Lauren Charters
PhD Student

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Biography

I finished my Undergraduate degree in BA Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford in June 2022, and I am now starting a PhD here on a departmental studentship. My Undergraduate research project looked at how perceptions of emotional facial expressions change when presented with person information, and I also completed a dissertation on theory of mind and empathy development in childhood. My PhD will be investigating the potential link between interoception (the ability to recognise internal bodily states such as heart activity) and empathy in infants and toddlers, supervised by Dr Elena Geangu.

Departmental roles

• 1^st Year PhD Psychology Representative

Research

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for 1^st and 2^nd Year Psychology modules

Publications