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Dr Clare Sutherland

Dr Clare Sutherland
Dr Clare Sutherland
Dr Clare Sutherland

Senior Lecturer

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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 Psychology 
    2016 - University of York 
  • MRes Psychology 
    2011 - University of York 
  • BSc Psychology 
    2010 - University of Glasgow 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Deputy PGR Coordinator

Chair of EDI (2021-2026)

Athena Swan lead for Psychology (led 2026 Gold Award)

External Memberships
  • , 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

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

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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  • Training humans to detect AI-generated faces

    Dawel, A., George, T., Mah, E. Y., Dunn, J. D., Sutherland, C. A. M., Argument, N., Tanaka, J. W.
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 123, no. 27, e2602122123
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  • Time, space and feature similarity determine attractive and repulsive serial biases in trustworthiness impressions

    Marini, F., Sutherland, C., Jeffery, L., Manassi, M.
    BMC Biology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Testing stimulus generalisation as a mechanism for impression formation

    Masroujah, L. S., Wilcke, S., Jeffery, L., Mostert, B., Tiddeman, B., Sutherland, C.
    Cognition, vol. 270, 106414
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  • Introducing the Naturalistic Expression Labeling Task (NELT): Associations with posed expression labeling, empathy, and general cognitive ability

    Talipski, L. A., Palermo, R., Sutherland, C. A. M., Gignac, G. E., Jeffery, L., Crookes, K., Wilmer, J. B., Krumhuber, E. G., Bell, J., Dawel, A.
    Behavior Research Methods, vol. 58, no. 5, 116
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  • Early Emergence of Spontaneous Trait Content in Children's Unconstrained Impressions of Faces

    Thierry, S. M., Illithova, B., Sutherland, C. A. M., Todorov, A., Mondloch, C. J.
    Developmental Science, vol. 29, no. 2, e70149
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  • Too good to be true: Synthetic AI faces are more average than real faces and super-recognizers know it

    Dunn, J. D., White, D., Sutherland, C. A. M., Miller, E. J., Steward, B. A., Dawel, A.
    British Journal of Psychology
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Conceptual trait associations predict impressions of highly variable faces

    Illithova, B., Young, A. W., Chu, M., Sutherland, C.
    British Journal of Psychology, vol. 117, no. 1, pp. 337-355
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  • Eye believe you: gaze direction affects the perceived believability of facial expressions displayed by computer-generated people

    Haile, J. C., Palermo, R., Dawel, A., Krumhuber, E. G., Sutherland, C., Bell, J.
    Cognition and Emotion
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  • Rating traits together or apart: Presentation format affects first impression judgements

    Lavan, N., Turner, J., Utber, M. R., Sutherland, C.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
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  • Stereotypical Bias Amplification, and Reversal, in an Experimental Model of Human Interaction with Generative AI

    Allan, K., Azcona, J., Sripada, S., Leontidis, G., Sutherland, C., Phillips, L., Martin, D.
    Royal Society Open Science, 241472
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