Professor Louise Phillips
Chair in Psychology
- About
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- Email Address
- louise.phillips@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272229
- Office Address
School of Psychology
Room F23, William Guild Building
Kings College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FX- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Psychology1990 - University of Edinburgh
- PhD Psychology1993 - University of Manchester
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Course co-ordinator for PS3011 Psychological Assessment
- Steering group of Aberdeen Birth Cohort and Aberdeen Children of the 1950s
- External Memberships
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Vice-President of the European Cognitive Aging Society (EUCAS)
Member of British Psychological Society
Member of Experimental Psychology Society
Latest Publications
Now you see it, now you don't: The age-related positivity effect to faces disappears in naturalistic settings
EmotionContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001608
Involvement of older adults in shared decision-making on care transitions in the UK: An interpretative qualitative systematic review
Ageing and Society, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2500-2525Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X25100123
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Aging and complex emotion perception: the influence of context and multimodal presentation
Aging Neuropsychology and CognitionContributions to Journals: ArticlesUnderstanding Older Adults’ Experience of Prospective Memory Errors and Strategy Use
Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 39, no. 3, e70066Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.70066
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Age and Cultural Differences in the Relationship Between Reading and Theory of Mind
Poetics, vol. 109, 101984Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
I am interested in adult aging, in particular the effects of aging on cognition, emotion and social functioning. In the Aging, Cognition and Emotion Lab we address questions about age differences in communication, looking at how younger and older adults might differ in: expression and interpretation of emotional signals, the use of eye contact and gaze following in social interaction, understanding and empathy for others' mental states. We often find age differences in these aspects of communication - so this raises issues around why there are age differences: Generational changes in social norms? Changes in neurocognitive function? Differences in experience and motivation? And what impact might such changes have for everyday life in relation to intergenerational engagement, social relationships and quality of life? I also love getting involved in interdisciplinary projects on aging, looking at links between cognition, mental health, physical health, genetics, brain changes and social functioning.
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
2023-2025: Leverhulme Trust (Applicants Yong & Phillips). Theory of Mind in older adults: Links to fiction, cognition and social function. Awarded £188,476.
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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The role of working memory in decoding emotions
Emotion, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 184-191Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.8.2.184
Differential effects of aging on executive and automatic inhibition
Developmental Neuropsychology, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 101-123Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/87565640701884212
Adult age differences in event-based prospective memory: A meta-analysis on the role of focal versus nonfocal cues
Psychology and Aging, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 203-208Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.23.1.203
A meta-analytic review of emotion recognition and aging: Implications for neuropsychological models of aging
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 863-881Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2008.01.001
Recognition of disgust is selectively preserved in Alzheimer's disease
Neuropsychologia, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 1363-1370Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.12.012
Real-world problem solving and quality of life in older people
British Journal of Health Psychology, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 587-600Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1348/135910706X154477
Exploring the Specificity of Age-Related Differences in Theory of Mind Tasks
Psychology and Aging, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 639-643Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.22.3.639
Traumatic brain injury and prospective memory: Influence of task complexity
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 457-466Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13803390600762717
Role of working memory components in planning performance of individuals with Parkinson's disease
Neuropsychologia, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 2393-2397Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.02.018
Exploring the Role of Working Memory in Dynamic Social Cue Decoding Using Dual Task Methodology
Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 137-152Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-007-0026-6
Adult Age Differences in Errand Planning: The Role of Task Familiarity and Cognitive Resources
Experimental Aging Research, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 145-161Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610730601177395
Cognitive Aging: Activity Patterns and Maintenance Intentions
International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 259-280Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2190/AG.65.3.d
Effects of age and emotional intensity on the recognition of facial emotion
Experimental Aging Research, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 63-79Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610730701762047
Emotional development across adulthood: Differential age-related emotional reactivity and emotion regulation in a negative mood induction procedure
International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 217-244Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe psychological, neurochemical and functional neuroanatomical mediators of the effects of positive and negative mood on executive functions
Neuropsychologia, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 617-629Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.06.030
Global visual scanning abnormalities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia Research, vol. 87, no. 1-3, pp. 212-222Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2006.06.015
A new conceptualization of alexithymia in the general adult population: implications for research involving older adults
Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 535-543Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.09.008
Age, anger regulation and well-being.
Aging & Mental Health, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 250-256Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13607860500310385
Age and planning tasks: The influence of ecological validity.
