Rate My Professor Sharon Scrafton

Dr Scrafton's research outputs center on perceptual and emotional processes in natural behaviour. Key publications include 'Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease' (2024), published in Cognition and Emotion, co-authored with J. Walters, S. Occhipinti, A. L. Duffy, C. Tapp, and M. Oaten, examining disgust sensitivity across developmental stages from middle childhood to adulthood. Another significant paper is 'Object Properties Influence Visual Guidance of Motor Actions' (2019) in Vision, investigating how graspable object properties affect fixations and saccades during manual interactions. She co-authored 'Coordinating vision and action in natural behaviour: Differences in spatiotemporal coupling in everyday tasks' (2017) in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology with M. J. Stainer and B. W. Tatler, analyzing eye-hand coordination in real-world activities like tea-making. Earlier work connects to the University of Aberdeen School of Psychology. At Griffith University, she acts as an associate supervisor for higher degree research theses, including those on the role of animacy in episodic and working memory and systematic reviews in psychology. Her contributions extend to departmental phonebooks and staff directories, affirming her role in the School of Applied Psychology.