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Professor Louise Phillips

Professor Louise Phillips

Chair in Psychology

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Professor Louise Phillips
Professor Louise Phillips

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The University of Aberdeen School of Psychology
Room F23, William Guild Building
Kings College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
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Qualifications

PhD, Psychology University of Manchester 1993
BSc (Hons), Psychology University of Edinburgh 1990

Latest Publications

  • The Effects Of Adult Aging And Culture On Theory Of Mind

    Yong, M. H., Lawrie, L., Schaefer, A., Phillips, L. H.

  • The Detrimental Effects of Mood on Prospective Memory Are Modulated by Age

    Pupillo, F., Phillips, L., Schnitzspahn, K.

  • The interplay between gaze and consistency in scene viewing: Evidence from visual search by young and older adults

    Fernandes, E., Phillips, L., Slessor, G., Tatler, B.

  • The effects of adult ageing and culture on the tower of London task

    Phillips, L. H., Lawrie, L., Schaefer, A., Tan, C. Y., Yong, M. H.

  • Multiple sclerosis, emotion perception and social functioning

    Radlak, B., Cooper, C., Summers, F., Phillips, L. H.

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Memberships and Affiliations

Internal
  • School of Psychology Director of Research
  • Member of School Management Group
  • Course co-ordinator for PS3011 Psychological Assessment
  • Steering group of Aberdeen Birth Cohort studies
External

Adjunct Professor, Sunway University, Malaysia

Member of the European Cognitive Aging Society committee

Member of British Psychological Society

Member of Experimental Psychology Society

Research

Research Areas

Specialisms

  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology
  • Psychology of Communication

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Current Research

  • Adult aging, social cognition and emotional skills
  • Intergenerational communication
  • Effects of degenerative diseases on social and emotional processing
  • Age, planning and prospective memory

Research Funding and Grants

2015-2018: ESRC/BBSRC.(Applicants Haggarty, Murray, Phillips, Staff, Hocking, Ferguson-Smith & Richards).    Imprinting methylation; early life influences and later cognition and mood. Ref: ES/N00048X/1. Awarded £446,636.

2017-2021: ESRC (Applicants Phillips, Tatler & Henry). Adult aging and social attention: the role of cognitive decline and social motivation. Ref: ES/P005330/1. Awarded £500,492.  https://www.socialattentionesrc.co.uk/

2018-2020: Newton-Ungku Omar Fund Institutional Links UK-Malaysia grant (Applicants Phillips and Yong). Social cognition and executive function in older adults in the UK and Malaysia: links to socio-economic factors. Ref: 331745333. Awarded £128,461.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

  • Level 1 Lifespan Development
  • Level 3 Psychological Assessment
  • Level 4 option course: Emotion and aging in social cognition
  • BM4301 The Science of Aging
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