Professor Patricia Lockwood BSc, PhD

Professor Patricia Lockwood

School of Psychology
Professor of Decision Neuroscience

Professor Patricia Lockwood is a cognitive and social neuroscientist. She is head of the Social Decision Neuroscience Lab. Her work focuses on the neurocognitive foundations of social learning and decision-making across the lifespan and in psychiatric and neurological disorders.

Qualifications

PhD Biomedical Sciences, University College London, Awarded Frith Prize for Exceptional Doctoral Contributions

First Class BSc (Hons) Psychology and Philosophy, University of Bristol. Awarded BPS Award for Undergraduate Psychology and Henri Tajfel Prize for Social Psychology.

Biography

Professor Patricia Lockwood is a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. She was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church and Somerville College, University of Oxford, and a Medical Research Council Fellow at the University of Birmingham, University of Oxford and University of Zurich.

She holds a PhD in Psychology from University College London and a BSc in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Bristol. Her lab investigates social learning and decision-making across the lifespan and in neurological and psychiatric disorders using a mixture of computational modelling, behavioural measures, self report, patient studies and neuroimaging.

Her work has received multiple awards (S4SN Early Career Award, APS Award for Transformative Early Career Contributions), she is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a member of the Women of the Future Network. You can read more about the lab here: www.sdn-lab.org

Postgraduate supervision

PhD students: Students interested in working with Professor Lockwood  should email her to discuss potential funding opportunities. For further information regarding the PhD application process see the 'how to apply' section of the Psychology PhD programme.

Postdoctoral researchers: Professor Lockwood is also looking for excellent and motivated postdoctoral researchers and can advise and assist with obtaining funding. Please contact her to discuss further.

Research

Social learning, decision-making, motivation, lifespan research, conduct problems, brain imaging, computational modelling, empathy, apathy

Publications

Highlight publications

Cutler, J, Nitschke, JP, Lamm, C & Lockwood, PL 2021, 'Older adults across the globe exhibit increased prosocial behavior but also greater in-group preferences', Nature Aging, vol. 1, pp. 880–888. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-021-00118-3

Cutler, J, Wittmann, MK, Abdurahman, A, Hargitai, LD, Drew, D, Husain, M & Lockwood, PL 2021, 'Ageing is associated with disrupted reinforcement learning whilst learning to help others is preserved', Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 4440. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24576-w

Lockwood, PL, Apps, MAJ, Valton, V, Viding, E & Roiser, JP 2016, 'Neurocomputational mechanisms of prosocial learning and links to empathy', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 35, pp. 9763–9768. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1603198113

Lockwood, PL, Hamonet, M, Zhang, SH, Ratnavel, A, Salmony, FU, Husain, M & Apps, MAJ 2017, 'Prosocial apathy for helping others when effort is required', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 1, no. 7, 0131. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-017-0131

Lockwood, PL, Klein-Flügge, MC, Abdurahman, A & Crockett, MJ 2020, 'Model-free decision making is prioritized when learning to avoid harming others', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 44, pp. 27719-27730. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2010890117

Recent publications

Article

Contreras-Huerta, LS, Pisauro, MA, Küchenhoff, S, Gekiere, A, Le Heron, C, Lockwood, PL & Apps, MAJ 2024, 'A reward self-bias leads to more optimal foraging for ourselves than others', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 26845. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-69452-x

Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J, Drew, D, Abdurahman, A, Jeyaretna, DS, Apps, MAJ, Husain, M & Manohar, SG 2024, 'Human ventromedial prefrontal cortex is necessary for prosocial motivation', Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01899-4

Elster, E, Pauli, R, Baumann, S, De Brito, S, Fairchild, G, Freitag, CM, Konrad, K, Roessner, V, Brazil, IA, Lockwood, P & Kohls, G 2024, 'Impaired Punishment Learning in Conduct Disorder', Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 454-463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.05.032

Vogel, T & Lockwood, PL 2024, 'Normative Processing Needs Multiple Levels of Explanation: From Algorithm to Implementation', Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 53–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231187393

Su, Z, Garvert, MM, Zhang, L, Manohar, SG, Vogel, TA, Thomas, L, Balsters, JH, Husain, M, Apps, MAJ & Lockwood, PL 2024, 'Older adults are relatively more susceptible to impulsive social influence than young adults', Communications Psychology, vol. 2, no. 1, 87. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00134-0

