About
I am a lecturer (assistant professor) in the Centre for Research on Self and Identity. i am the director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory I use neuroscientific techniques (primarily EEG) to study motivation, emotion, and the self. Much of my current research focuses on understanding the neural processes underlying representational (i.e., how is self-relevant information stored?), executive (i.e., self-regulation, valuation, learning), and reflective (i.e., depictions of the self in interactions with others) aspects of the self.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Social and Affective Neuroscience
- The Self
- Self-Regulation
Research projects
Active projects
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Publications
66 publications
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Polina Politanskaia, Jacinta Bywater, Anna J. Finley, Hannah A.D. Keage, Nicholas J. Kelley, Daniel J. McKeown, Victor R. Schinazi & Douglas J. Angus,
2026, Cerebral Cortex, 36(7)
Type: article
Chloe Christine Webb, Nicholas Kelley, Jacob Juhl & Constantine Sedikides,
2026, Self and Identity, 1-33
Type: article
Katerina Litsou, Cynthia Graham, Nicholas Kelley & Roger Ingham,
2026, Porn Studies, 1-28
Type: article
Ariana Modirrousta-Galian, Tina Seabrooke, Yaniv M Hanoch, Nicholas Kelley & Philip Higham,
2026, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied
DOI: 10.1037/xap0000580
Type: article
Zhiwei Zhou, Douglas J. Angus, Constantine Sedikides & Nicholas J. Kelley,
2026, European Journal of Personality, 40(5), 1293-1308
Type: article
Nicholas J. Kelley & Constantine Sedikides,
2026
Type: bookChapter
Nicholas J. Kelley, Douglas J. Angus, Tim Wildschut & Constantine Sedikides,
2026, Emotion, 26(2), 466–478
DOI: 10.1037/emo0001583
Type: article
Esther M. Robins, Zhiwei Zhou, Chengli Huang, Constantine Sedikides, Douglas J. Angus & Nicholas J. Kelley,
2025, Journal of Personality, 94(4), 741-757
DOI: 10.1111/jopy.70036
Type: article
Chengli Huang, Emily K. Penney, Constantine Sedikides & Nicholas J. Kelley,
2025, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 20(1)
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsaf103
Type: article
Louise Marcham, Thomas Richardson, Nicholas Kelley & Lyn Ellett,
2025, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Type: article
Teaching
I teach undergraduate modules in cognitive, social, and affective neuroscience. I teach graduate level modules in advances statistics.
External roles and responsibilities
Name:
Analytical reasoning reduces Internet fraud susceptibility
Role:
Speaker
Year:
2022
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An inductive learning intervention to improve news veracity discernment.
Role:
Co-author
Year:
2025
Biography
Prizes
- Association for Psychological Science Rising Star (2021)
- SESP Fellow (2023)
- Dean’s Prize, Contributions to Culture and Community (2025)
- Innovation in Existential Psychology Research Conference Award (2025)
- Dean’s Prize, Education, University of Southampton (2021)