Rate My Professor Linda Jeffery

Jeffery's research centres on person perception expertise, examining how subtle cues from faces and bodies inform judgements of identity, gender, ethnicity, age, attractiveness, emotional states, and attention focus. She explores individual differences in these abilities and their links to psychosocial functioning, impression formation from faces, developmental maturation in children, perceptual mechanisms in autism, and practical applications in legal and security contexts. Key publications include 'Face recognition's practical relevance: Social bonds, not social butterflies' (Engfors et al., Cognition, 2024), 'Autistic Traits Are Associated With Differences in the Perception of Genuineness and Approachability in Emotional Facial Expressions' (Bothe et al., Emotion, 2024), 'Children show neural sensitivity to facial trustworthiness' (Siddique et al., Neuropsychologia, 2023), 'Negative aftereffects of face trait impressions are modulated by emotional expressions' (Marini et al., Visual Cognition, 2024), and earlier influential works such as 'Orientation-Contingent Face Aftereffects and Implications for Theories of Face Recognition' (Rhodes et al., Current Biology, 2004). With an h-index of 29 and over 3,300 citations, her studies on norm-based coding and adaptive face processing have significantly influenced understanding of perceptual expertise across developmental and clinical populations.