Chair in Psychology
- About
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- 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
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) Psychology1990 - University of Edinburgh
- PhD Psychology1993 - University of Manchester
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Course co-ordinator for PS3011 Psychological Assessment
- Steering group of Aberdeen Birth Cohort and Aberdeen Children of the 1950s
- External Memberships
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Vice-President of the European Cognitive Aging Society (EUCAS)
Member of British Psychological Society
Member of Experimental Psychology Society
Latest Publications
Age Differences in Gaze Following: Older Adults Follow Gaze More than Younger Adults When free-viewing Scenes
Experimental Aging Research, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 84-101Contributions to Journals: ArticlesClassifying the non-metabolic demands of different physical activity types: The Physical Activity Demand (PAD) typology
PloS ONE, vol. 18, no. 10, e0291782Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAdult age differences in using information from the eyes and mouth to make decisions about others' emotions
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 77, no. 12, pp. 2241-2251Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Effects Of Adult Aging And Culture On Theory Of Mind
Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 77, no. 2, pp. 332-340Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab093
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/18636/1/Yong_etal_JGSB_The_Effects_Of_AAM.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Remember to stay positive: Affect and prospective memory in everyday life
Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 179-190Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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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
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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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Global form and motion processing in healthy ageing
Acta Psychologica, vol. 166, pp. 12-20Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMental and perceptual feedback in the development of creative flow
Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 42, pp. 150-161Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhere is my key? Where is his key?: Perspective taking and social sensitivity of the Key Search task
Cortex, vol. 76, pp. 131Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2015.11.008
Brain hyperintensity location determines outcome in the triad of impaired cognition, physical health and depressive symptoms: A cohort study in late life
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, vol. 63, pp. 49-54Contributions to Journals: ArticlesOlder adults have difficulty in decoding sarcasm
Developmental Psychology, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 1840-1852Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCognitive aging: Activity patterns and maintenance intentions (2007)
Studies of Thinking: Selected works of Kenneth Gilhooly. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 197-211, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725949
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Planning processes and age in the five-disc Tower of London task (1999)
Studies of Thinking: Selected works of Kenneth Gilhooly. 1999 edition. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 157-176, 20 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725949
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The effects of adult aging and induced positive and negative mood on planning (2002)
Studies of Thinking: Selected works of Kenneth Gilhooly. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 178-192, 15 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725949
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Visuo-spatial and verbal working memory in the five-disc tower of London task: An individual differences approach (2002)
Studies of Thinking: Selected works of Kenneth Gilhooly. 2002 edition. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 142-153, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315725949
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The relationship between prospective memory and episodic future thinking in younger and older adulthood
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 310-323Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1054294
The role of emotion regulation on social participation following stroke
British Journal of Clinical Psychology, vol. 54, no. 2, pp. 181-199Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe overlapping relationship between emotion perception and theory of mind
Neuropsychologia, vol. 70, pp. 1-10Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPhysical disease and resilient outcomes: a systematic review of resilience definitions and study methods
Psychosomatics, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 168-180Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAge differences in decoding complex emotions: does context matter?
The 5th Geneva Ageing SeriesContributions to Conferences: AbstractsAnger, Quality of Life and Mood in Multiple Sclerosis
Journal of Multiple Sclerosis, vol. 1, 127Contributions to Journals: ArticlesFlow, affect, and visual creativity
Cognition & Emotion, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 281-291Contributions to Journals: ArticlesGlobal and local processing biases in healthy ageing
Vision Sciences SocietyContributions to Conferences: PostersMood effects on memory and executive control in a real-life situation
Cognition & Emotion, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1107-1116Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThe Impact of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease on Decoding Emotion Cues from Bodily Motion
AIMS Neuroscience, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 139-152Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTheory of mind and switching predict prospective memory performance in adolescents
Journal of experimental child psychology, vol. 127, pp. 163-175Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.03.009
Difficulties with emotion regulation in multiple sclerosis: Links to executive function, mood, and quality of life
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 831-842Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2014.946891
Future thinking improves prospective memory performance and plan enactment in older adults
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 192-204Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2014.956127
Mood impairs time-based prospective memory in young but not older adults: The mediating role of attentional control
Psychology and Aging, vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 264-270Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036389
A meta-analytic review of theory of mind difficulties in behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia
Neuropsychologia, vol. 56, pp. 53-62Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.12.024
Links between emotion perception and social participation restriction following stroke
Brain Injury, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 122-126Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3109/02699052.2013.848379
