Trevor W Robbins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1982165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trevor W Robbins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trevor W |
| FAMILY NAME | Robbins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBBINS T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0642-5977 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Validation of the CILD-Q for measuring contextual linguistic diversity in Singapore
The impact of Covid-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition
The present study aimed to examine the impact of COVID-19 social isolation upon aspects of emotional and social cognitive function. We predicted that greater impairments in emotional and social cognition would be observed in people who experienced more disruption to their usual social connectivity during COVID-19 social isolation. Healthy volunteers (N = 92) without prior mental health problems completed assessments online in their own homes duri…
Atypical action updating in a dynamic environment associated with adolescent obsessive–compulsive disorder
BACKGROUND: Computational research had determined that adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) display heightened action updating in response to noise in the environment and neglect metacognitive information (such as confidence) when making decisions. These features are proposed to underlie patients' compulsions despite the knowledge they are irrational. Nonetheless, it is unclear whether this extends to adolescents with OCD as research i…
Selective D3 receptor antagonism modulates neural response during negative emotional processing in substance dependence
Acute GSK598809 modulates the BOLD response to aversive image processing, providing evidence that D3 antagonism may impact emotional regulation. Enhanced BOLD response within D3-rich mesolimbic regions is consistent with its pharmacology and with attenuation of substance-related hypodopaminergic function. However, the lack of group differences in task-related BOLD response and the non-specific effect of GSK598809 between groups makes it difficult…
Cognitive Rigidity, Habitual Tendencies, and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: Individual Differences and Compensatory Interactions
Recent theories have posited a range of cognitive risk factors for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), including cognitive inflexibility and a maladaptive reliance on habits. However, empirical and methodological inconsistencies have obscured the understanding of whether inflexibility and habitual tendencies indeed shape OCD symptoms in clinical and sub-clinical populations, and whether there are notable interactions amongst these traits. The pr…
Hot” and “Cold” Cognition in Users of Club Drugs/Novel Psychoactive Substances
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are popular "club/party" drugs that first attracted attention in the UK in 2009 and remained legal until the 2016 Psychoactive Substances Act criminalized their distribution. Unlike "traditional" illicit drugs, very little is known about the influence of their analogs on neuropsychological functioning. We characterized the cognitive and emotional profile of NPS/polydrug users using the Cambridge Neuropsychologi…
A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task
Response inhibition is essential for navigating everyday life. Its derailment is considered integral to numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders, and more generally, to a wide range of behavioral and health problems. Response-inhibition efficiency furthermore correlates with treatment outcome in some of these conditions. The stop-signal task is an essential tool to determine how quickly response inhibition is implemented. Despite its appar…
The Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-Pace) model for addictive behaviors: Update, generalization to addictive behaviors beyond internet-use disorders, and specification of the proce…
We propose an updated version of the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model, which we argue to be valid for several types of addictive behaviors, such as gambling, gaming, buying-shopping, and compulsive sexual behavior disorders. Based on recent empirical findings and theoretical considerations, we argue that addictive behaviors develop as a consequence of the interactions between predisposing variables, affective and co…
Identification of neurobehavioural symptom groups based on shared brain mechanisms
Moral Emotions and Social Economic Games in Paranoia
Impaired social cognitive processes are putative psychological mechanisms implicated in the formation and maintenance of paranoid beliefs. Paranoia denotes unfounded fears about the hostile intentions of others and is prevalent in a significant proportion of the general population. We investigated social cognition in healthy participants selectively recruited to have a broad occurrence of paranoid thinking ( n = 89). Participants completed a nove…
Drug Addiction: Updating Actions to Habits to Compulsions Ten Years On
A decade ago, we hypothesized that drug addiction can be viewed as a transition from voluntary, recreational drug use to compulsive drug-seeking habits, neurally underpinned by a transition from prefrontal cortical to striatal control over drug seeking and taking as well as a progression from the ventral to the dorsal striatum. Here, in the light of burgeoning, supportive evidence, we reconsider and elaborate this hypothesis, in particular the re…
Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex: One decade on
Inhibition and impulsivity: Behavioral and neural basis of response control
Do you see what I see? Sex differences in the discrimination of facial emotions during adolescence
During adolescence social relationships become increasingly important. Establishing and maintaining these relationships requires understanding of emotional stimuli, such as facial emotions. A failure to adequately interpret emotional facial expressions has previously been associated with various mental disorders that emerge during adolescence. The current study examined sex differences in emotional face processing during adolescence. Participants…
Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. We scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts, and for the best deals on Internet sites; we search for new friends to add to our social networks, and for solutions to novel problems. What we find is always governed by how we sear…
Decision-making in the adolescent brain
Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Top-Down Cognitive Control
Impulsive choice and altruistic punishment are correlated and increase in tandem with serotonin depletion
Human cooperation may partly depend on the presence of individuals willing to incur personal costs to punish noncooperators. The psychological factors that motivate such 'altruistic punishment' are not fully understood; some have argued that altruistic punishment is a deliberate act of norm enforcement that requires self-control, while others claim that it is an impulsive act driven primarily by emotion. In the current study, we addressed this qu…
Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: From actions to habits to compulsion
Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex
Impaired visual discrimination learning in anorexia nervosa
Negligence, Coercion, and the Protection of Religious Belief
Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins; Negligence, Coercion, and the Protection of Religious Belief, Journal of Church and State, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1 July 1995, P
Stress-induced eating: Reply to bolles, rowland and marques, and herman and polivy
