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Head of School of Psychology, Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- doug.martin@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 273647
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Psychology
Biography
I am an experimental social psychologist who is primarily interested in social cognition. I received both an MA (2000) and PhD (2005) in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen. Following my PhD, I worked as a post-doc in Aberdeen for a further 3-years, before lecturing at Northumbria University for a year in 2008/09. I re-joined the School of Psychology in Aberdeen as a Lecturer in the summer of 2009.
I do research on and teach about social cognition, stereotypes, and cultural evolution. Much my research falls into two broad areas: 1. Extracting social category information from faces; 2. The formation, evolution, and influence of stereotypes. I co-lead the Person Perception Lab (http://www.personperceptionlab.org).
I am dedicated to trying to improve equality and diversity in psychology, Higher Education, and society more generally, and am currently a member of the British Psychological Society's equality, diversity, and inclusion strategy board. I am also passionate about disseminating academic research beyond the traditional confines of academe and from 2018-22 was a trustee of the Aberdeenshire Philosophy Café. I regularly do public engagement on the influence of social bias.
I became Head of School in August 2023.
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Head of School
- Chair of School Executive
- Member of University Management Group
- Member of University Digital Strategy Committee
- Member of University Sustainability Committee
- Member of University Race Equality Strategy Group
- Member of Senate
- External Memberships
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- Member of the British Psychological Society's EDI Strategy Board
- Member of the British Psychological Society's Social Psychology Section committee
- External examiner at Cardiff University (undergraduate)
- External examiner at the University of Dundee (taught postgraduate)
- Co-editor of Social Psychology Review
Latest Publications
Large-scale cross-societal examination of real-and minimal-group biases.
Nature Human BehaviourContributions to Journals: ArticlesMany mickles make a muckle: Evidence that gender stereotypes re-emerge spontaneously via cultural evolution
Personality and Social Psychology BulletinContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672241254695
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23358/1/Dallimore_etal_PSPB_Many_Mickles_Make_AAM.pdf
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23358/2/Dallimore_etal_PSPB_Many_mickles_make_VOR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] https://abdn.elsevierpure.com/en/publications/ec687c44-ae38-43f3-a42b-22d3503413ad
Intergroup processes and the happy face advantage: How social categories influence emotion categorization
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 126, no. 3, pp. 390-412Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAccentuate the positive: Evidence that context dependent self-reference drives self-bias
Cognition, vol. 240, 105600Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Qualitative Systematic Review on the Application of the Normalisation of Deviance Phenomenon Within High-Risk Industries
Journal of Safety Research, vol. 84, pp. 290-305Contributions to Journals: Review articles
Prizes and Awards
- AUSA and University of Aberdeen Excellence Award "Most Inspiring" (2023)
- College of Life Sciences and Medicine Teaching Excellence Award (2013)
- Research
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Research Overview
I am an experimental social psychologist who examines social cognition - the way the brain processes information about people.
Much of my research examines social bias and in particular the influence stereotypes exert on thoughts, behaviour, and society (particularly gender stereotypes).
Some of my research examines the way people process from faces.
In collaboration with colleagues in linguistics, some of my research examines cultural evolution (the way information changes as is passes from person to person).
In collaboration with colleagues in computing science, some of my research examines the effects of social bias in AI (both how social bias transfers from humans to machines and how bias transfers from machines to humans).
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Psychology.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Psychology
- Social Psychology
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
- Social bias
- Person perception
- Stereotypes
- Gender stereotypes
- Extracting social information from faces
- Cultural evolution
Funding and Grants
2022-2025: Opening the black box: helping AI to persuade without bias. Allan, K., Leontidis, G., Martin, D. & Sripada, G. ESRC PhD Studentship, £47,100.
2020: An investigation of the role of statistical learning in children’s stereotype formation. Martin, D. & Jeppsson, H. Carnegie undergraduate vacation scholarship, £3,000.
2017-2020: Establishing how intergroup bias influences the formation and evolution of stereotypes. ESRC Research Grants Scheme, £294, 894.
2018-2019: Establishing how episodic memories of individual encounters with other people support the formation of semantic knowledge for social categories. Martin, D. EPS Small Grants Scheme, £3500.
2012-2013: Does unattended face information trigger switch costs when attending to other social categories? Martin, D. EPS Small Grants Scheme, £2500.
2011-2014: Formation of stereotypes through cumulative cultural transmission. Martin, D. ESRC First Grants Scheme, £162, 201.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
- Level 1: Social Psychology (PS1009)
- MSc and On-Demand: The Psychology of Social Bias (PS5036 & PS5536)
- Publications
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Categorical proactive interference effects occur for faces
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 1001-1009Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09541440903162456
Form-specific repetition priming for unfamiliar faces
Experimental Psychology, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 338-345Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1027/1618-3169/a000040
Processing style and person recognition: exploring the face inversion effect
Visual Cognition, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 161-170Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280902868793
Executive functioning and imitation: Increasing working memory load facilitates behavioural imitation
Neuropsychologia, vol. 47, no. 14, pp. 3265-3270Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.06.005
Dude looks like a lady: Exploring the malleability of person categorization
European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 1109-1119Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.600
Some witnesses are better than others
Personality and Individual Differences, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 369-373Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.010
The bi-pedal ape: Plasticity and asymmetry in footedness
Cortex, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 650-661Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2008.05.011
Lateralized Repetition Priming for Unfamiliar Faces
Experimental Psychology, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 147-155Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSocial Cognition
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and DictionariesA boy primed Sue: feature-based processing and person construal
European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 793-805Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.406
A face with a cue: exploring the inevitability of person categorization
European Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 806-816Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.445