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Person Perception

Unit(s) of assessment: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience

Research theme: Safety and Security of Citizens and Society

School: School of Social Sciences

Overview

The Person Perception Group are a collection of psychologists interested in how we process (perceive, remember, and interact with) human faces, voice, and bodies (person perception), from a theoretical and applied perspective, with applications of social, cognitive and evolutionary theory. The group are affiliated with the EPPAC lab who provide links to useful person perception resources. Follow them on Twitter.

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Publications

2021

  • Antar, J. C., & Stephen, I. D. (2021). Facial shape provides a valid cue to sociosexuality in men but not women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(4), 361-370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.02.001
  • Brooks, K. R., Stevenson, R. J., & Stephen, I. D. (2021). Over or under? Mental representations and the paradox of body size estimation. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-5. [706313]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.706313
  • Colloff, M., Flowe, H., Smith, H., Seale-Carlisle, T., Meissner, C., Rockey, J., Pander, B., Kujur, P., Parveen, N., Chandel, P., Singh, M., Pradham, S. & Parganiha, A. (2021). Active exploration of faces in police lineups increases discrimination accuracy. American Psychologist. ISSN 0003-066X
  • Colloff, M., Seale-Carlisle, T., Karoğlu, N., Rockey, J., Smith, H., Smith, L., Maltby, J., Yaremenko, S. & Flowe, H. (2021). Perpetrator pose reinstatement during a lineup test increases discrimination accuracy. Scientific Reports, 11: 13830. ISSN 2045-2322
  • Hsieh, J. Y. J., Gwinn, O. S., Brooks, K. R., Stephen, I. D., Carragher, D. J., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2021). The “cheerleader effect” in facial and bodily attractiveness: a result of memory bias and not perceptual encoding. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(5), 972-980. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820976087
  • Lavan, N., Smith, H. & Mcgettigan, C. (2021). Unimodal and cross-modal identity judgements using an audiovisual sorting task: Evidence for independent processing of faces and voices. Memory and Cognition. ISSN 0090-502X
  • Lavan, N., Smith, H., Jiang, L. & Mcgettigan, C. (2021). Explaining face-voice matching decisions: the contribution of mouth movements, stimulus effects and response biases. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. ISSN 1943-3921
  • Perera, A.T.-M., Tan, J.T., Mu, P.S. & Newport, R. (2021). Differential effects of minified and magnified mirror visual feedback on the underlying misperception of hand size. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 83, 2281–2290. ISSN 1943-3921
  • Rockey, J., Smith, H. & Flowe, H. (2021). Dirty looks: politicians' facial appearance and unethical behaviour. Leadership Quarterly: 101561. ISSN 1048-9843
  • Smith, H., Andrews, S., Baguley, T., Colloff, M., Davis, J., White, D., Rockey, J. & Flowe, H. (2021). Performance of typical and superior face recognisers on a novel interactive face matching procedure. British Journal of Psychology. ISSN 0007-1269
  • Wong, H. K., Estudillo, A. J., Stephen, I. D., & Keeble, D. R. T. (2021). The other-race effect and holistic processing across racial groups. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-15. [8507]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-87933-1
  • Zopf, R., Kosourikhina, V., Brooks, K. R., Polito, V., & Stephen, I. D. (2021). Visual body-size adaptation and estimation of tactile distance. British Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12514

2020

  • Brooks, K. R., Baldry, E., Mond, J., Stevenson, R. J., Mitchison, D., & Stephen, I. D. (2019). Gender and the body size aftereffect: implications for neural processing. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 1-11. [1100]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.01100
  • Brooks, K. R., Keen, E., Sturman, D., Mond, J., Stevenson, R. J., & Stephen, I. D. (2020). Muscle and fat aftereffects and the role of gender: implications for body image disturbance. British Journal of Psychology, 111(4), 742-761. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12439
  • Gould-Fensom, L., Tan, C. B. Y., Brooks, K. R., Mond, J., Stevenson, R. J., & Stephen, I. D. (2019). The thin white line: adaptation suggests a common neural mechanism for judgments of Asian and Caucasian body size. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1-9. [2532]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02532
  • Smith, H., Bird, K., Roeser, J., Robson, J., Braber, N., Wright, D. & Stacey, P.C. (2020). Voice parade procedures: optimising witness performance. Memory, 28 (1), pp. 2-17. ISSN 0965-8211

