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Linda Jeffery has worked in various research-focused roles at the School of Psychological Science at the University of Western Australia. Between 2007 and 2010, she served as an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, where she investigated adaptive coding mechanisms in the development of face perception. From 2015 to 2018, she was an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders. Currently, she is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science at UWA, a position she has held since 2019, where she combines teaching and research. In 2020, she was appointed Chair of the School's Community Engagement Committee. Jeffery’s research primarily explores person perception, focusing on how individuals perceive faces and bodies, and the individual differences that influence these processes. Her work has significant implications for understanding person identification in critical contexts such as legal settings and border control. She is particularly interested in how children develop the ability to recognize familiar faces and the emotional cues they convey. Her academic qualifications include a PhD and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology from the University of Western Australia. Jeffery's contributions to the field are well recognized and she continues to actively engage in research on face perception, person perception, and related areas of developmental psychology.
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