Emeritus Professor Janice Murray, Our People, Department of Psychology

Email janice.murray@otago.ac.nz

Emeritus Professor Janice Murray investigated the mechanisms that allow for successful face processing, including the role that attention plays. She helped lead a collaborative research programme investigating age-related changes in emotion perception and social understanding (the Otago Lifespan Development Research Group). This programme operated within the Department of Psychology. She additionally leaded an Otago-based face perception project in collaboration with Daphne Maurer from McMaster University, Canada.

She has authored over 30 papers, and has given more than 40 research conference and seminar presentations at Otago and abroad. She was a regular reviewer for a number of top international journals and completed her fourth, three-year term as a member of the editorial board of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Janice joined the Department in 1991. She has 23 years of university teaching experience, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels at Otago and at Canadian universities.

Janice retired from the department in August 2021.

Publications

Murray, J. (2021, July). From go to whoa: Perceiving the world. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture]. Other Research Output

Atkinson, L., Murray, J. E., & Halberstadt, J. (2020). Older adults' emotion recognition ability is unaffected by stereotype threat. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 605724. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.605724 Journal - Research Article

Ruffman, T., Halberstadt, J., Murray, J., Jack, F., & Vater, T. (2020). Empathic accuracy: Worse recognition by older adults and less transparency in older adult expressions compared to young adults. Journals of Gerontology Series B, 75(8), 1658-1667. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbz008 Journal - Research Article

Atkinson, L., Murray, J., & Halberstadt, J. (2017). Older adults’ emotion recognition ability unaffected by stereotype threat. Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). (pp. 211-212). Retrieved from http://www.escop2017.org Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Madill, M., & Murray, J. E. (2017). Processing distracting non-face emotional images: No evidence of an age-related positivity effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 591. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00591 Journal - Research Article

2021

Other Research Output

Murray, J. (2021, July). From go to whoa: Perceiving the world. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture].

2020

Journal - Research Article

2017

Journal - Research Article

Madill, M., & Murray, J. E. (2017). Processing distracting non-face emotional images: No evidence of an age-related positivity effect. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 591. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00591

Campbell, A., Murray, J. E., Atkinson, L., & Ruffman, T. (2017). Face age and eye gaze influence older adults' emotion recognition [Brief report]. Journals of Gerontology Series B, 72(4), 633-636. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbv114

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

2016

Journal - Research Article

Ruffman, T., Wilson, M., Henry, J. D., Dawson, A., Chen, Y., Kladnitski, N., Myftari, E., Murray, J., Halberstadt, J., & Hunter, J. A. (2016). Age differences in right-wing authoritarianism and their relation to emotion recognition. Emotion, 16(2), 226-236. doi: 10.1037/emo0000107

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., & Madill, M. (2016). Age-related differences in preferential attention to, but not interference from, affective images. Perception, 45(2, Suppl.), (pp. 281-282). doi: 10.1177/0301006616671273

2014

Journal - Research Article

Campbell, A., Ruffman, T., Murray, J. E., & Glue, P. (2014). Oxytocin improves emotion recognition for older males. Neurobiology of Aging, 35(10), 2246-2248. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.04.021

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., & Chen, Y. (2014). Older adults are more sensitive to the holistic impression of facial expressions. Proceedings of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) 26th Annual Convention. (pp. 29). Retrieved from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/archive/2014-2

2013

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Campbell, A., Ruffman, T., Murray, J., & Glue, P. (2013). Oxytocin improves emotion recognition for older males. Gerontologist, 53(Suppl. 1), (pp. 464). doi: 10.1093/geront/gnt151

Murray, J., Campbell, N., & Tanaka, J. (2013). Holistic and analytic processing of emotional expression in composite faces depends on the combination of expressions. Journal of Vision, 13(9), 101. doi: 10.1167/13.9.101

2012

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E., Judge, M., & Chen, Y. (2012). Ignored faces produce figural face aftereffects. PLoS ONE, 7(9), e45928. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045928

Ruffman, T., Murray, J., Halberstadt, J., & Vater, T. (2012). Age-related differences in deception. Psychology & Aging, 27(3), 543-549. doi: 10.1037/a0023380

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., McConnell, M., Maurer, D., & Halberstadt, J. (2012). Age-related changes in face processing: General or specific processing deficits? Proceedings of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) 24th Annual Convention. Retrieved from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/convention/program_2012/