Hewitt, SRC, Habicht, J, Bowler, A, Lockwood, PL & Hauser, TU 2024, 'Probing apathy in children and adolescents with the Apathy Motivation Index–Child version', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 56, no. 4, pp. 3982-3994. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02184-4

Gaule, A, Martin, P, Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J, Apps, M, Roberts, R, Phillips, H, Brown, K, McCrory, EJ & Viding, E 2024, 'Reduced prosocial motivation and effort in adolescents with conduct problems and callous‐unemotional traits', Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13945

Guo, Z, Yu, J, Wang, W, Lockwood, P & Wu, Z 2024, 'Reinforcement learning of altruistic punishment differs between cultures and across the lifespan', PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 20, no. 7, e1012274. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012274

The International Climate Psychology Collaboration, Contreras-Huerta, LS & Elsherif, M 2024, 'The International Climate Psychology Collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries', Scientific Data, vol. 11, 1066. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03865-1

Pauli, R, Brazil, IA, Kohls, G, Klein-Flügge, MC, Rogers, JC, Dikeos, D, Dochnal, R, Fairchild, G, Fernández-Rivas, A, Herpertz-Dahlmann, B, Hervas, A, Konrad, K, Popma, A, Stadler, C, Freitag, CM, De Brito, SA & Lockwood, PL 2023, 'Action initiation and punishment learning differ from childhood to adolescence while reward learning remains stable', Nature Communications, vol. 14, no. 1, 5689. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-41124-w

Jansen, M, Lockwood, PL, Cutler, J & Bruijn, ERAD 2023, 'l-DOPA and oxytocin influence the neurocomputational mechanisms of self-benefitting and prosocial reinforcement learning', NeuroImage, vol. 270, 119983. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h7yrz, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.119983

