, N., Lowe, R., Rance, J. & Bennett, P. (2016). Living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator: The patients' experience. Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care 45(1), 34-40. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24211 doi:10.1016/j.hrtlng.2015.10.001 Bennett, P., Lowe, R. & Petrova, H. (2015). Heterosexual Men’s Ratings of Sexual Attractiveness of Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Cultural Analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior 44(8), 2201-2206. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa24212 doi:10.1007/s10508-015-0504-6 O’Donnell, M., Lowe, R., Brotherton, H., Davies, H., Panou, A. & Bennett, P. (2014). Heterosexual Men’s Ratings of Sexual Attractiveness of Pubescent Girls: Effects of Labeling the Target as Under or Over the Age of Sexual Consent. Archives of Sexual Behavior 43(2), 267-271. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19067 doi:10.1007/s10508-013-0192-z Lowe, R. & Norman, P. (2013). Attitudinal Approaches to Health Behavior: Integrating Expectancy-Value and Automaticity Accounts. Social and Personality Psychology Compass 7(8), 572-584. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa15507 doi:10.1111/spc3.12046 Lowe, R. Porter, A. Snooks, H. Button, L. & Evans, B. (2011). The association between illness representation profiles and use of unscheduled urgent and emergency health care services. British Journal of Health Psychology 16(4), 862-879. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa8944 doi:10.1111/j.2044-8287.2011.02023.x Calitri, R. Lowe, R. Eves, F. & Bennett, P. (2009). Associations between visual attention, implicit and explicit attitude and behaviour for physical activity. Psychology & Health 24(9), 1105-1123. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6763 doi:10.1080/08870440802245306 Bennett, P. & Lowe, R. (2008). Emotions and Their Cognitive Precursors: Responses to Spontaneously Identified Stressful Events among Hospital Nurses. Journal of Health Psychology 13(4), 537-546. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6764 doi:10.1177/1359105308088526 Bennett, P. Williams, D. Chestnutt, I. Hood, K. & Lowe, R. (2008). A reaction-time study of social, health, and personal attributions in relation to fluorosed teeth. Psychology, Health & Medicine 13(1)-86. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa14480 doi:10.1080/13548500701294523 Hewlett, S., Cockshott, Z., Almeida, C., Richards, P., Lowe, R., Greenwood, R. et. al. (2008). Sensitivity to change of the Rheumatoid Arthritis Self-Efficacy scale (RASE) and predictors of change in self-efficacy. Musculoskeletal Care 6(1), 49-67. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa19068 doi:10.1002/msc.125 Lowe, R. Cockshott, Z. Greenwood, R. Kirwan, J. Almeida, C. Richards, P. & Hewlett, S. (2008). Self-efficacy as an appraisal that moderates the coping-emotion relationship: Associations among people with rheumatoid arthritis. Psychology & Health 23(2), 155-174. https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa6762 doi:10.1080/14768320601139160 Lowe, R. Bennett, P. Walker, I. Milne, S. & Bozionelos, G. (2003). A connectionist implementation of the theory of planned behavior: Association of beliefs with exercise intention. Health Psychology 22(5), 464 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2383 doi:10.1037/0278-6133.22.5.464 Lowe, R. Vedhara, K. Bennett, P. Brookes, E. Gale, L. Munnoch, K. Schreiber-Kounine, C. Fowler, C. Rayter, Z. Sammon, A. & Farndon, J. (2003). Emotion-related primary and secondary appraisals, adjustment and coping: Associations in women awaiting breast disease diagnosis. British Journal of Health Psychology 8(4), 377 https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa2385 doi:10.1348/135910703770238257