Andrew J Cooper
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658167 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew J Cooper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cooper |
| SIGNATURE | COOPER A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5897-2107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Loneliness and Personality: Noise‐ and Bias‐Free True Correlations Between Loneliness and the Big Five Personality Domains
Objective While loneliness is intertwined with many mental and physical health problems, its origins are not yet well understood. We sought to better understand its link to personality in a large national cohort. Methods Combining self‐ and informant ratings in multiple samples, we conducted the largest study to date to examine loneliness' true correlations ( r true s) with the Big Five personality traits, free of single‐method biases and transie…
Empowering young voices through performing poetry
In this article we examine the potential of writing and performing poetry to empower young people from marginalized backgrounds to participate in the political life of their communities. Our method combines philosophical analysis with the design and implementation of a poetry workshop in Coventry. We then explore how this account informed implementation of the workshop. Finally, we present the results. To unpack the significance of our findings, …
Association Between ICD-10 Codes for Social Needs and Subsequent Emergency and Inpatient Use
BACKGROUND: International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision Z codes capture social needs related to health care encounters and may identify elevated risk of acute care use. OBJECTIVES: To examine associations between Z code assignment and subsequent acute care use and explore associations between social need category and acute care use. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: Adults continuously enrolled in a commercial or …
Non-pharmacological Interventions for Problematic Substance Use: A Rapid Overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews
A Rapid review of Cochrane Systematic Reviews to identify the non-pharmacological interventions in substance use treatment services and their effectiveness levels where reported. Cochrane systematic reviews were matched to the inclusion criteria and data extracted. A total of 667 studies and 532041 participants are included. The non-pharmacological interventions found can be grouped into three categories: information dissemination, non-specialize…
The Molecular Genetics of Life Satisfaction: Extending Findings from a Recent Genome-Wide Association Study and Examining the Role of the Serotonin Transporter
In a recent genome-wide association study (GWAS), three polymorphisms (rs3756290, RAPGEF6; rs2075677, CSE1L; rs4958581, NMUR2) were suggested as potentially being related to subjective-well-being and life satisfaction. Additionally, associations between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism (serotonin transporter) and subjective well-being have been reported in other previous studies. In the current study, we therefore sought to further investigate the findi…
Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Empathy, Autistic Tendencies, and Systemizing Tendencies—Relationships Between Standard Self-Report Measures
The aim of the present study was to investigate associations between four highly used self-report measures assessing empathy (measured as both a unidimensional and multidimensional construct), autistic tendencies, and systemizing tendencies. Participants in this study completed the following self-report measures: The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and the Empathy Quotient (EQ) to measure empathy, and the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) and th…
The Role of Empathy and Life Satisfaction in Internet and Smartphone Use Disorder
Recent studies have yielded initial evidence for an association between Internet Use Disorder (IUD), empathy, and life satisfaction. In the present study we sought to replicate these previous findings, and then to extend this research by also examining the relationship between empathy, life satisfaction, and the related phenomenon of Smartphone Use Disorder (SUD). The present study included independent samples from China (N = 612, 162 females) an…
Personal social networks and organizational affiliation of South Asians in the United States
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02268513
Kant and experimental philosophy
While Kant introduces his critical philosophy in continuity with the experimental tradition begun by Francis Bacon, it is widely accepted that his Copernican revolution places experimental physics outside the bounds of science. Yet scholars have recently contested this view. They argue that in Critique of the Power of Judgment Kant’s engagement with the growing influence of vitalism in the 1780s leads to an account of nature’s formative power tha…
The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ): Development and validation.