2019

  • Blackburn, C.L., Kitterick, P.T., Jones, G., Sumner, C.J. & Stacey, P.C. (2019). Corrigendum to Visual speech benefit in clear and degraded speech depends on the auditory intelligibility of the talker and the number of background talkers. Trends in Hearing, 23. ISSN 2331-2165
  • Blackburn, C.L., Kitterick, P.T., Jones, G., Sumner, C.J. & Stacey, P.C. (2019). Visual speech benefit in clear and degraded speech depends on the auditory intelligibility of the talker and the number of background talkers. Trends in Hearing, 23. ISSN 2331-2165
  • Kalckert, A., Perera, A.T.-M., Ganesan, Y. & Tan, E. (2019). Rubber hands in space: the role of distance and relative position in the rubber hand illusion. Experimental Brain Research, 237 (7), pp. 1821-1832. ISSN 0014-4819
  • Stephen, I. D., Hunter, K., Sturman, D., Mond, J., Stevenson, R. J., & Brooks, K. R. (2019). Experimental manipulation of visual attention affects body size adaptation but not body dissatisfaction. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 52(1), 79-87. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.22976

2018

  • Hirst, R.J., Stacey, J.E., Cragg, L., Stacey, P.C. & Allen, H.A. (2018). The threshold for the McGurk effect in audio-visual noise decreases with development. Scientific Reports, 8: 12372. ISSN 2045-2322
  • Stephen, I. D., Sturman, D., Stevenson, R. J., Mond, J., & Brooks, K. R. (2018). Visual attention mediates the relationship between body satisfaction and susceptibility to the body size adaptation effect. PLoS ONE, 13(1), 1-14. [e0189855]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189855
  • Tan, K. W., Tiddeman, B., & Stephen, I. D. (2018). Skin texture and colour predict perceived health in Asian faces. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(3), 320-335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.02.003
  • Gous, G., Dunn, A.K., Baguley, T., & Stacey, P. (2018). An Exploration of The Accentuation Effect: Errors in Memory for Voice Fundamental Frequency (F0) and Speech Rate. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33(1), 98-110. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2017.136867
  • Smith, H. M. J., Dunn, A. K., Baguley, T., & Stacey, P. C. (2018). The effect of inserting an inter-stimulus interval in face-voice matching tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(2), 424-434. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2016.1253758

2017

  • Andrews, S., Burton, A. M., Schweinberger, S. R., & Wiese, H. (2017). Event-related potentials reveal the development of stable face representations from natural variability. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(8), 1620-1632.
  • Mutale, G. J., Dunn, A., Stiller, J., & Larkin, R. (2016). Development of a Body Dissatisfaction Scale Assessment Tool. The New School Psychology Bulletin, 13(2), 47-57
  • Smith, H. M. J., Dunn, A. K., Baguley, T., & Stacey, P. C. (2016a) Matching novel face and voice identity using static and dynamic facial images. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-12. dii: 10.3758/s13414-015-1045-8
  • Smith, H. M. J., Dunn, A. K., Baguley, T., & Stacey, P. C. (2016b). Concordant cues in faces and voices: Testing the back-up signal hypothesis. Evolutionary Psychology, 14(1), 1-10. doi: 10.1177/1474704916630317
  • Perera, A.T.-M., Newport, R. & Mckenzie, K.J. (2017). Changing hands: persistent alterations to body image following brief exposure to multisensory distortions. Experimental Brain Research, 235 (6), pp. 1809-1821. ISSN 0014-4819

