Professor Antony Manstead

Biography

Undergraduate education

B.Sc. Joint Honours, Sociology and Psychology, University of Bristol, July 1971

Postgraduate education

D.Phil. Social Psychology, University of Sussex, July 1978

Employment

• 2018 – date: Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University
• 2004 – 2018: Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University
• 2002 – 2004: Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
• 2001: Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
• 1992 – 2001: Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1990 – 1991: Visiting Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1990 – 1992: Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester
• 1988 – 1990: Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
• 1983 (Jan–Sept.): Visiting Research Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 1976 – 1988: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
• 1974 – 1976: Temporary Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Sussex

Honours and awards

Awards/external committees

Awards

• 2012: Elected to Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales
• 2011: Elected to Fellowship of the British Academy
• 2010: Elected to Fellowship of the Association for Psychological Science
• 2009: Elected to Fellowship of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• 2008: Recipient of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology’s Henri Tajfel Award for lifetime achievement
• 2006: Elected to Fellowship of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• 2004: British Psychological Society Presidents’ Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge
• 2004: Elected to Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences
• 2002: Elected to Fellowship of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
• 1998: Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award made by SPSSI, The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
• 1993 - 1996: President of European Association of Experimental Social Psychology
• 1992 - 2000: Honorary Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester
• 1992: Elected to membership of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• 1989: Elected to Fellowship of the British Psychological Society

Professional memberships

• Learned Society of Wales
• British Academy
• Association for Psychological Science
• Society of Experimental Social Psychology
• Society for Personality and Social Psychology
• European Association of Social Psychology
• British Psychological Society

Academic positions

• 2004 – 2018: Professor of Psychology, Cardiff University
• 2002 – 2004: Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences and Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
• 2001: Visiting Professor of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
• 1992 – 2001: Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1990 – 1991: Visiting Professor of Social Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1990 – 1992: Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester
• 1988 – 1990: Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
• 1983 (Jan–Sept.): Visiting Research Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• 1976 – 1988: Lecturer in Psychology, University of Manchester
• 1974 – 1976: Temporary Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Sussex

Committees and reviewing

External Committees

I am a member of the Welsh Government's Risk Communication and Behavioural Insights sub-group of the Covid-19 Technical Advisory Group. I have served on several committees of the British Psychological Society, the Economic and Social Research Council, and the International Society for Research on Emotion, and I have been Secretary and President of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology. I was a member of the Psychology Panel in the 2001 UK Research Assessment Exercise and was Deputy Chair of the Psychology Sub-Panel in the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise. I have served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Psychology Section (S6) of the British Academy and as Chair of the Social Sciences Panel of the Newton International Fellowships Awards Committee. I have been Chief Editor of the British Journal of Social Psychology and Co-Editor of the European Review of Social Psychology. I have also been Associate Editor of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Cognition and Emotion, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science. I have also served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Cognition and Emotion and Personality of Social Psychology Review. 

Publications

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Teaching

Since October 2018 I have been Emeritus Professor and am no longer involved in teaching.

Research topics and related papers

Emotion in competition and cooperation

Krumhuber, E., Manstead, A. S. R., Cosker, D., Marshall, D., Rosin, P.L., & Kappas, A. (2007). Facial dynamics as indicators of trustworthiness and cooperative behaviour. Emotion, 7, 730-735.

Van der Schalk, J., Kuppens, T., Bruder, M., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2015). The social power of regret: The effect of social appraisal and anticipated emotions on fair and unfair allocations in resource dilemmas. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144, 151-157.

Van Kleef, G. A., De Dreu, C. W., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2010). An interpersonal approach to emotion in social decision making: The Emotions as Social Information Model. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 42, 45-96.

Facial expression of emotion

Krumhuber, E., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2009). Can Duchenne smiles be feigned? New evidence on felt and false smiles. Emotion, 9, 807-820.

Krumhuber, E. G., Kappas, A. and Manstead, A. S. R. (2013). Effects of dynamic aspects of facial expressions: A review. Emotion Review5(1), 41-46.

Social appraisal processes in emotion

Bruder, M., Dosmukhambetova, D., Nerb, J., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2012). Emotional signals in nonverbal interaction: Dyadic facilitation and convergence in expressions, appraisals, and feelings. Cognition & Emotion 26 (3), 480-502.

