Dr Libby Damjanovic
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health
Email: L.Damjanovic@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 6202
Dr Libby Damjanovic is an experimental psychologist who conducts research on human emotions investigating how they are recognized in different contexts and cultures. She is also interested in how we rely on vocal and facial cues when retrieving memories about familiar people and the way language (spoken and signed) influences how we see colours, facial expressions and remember dynamic events. Some of the experimental tasks that Libby has developed have been applied to measure threat detection performance in police officers both in the UK and abroad and applied also to the assessment of memory performance in clinical populations. Prior to joining Liverpool John Moores University in 2017, Libby held academic posts at the University of Chester, Bangor University and the University of Essex.
Degrees
University of Essex, United Kingdom, PhD
University of Essex, United Kingdom, BSc
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer, School of Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, 2017 - present
Highlighted publications
Damjanovic L, Meyer M, Sepulveda F. 2017. Raising the alarm: Individual differences in the perceptual awareness of masked facial expressions Brain and Cognition, 114 :1-10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Athanasopoulos P, Bylund E, Montero-Melis G, Damjanovic L, Schartner A, Kibbe A, Riches N, Thierry G. 2015. Two languages, two minds: flexible cognitive processing driven by language of operation. Psychological Science, 26 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Damjanovic L, Roberts SGB, Roberts AI. 2022. Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 377 :20210311 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Damjanovic L, Kawalec A. 2021. The role of music-induced emotions on recognition memory of filmed events Psychology of Music, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Athanasopoulos G, Eerola T, Lahdelma I, Kaliakatsos-Papakostas M, Damjanovic L. 2021. Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music PLoS One, 16 :e0244964-e0244964 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Damjanovic L, Williot A, Blanchette I. 2019. Is it dangerous? The role of an emotional visual search strategy and threat‐relevant training in the detection of guns and knives British Journal of Psychology, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Damjanovic L, Wilkinson H, Lloyd J. 2017. Sweet Emotion: The Role of Odor-induced Context in the Search Advantage for Happy Facial Expressions. Chemical Senses, 43 :139-150 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Damjanovic L, Meyer M, Sepulveda F. 2017. Raising the alarm: Individual differences in the perceptual awareness of masked facial expressions Brain and Cognition, 114 :1-10 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Damjanovic L, Santiago J. 2016. Contrasting vertical and horizontal representations of affect in emotional visual search PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW, 23 :62-73 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Athanasopoulos P, Bylund E, Montero-Melis G, Damjanovic L, Schartner A, Kibbe A, Riches N, Thierry G. 2015. Two languages, two minds: flexible cognitive processing driven by language of operation. Psychological Science, 26 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Athanasopoulos P, Damjanovic L, Burnand J, Bylund E. 2015. Learning to think in a second language: Effects of proficiency and length of exposure in english learners of German Modern Language Journal, 99 :138-153 DOI Publisher Url
Athanasopoulos P, Damjanovic L, Burnand J, Bylund E. 2015. Learning to Think in a Second Language: Effects of Proficiency and Length of Exposure in English Learners of German MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL, 99 :138-153 DOI Author Url
Damjanovic L, Pinkham AE, Clarke P, Phillips J. 2014. Enhanced threat detection in experienced riot police officers: Cognitive evidence from the face-in-the-crowd effect QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, 67 :1004-1018 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Alba-Ferrara L, Weis S, Damjanovic L, Rowett M, Hausmann M. 2012. Voice Identity Recognition Failure in Patients With Schizophrenia JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE, 200 :784-790 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Damjanovic L. 2011. The face advantage in recalling episodic information: Implications for modeling human memory CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION, 20 :309-311 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Athanasopoulos P, Damjanovic L, Krajciova A, Sasaki M. 2011. Representation of colour concepts in bilingual cognition: The case of Japanese blues BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION, 14 :9-17 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Roberson D, Damjanovic L, Kikutani M. 2010. Show and Tell: The Role of Language in Categorizing Facial Expression of Emotion EMOTION REVIEW, 2 :255-260 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Damjanovic L, Roberson D, Athanasopoulos P, Kasai C, Dyson M. 2010. Searching for happiness across cultures Journal of Cognition and Culture, 10 :85-107 DOI Publisher Url
Roberson D, Damjanovic L, Kikutani M. 2010. Erratum: Show and tell: The role of language in categorizing facial expression of emotion (Emotion Review (2010) 2, 3, (255-260) DOI: 10.1177/1754073910361979) Emotion Review, 2 :306 DOI Publisher Url
Hanley JR, Damjanovic L. 2009. It is more difficult to retrieve a familiar person's name and occupation from their voice than from their blurred face MEMORY, 17 :830-839 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Roberson D, Damjanovic L, Pilling M. 2007. Categorical perception of facial expressions: Evidence for a "category adjustment" model MEMORY & COGNITION, 35 :1814-1829 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Damjanovic L, Hanley JR. 2007. Recalling episodic and semantic information about famous faces and voices MEMORY & COGNITION, 35 :1205-1210 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Fox E, Damjanovic L. 2006. The eyes are sufficient to produce a threat superiority effect Emotion, 6 :534-539 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Other
Athanasopoulos G, Eerola T, Lahdelma I, Kaliakatsos-Papakostas M, Damjanovic L. 2022. Erratum: Harmonic organisation conveys both universal and culture-specific cues for emotional expression in music (PLoS ONE (2021) 16:1 (e0244964) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244964) PLoS ONE, 17 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Conference publication
Fox E, Damjanovic L. 2006. The eyes are sufficient to produce a threat superiority effect EMOTION, Meeting of the Experimental-Psychology-Society 6 :534-539 DOI Author Url