2016

  • Stacey, P.C. , Kitterick, P.T., Morris, S.D. & Sumner, C.J. (2016). The contribution of visual information to the perception of speech in noise with and without informative temporal fine structure. Hearing Research, 336, 17-28. ISSN 0378-5955

2015

  • Andrews, S., Jenkins, R., Cursiter, H., & Burton, A. M. (2015). Telling faces together: Learning new faces through exposure to multiple instances. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(10), 2041-2050.
  • Smith, H.M.J., & Flowe, H.D., (2015). ROC analysis of the verbal overshadowing effect: testing the effect of verbalisation on memory sensitivity. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29 (2).
  • Brooks, K., Stephen, I., Murley, A., Mond, J., & Stevenson, D. (2015). Representation of body size for self and other: simple-, cross- and contingent adaptation. Perception, 44(S1), 188
  • Perera, A.T.-M., Newport, R. & Mckenzie, K.J. (2015). Multisensory distortions of the hand have differential effects on tactile perception. Experimental Brain Research, 233 (11), pp. 3153-3161. ISSN 0014-4819
  • Stephen, I. D., & Wei, T. K. (2015). Healthy body, healthy face? Evolutionary approaches to attractiveness perception. In S. Haque, & E. Sheppard (Eds.), Culture and Cognition: A Collection of Critical Essays (pp. 45-65). Peter Lang AG. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0351-0826-2
  • Tan, C. B. Y., Sheppard, E., & Stephen, I. D. (2015). A change in strategy: Static emotion recognition in Malaysian Chinese. Cogent Psychology, 2(1), 1-14. [1085941]. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2015.1085941

2014

  • Stephen, I.D. & Perera, A.T.-M. (2014). Judging the difference between attractiveness and health: does exposure to model images influence the judgments made by men and women? PLoS ONE, 9 (1): e86302. ISSN 1932-6203
  • Stephen, I.D. & Perera, A.T.-M. (2014). Judging the differences between women's attractiveness and health: is there really a difference between judgments made by men and women? Body Image, 11 (2), pp. 183-186. ISSN 1740-1445
  • Smith, H.M.J., & Baguley, T. (2014). Unfamiliar voice identification: effect of post-event information on accuracy and voice ratings. Journal of European Psychology Students, 5 (1), pp. 59-68
  • Stacey, P.C., Murphy, T., Sumner, C.J., Kitterick, P.T. & Roberts, K.L. (2014). Searching for a talking face: the effect of degrading the auditory signal. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40 (6). 2106-2111. ISSN 0096-1523

2013

  • Andrews, S., Jenkins, R., Cursiter, H., & Burton, A. M. (2015). Telling faces together: Learning new faces through exposure to multiple instances. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68(10), 2041-2050.
  • Wells, T. J., Baguley, T, Sergeant, M. J. T. & Dunn, A. K. (2013). Perceptions of Human Attractiveness Comprising Face and Voice Cues. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42(5) 805-811. doi: 10.1007/s10508-012-0054-0

2011

  • Skelton, F. C., Frowd, C., & Andrews, S. (2011). Witness interviews: Does recall of relational information improve identifiability of a facial composite. International Journal of Security and its Applications, 5(4), 3748.

2010

  • Hoare, D.J., Stacey, P.C.  & Hall, D.A. (2010). The efficacy of auditory perceptual training for tinnitus: a systematic review. Annals of Behavioral Medicine. ISSN 0883-6612

2009

  • Wells, T. J., Dunn, A. K., Sergeant, M. J. T. & Davies, M. N. O., (2009). Multiple signals in human mate selection: A review and framework for integrating facial and vocal signals. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7(2), 111-139. doi: 10.1556/JEP.7.2009.2.2

2005

  • Stacey, P.C., Walker, S. & Underwood, J.D.M. (2005). Face processing and familiarity: evidence from eye-movement data. British Journal of Psychology, 96 (4), 407-422. ISSN 0007-1269