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
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
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
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
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
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.
Chapter in Book - Research
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
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
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
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
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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
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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
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Ruffman, T., Murray, J., Halberstadt, J., & Vater, T. (2012). Age-related differences in deception. Psychology & Aging, 27(3), 543-549. doi: 10.1037/a0023380
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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La Rooy, D., Pipe, M.-E., & Murray, J. E. (2007). Enhancing children's event recall after long delays. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 21, 1-17.
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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
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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.
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Murray, J. E. (2004). The ups and downs of face perception: Evidence for holistic encoding of upright and inverted faces. Perception, 33, 387-398.
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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.
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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.
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Murray, J. E., Yong, E., & Rhodes, G. (2000). Revisiting the perception of upside-down faces. Psychological Science, 11(6), 492-496.
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Murray, J. E. (1999). Orientation-specific effects in picture matching and naming. Memory & Cognition, 27(5), 878-889.
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Murray, J. E. (1998). Is entry-level recognition viewpoint invariant or viewpoint dependent? Psychonomic Science, 5(2), 300-304.
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Murray, J. E. (1997). Flipping and spinning: spatial transformation procedures in the identification of rotated natural objects. Memory & Cognition, 25(1), 96-105.
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Murray, J. E. (1995). Negative priming by rotated objects. Psychonomic Science, 2, 534-537.
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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
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
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
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
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
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
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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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/
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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
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Murray, J., & Judge, M. (2009). Face adaptation with and without attention. Journal of Vision, 9(8). 522. doi: 10.1167/9.8.522
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Murray, J., Ruffman, T., & Halberstadt, J. (2008). Age-related changes in face processing. Journal of Vision. 8(6), (pp. 196a). [Abstract]
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Murray, J. E., Ryan, M., & Ruffman, T. (2007). Age-related changes in categorical perception of facial expressions. Perception. 36(ECVP Abstract Suppl.). [Abstract]
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Murray, J. E., & Yan, C. (2006). Face aftereffects and unattended faces. Journal of Vision. 6(6), (pp. 883a). [Abstract]
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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]
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Schuchinsky, M., & Murray, J. E. (2005). Perception of local configural changes in own-race and other-race faces. Perception. 34(Suppl.), (pp. 205). [Abstract]
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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
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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]
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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]
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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]
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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]
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Murray, J. E. (2000). When orientation matters: selective object processing in a flankers task. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 5, (pp. 73). [Abstract]
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Murray, J. E., & Jones, C. (1999). Elimination of semantic effects when processing local form. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society. 4, (pp. 38). [Abstract]
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