We report the development and validation of a questionnaire measure of the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory (rRST) of personality. Starting with qualitative responses to defensive and approach scenarios modeled on typical rodent ethoexperimental situations, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) revealed a robust 6-factor structure: 2 unitary defensive factors, fight-flight-freeze system (FFFS; related to fear) and the behavi…
Terry Eagleton, Hope without Optimism
Hope without OptimismTerry Eagleton, Hope without Optimism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015)Isaiah Berlin famously identified two kinds of thinkers: fox, who knows many small things, and hedgehog, who knows one large thing. In Hope without Optimism Eagleton tarries with both. In his rapid-fire style Eagleton rarely dwells on a single notion of for more than a few lines as reader is carried through a myriad of fragmented attemp…
Impulsivity-related personality traits and adolescent alcohol use: A meta-analytic review
Aspects of extraversion are unrelated to pleasant affective-reactivity: Further examination of the affective-reactivity hypothesis
Do extraverts get more bang for the buck? Refining the affective-reactivity hypothesis of extraversion
One of the most robust observations in personality and emotion research is the finding that extraverts are happier than introverts. Some theorists have attributed this to differential reactivity of the brain reward system, which is central to many biologically inspired models of extraversion. This affective-reactivity hypothesis, which suggests that extraverts should be more susceptible to the induction of positive affect, has so far received ver…
Personality and Defensive Reactions: Fear, Trait Anxiety, and Threat Magnification
The revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (rRST) of personality (Gray & McNaughton, 2000) maintains that trait individual differences in the operation of defensive systems relate to facets of human personality, most notably anxiety and fear. We investigated this theory in 2 separate studies (total N=270) using a threat scenario research strategy (Blanchard, Hynd, Minke, Minemoto, & Blanchard, 2001). Consistent with rRST, results showed that in…
Measuring the psychological consequences of breast cancer screening: A confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychological Consequences Questionnaire
Individual differences in cognitive control: The role of psychoticism and working memory in set-shifting
Set-shifting refers to a process of cognitive control which is shown through flexible behavioural adaptation to changes in task parameters or demands, such as the switching of an explicit rule (extra-dimensional rule shifting) or the reversal of a reinforcement-contingency (reversal-learning). Set-shifting deficits are widely documented in specific neuropsychological disorders, but seldom investigated in relation to normally-occurring individual …
State Power and Patterns of Late Development: A Comment on Zhao and Hall
Responding to claims that there is a crisis in the sociology of development rooted in inadequate explanations of the connections between economic change and political institutions, Zhao and Hall propose a state-centred approach in understanding successful late development in the Third World. Here it is argued that there are some difficulties associated with their use of the concept of 'bounded autonomy'. Further, some alternative insights are sug…
Do extraverts get more bang for the buck? Refining the affective-reactivity hypothesis of extraversion
One of the most robust observations in personality and emotion research is the finding that extraverts are happier than introverts. Some theorists have attributed this to differential reactivity of the brain reward system, which is central to many biologically inspired models of extraversion. This affective-reactivity hypothesis, which suggests that extraverts should be more susceptible to the induction of positive affect, has so far received ver…
Aspects of extraversion are unrelated to pleasant affective-reactivity: Further examination of the affective-reactivity hypothesis
Kant and experimental philosophy
While Kant introduces his critical philosophy in continuity with the experimental tradition begun by Francis Bacon, it is widely accepted that his Copernican revolution places experimental physics outside the bounds of science. Yet scholars have recently contested this view. They argue that in Critique of the Power of Judgment Kant’s engagement with the growing influence of vitalism in the 1780s leads to an account of nature’s formative power tha…
Individual differences in cognitive control: The role of psychoticism and working memory in set-shifting
Set-shifting refers to a process of cognitive control which is shown through flexible behavioural adaptation to changes in task parameters or demands, such as the switching of an explicit rule (extra-dimensional rule shifting) or the reversal of a reinforcement-contingency (reversal-learning). Set-shifting deficits are widely documented in specific neuropsychological disorders, but seldom investigated in relation to normally-occurring individual …
State Power and Patterns of Late Development: A Comment on Zhao and Hall
Responding to claims that there is a crisis in the sociology of development rooted in inadequate explanations of the connections between economic change and political institutions, Zhao and Hall propose a state-centred approach in understanding successful late development in the Third World. Here it is argued that there are some difficulties associated with their use of the concept of 'bounded autonomy'. Further, some alternative insights are sug…
State Power and Patterns of Late Development: A Comment on Zhao and Hall
Responding to claims that there is a crisis in the sociology of development rooted in inadequate explanations of the connections between economic change and political institutions, Zhao and Hall propose a state-centred approach in understanding successful late development in the Third World. Here it is argued that there are some difficulties associated with their use of the concept of 'bounded autonomy'. Further, some alternative insights are sug…
Measuring the psychological consequences of breast cancer screening: A confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychological Consequences Questionnaire
Individual differences in cognitive control: The role of psychoticism and working memory in set-shifting
Set-shifting refers to a process of cognitive control which is shown through flexible behavioural adaptation to changes in task parameters or demands, such as the switching of an explicit rule (extra-dimensional rule shifting) or the reversal of a reinforcement-contingency (reversal-learning). Set-shifting deficits are widely documented in specific neuropsychological disorders, but seldom investigated in relation to normally-occurring individual …
Personality and Defensive Reactions: Fear, Trait Anxiety, and Threat Magnification
The revised Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory (rRST) of personality (Gray & McNaughton, 2000) maintains that trait individual differences in the operation of defensive systems relate to facets of human personality, most notably anxiety and fear. We investigated this theory in 2 separate studies (total N=270) using a threat scenario research strategy (Blanchard, Hynd, Minke, Minemoto, & Blanchard, 2001). Consistent with rRST, results showed that in…
Do extraverts get more bang for the buck? Refining the affective-reactivity hypothesis of extraversion
One of the most robust observations in personality and emotion research is the finding that extraverts are happier than introverts. Some theorists have attributed this to differential reactivity of the brain reward system, which is central to many biologically inspired models of extraversion. This affective-reactivity hypothesis, which suggests that extraverts should be more susceptible to the induction of positive affect, has so far received ver…
Impulsivity-related personality traits and adolescent alcohol use: A meta-analytic review
Aspects of extraversion are unrelated to pleasant affective-reactivity: Further examination of the affective-reactivity hypothesis
The Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory of Personality Questionnaire (RST-PQ): Development and validation.
