Honorary Lecturer
Overview
I am a former lecturer in psychology at UQ, now currently focused only on research. I am connected to the UQ School of Psychology as an Honorary Fellow / Lecturer.
My primary field is Cyber-Psychology.
I am interested in the effects of AI on human emotions. I am also interested in how specific patterns of social media usage by ourselves and those we connect with, impact our empathic responses (both online and face to face), and overall emotional state.
I use several methods to research emotional and empathic responses, including eye-tracking, which can reveal how eye-gaze patterns to faces may relate to the quality of social interaction.
Unfortunately, I am not currently taking on PhD students.
Research Interests
- Emotion
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Empathy
Construct of Empathy (Affective Arousal, Affective Perspective Taking, Empathic Concern / Motivated Empathy) - Facial Expression Recognition
Qualifications
- Member, Australian Psychological Society, Australian Psychological Society
- Doctor of Philosophy of Psychology, The University of Queensland
Publications
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Journal Article: The socially dominant troll: acceptance attitudes towards trolling
Bentley, Laura A. and Cowan, David G. (2021). The socially dominant troll: acceptance attitudes towards trolling. Personality and Individual Differences, 173 110628, 110628. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110628
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Other Outputs: The empathic gaze and how to find it: eye-gaze behaviour to expressions of emotion
Cowan, David Gary (2015). The empathic gaze and how to find it: eye-gaze behaviour to expressions of emotion. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.843
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Journal Article: Recent trends in testing social cognition
Henry, Julie D., Cowan, David G., Lee, Teresa and Sachdev, Perminder S. (2015). Recent trends in testing social cognition. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 28 (2), 133-140. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000139
Publications
Journal Article
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The socially dominant troll: acceptance attitudes towards trolling
Bentley, Laura A. and Cowan, David G. (2021). The socially dominant troll: acceptance attitudes towards trolling. Personality and Individual Differences, 173 110628, 110628. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110628
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Recent trends in testing social cognition
Henry, Julie D., Cowan, David G., Lee, Teresa and Sachdev, Perminder S. (2015). Recent trends in testing social cognition. Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 28 (2), 133-140. doi: 10.1097/YCO.0000000000000139
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Motivated empathy: the mechanics of the empathic gaze
Cowan, David G., Vanman, Eric J. and Nielsen, Mark (2014). Motivated empathy: the mechanics of the empathic gaze. Cognition and Emotion, 28 (8), 1522-1530. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2014.890563
Other Outputs
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The empathic gaze and how to find it: eye-gaze behaviour to expressions of emotion
Cowan, David Gary (2015). The empathic gaze and how to find it: eye-gaze behaviour to expressions of emotion. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.843
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The face interference effect: A new perspective on the automaticity of holistic face processing
Cowan, David (2010). The face interference effect: A new perspective on the automaticity of holistic face processing. Honours Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.
