School of Psychology
McElwain Building, Level 3
University of Queensland
St Lucia, QLD 4072
AUSTRALIA

B.S., University of Iowa.  M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

Eric joined the School in 2007. He previously had academic appointments at Georgia State University and Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California working in the laboratories of a social psychologist and a cognitive psychophysiologist. His research interests include the psychophysiology of emotion and learning, and he identifies himself as a social neuroscientist, due to his almost obsessive interest in the biological underpinnings of human social behaviour.

Journal Articles

• Vanman, E. J., Boehmelt, A. H., Dawson, M. E., & Schell, A. M. (1996). The varying time courses of attentional and affective modulation of the startle eyeblink reflex. Psychophysiology, 33, 691-697.
• Vanman, E. J., Paul, B. Y., Ito, T. A., & Miller, N. (1997). The modern face of prejudice and structural features that moderate the effect of cooperation on affect. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 941-959. 
• Read, S. J., Vanman, E. J., & Miller, L. C. (1997). Connectionism, parallel constraint satisfaction processes, and Gestalt principles: (Re)introducing cognitive dynamics to social psychology. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 1, 26-53.
• Vanman, E. J., Dawson, M. E., & Brennan, P. A. (1998). Affective reactions in the blink of an eye: Individual differences in subjective experience and physiological responses to emotional stimuli. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 24, 994-1005.
• Tobin, R. M., Graziano, W. G., Vanman, E. J., & Tassinary, L. G. (2000). Personality, emotional experience, and efforts to control emotions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 79, 656-669.
• Striano, T. M., Brennan, P. A., & Vanman, E. J. (2002). Maternal depressive symptoms and 6-month old infants' sensitivity to facial expressions. Infancy, 3, 115-126.
• Vanman, E. J. (2003). Developing a comprehensive social psychology with shared explanations of primate social behavior. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 16, 33-43.
• Vanman, E. J., Mejia, V. M., Dawson, M. E., Raine, A., & Schell, A. M. (2003). Modification of the startle reflex in a community sample: Do one or two dimensions of psychopathy underlie emotional processing? Personality and Individual Differences, 35, 2007-2021.
• Bassett, J. F., Washburn, D. A., Vanman, E. J., Dabbs, J. M. (2004). Assessing the affective Simon paradigm as a measure of individual differences in implicit social cognition about death. Current Research in Social Psychology, 9, 234-246
• Vanman, E.J., Saltz, J. L., Nathan, L. R., & Warren, J. A. (2004) Racial discrimination by low-prejudiced Whites: Facial movements as implicit measures of attitudes related to behavior. Psychological Science, 15, 711-714.
• Rani, P., Lui, Sarkar, N. & Vanman, E. J. (2006). An empirical study of machine learning techniques for affect recognition in human-robot interaction. Pattern Analysis and Applications, 9, 58-69.

Books/Monographs/Chapters

• Vanman, E. J., & Miller, N. (1993). Applications of emotion theory and research to stereotyping and intergroup relations. In D. M. Mackie & D. L. Hamilton (Eds.), Affect, cognition, and stereotyping: Interactive processes in group perception (pp. 213-238). Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
• Miller, N., Urban, L. M., & Vanman, E. J. (1997). A theoretical analysis of crossed categorization effects. In C. Sedikides, J. Schopler, & C. A. Inkso (Eds.), Intergroup cognition and intergroup behavior (pp. 394-420). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Putnam, L., & Vanman, E. J. (1999). Long lead interval startle modification. In M. E. Dawson, A. M. Schell, & A. H. Boehmelt (Eds.), Startle modification: Implications for neuroscience, cognitive science, and clinical science (pp. 72-92). New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Brennan, P. A., Grekin, E. R., & Vanman, E. J. (2000). Major mental disorders and crime in the community: A focus on patient populations and cohort investigations. In S. Hodgins (Ed.), Effective prevention of crime and violence among persons with major mental disorder (pp. 3-18). New York: Plenum.
• Vanman, E. J. (2006). Test bank for Breckler, Olson, and Wiggins’ Social Psychology Alive. Belmont, CA: Thomson-Learning. 
• Tassinary, L.G., Cacioppo, J.T., & Vanman, E.J. (2007). The skeletomotor system: Surface electromyography. J.T. Cacioppo, L.G. Tassinary, & G.G. Berntson (Eds.), Handbook of Psychophysiology (3rd ed.).