Linda Arrighi, Ph.D.
Linda Arrighi, Ph.D.
Career Development Fellow
Department of Psychology, Durham University (Durham, UK)
Career Development Fellow
Department of Psychology, Durham University (Durham, UK)
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Department of Psychology, Durham University (Durham, UK)
Biography
My background in Neuroscience and a passion for understanding how socio-cultural context can affect brain and behaviour led me to pursue a NINE DTP (ESRC) funded PhD (Supervisors: Prof Hausmann; Dr Matejko) at the Department of Psychology at Durham University, where I now work as a Career Development Fellow.My research broadly explores sex/gender differences in cognitive performance, especially in math and spatial tasks. Throughout my PhD, I have used a biopsychosocial approach, which looks at the interactive effects of steroid hormones, self-perception of ability, and gender stereotypes. I am also interested in the development of sex/gender differences in cognitive performance and have conducted a developmental study with a focus on anxiety-performance links in math and spatial tasks. For this study, I have engaged in community outreach and collected data at Junior Scientist in 2023 and am collaborating with Dr Sokolowski at Toronto Metropolitan University. I have presented my research through talks and posters at local, national, and international conferences and workshops.Being someone who deeply cares about equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) within and outside of my research, I have worked with the EDI self-assessment team as a Postgraduate Research (PGR) representative in 2021 and 2022 to identify EDI issues that the student body felt affected by within the Department of Psychology at Durham University. I have also helped with the Athena Swan Silver Award renewal application. During the academic year 2021/22, I was the PGR student representative in the Department of Psychology alongside Dr Ross. In this role, I was the main organiser of the 2022 PGR Conference, in addition to running a few community-fostering activities.Biography
Research interests
Research interests
A biopsychosocial approach to cognitive sex/gender differences
Development of sex/gender differences in cognition
Anxiety-performance links
Spatial and mathematical cognition
Sex/gender diversity
Gender stereotypes
Neuromodulatory properties of sex/stress hormones
Stress effects on cognition
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