Abstract
We spend our lives interacting with other people, and in these interactions faces provide a wealth of both fixed (e.g., social group and age), and flexible information (e.g., facial expressions that indicate emotions and likely actions). The quality of an interaction, and its outcome, depends on how the people interacting interpret each other’s faces and expressions. In this talk I will present some of my recent work examining how facial expressions are evaluated, what can change how people interpret other people’s facial expressions, and consequently the decisions people make.
Biography
Dr Danielle Shore is Deputy Research Director of Clinical Psychology Training and Research at the University of Oxford and a Research Tutor at the Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training and Research. She holds a PhD in Psychology from Bangor University. Her research focuses on social cognition, specifically how faces and facial expressions shape social interactions and social decision-making. She is interested in how these processes relate to well-being and are affected in clinical populations such as individuals with social anxiety or visible difference.