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<div class=""><strong style="color: rgb(70, 69, 71); font-family: "Euphemia UCAS", sans-serif;" class="">Fully Funded PhD Studentship</strong><font color="#464547" face="Euphemia UCAS, sans-serif" class=""> at the Department of Psychology, School of Social
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<b style="color: rgb(70, 69, 71); font-family: "Euphemia UCAS", sans-serif;" class="">Project Outline<br class="">
</b><font color="#464547" face="Euphemia UCAS, sans-serif" class="">Common and distinct patterns of emotion processing associated with autistic traits and social anxiety (Ref. SoSS-2022-006)</font><br class="">
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<font color="#464547" face="Euphemia UCAS, sans-serif" class="">Supervisory team: Dr Mel McKendrick, Dr Louise Delicato & Prof. Thusha Rajendran Research Centre: Centre for Applied Behavioural Sciences</font><br class="">
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<font color="#464547" face="Euphemia UCAS, sans-serif" class="">Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is highly comorbid with Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) with an estimate of 30-56% across the lifespan (Zaboski, & Storch, 2018; Joshi et al., 2013). Whilst some
research has suggested avoidance of attention to eyes in both disorders, there has also been evidence of a double dissociation on delayed orienting towards eyes in ASD and faster disengagement from eyes in SAD (Kleberg et al., 2017). Eye gaze also differs
with Schulze et al’s (2013) finding that SAD individuals were more responsive to faces in direct gaze conditions, indicative of a greater social threat, whilst Tell et al. (2014) found that participants with ASD performed poorly compared to controls on a recognition
task regardless of eye gaze direction. This has implications for diagnostic indicators and social skills training for non-verbal communication. This project will utilise eye-tracking and virtual reality technology in a series of experimental studies to measure
how sensitive people are to the dimensions of identity, emotion and eye gaze.</font><br class="">
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<font color="#464547" face="Euphemia UCAS, sans-serif" class="">For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Mel McKendrick (<a href="mailto:m.mckendrick@hw.ac.uk" class="">m.mckendrick@hw.ac.uk</a>). It is desirable, though not essential, that candidates for
this project area have experience with programming and/or eye-tracking.</font><br class="">
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<font color="#464547" face="Euphemia UCAS, sans-serif" class="">When submitting your application for this project area, please select the option ‘Psychology, PhD’ from the drop-down list on the online application system.
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<font color="#464547" face="Euphemia UCAS, sans-serif" class="">For more details and to apply please go to
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);" class="">Dr. Louise S. Delicato, MA (Hons) PhD CPsychol SFHEA<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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