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Poppy Watson is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney and has previously held a postdoctoral research position at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Originally from New Zealand, Watson completed her Master's degree in 2011 and her PhD in 2016 at the University of Amsterdam, where she researched reward-seeking behaviors prompted by environmental cues. Her research interests are focused on the intersection of motivation, attention, and choice behavior, exploring the mechanisms that underlie reward-seeking behaviors in both healthy individuals and patient populations. Watson's work aims to understand maladaptive and compulsive reward-seeking behavior, which can manifest in conditions such as addiction and obesity. She has been involved in intervention projects aimed at improving treatment outcomes for clinical patients by measuring the efficacy of interventions. Her research includes areas such as associative learning, addiction, goal-directed behavior, and the use of neuroimaging techniques like EEG and fMRI. As of October 2023, she is contributing to the development of the Psychology Undergraduate Programme at the University of Technology Sydney.
University of Technology Sydney • Sydney
Developing the Psychology Undergraduate Programme.
University of New South Wales • Sydney
Conducted research on reward-seeking behaviors and their implications for health psychology.