James W.A. Strachan

Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Mind and Body lab at the Central European University Department of Cognitive Science. I work with Professors Natalie Sebanz and Günther Knoblich on topics of social cognition, coordination, and communication in joint action.

Before joining the department at CEU, I completed my PhD at the University of York under the supervision of Professor Steve Tipper, looking at incidental social learning from gaze cues.

Education

PhD in Psychology, 2016

University of York
MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012

University of York
BSc in Psychology, 2009

University of York

Selected Publications

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Strachan, J.W.A., Guttesen, A.á V., Smith, A., Gaskell, M.G., Tipper, S.P., Cairney, S.A. (2019). Investigating the formation and consolidation of incidentally learned trust. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, Advance online publication..

Preprint PDF Dataset Project Source Document

Strachan, J.W.A., Sebanz, N., Knoblich, G. (2019). The role of emotion in the dyad inversion effect. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219185.

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Strachan, J.W.A., Kirkham, A.J., Manssuer, L.R., Over, H., Tipper, S.P. (2017). Incidental learning of trust from eye-gaze: Effects of race and facial trustworthiness. Visual Cognition, 25(7-8), 802-814.

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Strachan, J.W.A., Tipper, S.P. (2017). Examining the durability of incidentally learned trust from gaze cues. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10), 2060-2075.

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Current Projects

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List of collaborators

LINK: Constructing Social Minds

PI: Prof. Günther Knoblich
Coordination, Communication and Cultural Transmission.

LINK: Joint Action Expertise

PI: Prof. Natalie Sebanz
Behavioural, cognitive, and neural mechanisms for joint action learning.

Incidental Learning of Trust from Gaze Cues

Investigating how we make decisions about trustworthiness based on nonverbal gaze behaviour.

Recent & Upcoming Talks and Posters

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More Talks

Active Cultural Transmission: Exploring the role of pedagogy in transmission and learning

Jul 13, 2019 10:00 AM

Upcoming talk at the 8th Joint Action Meeting (JAM VIII) at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova, Italy, July 10-13th 2019

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Investigating the role of fairness in task distribution

May 23, 2019 12:00 AM

Poster presented at the Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (DuCog), May 23-25 2019

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When Being Efficient Is Unfair: Investigation the Role of Fairness in Task Distribution

Mar 9, 2019 8:00 PM

Poster presentation delivered at the International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) 2019, Paris, March 7-9