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Professor Piers Cornelissen

Professor

Department: Psychology

HLS Piers Cornelissen Staffprofile 255 Prof Piers Cornelissen holds the Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology. He trained as a medic at St Thomas’s Hospital London. After some time in clinical practice he moved to Oxford for a DPhil and a McDonnell-Pew post-doctoral fellowship. He joined Northumbria as Chair of Cognitive Neuroscience in 2012 following periods in York and Newcastle Universities.

Key Publications

Determinants of child body weight categorization in parents and health care professionals: An experimental study, Evans, E., Ridley-Gamble, B., Cornelissen, P., Kramer, R., Araújo-Soares, V., Tovee, M. 1 Feb 2025, In: British Journal of Health Psychology
Treating negative body image in adolescents with eating disorders using an online training: A series of replicated single-case experiments, Glashouwer, K., Doornbos-Burema, A., Onghena, P., McCarty, K., Cornelissen, P. 30 Jan 2025, In: Single Case in the Social Sciences
Evidence for a specific distortion in perceptual body image in eating disorders: a replication and extension, Brokjøb, L., Cornelissen, P., Gumančík, J., McCarty, K., Tovée, M., Cornelissen, K. 22 Nov 2024, In: PLoS One
Individual word representations dissociate from linguistic context along a cortical unimodal to heteromodal gradient, Eisenhauer, S., Gonzalez Alam, T., Cornelissen, P., Smallwood, J., Jefferies, E. Feb 2024, In: Human Brain Mapping
Personal ideal, cultural ideal and optimal attractiveness: Are these constructs for body size and shape the same or different?, Ridley, B., Cornelissen, P., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R., McCarty, K., Tovée, M. 1 Dec 2024, In: Body Image
Sample characteristics for quantitative analyses in Body Image: Issues of generalisability, Pollet, T., Bovet, J., Buhaenko, R., Cornelissen, P., Tovee, M. 1 Jun 2024, In: Body Image
Testing the validity of online psychophysical measurement of body image perception, Gumančík, J., Cornelissen, P., Brokjøb, L., Ridley-Gamble, B., McCarty, K., Tovee, M., Cornelissen, K. 10 Jun 2024, In: PLoS One
The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales, Ridley, B., Evans, E., Cornelissen, P., Kramer, R., Tovee, M. 16 Oct 2024, In: Children
How do looking patterns, anti-fat bias, and causal weight attributions relate to adults’ judgements of child weight?, Evans, E., Tovée, M., Hancock, P., Cornelissen, P. 1 Mar 2023, In: Body Image
Men’s perception of current and ideal body composition and the influence of media internalisation on body judgements, Groves, V., Ridley, B., Cornelissen, P., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R., McCarty, K., Tovee, M., Cornelissen, K. 2 May 2023, In: Frontiers in Psychology

Qualifications

Physiology PhD June 30 1992
Medicine MBBS August 01 1987
Physiology BA June 01 1984
Information not provided General Medical Council (GMC) 2012

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