Identity, Self and Social Categorisation
The research interests and activities of Ken Mavor's lab group and colleagues
One of the papers form Sean’s PhD has been accepted in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. The paper “Eyelid-Openness and Mouth Curvature Influence Perceived Intelligence Beyond Attractiveness” explores the impact of these subtle facial cues and perceived intelligence controlling for the well-known attractiveness halo. One of the studies dealt with the effect of tiredness … Read more
One of Sean’s studies from his PhD has formed the basis of a paper published recently in PLoS One. Sean’s focus has been on different dimensions of perceived intelligence. In this article we examined perceptions of conscientiousness, perceived academic performance and perceived intelligence predicting actual academic performance based on facial features, controlling for the attractiveness … Read more
The third leg of Sean’s PhD has been published in Personality and Individual Differences (PAID). In this article we found that the perceiver’s own intelligence impacts upon their endorsement of the attractiveness halo – that is the more they see other faces that are attractive as also being intelligent. Talamas, S. N., Mavor, K. I., … Read more
Sean Talamas has submitted his PhD (Co-supervised by Dave Perrett and Ken Mavor) on various aspects of perceived intelligence and the attractiveness Halo. The thesis demonstrates that malleable facial cues can influence perceptions of intelligence, identifies individual differences that influence endorsement of the intelligence-attractiveness halo, and reveals the limiting effects of the attractiveness halo on … Read more
Person and group categories in memory, impression formation, and face processing Ken had the privilege of being invited to speak in the seminar program in the School of Psychology at Stirling. Given the shared interest in issues of social face processing, the talk emphasised the work we have done on perceiving person and group information … Read more
Ken had an opportunity to present the work on Person Categories to the Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning at Linköping University while in town for the conference keynote address at the GRASP 2014 conference. The talk led to some interesting conversations afterward and was a chance to meet a wider group from the local department. … Read more
Ken recently gave the local friday afternoon school seminar in St Andrews. The title of the talk was “The person categorisation heresies: Persons AS categories, and implications for a unified theory of social categorisation”. St Andrews is an ideal place for us to pursue this work, given the great intellectual atmosphere and intellectual interest shared … Read more
Ken presented a talk at the BPS social psychology section conference in Exeter. The talk titled “Challenging the effect of cognitive load on the efficiency of categorization versus individuation” presented several studies from Daniel Skorich’s PhD on impression formation and cognitive resources. The conference was also a good opportunity to continue some collaborations with several … Read more
Daniel and Ken attended the 15th Jena meeting at castle Oppurg from the 4th to the 7th of July 2013. The theme for the meeting this year was ‘The puzzle of “me” and “I”: Individual and Collective Perspectives on Self and Identity’. The Jena meeting is a very productive environment for cutting edge work and theory development set … Read more
We congratulate Daniel Skorich on the award of his PhD today! His thesis entitled “Motivated but confounded tacticians: Revisiting the relationship between categorization and cognitive resources” returns to an important debate about the relationship between the availability of cognitive resources and phenomena such as stereotyping and categorical face perception. Daniel’s thesis challenges the dominant view … Read more