Dr Daniel Carragher
Lecturer
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
I joined the University of Adelaide as a Lecturer in November 2021. I received my PhD in face perception from Flinders University (2019), before joining the Stirling Face laboratory at the University of Stirling in 2020 as a post-doctoral researcher.
Generally speaking, my research examines how we perceive human faces. I'm interested in how we recognise faces and emotional expressions, make first impressions from facial appearance, and perform identity matching tasks. My work also examines that factors that help or hinder performance on these types of tasks.
Current lines of research include investing how COVID-19 face masks affect identity and emotion recognition, how we make first impressions of faces in naturalistic social scenes, and how humans perform face recognition and matching tasks when working with others or automated facial recognition systems.
Honours Projects 2023
I'll be offering several honours projects in 2023, all revolving around human performance on one-to-one face matching tasks (potentially when assisted by facial recognition technologies). These tasks are common in every day life, such as when you are asked to show photo ID (e.g., a driver's licence) at a store or when travelling through airports. Yet humans struggle to decide whether photo ID matches the person presenting it for inspection! Even under ideal lab conditions, participants often only achieve accuracy of around 80% (or, to put it another way, make a mistake 1 in 5 times). You can find links to my most recent work in this area through the link to Google Scholar on my profile (below).
If you are interested in some other aspect of face perception, please know that I am also open to projects suggested by students.
In either case, please contact me via email for further information.
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2021 - ongoing Lecturer University of Adelaide 2020 - 2021 Post-doctoral Researcher University of Stirling 2019 - 2019 Post-doctoral Researcher Monash University 2019 - 2019 Casual Lecturer Flinders University 2016 - 2019 Casual Tutor Flinders University -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2015 - 2019 Flinders University Australia PhD 2011 - 2014 Flinders University Australia Bachelor of Psychology (hons) -
Research Interests
Computer Perception, Memory and Attention Computer-Human Interaction Experimental Psychology Forensic Psychology General Psychology & Cognitive Sciences Human Factors Psychology Psychology and Cognitive Sciences Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance Vision Science Neuroscience, Behaviour and Brain Health
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Journals
Year Citation 2022 Carragher, D. J., Towler, A., Mileva, V. R., White, D., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2022). Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 1-12.
Scopus3 WoS12022 Carragher, D. J., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2022). Simulated Automated Facial Recognition Systems as Decision-Aids in Forensic Face Matching Tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
2021 Hsieh, J. Y. J., Gwinn, O. S., Brooks, K. R., Stephen, I. D., Carragher, D. J., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2021). The “cheerleader effect” in facial and bodily attractiveness: A result of memory bias and not perceptual encoding. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74(5), 972-980.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC12021 Ciricugno, A., Bartlett, M. L., Gwinn, O. S., Carragher, D. J., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2021). The effect of cognitive load on horizontal and vertical spatial asymmetries. Laterality, 26(6), 706-724.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC22021 Carragher, D. J., Towler, A., Mileva, V. R., White, D., & Hancock, P. (2021). Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training.
2021 Carragher, D. J., Thomas, N. A., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2021). The dissociable influence of social context on judgements of facial attractiveness and trustworthiness.. British journal of psychology (London, England : 1953), 112(4), 902-933.
Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC22020 Carragher, D. J., Thomas, N. A., Gwinn, O. S., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2020). The cheerleader effect is robust to experimental manipulations of presentation time. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 32(5-6), 553-561.
Scopus6 WoS62020 Carragher, D. J., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2020). Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces.. Cognitive research: principles and implications, 5(1), 59.
Scopus70 WoS60 Europe PMC442019 Carragher, D. J., Thomas, N. A., Gwinn, O. S., & Nicholls, M. (2019). The cheerleader effect is robust to experimental manipulations of presentation time.
2019 Carragher, D. J., Thomas, N. A., Gwinn, O. S., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2019). Limited evidence of hierarchical encoding in the cheerleader effect.. Scientific reports, 9(1), 9329.
Scopus12 WoS11 Europe PMC32018 Carragher, D. J., Lawrence, B. J., Thomas, N. A., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2018). Visuospatial asymmetries do not modulate the cheerleader effect. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 2548.
Scopus16 WoS16 Europe PMC42018 Carragher, D. J., Thomas, N. A., & Nicholls, M. E. R. (2018). Is trustworthiness lateralized in the face? Evidence from a trust game. Laterality, 23(1), 20-38.
Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC4- Carragher, D. J., & Hancock, P. (n.d.). Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces.
- Carragher, D. J. (n.d.). Examining the cheerleader effect. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(6), 316.
Lecturer & Course Coordinator
2022 (Semester 1) - Advanced Career & Research Skills in Psychology A (PSYCHOL 3011A)
2022 (Semester 2) - Perception & Cognition (PSYCHOL 3023)
Course Coordinator
2022 (Semester 2) - Doing Research in Psychology Advanced (PSYCHOL 3020)
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