International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 62, pp. 175-184Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.2190/EM1W-HAYC-TMLM-WW8X
Age-related differences in the ability to perceive sad facial expressions
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 18, pp. 418-424Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCognitive and psychosocial correlates of alexithymia following traumatic brain injury
Neuropsychologia, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 62-72Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.04.011
Covariates of production and perseveration on tests of phonemic, semantic and alternating fluency in normal aging
Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol. 13, no. 3-4, pp. 529-551Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/138255890969537
Theory of mind following traumatic brain injury: The role of emotion recognition and executive dysfunction
Neuropsychologia, no. 44, pp. 1623-1628Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.03.020
Planning and realization of complex intentions in Parkinson's patients
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, vol. 76, no. 11, pp. 1501-1505Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2004.051268
Adult ageing and cognitive planning
The Cognitive Psychology of Planning. Psychology Press, pp. 111-134, 24 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203493564
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A meta-analytic review of verbal fluency deficits in Huntington's disease
Neuropsychology, vol. 19, pp. 243-252Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.19.2.243
Both specific functions and general ability can be useful: But it depends what type of research question you ask
Cortex, vol. 41, pp. 236-237Contributions to Journals: EditorialsEffects of sad mood on time-based prospective memory.
Cognition & Emotion, vol. 19, pp. 1199-1213Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930500233820
Do “Frontal Tests” Measure Executive Function? Issues of Assessment and Evidence from Fluency Tests
Methodology of Frontal and Executive Function. Rabbit, P. (ed.). Taylor and Francis AS, pp. 185-207, 23 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203344187-13
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The role of working memory in age differences in reasoning
Working Memory and Thinking: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning. Taylor and Francis AS, pp. 21-42, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203346754-8
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Adult aging and the perceived intensity of emotions in faces and stories
Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 190-199Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA meta-analytic review of prospective memory and aging
Psychology and Aging, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 27-39Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.19.1.27
Inhibitory functioning in Alzheimer's disease
Brain, vol. 127, no. Pt 5, pp. 949-964Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awh045
The role of semantic knowledge on the cognitive estimation task--evidence from Alzheimer's disease and healthy adult aging
Journal of Neurology, vol. 251, no. 2, pp. 156-164Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-004-0292-8
Verbal fluency performance in dementia of the Alzheimer's type: a meta-analysis
Neuropsychologia, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1212-1222Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.02.001
Real life cognitive functioning: A study of quality of life in Scotland
The Gerontologist, vol. 43, no. S1, pp. 554-555Contributions to Journals: AbstractsAge, working memory, and the Tower of London task.
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 15, pp. 291-312Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440244000148
Behavioral dysexecutive symptoms in normal aging
Brain and Cognition, vol. 53, pp. 129-132Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0278-2626(03)00094-0
How many camels are there in Italy? Cognitive estimates standardised on the Italian population
Neurological Sciences, vol. 24, pp. 10-15Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100720300015
Use it or lose it? Cognitive functioning in older adults
Nursing and Residential Care, vol. 5, pp. 346-350Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAge, executive function, and social decision making: A dorsolateral prefrontal theory of cognitive aging
Psychology and Aging, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 598-609Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.17.4.598
Mid-life risk factors and cognitive functioning in older adults
The Gerontologist, vol. 42, no. S1, pp. 136-137Contributions to Journals: AbstractsThe effects of adult aging and induced positive and negative mood on planning
Emotion, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 263-272Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.2.3.263
Positive mood and executive function: evidence from stroop and fluency tasks
Emotion, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 12-22Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.2.1.12
Age and the understanding of emotions: neuropsychological and sociocognitive perspectives
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. P526-30Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/57.6.p526
Age, cognition and emotion: the role of anatomical segregation in the frontal lobes: the role of anatomical segregation in the frontal lobes
Handbook of Neuropsychology: the frontal lobes. Grafman, J. (ed.). Elsevier Science, pp. 73-98, 29 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersVisuo-spatial and verbal working memory in the five-disc Tower of London task: An individual differences approach
Thinking & Reasoning, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 165-178Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13546780244000006
Midlife aging, open-ended planning, and laboratory measures of executive function
Neuropsychology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 472-482Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/0894-4105.15.4.472
Mental planning and the Tower of London task
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 579-597Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02724980042000237
Task-switching costs, Stroop-costs, and executive control: a correlational study
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 491-511Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/713755967
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