Dr Roger Giner-Sorolla is Reader in Social Psychology at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Born in the USA to English and Spanish parents, and educated at Cornell and New York University, he arrived at Kent in 2001. He is the author of a book out this year from Psychology Press, Judging Passions: Moral Emotions in Persons and Groups, as well as numerous articles in high impact psychology journals and volumes, and his work has been funded by four separate grants from ESRC in addition to several small grants from the British Academy and European Science Foundation.

His favourite emotions – to study, if not to feel – are anger, disgust, shame, and guilt.  Among other topics, he has published work on the role of emotions in apologies (shame works better than guilt) and the responsiveness of different moral emotions to logical argument (disgust is less reasonable than anger). Two forthcoming articles represent a new direction for Dr Giner-Sorolla’s interests, criticizing the implicit incentives in psychology and other sciences that have rewarded fraudulent and misleading data reporting practices.