2011

Journal - Research Article

Halberstadt, J., Ruffman, T., Murray, J., Taumoepeau, M., & Ryan, M. (2011). Emotion perception explains age-related differences in the perception of social gaffes. Psychology & Aging, 26(1), 133-136. doi: 10.1037/a0021366

Murray, J. E., Machado, L., & Knight, B. (2011). Race and gender of faces can be ignored. Psychological Research, 75(4), 324-333. doi: 10.1007/s00426-010-0310-7

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Ruffman, T., Murray, J., Halberstadt, J., & Campbell, A. (2011). Implicit recognition of emotion in the absence of explicit recognition in healthy older adults. Plenary meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE). (pp. 308). Retrieved from http://isre2011.com/

Ruffman, T., Murray, J., & Halberstadt, J. (2011). Age, lies and emotional faces: Emotion recognition mediates age-related differences in lie detection. Plenary meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE). (pp. 21). Retrieved from http://isre2011.com/img/abstract_book.pdf

Murray, J. (2011). Implicit recognition of emotion in the absence of explicit recognition in healthy older adults. Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of the Australasian Human Development Association (AHDA). (pp. 78-79). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/ahda2011/

Murray, J. E., Ruffman, T., Halberstadt, J., & Vater, T. (2011). Age, lies and faces: Emotion recognition mediates age-related differences in lie detection. Proceedings of the Association for Psychological Science 23rd Annual Convention. APS. Retrieved from http://www.psychologicalscience.org/convention/program_2011/search/

2010

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E., Halberstadt, J., & Ruffman, T. (2010). The face of aging: Sensitivity to facial feature relations changes with age. Psychology & Aging, 25(4), 846-850. doi: 10.1037/a0019864

Ruffman, T., Murray, J., Halberstadt, J., & Taumoepeau, M. (2010). Verbosity and emotion recognition in older adults. Psychology & Aging, 25(2), 492-497. doi: 10.1037/a0018247

Ryan, M., Murray, J., & Ruffman, T. (2010). Aging and the perception of emotion: Processing vocal expressions alone and with faces. Experimental Aging Research, 36(1), 1-22. doi: 10.1080/03610730903418372

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J., & Gardiner, B. (2010). Age-contingent face aftereffects depend on age of the observer. Journal of Vision. 10(7), (pp. 570). doi: 10.1167/10.7.570

2009

Journal - Research Article

Ruffman, T., Halberstadt, J., & Murray, J. (2009). Recognition of facial, auditory, and bodily emotions in older adults. Journals of Gerontology Series B, 64(6), 696-703. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbp072

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J., & Judge, M. (2009). Face adaptation with and without attention. Journal of Vision, 9(8). 522. doi: 10.1167/9.8.522

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Ruffman, T., Halberstadt, J., Murray, J., Taumoepeau, M., & Ryan, M. (2009, November). Social understanding in older adults. Verbal presentation at the Psycolloquy Seminar, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2008

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J., Ruffman, T., & Halberstadt, J. (2008). Age-related changes in face processing. Journal of Vision. 8(6), (pp. 196a). [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Murray, J. (2008, August). About face: Age-related changes in processing emotional expression. Verbal presentation at the From Mind to Brain Symposium in Honour of Mike Corballis, Auckland, New Zealand.

Murray, J. (2008, November). Age-related changes in processing emotional expression. Verbal presentation at the Psycolloquy Seminar, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2007

Journal - Research Article

La Rooy, D., Pipe, M.-E., & Murray, J. E. (2007). Enhancing children's event recall after long delays. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 1-17.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., Ryan, M., & Ruffman, T. (2007). Age-related changes in categorical perception of facial expressions. Perception. 36(ECVP Abstract Suppl.). [Abstract]

2006

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., & Yan, C. (2006). Face aftereffects and unattended faces. Journal of Vision. 6(6), (pp. 883a). [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Murray, J. E., Knight, B., & Machado, L. (2006, May). Processing gender and race in distractor faces is load dependent. Poster session presented at the Association for Psychological Science 18th Annual Convention, New York.

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

Ryan, M., Murray, J., & Ruffman, T. (2006, November). Do you see what I see? Age-related changes in sensitivity to perceptual features of facial expressions of emotion. Verbal presentation at the Psycolloquy Seminar, Dunedin, New Zealand.

