I came to psychology as a mature student, obtaining my BSc Psychology and then my doctorate at Goldsmiths College (University of London). After a year of doing mainly research, I decided I wanted to balance my research interests with lecturing. This is my first position as a lecturer.

I teach Research Methods at all levels, and lecture on Science, Pseudoscience and the Psychology of Paranormal Belief at level 3. I supervise final year projects in areas connected with my research interests. Other responsibilities include: tutor for the part-time students years 1, 2, 3 and 4; co-module leader for level 1 Research Methods; and module leader for Science, Pseudoscience, and the Psychology of Paranormal Belief.

My research has investigated early and automatic responses to a known face, looking at emotional and attentional processes and the retrieval of semantic information. I am interested in the concept of consciousness and how and where it arises in the processing stream.

A recent interest is in the emotional responses to the perception of disfigured faces and the stereotypical assumptions made about personality traits and competencies of people with facial disfigurement. I have started to examine the processing of disfigured faces, using the technique of electroencephalography.

I am also interested in why people believe in paranormal phenomena, defined as phenomena for which there is not adequate scientific evidence (e.g., astrology, homeopathy, ESP, alien visitations, etc.).

• BSc Psychology
• MSc Psychology

• PY1101/PY1102: Research Methods (co-module leader)
• PY1106: Topics in Psychology
• PY3136: Science, Pseudoscience and the Psychology of Paranormal Belief
• PY3101: BSc project supervision
• PYM155: MSc project supervision 
• PYM501: Advanced quantitative methods for Psychologists

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Stone, A., & Wright, T. (in press). When your face doesn’t fit: employment discrimination against people with facial disfigurement. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
2. Stone, A. (2012). Centre–surround inhibition is a general aspect of famous person recognition: evidence from negative semantic priming for clearly visible primes. Memory & Cognition, 40, 652–662. doi:10.3758/s13421-011-0176-y
3. Stone, A., & Wright, T. (2012). Evaluations of people depicted with facial disfigurement compared to those with mobility impairment. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 34, 212–225. doi:10.1080/01973533.2012.674420
4. Stone, A.M. (2011). Attentional effects of masked famous faces (but not names) and subjective evaluations of a target person. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 112(2), 451–476. doi:10.2466/07.22.PMS.112.2.451-476
5. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2008). Categorical priming of famous person recognition: a hitherto overlooked methodological factor can resolve a long-standing debate. Cognition, 108, 874–880. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2008.06.001

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2007). Angry and happy faces perceived without awareness: a comparison with the affective impact of masked famous faces. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 19(2), 161–186. doi:10.1080/09541440600616390
2. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2007). The categorical structure of knowledge for famous people (and a novel application of Centre-Surround theory). Cognition, 104(3), 535–564. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2006.07.014
3. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2005). Accuracy of familiarity decisions to famous faces perceived without awareness depends on attitude to the target person and on response latency. Consciousness and Cognition, 14(2), 351–376. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2004.09.002
4. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2005). Orientation of attention to non-consciously recognised famous faces. Cognition and Emotion, 19, 537–558. doi:10.1080/02699930441000409
5. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2005). Strength of visual percept generated by famous faces perceived without awareness: effects of affective valence, response latency and visual field. Consciousness and Cognition, 14(3), 548–564. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2005.01.009
6. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2004). Better the devil you know? Non-conscious processing of identity and affect of famous faces. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11(3), 469–474. doi:10.3758/BF03196597
7. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2003). Understanding provoked overt recognition in prosopagnosia: a modification to Morrison, Bruce and Burton (2001). Visual Cognition, 10, 1–6. doi:10.1080/713756670
8. Stone, A.M., & Valentine, T. (2003). Viewpoint: perspectives on prosopagnosia and models of face recognition. Cortex, 39, 31–40. doi:10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70072-8
9. Stone, A.M., Valentine, T., & Davis, R. (2001). Face recognition and emotional valence: processing without awareness by neurologically intact participants does not simulate covert recognition in prosopagnosia. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioural Neuroscience, 1, 183–191.doi:10.3758/CABN.1.2.183