Brendan Rooney

Dr. Brendan Rooney is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology, University College Dublin and director of the UCD School of Psychology Media and Entertainment Psychology Lab. His research interests include social cognition, and how cognitive and emotional processes interact in the context of media, arts and entertainment. He is an elected Fellow of The Society for the Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image and founding member of the Psychological Society of Ireland’s Special Interest Group in Media, the Arts, and Cyberpsychology.

His relevant publications can be found here: https://people.ucd.ie/brendan.rooney