BA Psych(Hons) (University of Queensland) 

PhD (University of Queensland) 

HODSPA 

Dr. Edwards began his training in psychology at the University of South Australia, and
after moving to Queensland, completed his undergraduate, honours and PhD degrees at the
University of Queensland. He has lectured in Learning and Cognition, Biological
Psychology, Research Methods, Statistics, and Behavioural Neuroscience at the University
of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology. In early 2005, he was appointed to
the position of Assistant Professor in psychology at Bond University. In early 2006 he
was appointed as the Head of Psychology. 

Prior to pursuing an academic career, Dr. Edwards was employed as a Training Manager and
corporate trainer. In these positions he acted as a consultant to the corporate community
and was responsible for overseeing the design, development, implementation, evaluation
and administration of various training initiatives. In his role as a corporate trainer,
he specialised in teaching organisational behaviour, supervisory and management skills,
and communication and conflict resolution skills. In these positions he worked in the
private and public sectors, and was self-employed.

Articles

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Selective attention for masked and unmasked emotionally toned stimuli: Effects of trait anxiety, state anxiety, and test order (with Jennifer S. Burt and Ottmar V. Lipp), British journal of psychology (2010)

We investigated selective attention for masked and unmasked, threat, and positively valenced words, in high...

 

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Selective attention for masked and unmasked threatening words in anxiety: Effects of trait anxiety, state anxiety and awareness (with Jennifer S. Burt and Ottmar V. Lipp), Behaviour research and therapy (2010)

We investigated the effects of awareness on selective attention for masked and unmasked verbal threat...

 

An increase in stimulus arousal has differential effects on the processing speed of pleasant and unpleasant stimuli (with Helena M. Purkis, Ottmar V. Lipp, and Rebecca Barnes), Motivation and emotion (2009)

The arousal value of a stimulus influences its salience, whereby higher arousal should lead to...

 

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Childhood sexual abuse and substance abuse in relation to depression and coping (with Sonja Lee and Michael Lyvers), Journal of substance use (2008)

Relationships between Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA), substance abuse, substance abuse relapse, depression and coping styles...

 

Effects of contextual cues in recall and recognition memory: The misinformation effect reconsidered (with Justine M. Campbell, Mark S. Horswill, and Shaun M. Helman), British Journal of Psychology (2007)

Research in semantic word list-learning paradigms suggests that presentation modality during encoding may influence word...

 

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