Associate Professor Amy Dawel
Associate Professor in Psychology
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About
I am a cognitive and clinical psychologist. My research examines how people perceive and respond to rapidly changing social cues in the face—namely facial expressions and eye-gaze. I have a particular interest in perception of and responses to genuine emotion, as compared to symbolic or posed facial expressions. My work examines both the mechanisms and impact of individual differences in these social cognition abilities, including associations with clinical and personality traits, using behavioural and EEG technqiues.
Affiliations
Research interests
- Cognitive Sciences
- Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance
- Personality, Abilities And Assessment
- Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
- Developmental Psychology And Ageing
Projects
- Emotion regulation and cardiac health, Principal investigator
- Emotional expression regulation and social display rules, Principal investigator
- Reading facial expressions from real and virtual (AI) humans, Principal investigator
- The Australian National COVID-19 Mental Health, Behaviour and Risk Communication Survey, Principal investigator
Location
Building 39, University Avenue, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601
Publications
- Dawel, A, Wright, L, Dumbleton, R et al 2019, 'All Tears Are Crocodile Tears: Impaired Perception of Emotion Authenticity in Psychopathic Traits', Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 185-197.
- Dawel, A, Wong, T, McMorrow, J et al 2018, 'Caricaturing as a General Method to Improve Poor Face Recognition: Evidence From Low-Resolution Images, Other-Race Faces, and Older Adults', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 256-279.
- Palermo, R, Jeffery, L, Lewandowsky, J et al 2018, 'Adaptive face coding contributes to individual differences in facial expression recognition independently of affective factors', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 503-517pp.
- Lane, J, Rohan, M, Sabeti, F et al 2018, 'Impacts of impaired face perception on social interactions and quality of life in age-related macular degeneration: A qualitative study and new community resources', PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science), vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 31pp.
- Dawel, A, Wright, L, Irons, J et al 2017, 'Perceived emotion genuineness: normative ratings for popular facial expression stimuli and the development of perceived-as-genuine and perceived-as-fake sets', Behavior Research Methods, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 1539-1562.
- Wan, L, Crookes, K, Dawel, A et al 2017, 'Face-blind for other-race faces: Individual differences in other-race recognition impairments', Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, vol. 146, no. 1, pp. 102-122pp.
- O'Kearney, R, Salmon, K, Liwag, M et al 2016, 'Emotional Abilities in Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD): Impairments in Perspective-Taking and Understanding Mixed Emotions are Associated with High Callous-Unemotional Traits', Child Psychiatry and Human Development, vol. Published online: 21 April 2016, pp. 1-12.
- Hossain, M, Gedeon, T, Sankaranarayana, R et al 2016, 'Pupillary Responses of Asian Observers in Discriminating Real from Fake Smiles: A Preliminary Study', Measuring Behaviour 10th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioural Research, ed. A. Spink, G. Riedel, L. Zhou, L. Teekens, R. Albatal, C. Gurrin, Dublin City University, Dublin Ireland, pp. 170 - 176pp.
- Dawel, A, Palermo, R, O'Kearney, R et al 2015, 'Fearful faces drive gaze-cueing and threat bias effects in children on the lookout for danger', Developmental Science, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 219-231.
- Dawel, A, Palermo, R, O'Kearney, R et al 2015, 'Children can discriminate the authenticity of happy but not sad or fearful facial expressions, and use an immature intensity-only strategy', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 6, no. 462, pp. 1-16.
- Dawel, A, McKone, E, O'Kearney, R et al 2015, 'Elevated levels of callous unemotional traits are associated with reduced attentional cueing, with no specificity for fear or eyes', Personality Disorders: Theory, Research and Treatment, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 216-228.
- Dawel, A, O'Kearney, R, McKone, E et al 2012, 'Not just fear and sadness: Meta-analytic evidence of pervasive emotion recognition deficits for facial and vocal expressions in psychopathy', Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 2288 -2304.
- Dawel, A & Anstey, K 2011, 'Interventions for midlife smoking cessation: A Literature review', Australian Psychologist, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 190-195.
- Susilo, B, McKone, E, Dennett, H et al 2010, 'Face recognition impairments despite normal holistic processing and face space coding: Evidence from a case of developmental prosopagnosia', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 27, no. 8, pp. 636-664.
- Bowles, D, McKone, E, Dawel, A et al 2009, 'Diagnosing prosopagnosia: effects of ageing, sex, and participant-stimulus ethnic match on the Cambridge face Memory Test and Cambridge Face Perception Test', Cognitive Neuropsychology, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 423-455.
- Rosli, Y, Maddess, T, Dawel, A, James, AC 2009, 'Multifocal frequency-doubling pattern visual evoked responses to dichoptic stimulation', Clinical Neurophysiology, vol. 120, no. 12, pp. 2100-2108.