Anne Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0208-7093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Five Themes in a Theology of Evangelism
Traditional ways of thinking about evangelism can be confronted by the convoluted spiritual journeys of people outside the Church. Engaging positively with popular spirituality and culture creates challenges for Christian witness which call for new theological perspectives on evangelism. Five themes in particular can be described: understanding what it feels like not to be Christian; interrogating the skills of making community through the experi…
Are cathedrals the arks of today? Some reflections on cathedral mission and spiritual seekers
This paper examines the theological concept of ‘ark’ as a useful metaphor for assessing the potential of cathedrals for effective mission and social action. The popular concept of ark as shelter and means of salvation is but one way of thinking about cathedrals, but the paradoxical and complex nature of what it means to be ‘ark’ for others in Scripture and tradition provides other ways of assessing and developing mission potential. These differen…
Interplay between supramodal attentional control and capacity limits in the low-level visual processors modulate the tendency to inattention
Metabolic Risk Factors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with indicators of poor physical health and sleep disturbance. This study investigated the relationship between PTSD and metabolic risk factors and examined the role of sleep duration in medically healthy and medication-free adults. METHODS: Participants with PTSD (n = 44, mean age = 30.6 years) and control participants free of lifetime psychiatric history (n = 50, mean age = 30.3 year…
Trait susceptibility to worry modulates the effects of cognitive load on cognitive control
According to the predictions of attentional control theory (ACT) of anxiety (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), worry is a central feature of anxiety that interferes with the ability to inhibit distracting information necessary for successful task performance. However, it is unclear how such cognitive control deficits are modulated by task demands and by the emotionality of the distractors. A sample of 31 participants (25 female) complet…
Muslims and American Popular Culture
Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims—whether in news or entertainment—are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively b…
Introduction  Recovering Oriental Perspectives on the West
Distracted by distractors
Is emotional Stroop interference linked to affective responses? Evidence from skin conductance and facial electromyography
In two experiments, we examined affective responses and attentional bias toward threat. We compared three dimensions of affective responses (subjective, expressive, physiological) to negative and neutral stimuli in high and low anxious participants and examined whether these responses correlated with attentional interference in an emotional Stroop task. We used an evaluative conditioning procedure to manipulate the affective value of stimuli subs…
The influence of affect on higher level cognition
In this paper, we examine whether affect influences higher level cognitive processes. We review research on the effect of emotion on interpretation, judgement, decision making, and reasoning. In all cases, we ask first whether there is evidence that emotion affects each of these processes, and second what mechanisms might underlie these effects. Our review highlights the fact that interpretive biases are primarily linked with anxiety, while more …
Independent Manipulation of Emotion in an Emotional Stroop Task Using Classical Conditioning
The effects of emotional connotation on emotional Stroop interference in anxiety were examined. First, a classical conditioning paradigm was used in which neutral words and nonwords were paired with either negative or neutral pictures. These conditioned stimuli were then presented in an emotional Stroop paradigm. Finally, participants rated each word and nonword for emotional connotation. The high-anxious group demonstrated significant interferen…
Anxiety-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions
High- and low-trait socially anxious individuals classified the emotional expressions of photographic quality continua of interpolated ("morphed") facial images that were derived from combining 6 basic prototype emotional expressions to various degrees, with the 2 adjacent emotions arranged in an emotion hexagon. When fear was 1 of the 2 component emotions, the high-trait group displayed enhanced sensitivity for fear. In a 2nd experiment where a …
Mission and Polity
Politics and religion often use the same kind of language to achieve their ‘missionary’ ends, hut such language is stripped of its meaning unless it is related to ultimate, rather than short-term, purpose. This is demonstrated by notions of election, the place of the prophet and the effects of the ‘powers’ in global society. The energy and creativity of responding to an ultimate vision is undermined in both political and relgious affairs by insti…
Anxiety-Related Stroop Interference in Adolescents
A group of 16- to 18-year-old students was presented with threat-related and neutral Stroop stimuli on separate cards. Participants were assigned to anxiety groups on the basis of their scores on the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; A. T. Beck & R. A. Steer, 1990). It was found, as predicted, that the high-anxiety group took significantly longer to identify the color of the threat-related word than the neutral words, whereas there was no difference f…
Automatic Genius
