School of Psychology

Dr. Helen Davis

Undergrad Program Chair
Senior Lecturer

RESEARCH:
My central research interests are cognitive development; intelligence and individual differences; attention and executive function in children; effects of personality and mood states on intellectual performance.

ACTIVITIES:
I am currently involved in a range of research projects including investigations of how children deal with conflicting and irrelevant information; the nature of cognitive difficulties associated with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome; identifying the cognitive processes involved in learning and processing music; the role of individual differences in coping with stress; identifying the mechanisms through which exercise alters mood.

TEACHING:
Psychological Methods I; Psychology: Cognitive development and individual differences; Human Learning & Cognition.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Rabbitt, P., Anderson, M., Davis, H. & Shilling, V. (2003). Cognitive processes in ageing. In J. Valsiner & K. Connolly (Eds.) Handbook of developmental psychology. London: Sage.
  
  
• Davis, H. L., Irwin, P., Richardson, M. & O’Brien-Malone, A, (2003). When a pet dies: Religious issues, euthanasia and strategies for coping with bereavement. Anthrozoös, 16, 57-74.
  
  
• Davis, H.L. & Anderson, M. (2001). Developmental and individual differences in fluid intelligence: Evidence against the unidimensional hypothesis. British J. of Devopmental Psych., 19, 181-206.
  
  
• Davis, H. L. & Anderson, M. (1999). Individual differences and development – one dimension or two? In M. Anderson (Ed.), The development of intelligence (pp. 161-191). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.