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 Management Group
- 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 committee
Member of British Psychological Society
Member of Experimental Psychology Society
Latest Publications
Multiple sclerosis, emotion perception and social functioning
Journal of neuropsychology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 500-515Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12237
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The 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 Effects Of Adult Aging And Culture On Theory Of Mind
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbab093Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab093
The Detrimental Effects of Mood on Prospective Memory Are Modulated by Age
Emotion, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 569-583Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe effects of adult ageing and culture on the tower of London task
Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 12, 631458Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Specialisms
- Cognitive Psychology
- Gerontology
- Psychology of Communication
- Affective Neuroscience
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
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
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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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Multiple sclerosis, emotion perception and social functioning
Journal of neuropsychology, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 500-515Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jnp.12237
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The 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 Effects Of Adult Aging And Culture On Theory Of Mind
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, gbab093Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab093
The Detrimental Effects of Mood on Prospective Memory Are Modulated by Age
Emotion, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 569-583Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe 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: ArticlesThe nature of anger in people with multiple sclerosis: a qualitative study
Psychology & Health, vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 824-837Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2019.1691726
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Visual attention, biological motion perception and healthy ageing
Psychological Research, vol. 84, pp. 625-642Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAge-related differences in the ability to decode intentions from non-literal language
Acta Psychologica, vol. 198, 102865Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe role of social attention in older adults’ ability to interpret naturalistic social scenes
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 1328-1343Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818791774
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/11238/1/QJEP_Accepted_Manuscript.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Mendeley
