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Professor Louise Phillips

Professor Louise Phillips
Professor Louise Phillips
Professor Louise Phillips

Chair in Psychology

About
Email Address
louise.phillips@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272229
Office Address

School of Psychology
Room F23, William Guild Building
Kings College
Old Aberdeen
AB24 3FX

School/Department
School of Psychology
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Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology 
    1990 - University of Edinburgh 
  • PhD Psychology 
    1993 - University of Manchester 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Course co-ordinator for PS3011 Psychological Assessment
  • Steering group of Aberdeen Birth Cohort and Aberdeen Children of the 1950s 
External Memberships

Vice-President of the European Cognitive Aging Society (EUCAS) 

Member of British Psychological Society

Member of Experimental Psychology Society

Latest Publications

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Research

Research Overview

I am interested in adult aging, in particular the effects of aging on cognition, emotion and social functioning. In the Aging, Cognition and Emotion Lab we address questions about age differences in communication, looking at how younger and older adults might differ in: expression and interpretation of emotional signals, the use of eye contact and gaze following in social interaction, understanding and empathy for others' mental states. We often find age differences in these aspects of communication - so this raises issues around why there are age differences: Generational changes in social norms? Changes in neurocognitive function? Differences in experience and motivation? And what impact might such changes have for everyday life in relation to intergenerational engagement, social relationships and quality of life? I also love getting involved in interdisciplinary projects on aging, looking at links between cognition, mental health, physical health, genetics, brain changes and social functioning. 

Research Specialisms

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Gerontology
  • Psychology of Communication
  • Affective Neuroscience
  • Psychology of Ageing

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

2023-2025: Leverhulme Trust (Applicants Yong & Phillips). Theory of Mind in older adults: Links to fiction, cognition and social function. Awarded £188,476.

2022-2026: Dunhill Medical Trust (Lead applicant). Building interventions to improve quality of life in old age. Multiple PhD Studentship Award. Awarded £199,564.

 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.

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/

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.

 

 

Teaching

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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  • Exploring the Specificity of Age-Related Differences in Theory of Mind Tasks

    Slessor, G., Phillips, L. H., Bull, R.
    Psychology and Aging, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 639-643
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Traumatic brain injury and prospective memory: Influence of task complexity

    Henry, J. D., Phillips, L. H., Crawford, J. R., Kliegel, M., Theodorou, G., Summers, F.
    Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 457-466
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Role of working memory components in planning performance of individuals with Parkinson's disease

    Altgassen, M., Phillips, L., Kopp, U., Kliegel, M.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 2393-2397
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Exploring the Role of Working Memory in Dynamic Social Cue Decoding Using Dual Task Methodology

    Phillips, L. H., Tunstall, M., Channon, S.
    Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 137-152
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Adult Age Differences in Errand Planning: The Role of Task Familiarity and Cognitive Resources

    Kliegel, M., Martin, M., McDaniel, M. A., Phillips, L. H.
    Experimental Aging Research, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 145-161
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cognitive Aging: Activity Patterns and Maintenance Intentions

    Gilhooly, K. J., Gilhooly, M. L., Phillips, L. H., Harvey, D., Murray, A., Hanlon, P.
    International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 65, no. 3, pp. 259-280
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Effects of age and emotional intensity on the recognition of facial emotion

    Orgeta, V., Phillips, L. H.
    Experimental Aging Research, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 63-79
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Emotional development across adulthood: Differential age-related emotional reactivity and emotion regulation in a negative mood induction procedure

    Kliegel, M., Jager, T., Phillips, L. H.
    International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 217-244
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The psychological, neurochemical and functional neuroanatomical mediators of the effects of positive and negative mood on executive functions

    Mitchell, R. L. C., Phillips, L. H.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 617-629
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Global visual scanning abnormalities in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

    Bestelmeyer, P., Tatler, B. W., Phillips, L. H., Fraser, G., Benson, P. J., St Clair, D. M.
    Schizophrenia Research, vol. 87, no. 1-3, pp. 212-222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • A new conceptualization of alexithymia in the general adult population: implications for research involving older adults

    Henry, J. D., Phillips, L. H., Maylor, E. A., Hosie, J. A., Milne, A. B., Meyer, C.
    Journal of Psychosomatic Research, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 535-543
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age, anger regulation and well-being.

