Daniel Carragher

Dr Daniel Carragher

Lecturer

School of Psychology

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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. Other research interests include the lateralisation of visuospatial attention, and ensemble coding.

My current research includes investigating 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 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.

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    2023 Carragher, D. J., & Hancock, P. (2023). The Wisdom of the Crowd Can Unmask Faces.
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    2023 Carragher, D. J., Sturman, D., & Hancock, P. (2023). Trust in Automation Influences the Accuracy of Human-Algorithm Teams Performing One-to-One Face Matching Tasks.
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    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.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS7 Europe PMC2
    2022 Carragher, D. J. (2022). Examining the cheerleader effect. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1(6), 316.
    DOI Scopus1
    2022 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, 152(5), 1286-1304.
    DOI Scopus2 WoS2
    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.
    DOI Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC3
    2021 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.
    DOI Scopus5 WoS5 Europe PMC3
    2021 Carragher, D. J., Towler, A., Mileva, V. R., White, D., & Hancock, P. (2021). Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training.
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    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.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC4
    2020 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.
    DOI Scopus7 WoS7
    2020 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.
    DOI Scopus88 WoS76 Europe PMC55
    2020 Carragher, D. J., & Hancock, P. (2020). Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces.
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    2019 Carragher, D. J., Thomas, N. A., Gwinn, O. S., & Nicholls, M. (2019). The cheerleader effect is robust to experimental manipulations of presentation time.
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    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.
    DOI Scopus14 WoS13 Europe PMC5
    2018 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.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS17 Europe PMC4
    2018 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.
    DOI Scopus13 WoS11 Europe PMC5

Lecturer & Course Coordinator

2022-23 (Semester 1) -  Advanced Career & Research Skills in Psychology A (PSYCHOL 3011A)

2022-23 (Semester 2) - Perception & Cognition (PSYCHOL 3023)

 

Course Coordinator

2022 (Semester 2) - Doing Research in Psychology Advanced (PSYCHOL 3020)

  • Position: Lecturer
  • Phone: 83135557
  • Email: daniel.carragher@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Hughes, floor Level Seven
  • Room: 725
  • Org Unit: Psychology
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