Dr Linda Jeffery is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Psychological Science at The University of Western Australia, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Psychology in 1989 and Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology in 2003. Her academic career at UWA includes serving as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007 to 2010, Senior Lecturer since 2019, and current Honorary Research Fellow. She also held the position of Chair of the School of Psychological Science Community and Engagement Committee in 2020 and was an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders from 2015 to 2018. These roles underscore her contributions to psychological research and institutional leadership.

Jeffery's research centres on person perception expertise, examining how subtle cues from faces and bodies inform judgements of identity, gender, ethnicity, age, attractiveness, emotional states, and attention focus. She explores individual differences in these abilities and their links to psychosocial functioning, impression formation from faces, developmental maturation in children, perceptual mechanisms in autism, and practical applications in legal and security contexts. Key publications include 'Face recognition's practical relevance: Social bonds, not social butterflies' (Engfors et al., Cognition, 2024), 'Autistic Traits Are Associated With Differences in the Perception of Genuineness and Approachability in Emotional Facial Expressions' (Bothe et al., Emotion, 2024), 'Children show neural sensitivity to facial trustworthiness' (Siddique et al., Neuropsychologia, 2023), 'Negative aftereffects of face trait impressions are modulated by emotional expressions' (Marini et al., Visual Cognition, 2024), and earlier influential works such as 'Orientation-Contingent Face Aftereffects and Implications for Theories of Face Recognition' (Rhodes et al., Current Biology, 2004). With an h-index of 29 and over 3,300 citations, her studies on norm-based coding and adaptive face processing have significantly influenced understanding of perceptual expertise across developmental and clinical populations.

Professional Email: linda.jeffery@uwa.edu.au