Manstead, A. S. R., & Fischer, A. H. (2001). Social appraisal: The social world as object of and influence on appraisal processes. In K. R. Scherer, A. Schorr, & T. Johnstone (Eds.), Appraisal Processes in Emotion: Theory, Research, Application (pp. 221-232). New York: Oxford University Press.

Emotion in intergroup relations

Doosje, B., Branscombe, N. R., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (1998). Guilty by association: When one’s group has a negative history. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 872-886.

Livingstone, A., Shepherd, L., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2016). “Fury, us”: Anger as a basis for new group self-categories, Cognition and Emotion, 30, 183-192.

Shepherd, L., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2013). When does anticipating group-based shame lead to lower ingroup favoritism? The role of status and status stability. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49(3), 334-343.

Social identity and intergroup relations

Livingstone, A. G., Spears, R., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2009). Illegitimacy and identity threat in (inter)action: Predicting intergroup orientations among minority group members. British Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 755-775.

Scheepers, D., Spears, R., Doosje, B., & Manstead, A. S. R. (2007). The social funcions of ingroup bias: Creating, confirming, or changing social reality. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), European Review of Social Psychology (Vol. 17, pp. 359-396). Hove: Psychology Press.

Recent Funding

Economic and Social Research Council Grant No. ES/L016486/1, “Communicating appraisals and social motives: Interpersonal effects of regulated and unregulated emotion expression” (Principal Investigator). £331,940. See https://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/casm/

Research collaborators

Within UK:

Brian Parkinson (University of Oxford) 
Eva Krumhuber (UCL)
Andrew Livingstone (University of Exeter)
Lee Shepherd (Northumbria University)
Joe Sweetman (University of Exeter)

Continental Europe:

Agneta Fischer (University of Amsterdam); Céline Darnon (University of Clermont Auvergne); Toon Kuppens (University of Groningen); Batja Mesquita (University of Leuven); Christian Mumenthaler (University of Geneva); Klaus Scherer (University of Geneva); Russell Spears (University of Groningen).

Supervision

I am no longer supervising research students.

Past projects

Previous students

Brian Parkinson, The Attribution and Misattribution of Arousal Information in Emotion. Ph.D., 1983. Currently Professor of Social  Psychology, Oxford University.

Roselyne Edwards, The Development of Nonverbal Decoding Skill and its Relationship to Social Adjustment in Primary School Children.Ph.D., 1990. Currently Lecturer at University of Salford.

Karen Long, Self-esteem and Intergroup Relations: The Roles Played by Personal and Social Identity, Ph.D., 1992. Currently Lecturer in Social Psychology, University of Sussex.

Kevin R. Fontaine, Personality, Appraisal, and Coping with Stress, Ph.D., 1992. Currently Assistant Professor, Department of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Henriëtte van den Heuvel, Us and Them: The Influence of Ethnicity and Gender on Stereotypes, Attitudes and Explanations of Behaviour, Ph.D., 1992. Currently working for Ministry of Education, Netherlands.

Dianne Parker, An Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour to the Study of Intentions to Commit Driving Violations, Ph.D., 1993. Later Professor of Psychology, University of Manchester (now retired).

Susan Davies, Face Perception in Children with Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, Ph.D., 1995.

Marcel Zeelenberg, On the Importance of What Might Have Been: Psychological Perspectives on Regret and Decision Making, Ph.D., 1996. Currently Professor of Social Psychology, Tilburg University, Netherlands.

Jolanda Jetten, Dimensions of Distinctiveness: Intergroup Discrimination and Social Identity, Ph.D., 1997, University of Amsterdam. Currently Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Jinke van der Laan, Ph.D., 1998. Acceptance of Automatic Violation-Registration Systems. Ph.D., 1998. Currently working for a research consultancy in the Netherlands.

Annet Nienhuis, Persuasive Communication and Communicating Persuasion, Ph.D., 1998. Currently working for a research consultancy in the Netherlands.

Esther Jakobs, Faces and Feelings in Social Context, Ph.D., 1998. Currently working for a research consultancy in the Netherlands.

Wilco van Dijk, Dashed Hopes and Shattered Dreams: On the Psychology of Disappointment, Ph.D., 1999. Currently Professor of Social Psychology, Leiden University.

Patricia Rodriguez Mosquera, Honor and Emotion: The Cultural Shaping of Pride, Shame and Anger, Ph.D., 1999. Currently Associate Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University, USA.

Monique Timmers, Sex Differences in Emotion Expression, Ph.D., 2000. Currently Lecturer in Communication Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Daan Scheepers. The Social Functions of In-Group Bias. Ph.D., 2002. Currently Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

Gerben van Kleef, Emotion in Social Context: The Interpersonal Effects of Emotions in Negotiations. Ph.D. (cum laude). Currently Professor in Social Psychology at University of Amsterdam.

Albina Colden, Empathic Processes in Human Memory. Ph.D., 2004. Currently Visiting Professor at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna.

Ruud Zaalberg, The Expression of Emotion in Social Situations: The Mediating Roles of Display Rules and Social Motives. Ph. D., University of Amsterdam. Currently Post-doc at Technical University of Eindhoven.

Catharine Evers, Sex Differences in Anger Expressions: The Shaping Role of Social Appraisals. Ph. D., 2005, University of Amsterdam. Currently Assistant Professor at Utrecht University.

Oliver Fischer, Computer-Mediated Leadership. Ph.D., 2005. Currently Fellow in Strategy, Leadership and Change at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.

Helma van den Berg, Feeling and Thinking in Attitudes. Ph. D., University of Amsterdam, 2007. Currently Scientific Research Psychologist and Consultant at TNO-Human Behavior and Organizational Innovations, Netherlands.

Martin Bruder, How Do You Feel About It? The Social Appraisal of Others’ Emotional Behaviour. Ph. D., 2007, University of Cambridge. Currently Head of Department at German Institute for Development Evaluation, Bonn.

Eva Krumhuber, Temporal Aspects of Facial Displays, Ph.D., 2008. Currently Currently Lecturer in Psychology at University College London.

Dina Dosmukhambetova, Strategic Use of Nonverbal Behaviour in the Context of Romantic Attraction, Ph.D., 2011, Cardiff University. Currently Research and Evaluation Manager, Great Potentials Foundation, New Zealand.

Sian Jones, Group processes and children’s response to bullying. Ph.D., 2012, Cardiff University. Currently Lecturer in Psychology at Queen Margaret's University, Edinburgh.

Lee Shepherd, The effect of anticipated group-based emotions on discrimination and collective action. Ph.D., 2012, Cardiff University. Currently Lecturer in Psychology at Northumbria University.

Stephanie Sivell, Supporting decision-making using a theory based intervention: application of an extended Theory of Planned Behaviour and the Common Sense Model of Illness Representations to support women choosing surgery for early breast cancer, Ph.D., 2014, Cardiff University. Currently Post-doc in School of Medicine, Cardiff University.

Elena Lemonaki, The Effects of Hostile Sexism on Collective Action Intentions:  The Roles of Emotions and Identification. Ph.D., 2015, Cardiff University. Currently postdoc at King's College, London.

Marlon Nieuwenhuis, Individual Mobility as a Route for Social Change: Psychological Barriers for Participation in Higher Education, Ph.D., 2016, Cardiff University. Currently postdoc in Social Psychology at University of Sussex.

Paul Hanel, Human Values and Value Instantiations: Similarities and Differences between Countries and their Implications, Ph.D., 2016, Cardiff University. Currently postdoc at University of Bath.

Katie Daughters, The Effects of Oxytocin on Social Behaviour: The Influence of Context and Individual Differences, Ph.D., 2017, Cardiff University. Currently postdoc at Cardiff University Neurosciences and Mental Health Research Institute.

Suzanna Binti Awang Bono, Social Value Orientation and Anticipated Emotions in Resource Allocation Decisions, Ph.D., 2019, Cardiff University. Currently Lecturer in Psychology at University Sains Malaysia.

Sam Nunney, The Paradox of Intergroup Apology, Ph.D., 2020, Cardiff University. Currently researcher working for Church of England Research and Statistics, London.