Dr Felix Why

felix-why

Senior Lecturer

School of Psychology

Department of Performance, Health and Wellbeing

Contact Details

email: f.why@worc.ac.uk
tel: 01905 543026

Since completing his PhD at the 天美传媒 of St Andrews in 2005, Felix has worked at the National 天美传媒 of Singapore (Singapore), and then at the 天美传媒 of Hull before joining the 天美传媒 of Worcester as a Senior Lecturer in 2023. He is a Health and Care Professions Council registered health and occupational psychologist. 

Qualifications

  • PhD (Psychology)
  • HCPC Registered Health and Occupational Psychologist
  • BPS Registered Applied Psychology Practice Supervisor (RAPPS)
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy, FHEA

Teaching Interests

  • PSYC2543 Research Skills in Psychology
  • PSYC3661 Psychology Research Project
  • PSYC3663 Business Psychology
  • MPSY4184 Advanced Research Analysis/Methods
  • MPSY4255 Advanced Research Methods
  • MPSY4185 Psychological Assessment at Work
  • MPSY4187 Learning, Training and Development
  • MPSY4180 Wellbeing and Work
  • MPSY4000 Dissertation

Research Interests

Felix’s research interests include factors (e.g., personality, implicit cues, nudge) that predict and explain health and health behaviours and have also published research on behavioural change interventions. He has collaborated with non-academic partners within the areas of occupational health and personnel selection as well.

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • BPS Chartered Psychologist

Recent Publications

Nuzulia, S., & Why, F. Y. P. (2020). When the Dark Shines: The Role of Dark Personality Traits in Leadership Role Occupancy and Hiring Decisions in a Collectivistic Culture. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 11(8), 1089-1100. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550619893956

Undarwati, A., & Why, F. Y. P. (in press). BMI and explicit-implicit cues on food choice: The fake food buffet in the United Kingdom and Indonesia. Appetite. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2024.107617

Why, Y. P., & Chen, M. R. (2013). Self-Enhancement and Cardiovascular Reactivity: Limitations of the Hemodynamic Profile-Compensation Deficit (HP-CD) Model of Blood Pressure Regulation. Biological Psychology, 92, 205-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.08.010

Why, F. Y. P., Undarwati, A., & Nuzulia, S. (2021). The sociodemographic context of observed solitary and social smoking behaviours using a behavioural ecological approach. Journal of Health Psychology, 26(9), 1318-1323. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1359105319877447

External Roles

  • Research collaboration and instructor for Universitas Negeri Semarang (UNNES), Indonesia.