Meet the Lab Members
The 2021 Lab Group photo. From L to R: Eric Vanman, Faye Nitschke, Carly McComb, Roger Gamble, Raine Vickers-Jones, Naomi Holt, Lewis Nitschinsk, Gabriella Sparkes, Devmi Epaarachchi, James Casey, Ruri Katsunuma
Dr. Eric J. Vanman, Associate Professor
Eric is an Associate Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Queensland Australia. After receiving his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Southern California in 1994, he was a post-doctoral fellow in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience at USC and then spent a year as a research scientist at Texas A&M University. He was then a lecturer at Emory University until his appointment as an Assistant Professor at Georgia State University in 2000. He left Georgia State in 2007 to come to UQ. His research interests include the social neuroscience of emotion and intergroup prejudice, and his studies have incorporated several kinds of psychophysiological and neuroimaging methods.
For his full CV, click here.
Email: e.vanman@psy.uq.edu.au
Current Students
James Casey
James is interested in how to reduce conflict between people who hold different political views.
Katie McKay
Katie investigates how visual social cues from faces direct attention in young and older adults.
Ellie Moses
Ellie is interested in investigating factors that influence the early processing of visual social information.
Ruri Katsunuma
Ruri is interested in compassion and how neurofeedback can be used to increase it.
Roger Gamble
Roger is interested in external factors that contribute to or hinder the processing of emotional empathy.
Raine Vickers-Jones
Raine's goal is to teach social psychologists programming and statistics to help empower them in performing high quality research. They are currently undertaking a Master of Data Science and working for the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) as a means of achieving this goal.
Carly McComb
Carly is interested in investigating the psychological and emotional effects of using social media.
Charlotte Russell
Charlotte is interested in intergroup prejudice, the perception of others and empathy. She aims to combine research and clinical practice in her future.
Lewis Nitschinsk
Lewis is interested in understanding the individual differences in why people seek anonymity in online environments.
Current Honours Students
Eric is supervising a Team Honours Group in 2022.
Lab Alumni
Dr. Faye Nitschke
Dr. Joel Larwood
Dr. Leah Sharman
Dr. Billy Sung
Dr. Nerisa Dozo
Dr. David Cowan
Dr. Belinda Craig
Dr. Michael Philipp
Dr. Sashenka Milston
Dr. Beth O'Brien-McInally
Dr. Jenni Wallis
Mari Horiguchi
Alexandra Hall
Sarah Rowley
Rosemary Baker
Tash Bobir
Kyah Johnstone
Jenna Scambler
Sara Berndt
Martin Henrion
Hayley Colman
Julia Riches
May Chantra
Shelby Ceh
Kaela Savage
Tobren Watson
Sebastian Rahe
Madeline Fitzgerald
Zhuman (Mandy) Li
Jake Morrison
Pei Wen Tan
Samantha Lo Monaco
Lewis Nitschinsk
Lucinda Hinckfuss
Vanessa Standring