Dr Phil McAleer

Senior Lecturer (Psychology & Neuroscience Education Hub)

telephone: 01413302006
email: Philip.McAleer@glasgow.ac.uk

Rm441 Level 4, 62 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QB

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Student Office Hours

Usually Tuesdays 3pm-5pm - Rm 441, School of Psychology and Neuroscience

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097

Research interests

Research Interests: Currently my main research interests are in two areas:

improving how people teach, understand, and make use of statistics, mainly in a Higher Education setting, and working to eradicate negative attitudes to statistics,
how personality, identity and emotion are portrayed through our voices and the influence this has on those we interact with (such as how lecturers and students talk about statistics).

These topics are not exhaustive and I am happy to supervise and collaborate across a number of areas.

Bio: I graduated from Glasgow in 2002 (B.Sc. Psychology) and completed my Ph.D. in 2006, in the PACo Lab, Glasgow, on "Understanding Intentions in Animacy Displays Derived from Human Motion". I then worked on two post-docs looking at intent perception by people with ASDs, and by CCTV operators. From there I spent 2 years post-doc in the Voice Neurocognition Lab, Glasgow, looking at perceived personality in voices. I have been a Lecturer since 2012, and mainly lecture in Statistics and Research Methods with a strong interest in promoting reproducible practices. You can view some of our teaching material on the PsyTeachR webpages: https://psyteachr.github.io/.

Publications

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Number of items: 44.

2025

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 and Bartlett, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4191-5245 (2025) The Great Big Online SoTL Glossary. 18th Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, UK and Online, 02 Apr 2025 (in-person); 08 Apr 2025 (online).

2023

Cleland Woods, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-5925, McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Sijtsma, Mathilde, Schorrlepp, Leonie, Reid, Graham and Brady, Liam (2023) Seeing beyond labels: staff and student perspectives on the importance of building community. In: Varsou, Ourania (ed.) Teaching, Research, Innovation and Public Engagement. Series: New Paradigms in Healthcare. Springer, pp. 121-135. ISBN 9783031224515 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-22452-2_10)

2022

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Stack, Niamh, Woods, Heather, DeBruine, Lisa Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-5539, Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973, Nordmann, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0806-1081, Kuepper-Tetzel, Carolina E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0830-7915 and Barr, Dale J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1121-4608 (2022) Embedding data skills in research methods education: preparing students for reproducible research. PsyArXiv, (doi: 10.31234/osf.io/hq68s)

Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 and McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 (2022) Sharing practice on framing feedback around student development. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(1), pp. 123-134. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.42)

PsyTeachR Team, . et al. (2022) Open-source tutorials benefit the field. Nature Reviews Psychology, 1, pp. 312-313. (doi: 10.1038/s44159-022-00058-8)

Nordmann, Emily ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0806-1081, McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Toivo, Wilhelmiina, Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 and Debruine, Lisa M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-5539 (2022) Data visualization using R for researchers who do not use R. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 5(2), p. 25152459221074654. (doi: 10.1177/25152459221074654)

2021

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Paterson, Helena M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 (2021) Improving pedagogy through Registered Reports. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 1(1), pp. 12-21. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.13)

Cleland Woods, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-5925, McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 (2021) A Curriculum Centered on Reproducible Research for the Psychologists of the Future. Division Of Academics, Researchers and Teachers In Psychology Annual Conference (DARTP 2021), 23-24 June 2021.

Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973, Debruine, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-5539 and McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 (2021) Using the MarkR Software Package to Improve Your Feedback. 14th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference (LTCONF21), Glasgow, UK, 18th June 2021.

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 (2021) Creating a Curriculum Centered on Reproducible Research for the Psychologists of the Future. Project TIER 2021 Spring Symposium: Instruction in Reproducible Research, 05 March-21 May 2021.

2020

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Cleland Woods, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-5925 and Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 (2020) Using Personalised Analytics to Improve Your Assessment Feedback. 13th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, 25 Aug 2020.

Mahrholz, Gaby ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-6888, McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Norrbo, Mandy (2020) Developing voice perception: an overview of current research and models in affect and identity recognition in children and adults. Cognitive Psychology Bulletin, 5, pp. 58-65.

Stewart, Andrew, McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Bernabeu, Pablo (2020) Embedding Open Research and Reproducibility in the UG and PGT Curricula. Collaborations Workshop 2020, 31 March-02 April 2020.

2019

Baus, Cristina, McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Marcoux, Katherine, Belin, Pascal and Costa, Albert (2019) Forming social impressions from voices in native and foreign languages. Scientific Reports, 9, 414. (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-36518-6) (PMID:30674913) (PMCID:PMC6344506)

2018

McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Belin, Pascal (2018) The perception of personality traits from voices. In: Fruholz, Sascha and Belin, Pascal (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Voice Perception. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 585-606. ISBN 9780198743187

Mahrholz, Gaby ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2135-6888, Belin, Pascal and McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 (2018) Judgements of a speaker’s personality are correlated across differing content and stimulus type. PLoS ONE, 13(10), e0204991. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204991) (PMID:23894425) (PMCID:PMC3722173)

McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Stack, Niamh, Cleland Woods, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-5925 and Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 (2018) Using Open Access Peer-Reviews and Pre-Printed Submissions to Improve Students’ Comprehension of Academic Writing. 11th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 28-29 Mar 2018. (Unpublished)

Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973, McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Barrett, Ute (2018) Adventures in Student Interaction: Planned and Unplanned Audience Engagement. 11th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 28-29 Mar 2018.

