BIO
Brian Parkinson is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oxford. Holder of a PhD in Psychology from the University of Manchester, before his present appointment he worked in a number of UK universities including Liverpool, Sheffield, Leicester and Brunel. His research focuses on the social psychology of emotion, facial expression, interpersonal emotion regulation and interpersonal affect transfer. A tenet of his work is that the emotions configure our relationships with other people and regulate their orientations towards objects and events. His latest book, Heart to Heart: How Your Emotions Affect Other People, was selected as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2020 by Choice, the magazine of the American Library Association. Co-editor of the book series Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction (Cambridge University Press), he also serves as Co-editor-in-chief of the academic journal Emotion Review.
