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2025

Davis, Josh P. and Robertson, David J. and Jenkins, Ryan E. and Ibsen, Mathias and Nichols, Robert and Babbs, Martha and Rathgeb, Christian and Lovasdal, Froy and Raja, Kiran and Busch, Christoph (2025) The super-recogniser advantage extends to the detection of digitally manipulated faces. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 39 (2). pp. 1-13. e70053. ISSN 0888-4080

2024

Busch, Christoph and Davis, Josh P. and Robertson, David J. and Jenkins, Ryan E. and Ibsen, Mathias and Nichols, Robert and Babbs, Martha and Rathgeb, Christian and Løvåsdal, Frøy and Raja, Kiran (2024) Does the ‘super recogniser’ advantage extend to the detection of digitally manipulated faces? In: Combatting ID Fraud, 2024-11-21 - 2024-11-21.

Robertson, David J. and McGeown, William J. and Wodehouse, Andrew and Lang, Gillian and Woodside, William and Capaldi, Janine (2024) Public engagement with science : a novel researcher-led collaboration with a major UK science centre. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement. pp. 1-13. ISSN 2154-8463

Robertson, David J. and Davis, Josh P. and Sanders, Jet G. and Towler, Alice (2024) The super-recogniser advantage extends to the detection of hyper-realistic face masks. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38 (4). e4222. ISSN 0888-4080

Elliott, Mark A. and McGroarty, Allan and Robertson, David J. (2024) Using a volitional help sheet to increase university students' attendance at synchronous online lectures : a randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 94 (2). pp. 328-345. ISSN 0007-0998

Ibsen, Mathias and Nichols, Robert and Rathgeb, Christian and Robertson, David J. and Davis, Josh P. and Løvåsdal, Frøy and Raja, Kiran and Jenkins, Ryan E. and Busch, Christoph; (2024) Conditional face image manipulation detection : combining algorithm and human examiner decisions. In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security. Association for Computing Machinery, ESP, pp. 41-46. ISBN 9798400706370

Stevenage, Sarah V. and Edey, Rebecca and Keay, Rebecca and Morrison, Rebecca and Robertson, David J. (2024) Familiarity is key : exploring the effect of familiarity on the face-voice correlation. Brain Sciences, 14 (2). 112. ISSN 2076-3425

2023

Robertson, David J. and Malin, Johanna and Martin, Sophie and Butler, Stephen H. and John, Bev and Graff, Martin and Flowers, Paul and Jones, Benedict C. (2023) Social media use : attitudes, ‘detox’, and craving in typical and frequent users. Technology, Mind, and Behavior. ISSN 2689-0208 (In Press)

Noble, Erin and Wodehouse, Andrew and Robertson, David J. (2023) Face pareidolia in products : the effect of emotional content on attentional capture, eagerness to explore, and likelihood to purchase. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37 (5). pp. 1071-1084. ISSN 0888-4080

Robertson, David J. and Shephard, Mark P. and Anderson, Anthony and Huhe, Narisong and Rapp, David N. and Madsen, Jens K. (2023) Editorial : The psychology of fake news on social media, who falls for it, who shares it, why, and can we help users detect it? Frontiers in Psychology, 14. 1236748. ISSN 1664-1078

Shephard, Mark P. and Robertson, David J. and Huhe, Narisong and Anderson, Anthony (2023) Everyday non-partisan fake news : sharing behavior, platform specificity, and detection. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. 1118407. ISSN 1664-1078

Sunilkumar, Dolly and Kelly, Steve W. and Stevenage, Sarah V. and Rankine, Dillon and Robertson, David J. (2023) Sounds and speech : individual differences in unfamiliar voice recognition. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37 (3). pp. 507-519. ISSN 0888-4080

2021

Thomson, K. and Hunter, S. C. and Butler, S. H. and Robertson, D. J. (2021) Social media 'addiction' : the absence of an attentional bias to social media stimuli. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 10 (2). pp. 302-313.

Preston, S. and Anderson, A. and Robertson, D. J. and Shephard, M. P. and Huhe, N. (2021) Who falls for fake news? The role of emotional intelligence. In: Association for Psychological Science Virtual Convention 2021, 2021-05-26 - 2021-05-27.

Robertson, David James and Miller, Christopher B. (2021) Poor sleep linked to inability to focus - new study. The Conversation.

Jenkins, Ryan E. and Tsermentseli, Stella and Monks, Claire P. and Robertson, David J. and Stevenage, Sarah V. and Symons, Ashley E. and Davis, Josh P. (2021) Are super-face-recognisers also super-voice-recognisers? Evidence from cross-modal identification tasks. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35 (3). pp. 590-605. ISSN 0888-4080

Robertson, David James and Hunter, Simon and Butler, Stephen (2021) Why your social media habit is probably not an addiction – new research. The Conversation.

Anderson, Tony and Robertson, David James (2021) Fake news : people with greater emotional intelligence are better at spotting misinformation. The Conversation.

Jenkins, Ryan and Robertson, D.J. and Davis, Josh (2021) Super-recognisers : some people excel at both face and voice recognition. The Conversation.

Preston, Stephanie and Anderson, Anthony and Robertson, David J. and Shephard, Mark P. and Huhe, Narisong (2021) Detecting fake news on Facebook : the role of emotional intelligence. PLOS One, 16 (3). e0246757. ISSN 1932-6203

2020

Robertson, David J. and Burton, A. Mike (2020) Checking ID-cards for the sale of restricted goods : age decisions bias face decisions. Applied Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0888-4080

Huhe, Narisong and Shephard, Mark and Anderson, Anthony and Robertson, David; (2020) An Experimental Exploration of Network Dynamics on Social Media : Accounting for Who Spots Fake News and Who Shares It [Written Evidence - DAD0036]. In: Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies. House of Lords: Select Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies . UK Parliament, London, pp. 224-227.