2005

Journal - Research Article

La Rooy, D., Pipe, M.-E., & Murray, J. E. (2005). Reminiscence and hypermnesia in children's eyewitness memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 90(3), 235-254. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2004.11.002

Thierry, K. L., Goh, C. L., Pipe, M.-E., & Murray, J. (2005). Source recall enhances children's discrimination of seen and heard events. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 11(1), 33-44.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., & O'Neill, L. (2005). The effects of perceptual load: Evidence for a face-specific attentional mechanism. Perception. 34(Suppl.), (pp. 170). [Abstract]

Schuchinsky, M., & Murray, J. E. (2005). Perception of local configural changes in own-race and other-race faces. Perception. 34(Suppl.), (pp. 205). [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

La Rooy, D., Pipe, M.-E., & Murray, J. (2005, March). The effect of context reinstatement and open-ended repeated interviewing on children's memory for events. Verbal presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

Thierry, K., Goh, C. L., Pipe, M.-E., & Murray, J. (2005, March). Source rehearsal enhances children's discrimination of seen and heard events. Verbal presentation at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Atlanta, GA.

2004

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E. (2004). The ups and downs of face perception: Evidence for holistic encoding of upright and inverted faces. Perception, 33, 387-398.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. (2004). Processing distractor faces: I know who you are but not what you're feeling. Australian Journal of Psychology, 56(S1), (pp. 128). doi: 10.1111/j.1742-9536.2004.tb01897.x

Schuchinsky, M., & Murray, J. E. (2004). Local configural encoding of own-race and other-race faces. Proceedings of the Object Perception, Attention and Memory 12th Annual Meeting. (pp. 8). Minneapolis, MN, USA: OPAM. [Abstract]

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Murray, J. E., Wells, L., & Rhodes, G. (2004, August). Faces, races and norms. Poster session presented at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, China.

2003

Chapter in Book - Research

Murray, J. E., Rhodes, G., & Schuchinsky, M. (2003). When is a face not a face? The effects of misorientation on mechanisms of face perception. In M. A. Peterson & G. Rhodes (Eds.), Perception of faces, objects and scenes: Analytic and holistic processes. (pp. 75-91). New York: Oxford University Press.

Journal - Research Article

Sutherland, R., Pipe, M.-E., Schick, K., Murray, J. E., & Gobbo, C. (2003). Knowing in advance: The impact of prior event information on memory and event knowledge. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 84, 244-263.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E. (2003). George Bush but not a happy man: Proccessing distractor faces. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 8, (pp. 84-85). PSP. [Abstract]

Murray, J. E. (2003). George Bush but not a happy man: Processing distractor faces. Abstracts from the Proceedings of the Psychonomic Society 44th Annual Meeting. (pp. 84-85). Canada: Psychonomic Society Publication. [Abstract]

2002

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E., & Jones, C. (2002). Attention to local form information can prevent access to semantic information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 55A(2), 609-625.

2001

Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

Sutherland, R., Schick, K., Murray, J., & Gobbo, C. (2001, April). Preparing children for upcoming events: Must we be specific? Poster session presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Minneapolis, USA.

2000

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E., Yong, E., & Rhodes, G. (2000). Revisiting the perception of upside-down faces. Psychological Science, 11(6), 492-496.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E. (2000). When orientation matters: Selective object processing in a Flankers Task. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. 5, (pp. 73). PSP. [Abstract]

Murray, J. E. (2000). When orientation matters: selective object processing in a flankers task. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 5, (pp. 73). [Abstract]

1999

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E. (1999). Orientation-specific effects in picture matching and naming. Memory & Cognition, 27(5), 878-889.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., & Jones, C. (1999). Elimination of semantic effects when processing local form. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 4, (pp. 38). [Abstract]

1998

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E. (1998). Is entry-level recognition viewpoint invariant or viewpoint dependent? Psychonomic Science, 5(2), 300-304.

Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Murray, J. E., & Krishnan, A. (1998). Effects of selective attention in viewpoint-specific recognition. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 3, (pp. 47). [Abstract]

1997

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E. (1997). Flipping and spinning: spatial transformation procedures in the identification of rotated natural objects. Memory & Cognition, 25(1), 96-105.

1995

Journal - Research Article

Murray, J. E. (1995). Negative priming by rotated objects. Psychonomic Science, 2, 534-537.