Hello Everybody, Firstly thank you Peter for starting this list; I am sure it will prove very useful to all involved. I will also introduce myself. My name is Kevin, and I have been working in the area of face perception and recognition since my undergraduate degree. I am now writing up my doctoral thesis at the University of Birmingham, where I have been investigating how social categorization influences perceptual processing and memory for same-and other-race faces. Within the last week, I am pleased to announce I have had my first set of PhD studies accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, where I investigated how social categorization influenced same-race and other-race processing in intra-or interracial contexts. My research interests in face perception are broad, but mainly focus on two ideas: (1) How social information determines the form of processing and memory outcome for faces (2) How and why are faces categorized into groups? (Whether these are salient or non-salient group memberships). Anybody who is interested in my work, please feel free to contact me. I also hope this list will prove useful in helping us form ideas, and even collaborations. Kind Regards, Kevin Cassidy ------------------------------------------ Kevin D. Cassidy Doctoral Researcher School of Psychology University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT Email: KDC324@bham.ac.uk ________________________________________ From: face-research-list-bounces@lists.stir.ac.uk [face-research-list-bounces@lists.stir.ac.uk] On Behalf Of face-research-list-request@lists.stir.ac.uk [face-research-list-request@lists.stir.ac.uk] Sent: 04 March 2011 12:00 To: face-research-list@lists.stir.ac.uk Subject: Face-research-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 8 Send Face-research-list mailing list submissions to face-research-list@lists.stir.ac.uk To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.stir.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/face-research-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to face-research-list-request@lists.stir.ac.uk You can reach the person managing the list at face-research-list-owner@lists.stir.ac.uk When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Face-research-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Hi! (Chiara Fiorentini) 2. Re: Introduction (Alain) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 19:19:49 +0100 From: Chiara Fiorentini <fiorentinichiara@gmail.com> Subject: [Face-research-list] Hi! To: face-research-list@lists.stir.ac.uk Message-ID: <AANLkTinOrEvYhiU4pEBX7pSxxzoMkSp1BVJc9M2ViZOt@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi everybody, I am really glad of this face-list initiative and I will also take a chance to introduce myself briefly. My name is Chiara, I have worked on the recognition of emotional facial expressions since my undergraduate thesis - I am now completing my first post-doc -, and I am so fond of the topic that I wish to stay in the field of faces for many more years! During my PhD I focused on some aspects of the expressions' recognition ability that can be captured by using naturalistic dynamic displays (i.e. the existence of a dynamic advantage for facial expressions, or the ability of the observer to rely on the dynamic invariants of facial expressions). As a Post-doc at UCL, I am investigating facial expression recognition as a part of the Broad Autism Phenotype in Relatives, asking whether subtle abnormalities in perceiving facial expressions are a shared cognitive feature in families with children with Autism. I join the others in hoping that this list can help building "bridges" between face scientists, allowing us to share knowledge, ideas, and doubts. A presto, chiara 2011/3/1 Andy Young <andy.young@york.ac.uk> Hello everyone,

I just joined this list, and found no messages yet, so thought maybe those of us who sign up might introduce ourselves.

I've been working on faces since 1974, when Hadyn Ellis told me to stop messing about with Piagetian psychology and do something more interesting. I reckon that now makes me one of those who has been doing this stuff for longer than most, and Hadyn was right - it has got more and more interesting over the years.

Thanks to Peter for starting this list, which I hope will be very useful to us all.

Cheers,

Andy Young (sadly, now a misnomer).

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