Davis, Josh P. and Robertson, David J. (2020) Capitalizing on the super-recognition advantage : a powerful, but underutilized, tool for policing and national security agencies. The Journal of The United States Homeland Defence and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC), 7 (1). pp. 20-25.

Robertson, David J. and Sanders, Jet G. and Towler, Alice and Kramer, Robin S. S. and Spowage, Josh and Byrne, Ailish and Burton, A. Mike and Jenkins, Rob (2020) Hyper-realistic face masks in a live passport-checking task. Perception, 49 (3). pp. 298-309. ISSN 0301-0066

Robertson, David James and Towler, Alice and Sanders, Jet and Kramer, Robin (2020) Hyper-realistic masks are extremely hard to spot – as our new research shows. The Conversation (Feb 4,).

Robertson, David James and Megreya, Ahmed and Davis, Josh P. (2020) Facial recognition : research reveals new abilities of 'super-recognisers'. The Conversation (Jan 10).

2019

Parra, Mario A. and Butler, Stephen and McGeown, William J. and Nicholls, Louise A. Brown and Robertson, David J. (2019) Globalising strategies to meet global challenges : the case of ageing and dementia. Journal of Global Health, 9 (2). 020310. ISSN 2047-2978

Robertson, David J. and Black, Jennifer and Chamberlain, Bethany and Megreya, Ahmed M. and Davis, Josh P. (2019) Super-recognisers show an advantage for other race face identification. Applied Cognitive Psychology. ISSN 0888-4080

Robertson, David J. and Bindemann, Markus (2019) Consolidation, wider reflection, and policy : response to ‘super-recognisers: from the lab to the world and back again’. British Journal of Psychology, 110 (3). pp. 489-491. ISSN 0007-1269

Robertson, David J. and Fysh, Matthew C. and Bindemann, Markus (2019) Face identity verification : five challenges facing practitioners. Keesing Journal of Documents & Identity, 59. pp. 3-8. ISSN 1871-272X

Miller, Christopher B and Robertson, David J and Johnson, Keith A and Lovato, Nicole and Bartlett, Delwyn J and Grunstein, Ronald R and Gordon, Christopher J (2019) Tired and lack focus? Insomnia increases distractibility. Journal of Health Psychology, n/a. n/a. ISSN 1359-1053

2018

Burton, A. Mike and Jenkins, Rob and Robertson, David J. (2018) I recognise your name but I can't remember your face : an advantage for names in recognition memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. ISSN 1747-0218

Robertson, D.J. (2018) Face recognition : stopping identity fraud. Psychology Review, 24 (1). pp. 28-31.

Robertson, David J. and Mungall, Andrew and Watson, Derrick G. and Wade, Kimberley A. and Nightengale, Sophie J. and Butler, Stephen (2018) Detecting morphed passport photos : a training and individual differences approach. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3 (27). pp. 1-11.

McCaffery, Jennifer M. and Robertson, David J. and Young, Andrew W. and Burton, A. Mike (2018) Individual differences in face identity processing. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3. 21.

Robertson, David J. (2018) Face recognition : security contexts, super-recognizers, and sophisticated fraud. The Journal of The United States Homeland Defence and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC), 5 (1). pp. 6-10.

2017

Bonnar, Elizabeth and Cummings, Joanne and Robertson, D.J. and Kelly, Stephen; (2017) The value of 'community' in supporting transitions outside university. In: 3rd International Enhancement In Higher Education Conference. Enhancement Themes, GBR.

Robertson, David J. and Jenkins, Rob and Burton, A. Mike (2017) Face detection dissociates from face identification. Visual Cognition. pp. 1-9. ISSN 1350-6285

Robertson, David (2017) Spotlight : Face Morphs - A New Pathway to Identity Fraud. The United States Department of Homeland Defence and Security Information Analysis Centre (HDIAC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Robertson, David J. and Kramer, Robin S. S. and Burton, A. Mike (2017) Fraudulent ID using face morphs : experiments on human and automatic recognition. PLOS One, 12 (3). e0173319. ISSN 1932-6203

2016

Robertson, David J. and Burton, Mike (2016) Unfamiliar face recognition : security, surveillance and smartphones. The Journal of The United States Homeland Defence and Security Information Analysis Center (HDIAC), 3 (1). pp. 14-21.

Robertson, David J. and Noyes, Eilidh and Dowsett, Andrew J. and Jenkins, Rob and Burton, A. Mike (2016) Face recognition by Metropolitan Police super-recognisers. PLOS One, 11 (2). pp. 1-8. e0150036. ISSN 1932-6203

2015

Robertson, D.J. (2015) Spotlight : Face Recognition Improves Security. The United States Department of Homeland Defence and Security Information Analysis Centre (HDIAC), Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Robertson, David J. and Kramer, Robin S. S. and Burton, A. Mike (2015) Face averages enhance user recognition for smartphone security. PLOS One, 10 (3). pp. 1-11. e0119460. ISSN 1932-6203

2012

Robertson, David James (2012) New voices : the curious case of Sherlock Holmes and perceptual load. The Psychologist, 25. pp. 472-475. ISSN 0952-8229