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
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Current Topics in Psychological Science
Social Psychology
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Social Psychology, Third Year
Face Recognition, Fourth Year Specialist Option
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
The Psychology of Face AI
- Publications
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A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 5, pp. 1089–1110Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Adults’ facial impressions of children’s niceness, but not shyness, show modest accuracy
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 73, no. 12, pp. 2328-2347Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Evaluating Face Identification Expertise: Turning Theory into Practice. Digested Analysis
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Reply to Cook and Over: Social learning and evolutionary mechanisms are not mutually exclusive
PNAS, vol. 117, pp. 16114-16115Contributions to Specialist Publications: Letters- [ONLINE] DOI:
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Appearance-based trust processing in schizophrenia
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 139-153Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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How We Judge Children Based on their Faces
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Individual differences in trust evaluations are shaped mostly by environments, not genes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 117, no. 19, pp. 10218-10224Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Do facial first impressions reflect a shared social reality?
British Journal of Psychology, vol. 111, no. 2, pp. 215-232Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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An objective and reliable electrophysiological marker for implicit trustworthiness perception.
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 337-346Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Best-worst scaling improves measurement of first impressions
Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, vol. 4, 36Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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