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Professor Aidan Feeney

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Dr Aidan Feeney

Professor Aidan Feeney

School Of Psychology

I am interested in the role of thinking in everyday life and in how thinking develops. I have strong interests in judgement and decision making and in associated emotions such as regret and relief. I am also interested in how people think about categories and the role played by essentialist beliefs about social categories in how we think about other people. More recently I have developed applied interests around the psychology of debt and the psychology of medicine adherence.

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  • a.feeney@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0) 28 9097 4299

Research Interests

I welcome applications from students wishing to work on topics related to any of my research interests. I am currently focused on the psychology of relief, future thinking and debt, and cross-cultural differences in essentialist thinking.

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Current Research Opportunities

  • Are children’s intuitions about ownership impacted by concerns for human flourishing?

Public outreach & key achievements

Our research on regret and children’s decision making has attracted considerable media attention, e.g.  

Our research on the psychology of debt, carried out with Grant Thornton LLP and Aperture IVA, has been disseminated to hundreds of debt advisors attending training seminars across the UK.


Research students

PhD area Future selves and medicine adherence in children and adolescents with chronic illnesses.
Name Robyn McCue
Years of study 2015-2019
Country Ireland
   
PhD area The development of relief
Name Matthew Johnston
Years of study 2018-2021
Country Ireland

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