Rate My Professor Jemma Todd

Todd's research focuses on cognitive and emotional processes underpinning disability in pain and co-occurring physical and mental health conditions, including anxiety, trauma, sleep difficulties, diabetes, and cancer. She examines cognitive processing biases—attention, interpretation, and expectancy—and factors influencing their variability, such as goals, motivation, threat perception, and cognitive flexibility. Her methodologies encompass reaction time tasks, eye-tracking, EEG, SSVEP, and innovative bias modification techniques like gamified dot-probe procedures, virtual reality, and app-based interventions to augment clinical treatments. Key publications include 'Attentional bias to pain-related information: a meta-analysis of dot-probe studies' (2018, Health Psychology Review), 'Reasoned versus reactive prediction of behaviour: A meta-analysis of the prototype willingness model' (2016, Health Psychology Review), 'Towards a new model of attentional biases in the development, maintenance, and management of pain' (2015, Pain), 'Interpretation bias and its relationship with pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (2025, Pain), and 'Cognitive flexibility and resilience measured through a residual approach' (2025, Anxiety, Stress and Coping). With nearly 20 peer-reviewed publications cited over 600 times, she has earned international recognition through guest presentations on cognitive biases in somatic disorders and global collaborations.