I am a cognitive and clinical psychologist, and Associate Professor in the School of Psychology and Medicine, The Australian National University. As the Director of the ANU Emotions and Faces Lab, my aim is to understand questions like: How do we detect AI-generated faces? Why are some people more likely to be fooled by AI? How do people perceive emotion in naturalistic faces? What are the social “display rules” that govern people’s expression of emotions? How do perception and expression of emotion vary across individuals and culture? How is emotion regulation linked to mental health and wellbeing in individuals and couples? Over the past couple of years, I have been leading a large national survey of Australian’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. I am also passionate about investing in training early researchers, in my lab and as Deputy Chair for our College’s Early-mid Career Research Committee.
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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the ANU Emotions and Health Lab. My PhD, submitted in April 2022 and completed in the Visual Cognition Lab, addressed several outstanding questions about the shifting of attention through space. I have a particular interest in the gaze cueing of attention (how we attend to where others are looking), as well as the consequences of attentional orienting for visual perception. My PhD research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology and Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. I have also collaborated on topics such as attentional-breadth resizing, age differences in gaze cueing, and consciousness. I am pursuing my interest in social cognition in my postdoc, working on developing a test of emotion recognition ability. This test will be used to address important questions about individual differences in emotion recognition ability, as well as its heritability.
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I am a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at the Australian National University. I completed an undergraduate honours degree at ANU in 2016, investigating whether posed and genuine emotional expressions produce different EEG activity. My research interests lie in emotion perception, cognition in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and the impact of task psychometrics. Clinically, I am interested in assisting adolescents and adults with building skills in understanding and regulating their emotions.
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I am a PhD student in the School of Psychology and Medicine at ANU. I completed my undergraduate psychology and Honours degree at ANU. My PhD research explores how people respond to both low-realism (i.e., avatars) and hyper-realistic computer-generated faces (i.e., ones that we might not be able to tell apart from human faces: see here for a demo!). I adore my cat, Anakin, and will talk about her for hours if you’ll let me!
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I am a PhD student in the ANU Emotions and Health Lab. I graduated with honours in Psychology with Clinical Psychology from the University of Kent in 2014 and went on to complete a Master of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Sussex in 2017. After completing my masters degree, I worked at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford before moving to the Institute of Positive Psychology and Education in Sydney. My research is focused on how we interpret other people’s emotions based on their face, body language, and other details that we can see.
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I am a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at the Australian National University. I completed my undergraduate psychology and honours degree at Western Sydney University, where I studied how mothers engage their infants in joint attention across cultures. My PhD research explores how emotional display rules develop from childhood through to adolescence. Additionally, I am investigating whether this developmental trajectory may differ in children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. In my spare time, I enjoy pursuing various creative outlets such as digital art, cooking, and music.
I am a psychology honours student at The Australian National University with the Emotions and Health Lab. I completed my Bachelor of Science (Psychology) and Bachelor of Commerce at ANU in 2022. My honours thesis will be exploring the contributions of sender and perceiver characteristics in perception.