Gillian Slessor

Biographic Data

ID5450198
NAMEGillian Slessor
GIVEN NAMESGillian
FAMILY NAMESlessor
SIGNATURESLESSOR G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Aberdeen
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Many Mickles Make a Muckle

    Open AccessCarolyn J Dallimore, Kenny Smith et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2025

    We explore whether societal gender stereotypes re-emerge as social information is repeatedly passed from person to person. We examined whether peoples’ memories of personality attributes associated with female and male social targets became increasingly consistent with societal gender stereotypes as information was passed down social transmission chains. After passing through the memories of just four generations of participants, our initially ge…

  • Intergroup processes and the happy face advantage

    Douglas S Martin, Jacqui Hutchison et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2024

    There is abundant evidence that emotion categorization is influenced by the social category membership of target faces, with target sex and target race modulating the ease with which perceivers can categorize happy and angry emotional expressions. However, theoretical interpretation of these findings is constrained by gender and race imbalances in both the participant samples and target faces typically used when demonstrating these effects (e.g.,…

  • Adult Age Differences in Using Information From the Eyes and Mouth to Make Decisions About Others’ Emotions

    Open AccessGillian Slessor, Pauline M Insch et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2022References: 1

    These studies indicate that older people are more able than young to interpret emotional information from the mouth, they are more biased to use information from the mouth, and suffer more difficulty in emotion perception when the mouth is covered with a face mask. This has implications for social communication in different age groups

  • The simultaneous extraction of multiple social categories from unfamiliar faces

    Open AccessDouglas S Martin, Rachel Swainson et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2015Cited by: 4References: 38

  • Examining the time course of young and older adults’ mimicry of enjoyment and nonenjoyment smiles

    Gillian Slessor, Phoebe E Bailey et al.ARTICLEEmotion2014

    Electromyographic (EMG) research suggests that implicit mimicry of happy facial expressions remains intact with age. However, age-related differences in EMG responses to enjoyment and nonenjoyment smiles have not been explored. The present study assessed younger and older adults' orbicularis oculi (O.oculi; eye) and zygomaticus major (Z.major; cheek) reactions to images of individuals displaying enjoyment and nonenjoyment smiles. Both age groups …

  • Specificity of Age-Related Differences in Eye-Gaze Following

    Gillian Slessor, Cristina Venturini et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2014Cited by: 2References: 3

    Taken together these findings suggest older adults do not use eye-gaze cues to engage in joint attention, and have specific social difficulties decoding critical information from the eye region

  • Age-related Differences in Processing Face Configuration

    Gillian Slessor, Deborah M Riby et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2012

    Taken together, these findings suggest that age-related differences in sensitivity to configural information are specific to the eye region of the face. The potential implications of these findings for age-related difficulties in interpreting social cues from the eyes are discussed

  • Processing orientation and emotion recognition

    Douglas S Martin, Gillian Slessor et al.ARTICLEEmotion2011

    There is evidence that some emotional expressions are characterised by diagnostic cues from individual face features. For example, an upturned mouth is indicative of happiness, while a furrowed brow is associated with anger. The current investigation explored whether motivating people to perceive stimuli in a local (i.e., feature-based) rather than global (i.e., holistic) processing orientation was advantageous for recognising emotional facial ex…

  • "Investigating the "Deceiver Stereotype

    Gillian Slessor, Lester H Phillips et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2011Cited by: 1References: 3

    These findings provide further evidence of age-related differences in the ability to extract socially relevant information from the eye region, which might relate to changes in visual scanning of facial features with age

  • Age-related changes in the integration of gaze direction and facial expressions of emotion

    Gillian Slessor, Lester H Phillips et al.ARTICLEEmotion2010

    Gaze direction influences younger adults' perception of emotional expressions, with direct gaze enhancing the perception of anger and joy, while averted gaze enhances the perception of fear. Age-related declines in emotion recognition and eye-gaze processing have been reported, indicating that there may be age-related changes in the ability to integrate these facial cues. As there is evidence of a positivity bias with age, age-related difficultie…

  • Age-Related Differences in Gaze Following

    Gillian Slessor, G Laird et al.ARTICLEThe Journals of Gerontology…2010Cited by: 4References: 2

    Previous research revealed age differences in following the gaze of others. To date, however, investigations have concentrated on only young faces as target stimuli. The present study explored whether varying the age of target stimuli moderated gaze following in younger and older adults. Overall, older participants showed less evidence of gaze following, but this was qualified by the age of the face viewed. Younger participants showed an own-age …