University Senior Lecturer
Fellow and Director of Studies in Psychology, Jesus College, Cambridge
Director of Studies, Christ's College, Cambridge
Office 406
Cambridge CB2 3EB
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Research Interests
Simone Schnall is the Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory, and studies the relationship between cognitive and affective processes. In particular, she is interested in how embodiment informs and constrains thought and feeling. Currently, she is investigating the interactions between bodily cues, affective states and cognitive variables such as perception, attention and memory.
Funding for Schnall’s research has been provided by grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), the National Science Foundation (USA), National Institute of Mental Health (USA), and private foundations. Altogether Schnall has been awarded over £1,000,000 in research funding since 2003.
Outside of the university, Schnall serves as Associate Editor for Social Psychological and Personality Science and Consulting Editor for Perspectives on Psychological Science, and is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College. She is further one of the founding organisers, together with Brian Meier and Norbert Schwarz, of the SPSP Preconference on Embodiment in Social and Personality Psychology.
Schnall’s research findings routinely receive coverage in the popular press, such as the New York Times, Economist, New Scientist, Times Higher Education and many international news media (click here for recent media attention).
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Key Publications
Schnall, S., & Roper, J. (2012). Elevation puts moral values into action. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 3, 373-378.
Schnall, S., Roper, J., & Fessler, D. M. T. (2010). Elevation leads to altruistic behavior. Psychological Science, 21, 315-320.
Schnall, S., Zadra, J., & Proffitt, D. R. (2010). Direct evidence for the economy of action: Glucose and the perception of geographical slant. Perception, 39, 464-482.
Schnall, S., Benton, J., & Harvey, S. (2008). With a clean conscience: Cleanliness reduces the severity of moral judgments. Psychological Science, 19, 1219-1222.
Schnall, S., Haidt, J., Clore, G. L., & Jordan, A. H. (2008). Disgust as embodied moral judgment. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1096-1109.
Schnall, S., Harber, K., Stefanucci, J. & Proffitt, D. R. (2008). Social support and the perception of geographical slant. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1246-1255.