Journal Article AUTOMATIC GENIUS: MOZART AND THE MECHANICAL SUBLIME Get access ANNETTE RICHARDS ANNETTE RICHARDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 80, Issue 3, August 1999, Pages 366–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/80.3.366 Published: 01 August 1999
Clock* this
An everyday example of a distortion of memory is reported. Subjects were presented with a standard clock with numbers represented by Roman numerals. Of the subjects asked to draw the clock from memory, the majority mistakenly represented the four as ‘IV’ rather than as ‘IIII’ The latter represents the standard form of Roman numeral representation upon clocks, but not elsewhere. It made no difference to performance whether or not subjects were war…
Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task
In Study 1 subjects high and low in trait anxiety were asked to identify the colour of anxiety-related, anxiety-matched neutral, happiness-related and happiness-matched neutral words. There were two types of stimulus presentation: blocked trials, where stimuli were blocked with respect to their valence, and mixed trials, where stimuli were mixed with respect to their valence. Subjects high in trait anxiety took longer to identify the colour of an…
The relationship between handedness, anxiety and questionnaire response patterns
State and trait anxiety were found to be unrelated to the handedness categories distinguished by Annett (1970) in a sample of volunteers ( N = 385). Furthermore, mean scores for 99 male subjects did not differ significantly from those of 293 females. The mean anxiety levels in this study were much more representative of the general population than those reported in a previous similar study by Beaton & Moseley (1984). A suggestion that subjects cl…
The effects of independently validated strategies on visual hemifield asymmetry
The study described here employed a sentence‐picture verification task in order to examine the effects of different information‐processing strategies on hemisphere performance of this task. The original task was slightly modified to allow brief presentation of the picture stimulus to either the left or right visual field. A simple strategies model of hemisphere function would predict an RVF advantage when using a linguistic strategy and an LVF ad…
Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task
In Study 1 subjects high and low in trait anxiety were asked to identify the colour of anxiety-related, anxiety-matched neutral, happiness-related and happiness-matched neutral words. There were two types of stimulus presentation: blocked trials, where stimuli were blocked with respect to their valence, and mixed trials, where stimuli were mixed with respect to their valence. Subjects high in trait anxiety took longer to identify the colour of an…
Automatic Genius
Journal Article AUTOMATIC GENIUS: MOZART AND THE MECHANICAL SUBLIME Get access ANNETTE RICHARDS ANNETTE RICHARDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 80, Issue 3, August 1999, Pages 366–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/80.3.366 Published: 01 August 1999
The effects of independently validated strategies on visual hemifield asymmetry
The study described here employed a sentence‐picture verification task in order to examine the effects of different information‐processing strategies on hemisphere performance of this task. The original task was slightly modified to allow brief presentation of the picture stimulus to either the left or right visual field. A simple strategies model of hemisphere function would predict an RVF advantage when using a linguistic strategy and an LVF ad…
The relationship between handedness, anxiety and questionnaire response patterns
State and trait anxiety were found to be unrelated to the handedness categories distinguished by Annett (1970) in a sample of volunteers ( N = 385). Furthermore, mean scores for 99 male subjects did not differ significantly from those of 293 females. The mean anxiety levels in this study were much more representative of the general population than those reported in a previous similar study by Beaton & Moseley (1984). A suggestion that subjects cl…
Effects of mood manipulation and anxiety on performance of an emotional Stroop task
In Study 1 subjects high and low in trait anxiety were asked to identify the colour of anxiety-related, anxiety-matched neutral, happiness-related and happiness-matched neutral words. There were two types of stimulus presentation: blocked trials, where stimuli were blocked with respect to their valence, and mixed trials, where stimuli were mixed with respect to their valence. Subjects high in trait anxiety took longer to identify the colour of an…
Clock* this
An everyday example of a distortion of memory is reported. Subjects were presented with a standard clock with numbers represented by Roman numerals. Of the subjects asked to draw the clock from memory, the majority mistakenly represented the four as ‘IV’ rather than as ‘IIII’ The latter represents the standard form of Roman numeral representation upon clocks, but not elsewhere. It made no difference to performance whether or not subjects were war…
Automatic Genius
Journal Article AUTOMATIC GENIUS: MOZART AND THE MECHANICAL SUBLIME Get access ANNETTE RICHARDS ANNETTE RICHARDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Music and Letters, Volume 80, Issue 3, August 1999, Pages 366–389, https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/80.3.366 Published: 01 August 1999
Anxiety-Related Stroop Interference in Adolescents
A group of 16- to 18-year-old students was presented with threat-related and neutral Stroop stimuli on separate cards. Participants were assigned to anxiety groups on the basis of their scores on the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI; A. T. Beck & R. A. Steer, 1990). It was found, as predicted, that the high-anxiety group took significantly longer to identify the color of the threat-related word than the neutral words, whereas there was no difference f…
