Robin Kramer

Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, University of Lincoln

In recent years, my direction within psychology has led to the emergence of two related paths of research:

1. Face perception and social cognition - Utilising an evolutionary approach, I have been focusing on the signalling of personality and health information from the face, both in humans and chimpanzees, and have proposed the idea of a shared system across species. This investigation into social signals has also included own- and other-race faces, as well as information signalled through gait (using motion capture techniques).

2. Facial recognition and within-person variability - I have been using computational modelling in order to investigate the nature of within-person variability. I am trying to understand how we are able to recognise a familiar person from multiple (unstandardised) photographs, despite how varied these images often are. Through the use of principal components analysis and other techniques, I hope to model the variability of an individual and explore how idiosyncratic this variation might be.

Experience

2017–present

Lecturer, University of Lincoln
2017–2017

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Trent University
2015–2016

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of York
2013–2014

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
2013–2013

Research associate, University of Kent
2012–2012

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brock University
2011–2012

Research officer, Bangor University
2007–2008

Research assistant, Bangor University
2005–2007

Research associate, Indiana University - Bloomington

Education

2012

Bangor University, PhD in Psychology
2005

University of Sussex, MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems
2003

University of Oxford, BA in Experimental Psychology

Professional Memberships

Experimental Psychology Society

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