In recent years, my direction within psychology has led to the emergence of two related paths of research:
1. Face perception and social cognition - Utilising an evolutionary approach, I have been focusing on the signalling of personality and health information from the face, both in humans and chimpanzees, and have proposed the idea of a shared system across species. This investigation into social signals has also included own- and other-race faces, as well as information signalled through gait (using motion capture techniques).
2. Facial recognition and within-person variability - I have been using computational modelling in order to investigate the nature of within-person variability. I am trying to understand how we are able to recognise a familiar person from multiple (unstandardised) photographs, despite how varied these images often are. Through the use of principal components analysis and other techniques, I hope to model the variability of an individual and explore how idiosyncratic this variation might be.
Experience
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2017–presentLecturer, University of Lincoln
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2017–2017Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trent University
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2015–2016Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of York
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2013–2014Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
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2013–2013Research associate, University of Kent
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2012–2012Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brock University
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2011–2012Research officer, Bangor University
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2007–2008Research assistant, Bangor University
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2005–2007Research associate, Indiana University - Bloomington
Education
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2012Bangor University, PhD in Psychology
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2005University of Sussex, MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems
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2003University of Oxford, BA in Experimental Psychology
Professional Memberships
- Experimental Psychology Society
- Lincoln, UK
- Website
- @RobinSSKramer
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
