Rate My Professor Linda Jeffery

Dr. Linda Jeffery is a Senior Lecturer in the Curtin School of Population Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University. Her research interests include face perception, development, face aftereffects, and person perception, as listed on her Google Scholar profile affiliated with the School of Population Health, Curtin University. She has a verified email at curtin.edu.au and has accumulated 5,255 citations with an h-index of 34. Her work utilizes perceptual adaptation techniques to study norm-based coding of facial and body identity, contributing to understanding visual coding mechanisms in social perception. Previously affiliated with the University of Western Australia in some publications, she coordinates the PSYC3003 Adult Developmental Psychology unit at Curtin, with contact details including phone +61 8 9266 7479 for the course.

Key publications by Dr. Jeffery include 'Testing stimulus generalisation as a mechanism for impression formation' (Cognition, 2025), co-authored with Leoni S. Masroujah, Stephanie Wilcke, and others, exploring generalization in impression formation from faces. 'Negative aftereffects of face trait impressions are modulated by adaptor extremity' (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2024), with F. Marini, Sarah D. Maisey, and Mauro Manassi, examines modulation of aftereffects in trustworthiness and other trait impressions. 'Autistic traits are associated with differences in the perception of genuineness and approachability in emotional facial expressions independently of alexithymia' (Emotion, 2023), involving Ellen Bothe, Amy Dawel, Romina Palermo, and others. 'Children show neural sensitivity to facial trustworthiness as early as 3 years of age' (Neuropsychologia, 2023), with S. Siddique and colleagues. Earlier contributions feature 'Visual Coding of Human Bodies: Perceptual Aftereffects Reveal Norm-Based Opponent Coding of Body Identity'. She has presented at conferences such as the Asia Pacific Conference on Vision 2016 on coding facial identity evidence for a channel tuned to the average face. Her research on facial recognition was covered in 2024 releases from Curtin University and UniSA, linking it to close social bonds and self-esteem boosts. With ORCID 0000-0002-3980-5864 listing 71 publications and 2 grants awarded, her scholarship impacts psychology rankings at Curtin University.