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Professor Louise Phillips
Chair in Psychology
- About
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School of Psychology
Room F23, William Guild Building
Kings College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FXQualifications
- BSc (Hons) Psychology1990 - University of Edinburgh
- PhD Psychology1993 - University of Manchester
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- School of Psychology Director of Research
- Member of School Executive
- Course co-ordinator for PS3011 Psychological Assessment
- Steering group of Aberdeen Birth Cohort studies
- External Memberships
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Member of the European Cognitive Aging Society (EUCAS) committee
Member of British Psychological Society
Member of Experimental Psychology Society
Latest Publications
Age Differences in Gaze Following: Older Adults Follow Gaze More than Younger Adults When free-viewing Scenes
Experimental Aging ResearchContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2022.2156760
Adult age differences in using information from the eyes and mouth to make decisions about others' emotions
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social SciencesContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac097
The Effects Of Adult Aging And Culture On Theory Of Mind
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 332-340Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab093
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/18636/1/Yong_etal_JGSB_The_Effects_Of_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Remember to stay positive: Affect and prospective memory in everyday life
Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 179-190Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVisual attentional orienting by eye gaze: A meta-analytic review of the gaze-cueing effect
Psychological bulletin, vol. 147, no. 12, pp. 1269-1289Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000353
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- Research
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Research Specialisms
- Cognitive Psychology
- Gerontology
- Psychology of Communication
- Affective Neuroscience
- Psychology of Ageing
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 licence.
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
Funding and Grants
2022-2026: Dunhill Medical Trust (Lead applicant). Building interventions to improve quality of life in old age. Multiple PhD Studentship Award. Awarded £199,564
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.
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/
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.
- Teaching
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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
- Publications
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Age Differences in Gaze Following: Older Adults Follow Gaze More than Younger Adults When free-viewing Scenes
Experimental Aging ResearchContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0361073X.2022.2156760
Adult age differences in using information from the eyes and mouth to make decisions about others' emotions
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social SciencesContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac097
The Effects Of Adult Aging And Culture On Theory Of Mind
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 332-340Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab093
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/18636/1/Yong_etal_JGSB_The_Effects_Of_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Remember to stay positive: Affect and prospective memory in everyday life
Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 179-190Contributions to Journals: ArticlesVisual attentional orienting by eye gaze: A meta-analytic review of the gaze-cueing effect
Psychological bulletin, vol. 147, no. 12, pp. 1269-1289Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000353
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Multiple sclerosis, emotion perception and social functioning
Journal of neuropsychology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 500-515Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe interplay between gaze and consistency in scene viewing: Evidence from visual search by young and older adults
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 83, pp. 1954–1970Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Detrimental Effects of Mood on Prospective Memory Are Modulated by Age
Emotion, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 569-583Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://osf.io/378n2/
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000723.supp
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15519/1/Pupillo.Phillips.Schnitzspahn_Mood_PM_Aging_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15519/2/Supplementary_material_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The effects of adult ageing and culture on the tower of London task
Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 631458Contributions to Journals: ArticlesImprinting methylation predicts hippocampal volumes and hyperintensities and the change with age in later life
Scientific Reports, vol. 11, 943Contributions to Journals: Articles