Dr Janice Attard-Johnson
- Deputy Head of Department in Psychology
- Poole House P110, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
Biography
I conduct research in cognitive and forensic psychology that fit within the broad areas of person perception with a recent focus on facial age assessment - its theoretical relationship to other face and visual processes and the applied impact of accurate age assessment.
I completed my PhD at the University of Kent and later joined the Psychology Department at BU as a Lecturer. I am particularly interested in bridging cognition and forensic psychology. To date I have published research on examining the use of cognitive approaches, eye-tracking, and pupillary responses as a sex- and age-specific measure of sexual interests. I have also published on face recognition and time estimation ability in eye-witness face identification, as well as our own insight into our ability at face recognition.
Favourites
- Davis, H. and Attard-Johnson, J., 2022. Your ID, please? The effect of facemasks and makeup on perceptions of age of young adult female faces. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 36 (2), 453-459.
- Attard-Johnson, J., Vasilev, M.R., Ó Ciardha, C., Bindemann, M. and Babchishin, K.M., 2021. Measurement of Sexual Interests with Pupillary Responses: A Meta-Analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50 (8), 3385-3411.
- Attard-Johnson, J., Ó Ciardha, C. and Bindemann, M., 2019. Comparing methods for the analysis of pupillary response. Behavior Research Methods, 51 (1), 83-95.
- Attard-Johnson, J., Bindemann, M. and Ó Ciardha, C., 2016. Pupillary Response as an Age-Specific Measure of Sexual Interest. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45 (4), 855-870.
