Professor Felicia Huppert

University position

Professor

Departments

Department of Psychiatry

Institutes

Director of Cambridge University's Well-being Institute

Home page

http://www.cambridgewellbeing.org/felicia... (personal home page)

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

The principal themes of my research are psychological well-being or positive mental health, and the relationship between emotion and cognition. Two distinct methodologies are used: experimental and epidemiological. Experimental research includes randomised trials of well-being interventions such as mindfulness training, and mood induction studies. Epidemiological studies include analysis of data from the 1946 British birth cohort study and the European Social Survey (ESS) to establish the associates and predictors of well-being and positive mental health, and their association with health-related behaviours, attitudes, values and early experiences. Studies include the effects of mindfulness training on cognitive and physiological responses to induced stress.

Areas of brain activation in human cingulate and subcortical structures which have been implicated in positive emotions.
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Research Focus

Keywords

well-being

cognition

affect

life course

Clinical conditions

Emphasis on non-clinical populations

Equipment

Sensors and mobile phones to measure ambient physiological responses

Collaborators

Cambridge

Carol Brayne

David Ogilvie

Kai Ruggeri

United Kingdom

Diana Kuh Web: http://www.nshd.mrc.ac.uk/staff11...

Willem Kuyken Web: http://psychology.exeter.ac.uk/staff/i...

Marcus Richards Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemi...

Katherine Weare Web: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/educati...

Key publications

Huppert FA, So TCC (2011), “Flourishing across Europe: application of a new conceptual framework for defining well-being. ” Social Indicators Research

Richards M, Huppert FA (2011), “Do positive children become positive adults? Evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort study.” Journal of Positive Psychology 6 (1) 75-87

Huppert FA, Abbott RA, Ploubidis GB, Richards M, Kuh D (2010), “Parental practices predict psychological well-being in midlife: life-course associations among women in the 1946 British birth cohort.” Psychol Med 40(9):1507-18 Details

Huppert FA, Johnson DM (2010), “A controlled trial of mindfulness training in schools: the importance of practice for an impact on well-being. ” Journal of Positive Psychology 5 (4) 264-274

Huppert, F.A. (2009), “A new approach to reducing disorder and improving well-being” Perspectives on Psychological Science 4(1), 108-111

Huppert, FA (2009), “Psychological well-being: Evidence regarding its causes and consequences. ” Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being 1(2):137-164

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