I am interested in human face recognition, face perception and human social status.
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Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training
Carragher DJ, Towler A, Mileva VR, White D & Hancock PJB (2022) Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (1), Art. No.: 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00381-x
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Visual search performance in 'CCTV' and mobile phone-like video footage
Mileva VR, Hancock PJB & Langton SRH (2021) Visual search performance in 'CCTV' and mobile phone-like video footage. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, Art. No.: 63. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00326-w
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Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways
Hancock PJB, Somai RS & Mileva VR (2020) Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways. Royal Society Open Science, 7 (10), Art. No.: 200595. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200595
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A grey area: How does image hue affect unfamiliar face matching?
Bobak A, Mileva V & Hancock P (2019) A grey area: How does image hue affect unfamiliar face matching?. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4, Art. No.: 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0174-3
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Bobak AK, Mileva VR & Hancock PJB (2019) Facing the facts: Naive participants have only moderate insight into their face recognition and face perception abilities. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 (4), pp. 872-881. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818776145
Newspaper / Magazine
Want to know if your partner’s cheating on you? Just listen to their voice
Mileva VR & Leongomez JD (2018) Want to know if your partner’s cheating on you? Just listen to their voice. The Conversation. 06.03.2018. https://theconversation.com/want-to-know-if-your-partners-cheating-on-you-just-listen-to-their-voice-92387
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We change our voice when we talk to high-status people, shows new study
Mileva VR (2017) We change our voice when we talk to high-status people, shows new study. The Conversation. 28.06.2017. https://theconversation.com/we-change-our-voice-when-we-talk-to-high-status-people-shows-new-study-80053
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Leongomez JD, Mileva VR, Little A & Roberts SC (2017) Perceived differences in social status between speaker and listener affect the speaker's vocal characteristics. PLoS ONE, 12 (6), Art. No.: e0179407. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179407
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Can science produce better passport control officers?
Mileva VR, Bobak AK & Hancock PJB (2017) Can science produce better passport control officers?. The Conversation. 20.03.2017. https://theconversation.com/can-science-produce-better-passport-control-officers-74649
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Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics
Mileva VR, Jones AL, Russell R & Little A (2016) Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics. Perception, 45 (10), pp. 1166-1183. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006616652053
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How makeup makes other women jealous
Mileva VR & Jones AL (2016) How makeup makes other women jealous. The Conversation. 10.06.2016. https://theconversation.com/how-makeup-makes-other-women-jealous-60744
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Mileva VR, Cowan ML, Cobey KD, Knowles K & Little A (2014) In the face of dominance: Self-perceived and other-perceived dominance are positively associated with facial-width-to-height ratio in men. Personality and Individual Differences, 69, pp. 115-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.05.019
Book Review
At the Crossroad of Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism
Cobey KD & Mileva VR (2013) At the Crossroad of Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism. Review of: Evolution’s Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women. M. Fisher, J. R. Garcia, and R. Chang (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 485 pp., ISBN # 978-0-19-989274-7. Evolutionary Psychology, 11 (2), pp. 426-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491301100213