Preprint

Yanga, X, Schulza, J, Schmidt, K, Kenny, AR, Pfuhl, G, Gjoneska, B, Dalgar, I, Lewis, SC, Exner, A, Buchanan, EM, Lander, K, Becker, M, Du, H, Johri, A, Selcuk, E, Gallyamova, A, Calluso, C, Reggev, N, Vranka, MA, Acar, OA, Palma, TA, Kocur, M, Oliveros, JC, Montefinese, M, Wilton, LS, Zdybek, PM, Ferreira, PRS, Pfattheicher, S, Akkas, H, Autin, F, Sorokowska, A, Janssen, SMJ, March, DS, Young, DM, Valentova, JV, Taşbaş, EHO, Bükün, MF, Giammusso, I, Brandt, MJ, Couto, C, Simon, DA, Cutler, J, Prokosch, ML, Sjåstad, H, Manunta, E, Whyte, S, Marsh, AA, Papadatou-Pastou, M, Jaeger, B, Morvinski, C, Primbs, MA, Akil, AM, Kapoor, H, Barzykowski, K, Ghai, S, Moreau, D, Seehuus, M, Kowal, M, Evans, TR, Hill, KM, Calvillo, DP, Wiechert, S, Afhami, R, Hoyer, K, Korbmacher, M, Elbaek, CT, Alsuhaibani, Z, Pronizius, E, Cui, Q, Wang, Z, Cundiff, JM, Panahi, AT, Bjornsdottir, RT, Baskin, E, Ergiyen, T, Metin-Orta, I, Collins, WM, Bø, S, Marinucci, M, Baker, BJ, Özdoğru, AA, Anne, M, Standage, M, Tullett, AM, Milfont, TL, Flynn, FJ, Zidkova, R, Ruiz-Fernandez, S, Sachs, T, Bilancini, E, Verheyen, S, Massoni, S, Jiahui, W, Camargo, A, Wang, YA, Zhou, S, Peetz, HK, Grigoryev, D, Ghasemi, O, Cong, CW, Westgate, EC, Sutherland, CAM, Boucher, L, Grigoryan, L, Paltoglou, AE, Al-Hoorie, AH, Sacco, DF, Thomas, AG, Haeffel, GJ, Davis, WE, Mandalaywala, TM, Cruz, F, Ross, RM, Jiang, X, Studzinska, A, Dumbravă, A, University, IC, Misiak, M, Tran, US, Felisberti, FM, Nagy, T, Gunaydin, G, Buchanan, EM, Miranda, JF, Behnke, M, Akin, K, Berkessel, JB, Johnson, DC, Wu, Y, Godbersen, H, Edlund, JE, Gourdon-Kanhukamwe, A, Martin, D, Norman, JB, Batres, C, Kütük, B, Szumowska, E, Storage, D, Bouguettaya, A, Lins, S, Voracek, M, Trémolière, B, Cyrus-Lai, W, Alzahawi, S, Tavel, P, Anderson, LD, Röer, JP, Malinakova, K, Varella, MAC, Karababa, A, Walczak, RB, Ribeiro, G, Sarı, E, Pypno-Blajda, K, Paruzel-Czachura, M, Travaglino, GA, Neta, M, Vaidis, DC, Lu, JG, Tatachari, S, Camgöz, SM, Lockwood, PL, Panagiotis, M, Lin, W, Rathje, S, van Lent, T, Greijdanus, H, Faure, R, Lamm, C, Brick, C, Zhao, X, Aquino, SD, Ulloa, JL, Walker, B, Malecki, WP, Lou, NM, Pizziol, V, Kuzminska, AO, Michael, S, Adıgüzel, A, Karadeniz, G, Yücel, E, Isloi, C, Chwiłkowska, P, Yu, Z, Fay, N, Papaioannou, K, Peker, M, Huang, G, El-Haddad, RW, Verschuere, B, Meier, Z, Vaughn, LA, Albayrak-Aydemir, N, Stieger, S, Çoksan, S, Bijlstra, G, Alves, SG, Hartanto, A, Mallik, PR, Jami, WA, Chen, R, Fellnhofer, K, Marcu, GM, Batalha, L, Kocalar, HE, Vieira, L, Gleibs, IH, Sharifian, MH, Hadjisolomou, SP, Riva, P, Sirota, M, Novak, L, Sorokowski, P, Li, Y, Elsherif, M, Carvalho, CL, de Lima, TJS, Baker, A, Ishii, T, Mifune, N, Miura, A, Ohtsubo, Y, Takahashi, R, Szala, A, Wolfe, K, Özdemir, F, Komyaginskaya, E, Wu, Q, Boncinelli, L, Lin, J, Gupta, R, Vazirian, MH, Hajighasemi, M, Sepehri, A, Peters, K, Emery, C, Collis, H, Henningsen, L, Aglioti, SM, Mirisola, A, Manriquez-Robles, D, Baeza-Rivera, MJ, Salazar-Fernández, C, Paydarfard, S, Dorfman, A, Katzir, M, Ram, H, Butt, MM, Jia, L, Chua, KQ, Ismail, I, WIllinger, D, Siebenhandl, A, Kaminski, G, Bennett, T, Kohl, A, Stevens, L, Flowe, HD, Colloff, MF, Scott, K, Wagner, K, Ingham, MP, Krishnappa, SM, Fabbri, M, Limata, P, Smalarz, L, Eerdmans, RE, Garza, PB, Gaviria, A, Espín, AM, Kovářík, J, Benito-Ostolaza, JM, Galang, RMN, Denzon, EES, Taborda-Osorio, H, Otálora, Y, Aminnuddin, NA, Kaça, G, Boğa, M, Solescu, DM, Balım, S, Bürhan, P, Bilger, D, Liu, L, Kruse, E, Solak, Ç, Akpınar, B, Coşkun, B, Gül, D, Muftareviç, S, Deschrijver, E, Zigdon, I, Krosch, AR, Ilchovska, ZG, Dokovova, M, Daryani, Y, Tome, NL, Görzig, A, Rhoads, SA, Kountouriotis, G, Özçakan, S, Gökdağ, C, Freira, L, Spasovski, O & Dunham, Y 2024 'Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5gpr4

Lockwood, P, Bos, WVD & Dreher, J-C 2024 'Moral learning and decision-making across the lifespan' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/b5xf7

Su, Z, Garvert, MM, Zhang, L, Manohar, S, Vogel, TA, Thomas, L, Balsters, JH, Husain, M, Apps, MAJ & Lockwood, PL 2024 'Older adults are more susceptible to impulsive social influence' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zdr7q

Vanags, P, Cutler, J, Kosse, F & Lockwood, P 2023 'Greater wealth is associated with higher prosocial preferences and behaviours across 76 countries' PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zc5a3

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