    Phillips, L. H., Henry, J. D., Hosie, J. A., Milne, A. B.
    Aging & Mental Health, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 250-256
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age and planning tasks: The influence of ecological validity.

    Phillips, L. H., Kliegel, M., Martin, M.
    International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol. 62, pp. 175-184
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age-related differences in the ability to perceive sad facial expressions

    MacPherson, S. E., Phillips, L. H., Della Sala, S.
    Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 18, pp. 418-424
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Cognitive and psychosocial correlates of alexithymia following traumatic brain injury

    Henry, J. D., Phillips, L. H., Crawford, J., Theodorou, G., Summers, F.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 62-72
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Covariates of production and perseveration on tests of phonemic, semantic and alternating fluency in normal aging

    Henry, J. D., Phillips, L. H.
    Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol. 13, no. 3-4, pp. 529-551
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Theory of mind following traumatic brain injury: The role of emotion recognition and executive dysfunction

    Henry, J. D., Phillips, L. H., Crawford, J. R., Ietswaart, M., Summers, F.
    Neuropsychologia, no. 44, pp. 1623-1628
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Planning and realization of complex intentions in Parkinson's patients

    Kliegel, M., Phillips, L. H., Lemke, U., Kopp, U. A.
    Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, vol. 76, no. 11, pp. 1501-1505
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Adult ageing and cognitive planning

    Phillips, L. H., MacLeod, M. S., Kliegel, M.
    The Cognitive Psychology of Planning. Psychology Press, pp. 111-134, 24 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • A meta-analytic review of verbal fluency deficits in Huntington's disease

    Henry, J. D., Crawford, J. R., Phillips, L. H.
    Neuropsychology, vol. 19, pp. 243-252
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Both specific functions and general ability can be useful: But it depends what type of research question you ask

    Phillips, L.
    Cortex, vol. 41, pp. 236-237
    Contributions to Journals: Editorials

  • Effects of sad mood on time-based prospective memory.

    Kliegel, M., Jager, T., Phillips, L. H., Federspiel, E., Imfeld, A., Keller, M., Zimprich, D.
    Cognition & Emotion, vol. 19, pp. 1199-1213
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Do “Frontal tests�? measure executive function? Issues of assessment and evidence from fluency tests

    Phillips, L. H.
    Methodology of Frontal and Executive Function. Taylor and Francis AS, pp. 185-207, 23 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • The role of working memory in age differences in reasoning

    Phillips, L. H., Forshaw, M. J.
    Working Memory and Thinking: Current Issues in Thinking and Reasoning. Taylor and Francis AS, pp. 21-42, 22 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • A meta-analytic review of prospective memory and aging

    Henry, J. D., Phillips, L. H., Crawford, J. R., MacLeod, M. S.
    Psychology and Aging, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 27-39
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Adult aging and the perceived intensity of emotions in faces and stories

    Phillips, L. H., Allen, R. D.
    Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 190-199
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Inhibitory functioning in Alzheimer's disease

    Amieva, H., Phillips, L. H., Della Sala, S., Henry, J. D.
    Brain, vol. 127, no. Pt 5, pp. 949-964
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The role of semantic knowledge on the cognitive estimation task--evidence from Alzheimer's disease and healthy adult aging

    Della Sala, S., MacPherson, S. E., Sacco, L., Spinnler, H., Phillips, L. H.
    Journal of Neurology, vol. 251, no. 2, pp. 156-164
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Verbal fluency performance in dementia of the Alzheimer's type: a meta-analysis

    Henry, J. D., Phillips, L. H., Crawford, J. R.
    Neuropsychologia, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 1212-1222
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Real life cognitive functioning: A study of quality of life in Scotland

    Gilhooly, K., Gilhooly, M., Phillips, L., Hanlon, P., Harvey, D., Murray, A.
    The Gerontologist, vol. 43, no. S1, pp. 554-555
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Age, working memory, and the Tower of London task.

