Rate My Professor Mirta Stantic

Dr. Mirta Stantic serves as a Lecturer in Psychology within the Department of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She completed her DPhil in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford in July 2023, building on her BSc in Evolutionary Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience from Harvard University awarded in May 2015. Stantic's research examines the visual system's proficiency in recognizing individuals from faces and instances where this process falters. She studies individual differences in face perception and memory across populations, including those affected by autism spectrum conditions and developmental prosopagnosia, with a focus on developing interventions to improve face processing. Her academic interests include social cognition, the psychology of perception, and cognitive and affective psychology.

Stantic has authored nine peer-reviewed articles, including 'Individuals who are ‘super recognisers’ show superior performance on independent measures of face perception, face memory, and face matching' (Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2025), 'Independent measurement of face perception, face matching, and face memory reveals impairments in face perception and memory, but not matching, in autism' (Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2023), 'The Oxford Face Matching Test: Short-form alternative' (Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2023), 'Egocentric biases are predicted by the precision of self-related predictions' (Cortex, 2022), and 'Face memory and face perception in autism' (Autism, 2022). She served as principal investigator for the Experimental Psychology Society's Small Grant from March to August 2024. Stantic has participated in 16 academic activities, delivering seven invited talks such as 'Where Cognitive Neuroscience Meets Industry: Navigating the Intersections of Academia and Industry' (2024), 'AI Developments in the HR Analytics: Examples from Industry' (2025), and 'The Impact of Technological Developments on the Labor Market' (2024), alongside eight peer reviews and one doctoral viva examination. She teaches modules PS2110: How Can Psychology Change the World, PS3201, PS5305, PS2021, and PS3230.