Nicole Nelson
nicolenelson.bsky.social
Nicole Nelson
@nicolenelson.bsky.social
Emotion and developmental psychology at the University of Adelaide. Studying emotions, kids, and all occasions where they intersect. Ex-pat 🇺🇲, living in 🇦🇺, arrived by way of 🇨🇦.
Might be evidence of shifting global trade patterns, but I'm beyond excited to finally have proper 🇨🇦Canadian🇨🇦 maple syrup in 🇦🇺Australia 🇦🇺

It has English and French on the label and everything 🍁🥞❤️
July 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Fantastic talk by David White showing that super-recognizers don't pay extra attention to all social cues (e.g. bodies), just to faces #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Kateryna Marchenko showing perceptions of face pareidolia follows the classic three dot pattern in noise images #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Great talk by @dongwonoh.bsky.social demonstrating improved detection of AI faces using different visual attention strategies #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Great talk by @bethanygrowns.bsky.social looking at overlap between face super-recognizers and object super-matchers #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Amy Dawel kicking off the #epc2025 Face Perception session off with great work looking at how difficult it is to identify AI-generated faces, especially across different races @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Fascinating talk by @brileekennedy.bsky.social showing that attentional capture by positive (but not negative) distractors is impacted by your expectations about the distractor #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Ozge Karakale talking about visual attention to facial expressions by individuals with high and low autistic traits #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Great talk by Julia Haile showing that indirect eye gaze impacts the believability of expressions in both static and dynamic expressions #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Brilliant talk by @andyperfors.bsky.social at #epc2025 encouraging psychology to study the effects of disinformation at the systemic level @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 3:54 AM
@alicetowler.bsky.social showing double-digit improvement in face recognition using a short training based on expert information #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Great talk by @jamesdunn.bsky.social looking at how police officer's visual attention is related to memory in stressful situations #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Dan Carragher talking about how humans are the weak link in human/algorithm teaming when identifying faces 🙃 #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Great #epc2025 talk by Toby Prike showing how misinformation is transmitted across people
@expsyanz.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Super interesting talk by Imogen Holdsworth looking at whether AQ score influences children's emotion recognition! #epc2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Awesome talk at #epc2025 by @kyepalmer.bsky.social talking about how parents and children recognize each other's expressions. @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Fascinating talk by Ben Steward at #epc2025 looking at how emotional faces and bodies are weighted in judgements. @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I take 'academic and accessible' as very high praise! Even if it is AI generated high praise 🤔

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December 1, 2024 at 5:42 AM
Agreed! Interesting to see how clearly the themes emerge 🤓
February 5, 2024 at 8:30 AM
People are consistently face-lookers or body-lookers when walking around in the world, but that gets scrambled when people talk face to face. Super interesting study from Monique Piggott!

#EPC2023 @expsyaunz
November 20, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Poppy Watson walking us through her clever method to disentangle attentional capture from attentional disengagement from threatening expressions

#EPC2023 @expsyaunz
November 20, 2024 at 1:14 PM
Awesome talk by @tamvdz outlining what facial expressions adults make to babies! #SASP2022
November 20, 2024 at 1:30 PM
Very pretty, but you'll note the lack of blue sky...
November 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Super interesting talk by Rebecca Tyler (w/@DrAliceTowler & @davidwhitephd)
The ability to visually match 2 faces doesn't correlate with ability to verbally describe them.

& super recognizers are better at describing faces than the rest of us 🙃

#abps2022 @expsyaunz @ABPS2022
November 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM
A bit of personal news to finish off 2020: I'll be joining the School of Psych at the University of Adelaide! 🎉🪅🎊

I'm going to miss my amazing friends and colleagues at @UQPsych, but am looking forward to new adventures at @UniofAdelaide!
November 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM