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Dominic Thompson

Associate Professor in Psychology of Language, Faculty of Arts

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PhD Psychology (University of Glasgow, UK, 2013); MLitt Linguistics by research (Newcastle University, UK, 2009); BA Linguistics (Newcastle University, UK, 2007).

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After completing my PhD in Psychology at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, UK, I moved to the University of Nottingham, UK, in 2014. I spent two years as a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, where I worked on an ESRC-funded project awarded to Dr Ruth Filik (Nottingham) and Prof Hartmut Leuthold (Tübingen, Germany), using psychophysiology, EEG, and behavioural studies to examine processing of and responses to sarcasm and irony.

I am now an Associate Professor teaching and researching in psychology, psychophysiology, and language, with particular focus on digital communication (e.g., emojis, videogame dialogue, news media), and the interaction between language and emotion.

Since 2016, I have been convenor of the first-year core module Studying Language, and since 2021 have convened distance learning modules on cognition and language, including Calls, Speech, Writing, and Sign Language, and Data-collection and Ethics.

Since 2022, I have been head of Research Integrity and Research Ethics for the Faculty of Arts. For ethics information, guidance, documentation, and application procedures, please visit the Faculty Ethics page. If you have ethics or research integrity questions, you can get in touch with me, or with the Faculty Ethics admin team at ss-ce-ethics@nottingham.ac.uk.

I am on the Advisory Board for Paratexts Seeking Understanding, a £2.4 million grant, funded by the Templeton Religion Trust, awarded to Dr Garrick Allen, Dr Christoph Scheepers, and Dr Kelsie Rodenbiker (Glasgow). I am also a liaison to the scientific team on this unique project, which combines philology with empirical psychology research. Visit the project webpage for more info.

Teaching Summary

I have been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate modules, both on-site and via distance learning, since 2016. In that time I have taught topics covering cognition, memory, psychology of language,… read more

Research Summary

I'm interested in how emotion and language affect each other, as well as the ways we enhance meaning in digital communication such as with emojis and other creative features. To investigate these, I… read more

Selected Publications

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