2017

Belin, Pascal, Boehme, Bibi and McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 (2017) The sound of trustworthiness: acoustic-based modulation of perceived voice personality. PLoS ONE, 12(10), e0185651. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185651) (PMID:29023462) (PMCID:PMC5638233)

2016

Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973, McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Cleland Woods, Heather ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3382-5925 (2016) Recycle, Repurpose, Reimagine: Using Open Source Technology to Enhance Student’s Learning of Research Methods. 9th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 12 Apr 2016.

Tsantani, Maria S., Belin, Pascal, Paterson, Helena M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973 and McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 (2016) Low vocal pitch preference drives first impressions irrespective of context in male voices but not in female voices. Perception, 45(8), pp. 946-963. (doi: 10.1177/0301006616643675) (PMID:27081101)

2015

Pernet, C. R. et al. (2015) The human voice areas: spatial organisation and inter-individual variability in temporal and extra-temporal cortices. NeuroImage, 119, pp. 164-174. (doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.06.050) (PMID:26116964) (PMCID:PMC4768083)

Swingler, Maxine, McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Morrow, Lorna and Friel, Niamh (2015) 'I feel like I am wasting my time . . .': Addressing Statistics Anxiety in Students Required to Learn Statistics as Part of Another Course. IMA International Conference on Barriers and Enablers to Learning Maths: Enhancing Learning and Teaching for All Learners, Glasgow, Scotland, 10-12 Jun 2015. (Unpublished)

2014

Paterson, Helena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7715-5973, Bohan, Jason and McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 (2014) Moodle as Big Brother: Quantifying Students’ Engagement Through their use of a Virtual Learning Environment. In: 7th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference, Glasgow, UK, 10 Apr 2014, (Unpublished)

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Pollick, Frank E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-4622, Love, Scott A., Crabbe, Frances and Zacks, Jeffrey M. (2014) The role of kinematics in cortical regions for continuous human motion perception. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 14(1), pp. 307-318. (doi: 10.3758/s13415-013-0192-4)

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Todorov, Alexander and Belin, Pascal (2014) How do you say ‘hello’? Personality impressions from brief novel voices. PLoS ONE, 9(3), e90779. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090779) (PMID:24622283) (PMCID:PMC3951273)

Noble, Katie, Murphy, Helen, Camurri, Antonio, Glowinski, Donald, Penfield, Kedzie, McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Kalyanasundaram, Sandhiya, Darshane, Nikhil, Jola, Corinne and Pollick, Frank E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-4622 (2014) Event segmentation and biological motion perception in watching dance. Art and Perception, 2(1-2), pp. 59-74. (doi: 10.1163/22134913-00002011)

Petrini, Karin, McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Neary, Catherine, Gillard, Julia and Pollick, Frank E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-4622 (2014) Experience in judging intent to harm modulates parahippocampal activity: an fMRI study with experienced CCTV operators. Cortex, 57, pp. 74-91. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.02.026) (PMID:24815091)

Yao, Bo, Scott, Graham G., McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, O'Donnell, Patrick J. and Sereno, Sara C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7957-9542 (2014) Familiarity with interest breeds gossip: contributions of emotion, expectation, and reputation. PLoS ONE, 9(8), e104916. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104916) (PMID:25119267) (PMCID:PMC4132070)

2013

Barttfeld, P., Wicker, B., McAleer, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Belin, P., Cojan, Y., Graziano, M., Leiguarda, R. and Sigman, M. (2013) Distinct patterns of functional brain connectivity correlate with objective performance and subjective beliefs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(28), pp. 11577-11582. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1301353110)

Latinus, Marianne, McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Bestelmeyer, Patricia E.G. and Belin, Pascal (2013) Norm-based coding of voice identity in human auditory cortex. Current Biology, 23(12), pp. 1075-1080. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.055) (PMID:23707425) (PMCID:PMC3690478)

Jola, Corinne, McAleer, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Grosbras, Marie-Hélène, Love, Scott A., Morison, Gordon and Pollick, Frank E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-4622 (2013) Uni- and multisensory brain areas are synchronised across spectators when watching unedited dance recordings. i-Perception, 4(4), pp. 265-284. (doi: 10.1068/i0536)

McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097 and Love, Scott A. (2013) Perceiving intention in animacy displays created from human motion. In: Rutherford, M.D. and Kuhlmeier, Valerie A. (eds.) Social Perception: Detection and Interpretation of Animacy, Agency and Intention. MIT Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts, pp. 139-170. ISBN 9780262019279

Pollick, Frank E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-4622, Jola, Corinne, Petrini, Karin, McKay, Lawrie S., McAleer, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4523-2097, Jang, Seon Hee, MacLeod, Christine and Simmons, David R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8278-2816 (2013) Experience and the perception of biological motion. In: Johnson, Kerrie L. and Shiffrar, Maggie (eds.) People Watching: Social, Perceptual, and Neuophysiological Studies of Body Perception. Series: Oxford series in visual cognition. Oxford University Press: New York, NY, USA, pp. 139-158. ISBN 9780195393705 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195393705.003.0009)