Dipl. Psych. (Giessen, Germany), Dr phil. (Giessen, Germany), Grad Cert Education (UQ), Habilitation (Marburg, Germany), FASSA

I joined the School of Psychology in 1991 as a post doc and was appointed to a faculty position in 1994. I completed my academic training in Germany, but saw the light (literally) after spending a few weeks down under.
I teach in the areas of associative learning, psychophysiology, and neuroscience of emotion and learning. My research is concerned with learning, emotion, attention and their interactions.

Member: Society for Psychophysiological Research;
Australasian Society for Psychophysiology;
Gesellschaft fuer Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendung;
Australian Psychological Society;
Australian Society for Experimental Psychology.
Editor in Chief: Biological Psychology.
Associate Editor: Australian Journal of Psychology.

My research, both basic and applied, is concerned with emotion, attention and their interaction. In particular, it is concerned the processes involved in the acquisition of likes and dislikes (including fear learning) and the manner in which emotionally salient or neutral events are processed. Current projects include: Factors that influence extinction of fear learning in humans; Preferential processing of fear-relevant stimuli (snakes, spiders, angry faces);  Processing of other race faces;  Psychophysiology of emotion and attention. For more details see the web site of the 'Emotion, Learning, and Psychophysiology Laboratory': http://www2.psy.uq.edu.au/~landcp/

Blumenthal, T.D., Cuthbert, B.N., Filion, D.L, Hackley,S., Lipp,O.V., & van Boxtel, A. (2005). Committee Report: Guidelines for Human Startle Eyeblink Electromyographic Studies. Psychophysiology, 42, 1-15.
Lipp, O.V. (2006). Of snakes and flowers: Does preferential detection of pictures of fear-relevant animals in visual search reflect on fear-relevance? Emotion, 6, 296-308.
Lipp O.V. & Purkis, H.M. (2006). The effects of assessment type on verbal ratings of conditional stimulus valence and contingency judgments: implications for the extinction of evaluative learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 32, 431-440.
Lipp, O.V. & Waters, A.M. (2007). When danger lurks in the background: Attentional capture by animal fear-relevant distracters is specific and selectively enhanced by animal fear. Emotion, 7, 192-200.
Purkis, H.M., & Lipp, O.V. (2007). Automatic attention does not equal automatic fear: preferential attention without implicit valence. Emotion, 7, 314 - 323.