Professor Duncan Cramer

PhD (Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London)

Pronouns: He/him
  • Emeritus Professor of Psychological Health
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Duncan Cramer

After graduating from University College London in 1969 in Psychology, Duncan completed his PhD in 1973 with Hans Eysenck at the Institute of Psychiatry in London.  He was a Lecturer in the Psychology Department at Queen's University Belfast before coming to the Social Sciences Department at º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ in 1977, retiring in 2013. Duncan is currently Emeritus Professor in Psychological Health.

Duncan has been Joint Editor (1995-2000) and Associate Editor (1993-1995, 2000-2001) of the British Journal of Medical Psychology and its successor Psychology and Psychotherapy (2001-2010) as well as Associate Editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (2004-2009). He has been on the Editorial Boards of seven other journals. Duncan was Chair of the Books and Special Projects Group of The British Psychological Society (1998-2001) as well as a member of the group (1995-1998). He has also been a member of the BPS Journals Committee (1995-2000).

Duncan's research interests and publications include such topics such as mental health, personality, personal relationships, organizational commitment, psychotherapy and counselling. He has authored or co-authored over 82 papers in peer-reviewed journals and over 36 first or revised editions of books.

  • Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2020). Understanding Statistics in psychology with SPSS (8th ed.). Harlow: Prentice Hall.
  • Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2020). Research methods in psychology (6th ed.). Harlow: Prentice Hall.
  • Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2020). Metodologia della ricerca in psicologia. Milano-Torino: Pearson.
  • Howitt, D. & Cramer, D. (2017). Introduction to SPSS in psychology (7th ed.). Harlow: Prentice Hall.
  • Cramer, D. (2017). An introduction to quantitative research in counselling psychology. In Murphy, D. (Ed.), Counselling Psychology: A textbook for study and practice (pp. 408-424). Leicester: British Psychological Society and Chichester: John Wiley and Sons.
  • Murphy, D. & Cramer, D. (2014). Mutuality of Rogers’ therapeutic conditions and outcome in the first three therapy sessions. Psychotherapy Research, 24(6), 651-661.
  • Hojjat, M., & Cramer, D. (2013). (Eds.). Positive psychology of love. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Cramer, D., & Jowett, S. (2010). Perceived empathy, accurate empathy and relationship satisfaction in heterosexual couples. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 27(3), 327-349.