Rate My Professor Lynden Miles

Miles earned his BSc in Psychology in 1994, BA(Hons) in Psychology in 1995, MSc in Psychology in 1998, and PhD in Psychology in 2005 from the University of Canterbury, with his doctoral thesis titled "Smiles, Affordances, and Social Interaction." Prior to UWA, he held a permanent academic post at the School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, following an RCUK Fellowship, and conducted a postdoctoral stint at the University of Canterbury. He has 62 research outputs, including key publications such as "The rhythm of rapport: interpersonal synchrony and social perception" (2009), "Moving through time" (2010), "Too late to coordinate: Contextual influences on behavioral synchrony" (2010), "Psychopathic traits alter facial expression of posed and spontaneous smiles, and associated emotional experience" (2026), and "Subclinical Variation in Mental Health Shapes the Dynamics of Everyday Behaviour" (2026). Awards include the RCUK Fellowship and the 2021 Cockell Research Collaboration Award. Current projects led by Miles encompass "Attention, Mental Health, and Interpersonal Coordination" (2023–2024).