Contact Details

Telephone

work +44 (0)1224 273933

Email

d.ray@abdn.ac.uk

Address

The University of Aberdeen Devin G. Ray
School of Psychology
University of Aberdeen
AB24 3FX
 
William Guild building, office S05

Web Links

A good 3rd party article about my work on being forgotten (appeared in The Atlantic):

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/10/im-sorry-whats-your-name-again/572614/

My popular press piece on being forgotten:

https://theconversation.com/how-often-do-people-forget-things-about-one-another-we-decided-to-find-out-103494

Current Research

My core research is rooted in social categorization, that is, the process and consequences of using categories to understand people. My resulting work spans intergroup relations and prejudice, person perception, and cooperative interaction. Specific topics in these areas include the flexible use of categories and stereotypes in defining the self and others, the impact of categorization on face and identity recognition, and the processing of multiple simultaneously influential category divisions. In interdisciplinary work, I apply the core processes involved in social categorization, for example comparative self-evaluation, to better understand knowledge sharing and learning in cooperative interaction.

Publications 

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