    Phillips, L. H., Gilhooly, K. J., Logie, R. H., Della Sala, S., Wynn, V. E.
    European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 15, pp. 291-312
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Behavioral dysexecutive symptoms in normal aging

    Amieva, H., Phillips, L., Della Sala, S.
    Brain and Cognition, vol. 53, pp. 129-132
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • How many camels are there in Italy? Cognitive estimates standardised on the Italian population

    Della Sala, S., MacPherson, S. E., Phillips, L. H., Sacco, L., Spinnler, H.
    Neurological Sciences, vol. 24, pp. 10-15
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Use it or lose it? Cognitive functioning in older adults

    Gilhooly, K., Gilhooly, M., Phillips, L. H., Hanlon, P.
    Nursing and Residential Care, vol. 5, pp. 346-350
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age, executive function, and social decision making: A dorsolateral prefrontal theory of cognitive aging

    MacPherson, S. E., Phillips, L. H., Della Sala, S.
    Psychology and Aging, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 598-609
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Mid-life risk factors and cognitive functioning in older adults

    Murray, A., Harvey, D., Gilhooly, M., Gilhooly, K., Phillips, L., Hanlon, P.
    The Gerontologist, vol. 42, no. S1, pp. 136-137
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • The effects of adult aging and induced positive and negative mood on planning

    Phillips, L. H., Smith, L., Gilhooly, K. J.
    Emotion, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 263-272
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Positive mood and executive function: evidence from stroop and fluency tasks

    Phillips, L. H., Bull, R., Adams, E., Fraser, L.
    Emotion, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 12-22
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age and the understanding of emotions: neuropsychological and sociocognitive perspectives

    Phillips, L. H., Allen, R. D., MacLean, R. D. J.
    Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. P526-30
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age, cognition and emotion: the role of anatomical segregation in the frontal lobes: the role of anatomical segregation in the frontal lobes

    Phillips, L. H., MacPherson, S. E., Della Sala, S.
    Handbook of Neuropsychology: the frontal lobes. Grafman, J. (ed.). Elsevier Science, pp. 73-98, 29 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters

  • Visuo-spatial and verbal working memory in the five-disc Tower of London task: An individual differences approach

    Gilhooly, K. J., Wynn, V., Phillips, L. H., Logie, R. H., Della Sala, S.
    Thinking & Reasoning, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 165-178
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Midlife aging, open-ended planning, and laboratory measures of executive function

    Garden, S. E., Phillips, L. H., MacPherson, S. E.
    Neuropsychology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 472-482
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Mental planning and the Tower of London task

    Phillips, L. H., McPherson, S., Gilhooly, K. J., Wynn, V. E.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 579-597
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Task-switching costs, Stroop-costs, and executive control: a correlational study

    Ward, G., Roberts, M. J., Phillips, L. H.
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. A, Human Experimental Psychology, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 491-511
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Using Virtual Environments in the Assessment of Executive Dysfunction

    McGeorge, P., Phillips, L. H., Crawford, J. R., Garden, S. E., Della Sala, S., Milne, A. B., Hamilton, S. W., Callender, J. S.
    Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 375-383
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Age and individual differences in letter fluency

    Phillips, L. H.
    Developmental Neuropsychology, vol. 15, pp. 249-267
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Planning processes and age in the five-disc tower of london task

    Gilhooly, K. J., Phillips, L. H., Wynn, V., Logie, R. H., Della Sala, S.
    International Journal of Phytoremediation, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 339-361
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • The role of memory in the Tower of London task

    Phillips, L. H., Wynn, V., Gilhooly, K. J., Della Sala, S., Logie, R. H.
    Memory, vol. 7, pp. 209-231
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Aging, intelligence, and anatomical segregation in the frontal lobes

    Phillips, L. H., Della Sala, S.
    Learning and Individual Differences, vol. 10, pp. 217-243
    Contributions to Journals: Literature Reviews

  • Fluency deficits in patients with Alzheimer's disease and frontal lobe lesions

    Phillips, L. H., DellaSala, S., Trivelli, C.
    European Journal of Neurology, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 102-108
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • IMPULSIVITY AND SPEED-ACCURACY STRATEGIES IN INTELLIGENCE-TEST PERFORMANCE

    Phillips, L. H., RABBITT, P. M. A.
    Intelligence, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 13-29
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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