Salivation and insulin secretion in response to food in non-obese men and women
Stress-induced eating: Rejoinder
Salivation and insulin secretion in response to food in non-obese men and women
Stress-induced eating: Fact, fiction or misunderstanding
Negligence, Coercion, and the Protection of Religious Belief
Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins; Negligence, Coercion, and the Protection of Religious Belief, Journal of Church and State, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1 July 1995, P
Stress-induced Eating; Reply to Bolles, Rowland and Marques, and Herman and Polivy
Stress-induced eating: Rejoinder
Stress-induced eating: Fact, fiction or misunderstanding
Stress-induced Eating; Reply to Bolles, Rowland and Marques, and Herman and Polivy
Stress-induced eating: Reply to bolles, rowland and marques, and herman and polivy
Salivation and insulin secretion in response to food in non-obese men and women
Negligence, Coercion, and the Protection of Religious Belief
Dick Anthony, Thomas Robbins; Negligence, Coercion, and the Protection of Religious Belief, Journal of Church and State, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1 July 1995, P
Impaired visual discrimination learning in anorexia nervosa
Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex
Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: From actions to habits to compulsion
Impulsive choice and altruistic punishment are correlated and increase in tandem with serotonin depletion
Human cooperation may partly depend on the presence of individuals willing to incur personal costs to punish noncooperators. The psychological factors that motivate such 'altruistic punishment' are not fully understood; some have argued that altruistic punishment is a deliberate act of norm enforcement that requires self-control, while others claim that it is an impulsive act driven primarily by emotion. In the current study, we addressed this qu…
Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Top-Down Cognitive Control
Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms, and the Brain
Over a century ago, William James proposed that people search through memory much as they rummage through a house looking for lost keys. We scour our environments for territory, food, mates, and information. We search for items in visual scenes, for historical facts, and for the best deals on Internet sites; we search for new friends to add to our social networks, and for solutions to novel problems. What we find is always governed by how we sear…
Decision-making in the adolescent brain
Inhibition and impulsivity: Behavioral and neural basis of response control
Do you see what I see? Sex differences in the discrimination of facial emotions during adolescence
During adolescence social relationships become increasingly important. Establishing and maintaining these relationships requires understanding of emotional stimuli, such as facial emotions. A failure to adequately interpret emotional facial expressions has previously been associated with various mental disorders that emerge during adolescence. The current study examined sex differences in emotional face processing during adolescence. Participants…
Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex: One decade on
Drug Addiction: Updating Actions to Habits to Compulsions Ten Years On
A decade ago, we hypothesized that drug addiction can be viewed as a transition from voluntary, recreational drug use to compulsive drug-seeking habits, neurally underpinned by a transition from prefrontal cortical to striatal control over drug seeking and taking as well as a progression from the ventral to the dorsal striatum. Here, in the light of burgeoning, supportive evidence, we reconsider and elaborate this hypothesis, in particular the re…
Moral Emotions and Social Economic Games in Paranoia
Impaired social cognitive processes are putative psychological mechanisms implicated in the formation and maintenance of paranoid beliefs. Paranoia denotes unfounded fears about the hostile intentions of others and is prevalent in a significant proportion of the general population. We investigated social cognition in healthy participants selectively recruited to have a broad occurrence of paranoid thinking ( n = 89). Participants completed a nove…
A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task
Response inhibition is essential for navigating everyday life. Its derailment is considered integral to numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders, and more generally, to a wide range of behavioral and health problems. Response-inhibition efficiency furthermore correlates with treatment outcome in some of these conditions. The stop-signal task is an essential tool to determine how quickly response inhibition is implemented. Despite its appar…
The Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-Pace) model for addictive behaviors: Update, generalization to addictive behaviors beyond internet-use disorders, and specification of the proce…
We propose an updated version of the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model, which we argue to be valid for several types of addictive behaviors, such as gambling, gaming, buying-shopping, and compulsive sexual behavior disorders. Based on recent empirical findings and theoretical considerations, we argue that addictive behaviors develop as a consequence of the interactions between predisposing variables, affective and co…
Identification of neurobehavioural symptom groups based on shared brain mechanisms
Hot” and “Cold” Cognition in Users of Club Drugs/Novel Psychoactive Substances
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are popular "club/party" drugs that first attracted attention in the UK in 2009 and remained legal until the 2016 Psychoactive Substances Act criminalized their distribution. Unlike "traditional" illicit drugs, very little is known about the influence of their analogs on neuropsychological functioning. We characterized the cognitive and emotional profile of NPS/polydrug users using the Cambridge Neuropsychologi…
The impact of Covid-19 social isolation on aspects of emotional and social cognition
The present study aimed to examine the impact of COVID-19 social isolation upon aspects of emotional and social cognitive function. We predicted that greater impairments in emotional and social cognition would be observed in people who experienced more disruption to their usual social connectivity during COVID-19 social isolation. Healthy volunteers (N = 92) without prior mental health problems completed assessments online in their own homes duri…
Atypical action updating in a dynamic environment associated with adolescent obsessive–compulsive disorder
BACKGROUND: Computational research had determined that adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) display heightened action updating in response to noise in the environment and neglect metacognitive information (such as confidence) when making decisions. These features are proposed to underlie patients' compulsions despite the knowledge they are irrational. Nonetheless, it is unclear whether this extends to adolescents with OCD as research i…
Selective D3 receptor antagonism modulates neural response during negative emotional processing in substance dependence
Acute GSK598809 modulates the BOLD response to aversive image processing, providing evidence that D3 antagonism may impact emotional regulation. Enhanced BOLD response within D3-rich mesolimbic regions is consistent with its pharmacology and with attenuation of substance-related hypodopaminergic function. However, the lack of group differences in task-related BOLD response and the non-specific effect of GSK598809 between groups makes it difficult…
Psychology (23 works) · Cognition (12 works) · Neuroscience (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (7 works)