Francesca Carbone

Dr. Francesca Carbone is a Lecturer in Social and Developmental Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of Kent. She completed her PhD at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" studying emotional processing through prosody and semantics, followed by postdoctoral fellowships at CNRS (Aix-Marseille University) and University of Kent.

• Education: PhD in Psychology (University of Naples "L'Orientale")

Her research focuses on cognitive, emotional, and psychophysiological mechanisms underlying art reception and emotional communication. Current projects examine physiological speech production mechanisms and how facial expressions mediate emotional prosody perception. She also investigates film's cognitive effects on open-mindedness.

Recent publications in Language Resources & Evaluation, Motivation and Emotion, and Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology demonstrate expertise in emotional semantics, prosody analysis, and media effects. Publications span experimental studies on speech interaction, film cognition, and multimodal emotion perception.

Teaching responsibilities include module convenorship and instruction in advanced developmental psychopathology, child development, cognitive development, and psychology fundamentals.