Mission and Polity
Politics and religion often use the same kind of language to achieve their ‘missionary’ ends, hut such language is stripped of its meaning unless it is related to ultimate, rather than short-term, purpose. This is demonstrated by notions of election, the place of the prophet and the effects of the ‘powers’ in global society. The energy and creativity of responding to an ultimate vision is undermined in both political and relgious affairs by insti…
Anxiety-related bias in the classification of emotionally ambiguous facial expressions
High- and low-trait socially anxious individuals classified the emotional expressions of photographic quality continua of interpolated ("morphed") facial images that were derived from combining 6 basic prototype emotional expressions to various degrees, with the 2 adjacent emotions arranged in an emotion hexagon. When fear was 1 of the 2 component emotions, the high-trait group displayed enhanced sensitivity for fear. In a 2nd experiment where a …
Independent Manipulation of Emotion in an Emotional Stroop Task Using Classical Conditioning
The effects of emotional connotation on emotional Stroop interference in anxiety were examined. First, a classical conditioning paradigm was used in which neutral words and nonwords were paired with either negative or neutral pictures. These conditioned stimuli were then presented in an emotional Stroop paradigm. Finally, participants rated each word and nonword for emotional connotation. The high-anxious group demonstrated significant interferen…
The influence of affect on higher level cognition
In this paper, we examine whether affect influences higher level cognitive processes. We review research on the effect of emotion on interpretation, judgement, decision making, and reasoning. In all cases, we ask first whether there is evidence that emotion affects each of these processes, and second what mechanisms might underlie these effects. Our review highlights the fact that interpretive biases are primarily linked with anxiety, while more …
Distracted by distractors
Is emotional Stroop interference linked to affective responses? Evidence from skin conductance and facial electromyography
In two experiments, we examined affective responses and attentional bias toward threat. We compared three dimensions of affective responses (subjective, expressive, physiological) to negative and neutral stimuli in high and low anxious participants and examined whether these responses correlated with attentional interference in an emotional Stroop task. We used an evaluative conditioning procedure to manipulate the affective value of stimuli subs…
Muslims and American Popular Culture
Offering readers an engaging, accessible, and balanced account of the contributions of American Muslims to the contemporary United States, this important book serves to clarify misrepresentations and misunderstandings regarding Muslim Americans and Islam. Unfortunately, American mass media representations of Muslims—whether in news or entertainment—are typically negative and one-dimensional. As a result, Muslims are frequently viewed negatively b…
Introduction  Recovering Oriental Perspectives on the West
Metabolic Risk Factors and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with indicators of poor physical health and sleep disturbance. This study investigated the relationship between PTSD and metabolic risk factors and examined the role of sleep duration in medically healthy and medication-free adults. METHODS: Participants with PTSD (n = 44, mean age = 30.6 years) and control participants free of lifetime psychiatric history (n = 50, mean age = 30.3 year…
Trait susceptibility to worry modulates the effects of cognitive load on cognitive control
According to the predictions of attentional control theory (ACT) of anxiety (Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007), worry is a central feature of anxiety that interferes with the ability to inhibit distracting information necessary for successful task performance. However, it is unclear how such cognitive control deficits are modulated by task demands and by the emotionality of the distractors. A sample of 31 participants (25 female) complet…
Interplay between supramodal attentional control and capacity limits in the low-level visual processors modulate the tendency to inattention
Are cathedrals the arks of today? Some reflections on cathedral mission and spiritual seekers
This paper examines the theological concept of ‘ark’ as a useful metaphor for assessing the potential of cathedrals for effective mission and social action. The popular concept of ark as shelter and means of salvation is but one way of thinking about cathedrals, but the paradoxical and complex nature of what it means to be ‘ark’ for others in Scripture and tradition provides other ways of assessing and developing mission potential. These differen…
Five Themes in a Theology of Evangelism
Traditional ways of thinking about evangelism can be confronted by the convoluted spiritual journeys of people outside the Church. Engaging positively with popular spirituality and culture creates challenges for Christian witness which call for new theological perspectives on evangelism. Five themes in particular can be described: understanding what it feels like not to be Christian; interrogating the skills of making community through the experi…
Psychology (13 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (10 works) · Cognition (8 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Anxiety (7 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (7 works) · Neuroscience (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works)