We report the development and validation of a questionnaire measure of the revised reinforcement sensitivity theory (rRST) of personality. Starting with qualitative responses to defensive and approach scenarios modeled on typical rodent ethoexperimental situations, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) revealed a robust 6-factor structure: 2 unitary defensive factors, fight-flight-freeze system (FFFS; related to fear) and the behavi…
Terry Eagleton, Hope without Optimism
Hope without OptimismTerry Eagleton, Hope without Optimism (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015)Isaiah Berlin famously identified two kinds of thinkers: fox, who knows many small things, and hedgehog, who knows one large thing. In Hope without Optimism Eagleton tarries with both. In his rapid-fire style Eagleton rarely dwells on a single notion of for more than a few lines as reader is carried through a myriad of fragmented attemp…
Kant and experimental philosophy
While Kant introduces his critical philosophy in continuity with the experimental tradition begun by Francis Bacon, it is widely accepted that his Copernican revolution places experimental physics outside the bounds of science. Yet scholars have recently contested this view. They argue that in Critique of the Power of Judgment Kant’s engagement with the growing influence of vitalism in the 1780s leads to an account of nature’s formative power tha…
The Role of Empathy and Life Satisfaction in Internet and Smartphone Use Disorder
Recent studies have yielded initial evidence for an association between Internet Use Disorder (IUD), empathy, and life satisfaction. In the present study we sought to replicate these previous findings, and then to extend this research by also examining the relationship between empathy, life satisfaction, and the related phenomenon of Smartphone Use Disorder (SUD). The present study included independent samples from China (N = 612, 162 females) an…
Personal social networks and organizational affiliation of South Asians in the United States
ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02268513
Empathy, Autistic Tendencies, and Systemizing Tendencies—Relationships Between Standard Self-Report Measures
The aim of the present study was to investigate associations between four highly used self-report measures assessing empathy (measured as both a unidimensional and multidimensional construct), autistic tendencies, and systemizing tendencies. Participants in this study completed the following self-report measures: The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) and the Empathy Quotient (EQ) to measure empathy, and the Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) and th…
The Molecular Genetics of Life Satisfaction: Extending Findings from a Recent Genome-Wide Association Study and Examining the Role of the Serotonin Transporter
In a recent genome-wide association study (GWAS), three polymorphisms (rs3756290, RAPGEF6; rs2075677, CSE1L; rs4958581, NMUR2) were suggested as potentially being related to subjective-well-being and life satisfaction. Additionally, associations between the 5-HTTLPR polymorphism (serotonin transporter) and subjective well-being have been reported in other previous studies. In the current study, we therefore sought to further investigate the findi…
Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us
Non-pharmacological Interventions for Problematic Substance Use: A Rapid Overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews
A Rapid review of Cochrane Systematic Reviews to identify the non-pharmacological interventions in substance use treatment services and their effectiveness levels where reported. Cochrane systematic reviews were matched to the inclusion criteria and data extracted. A total of 667 studies and 532041 participants are included. The non-pharmacological interventions found can be grouped into three categories: information dissemination, non-specialize…
Association Between ICD-10 Codes for Social Needs and Subsequent Emergency and Inpatient Use
BACKGROUND: International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision Z codes capture social needs related to health care encounters and may identify elevated risk of acute care use. OBJECTIVES: To examine associations between Z code assignment and subsequent acute care use and explore associations between social need category and acute care use. RESEARCH DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SUBJECTS: Adults continuously enrolled in a commercial or …
Empowering young voices through performing poetry
In this article we examine the potential of writing and performing poetry to empower young people from marginalized backgrounds to participate in the political life of their communities. Our method combines philosophical analysis with the design and implementation of a poetry workshop in Coventry. We then explore how this account informed implementation of the workshop. Finally, we present the results. To unpack the significance of our findings, …
Loneliness and Personality: Noise‐ and Bias‐Free True Correlations Between Loneliness and the Big Five Personality Domains
Objective While loneliness is intertwined with many mental and physical health problems, its origins are not yet well understood. We sought to better understand its link to personality in a large national cohort. Methods Combining self‐ and informant ratings in multiple samples, we conducted the largest study to date to examine loneliness' true correlations ( r true s) with the Big Five personality traits, free of single‐method biases and transie…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Personality (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Big Five personality traits (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Extraversion and introversion (4 works) · Neuroticism (4 works)