Peter Venables is a British psychologist he is currently Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of York. He works in the areas of psychophysiology and the biosocial causes of schizophrenia, schizophrenic spectrum disorders and antisocial behaviour.

Biography
Venables received his bachelor’s degree in psychology from University College London in 1951 and his PhD in Psychology from the University of London in 1953. From 1951 to 1964 he was a member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council’s Social Psychiatry Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry University of London. In 1964 he moved to Birkbeck College University of London as Reader and in 1967 he became Professor with the appointment to a personal chair. In 1974 he moved to the University of York to found the Department of Psychology. From 1981 to 1985 he was Pro Vice Chancellor of the University, He retired in 1988 but continues his research until the present. With Sarnoff Mednick from the University of Southern California and Fini Schulsinger from the University of Copenhagen he started the longitudinal Mauritius Child Health Project and directed it until 1988 when he handed over the directorship to Adrian Raine.
In 1987 he was given the Award for Distinguished Contribitions to Psychophysiology from the Society for Psychophysiological Research and in 1900 he received the Zubin award from the Society for Research in Psychpathology.
From 1968-1970 he was President of the Experimental Psychology Society, from 1977-1978 he was President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and from 1979-1980 he was President of the British Psychological Society.