Eamon Fulcher

Eamon Fulcher born November 1957 is a cognitive-behavioural psychologist at the University of the West of England. He obtained his PhD in the field of neural networks at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, under the supervision of Igor Aleksander. He was a research assistant to Alan Baddeley at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge. He has also worked at the Goldsmiths College University of London, the University of Worcester, the University of Gloucestershire, the University of Murcia in Spain. As well as a psychology tutor and a researcher, he is also a writer, a programmer, a web designer, and statistical and research methods consultant.

Research
His research has focussed on evaluative conditioning (aka evaluative learning), with an emphasis on its application to anxiety disorders and its relationship with attentional bias. He has also conducted research on pre-environmental behaviour associated with climate change and research on public attitudes to road safety.

LabWriteUp
He designed and programmed LabWriteUp, a computer application designed to help students write research reports for coursework.

Marker's Black Box
He also designed and programmed Marker's Black Box, a standalone marking application that runs from a PC with Windows XP and Windows Vista. It can be used to mark and grade student coursework or exam paper that has been submitted as a hard copy (hand written or word processed) or in electronic form (e.g., online submission of a word processed document). The output of Marker's Black Box is a word processed marker's feedback sheet that contains the written comments and assessment of the marker. It also contains the college, faculty, course, and assignment details and an additional option is to include the marks awarded for each criterion.

Publications

 * Fulcher, EP, Mathews A, & Hammerl M. (2008). Rapid acquisition of emotional information and attentional bias in anxious children. Journal of Behaviour Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 39, 321-39.
 * Hammerl, M., & Fulcher, E.P. (2005) Reactance in affective-evaluative learning: Outside of conscious control? Cognition & Emotion, 19, 197-216.
 * Fulcher, E. P. (2002) The allocation of attention to stimuli imbued with valence through evaluative learning. Proceedings of the Experimental Psychology Conference 2002, Leuvan, Belgium.
 * Fulcher, E. P. & Hammerl, M. (2001a) When all is revealed: A dissociation between evaluative learning and contingency awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 10, 524-549. (ISBN 1053-8100/01).
 * Fulcher, E. P. & Hammerl, M. (2001b) When all is considered: Evaluative learning does not require contingency awareness. Consciousness and Cognition, 10, 567-573. (ISBN 1053-8100/01).
 * Fulcher, E. P. (2001) Neurons with attitude: A connectionist account of evaluative learning. In S. Moore & M. Oaksford (Eds.) Emotional Cognition: From Brain to Behaviour. Amsterdam: John Benjamin Publishing.
 * Fulcher, E. P., Mathews, A., Mackintosh, B., & Law, S. (2001) Evaluative Learning and the Allocation of Attention to Emotional Stimuli. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 25 (3), 261-280. (ISSN 0147 5916).
 * Fulcher, E. P. & Law, S. (1998) The construction of evaluative maps during emotional information processing: evaluative conditioning, attention and anxiety. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 30 (1-2), 207-208. (ISSN 0167 8760).
 * Mathews, A., Mackintosh, B., & Fulcher, E.P. (1997). Cognitive biases in anxiety and attention to threat. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1 (9), pp. 340–345. (ISBN 1364 6613/97).
 * Fulcher, E. P. & Cocks, R. C. (1997) Dissociative storage systems in human evaluative conditioning. Behaviour Research & Therapy, 35 (1), 1-10. (ISBN 0005 7967/97).

Books and book chapters

 * Fulcher, E. P. (2005). A Guide to Coursework in Psychology. Brighton & Hove: Psychology Press.
 * Fulcher, E. P. (2003). Cognitive Psychology. Crucial Study Guide Series. Exeter: Learning Matters.
 * Humphreys, P., Cocks, R., Crampton, C., Fulcher, E., Mahoney, B., & Ward, S. (2001) Exam Revision Notes: AS/A-Level AQA (A) Psychology. Deddington: Philip Allen Updates. (ISBN 0-86003-431-3).