Freya Arnold
(she/her)
BSc (Psychology)
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Graduate Tutor
Research student
Overview
I am a Psychology PhD student, and member of the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences, researching how biological traits and early life experiences shape the development of attention biases, and how these biases may contribute to the development of anxiety.
Research
I am interested in understanding how early attentional biases may contribute risk for developing anxiety disorders.
Through using a range of developmental research methods, such as eye-tracking, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, observations and questionnaires, I seek to understand how biological and environmental risk factors for anxiety may interact to shape the development of attention biases associated with later anxiety.
My interest in this topic grew as I collaborated with researchers at Northwestern University to complete my undergraduate research project exploring associations between infant irritability, materal anxiety and attention biases towards threat in 24 month olds.
Biography
| BSc Psychology with Professional Placement | Cardiff University | 2019-2023 |
| Support Worker | The National Autistic Society | 2022-2023 |
| Learning Club Volunteer | ACE Cardiff | 2022-2023 |
| MITACS Globalink Research Intern | Centre for Infant Cognition, University of British Columbia | 2022 |
| Psychology Placement Student | Neuropsychology Department, Cardiff and Vale Health Board | 2021 - 2022 |
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Developmental psychology
- Developmental cognitive neuroscience
- Stress and Anxiety Disorders