Senior Lecturer
- 51cg
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- Email Address
- clare.sutherland@abdn.ac.uk
- Office Address
School of Psychology, King's College, 51cg
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology2016 - University of York
- MRes Psychology2011 - University of York
- BSc Psychology2010 - University of Glasgow
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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Deputy PGR Coordinator
Chair of EDI (2021-2026)
Athena Swan lead for Psychology (led 2026 Gold Award)
- External Memberships
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- , School of Psychological Science, University of Western Australia
- , Ordinary Committee Member, Experimental Psychology Society
- , Visual Cognition.
- , The Leadership Quarterly.
Prizes and Awards
30th Experimental Psychology Award for distinguished early career contribution to psychology
University Excellence Awards, 2025, Best postgraduate supervisor
- Research
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Research Overview
Face perception is central to human social life, affecting how we recognise our friends, fall in love, and even whom we trust. My research investigates how we perceive others when we meet them for the first time. My lab aim to understand the influence of stereotypes, individual differences, cultural learning and development on face perception.
I also have wider interests in understanding how and why we trust others, as well as advances in AI face generation and recognition.
My research has been funded by the ARC, ESRC, British Psychological Society, Experimental Psychological Society and Brain.
Funding and Grants
- ARC Discovery Project (DP260100208, 2026-2030; with Amy Dawel, David White, Gelareh Mohammdi, James Dunn, Zak Witkower, Alice O'Toole)
- ARC Discovery Project (DP220101026, 2022-2025; with Romina Palermo, Amy Dawel, Jason Bell, Eva Krumhuber)
- ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (2019)
- ARC Discovery Project (DP170104602, 2017-2019; with Gill Rhodes, Romina Palermo and Andy Young)
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Postdoc Exchange Scheme (2017)
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders Cross Program grant (2016)
- Brain, EPS, ESRC, ARC, PsyPAG, and BPS assorted research, travel and dissemination funding (2009-2026)
- ESRC Student Internship (Cybercrime, Home Office, 2012-2013)
- ESRC 1+3 Studentship (University of York, 2010-2014)
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
PG
Current Topics in Psychological Science
Social Psychology
UG
Social Psychology, Third Year
Face Recognition, Fourth Year Specialist Option
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
The Psychology of Face AI
- Publications
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Idiosyncratic and shared contributions shape impressions from voices and faces
Cognition, vol. 251, 105881Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Large-scale cross-societal examination of real-and minimal-group biases
Nature Human BehaviourContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Negative aftereffects of face trait impressions are modulated by emotional expressions
Visual Cognition, vol. 32, no. 3, pp. 192-214Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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AI Hyperrealism: Why AI Faces Are Perceived as More Real Than Human Ones
Psychological Science, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1390-1403Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Can you spot the AI impostors?: We found AI faces can look more real than actual humans
The ConversationContributions to Specialist Publications: Articles- [ONLINE]
A first impression of the future
British Journal of Psychology, vol. 114, no. 4Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Three's a crowd: Fast ensemble perception of first impressions of trustworthiness
Cognition, vol. 239, 105540Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Consultation Response to the UK Government’s Policy Proposals on AI Regulation: A Pro-Innovation Approach
51cg: School of Law. 20 pages.Other Contributions: Other ContributionsThe Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset
Scientific Data, vol. 10, no. 1, 87Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Children show neural sensitivity to facial trustworthiness as measured by fast periodic visual stimulation
Neuropsychologia, vol. 180, 108488Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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