
Philip A. Gable
Professor
Director, Social Psychology Area and Graduate Program
University of Delaware
Graduate Director, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Graduate Program
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
"My program of research investigates the interplay of emotion, motivation, personality, and cognition. I am profoundly interested in investigating the ways emotions modulate our thoughts, motivate our behaviors, and are expressed in the brain. In order to pursue these questions, I take a multi-method approach, examining both the neuropsychological and neurophysiological aspects associated with these processes. In order to examine the influence of these affects on psychological processes, I investigate a breadth of cognitive, perceptual, and behavioral measures. In addition, my work examines neurophysiological processes such as hemispheric asymmetry, EEG frequency, event-related potentials, and reflex physiology. Utilizing these psychological and psychophysiological methods provides a more complete understanding of the role of motivational processes. From these investigations, I have developed the Motivational Dimensional Model of cognitive scope, proposing that motivational direction and intensity influence cognitive and perceptual scope. A large body of my research has focused on affects often underexplored in previous literature with unique motivational properties: positive affects high (vs. low) in motivational intensity, and negative affects with approach-motivational tendencies. Another line of my research seeks to investigate the individual differences and attitudes underlying affective and neurophysiological processes. My interest lies in developing psychologically and neurophysiologically based theoretical models of affect and motivation. These areas of interest extend across broad areas of psychological and applied science."
Degrees
Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Media Links
Online Interview: Fatherly “How to Be Proud of Yourself Without Feeling Like a Phony” (January 21, 2021).
Online Interview: Mindful "You are Not your Moods" (January 19, 2021).
TV Interview: CBS Sunday Morning “Going to Plan B: When COVID pulls the rug out from under you” (December, 27, 2020).
Magazine Interview: UD Magazine "That Blursday Feeling" (December, 1, 2020).
News Media Interview: NBC Global Hangout (September 2, 2020).
TV Interview: DelmarvaLife 5pm News, WBOC-16 (August 26, 2020).
Magazine Interview: Gama "Pandemic Times" (August 22, 2020).
Radio Interview: WDEL Del-AWARE (August 14, 2020).
TV Interview: NBC Philadelphia News at 4PM (August 13, 2020).
Newspaper Article: Portland Press Herald "What day is it? Welcome to 'Blursday' (August 9, 2020).
Online Interview: Fatherly “How to Tell if Your Anger Is an Issue” (August 3, 2020).
Newspaper Article: Alabama "Why doesn’t everyone want to wear a mask during a pandemic?" (July 23, 2020).
Radio Interview: Sirius/XM143 Top of Mind "Why do Humans Perceive Time Differently" (July 21, 2020).
Newspaper Article: Delaware News Journal "As COVID-19 sweeps Delaware, face masks can save lives. So why are we fighting over them?" (July 6, 2020).
Scientific Popular Press: The Conversation. " The stay-at-home slowdown – how the pandemic upended our perception of time" (June 10, 2020). - 68,415 reads as of 1/21/21
Scientific Popular Press: Scientific American. "A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as COVID-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks" (May 27, 2020).
Radio Interview: wNYC (NYC Public Radio). The Brian Lehrer Show (May 18th, 2020).
Online News Interview: WebMD. Today is Blursday: How Lockdown Warps Time (May, 7th, 2020).
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