Professor Rachael Jack

  • Professor of Computational Social Cognition (Psychology)
  • Associate (Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology)

telephone: 01413305087
email: Rachael.Jack@glasgow.ac.uk

62 Hillhead Street, Glasgow G12 8QB

Student office hours: Tuesday 3-5pm. Please email to arrange an appointment.

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Research interests

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Rachael Jack is a Professor in the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology/School of Psychology, University of Glasgow. Her research has produced significant advances in understanding facial expression of emotion within and across cultures using a novel interdisciplinary approach that combines psychophysics, social psychology, dynamic 3D computer graphics, and mathematical psychology. Most notably, she has revealed cultural specificities in facial expressions of emotion; that four, not six, expressive patterns are common across cultures; and that facial expressions transmit information in a hierarchical structure over time. Together, Jack’s work has challenged the dominant view that six basic facial expressions of emotion are universal, which has led to a new theoretical framework of facial expression communication that she is now transferring to digital agents to synthesize culturally sensitive social avatars and robots.

Jack’s work has featured in several high-profile scientific outlets (e.g., Annual Review of Psychology, Current Biology, Psychological Science, PNAS, TICS). She is currently funded by the European Research Council (ERC) to lead the research program Computing the Face Syntax of Social Face Signals, which will deliver a formal model of human social face signalling with transference to social robotics. She has been funded previously by the ESRC Future Research Leaders award, ESRC Open Research Area, and British Academy.

Jack is recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) New Investigator award, the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Innovation award, the British Psychological Society (BPS) Spearman Medal, Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star award, and International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE) Young Researcher Spotlight.

She is also Associate Editor at Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, and the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and on the Editorial Boards of Emotion, Affective Science, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition (and formerly Psychological Science).

Jack also serves several roles on the committees/boards for the conferences of the Society for Affective Sciences, IEEE Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition, ACM Intelligent Virtual Agents, and the Vision Science Society. She is also Chair of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Globalization Committee.

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Publications

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2020

Schyns, P. G. , Zhan, J., Jack, R. E. and Ince, R. A.A. (2020) Revealing the information contents of memory within the stimulus information representation framework. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 375, 20190705. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0705) (PMID:32248774)

2019

Chen, C. , Hensel, L. B., Duan, Y., Ince, R. , Garrod, O. G.B., Beskow, J., Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2019) Equipping Social Robots with Culturally-Sensitive Facial Expressions of Emotion Using Data-Driven Methods. In: 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2019), Lille, France, 14-18 May 2019, ISBN 9781728100890 (doi:10.1109/FG.2019.8756570)

Hamnett, H. J. and Jack, R. E. (2019) The use of contextual information in forensic toxicology: an international survey of toxicologists' experiences. Science and Justice, 59(4), pp. 380-389. (doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2019.02.004) (PMID:31256809)

2018

Chen, C. , Crivelli, C., Garrod, O. G.B., Schyns, P. G. , Fernandez-Dols, J.-M. and Jack, R. E. (2018) Distinct facial expressions represent pain and pleasure across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(43), E10013-E10021. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807862115) (PMID:30297420)

Chen, C. , Garrod, O. G.B., Zhan, J., Beskow, J., Schyns, P. G. and Jack, R. E. (2018) Reverse Engineering Psychologically Valid Facial Expressions of Emotion into Social Robots. In: 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Xi'an, China, 15-19 May 2018, pp. 448-452. ISBN 9781538623350 (doi:10.1109/FG.2018.00072)

Jack, R. E. , Crivelli, C. and Wheatley, T. (2018) Data-driven methods to diversify knowledge of human psychology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(1), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.10.002) (PMID:29126772)

2017

Chen, C. and Jack, R. E. (2017) Discovering cultural differences (and similarities) in facial expressions of emotion. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, pp. 61-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.06.010)

Rychlowska, M., Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O. G.B., Schyns, P. G. , Martin, J. D. and Niedenthal, P. M. (2017) Functional smiles: tools for love, sympathy, and war. Psychological Science, 28(9), pp. 1259-1270. (doi: 10.1177/0956797617706082) (PMID:28741981)

Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2017) Toward a social psychophysics of face communication. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, pp. 269-297. (doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044242) (PMID:28051933)

2016

Delis, I., Chen, C., Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O. G.B., Panzeri, S. and Schyns, P. G. (2016) Space-by-time manifold representation of dynamic facial. Journal of Vision, 16(8), pp. 1-20. 14. (doi: 10.1167/16.8.14) (PMID:27305521) (PMCID:PMC4927208)

Jack, R. E. , Sun, W., Delis, I., Garrod, O. G. B. and Schyns, P. G. (2016) Four not six: revealing culturally common facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(6), pp. 708-730. (doi: 10.1037/xge0000162) (PMID:27077757)

2015

Yu, H., Garrod, O., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2015) A framework for automatic and perceptually valid facial expression generation. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74(21), pp. 9427-9447. (doi: 10.1007/s11042-014-2125-9)

Chen, C. , Garrod, O., Schyns, P. and Jack, R. (2015) The face is the mirror of the cultural mind. Journal of Vision, 15(12), p. 928. (doi: 10.1167/15.12.928) (PMID:26326616)

Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2015) The human face as a dynamic tool for social communication. Current Biology, 25(14), R621-R634. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.052) (PMID:26196493)

Richoz, A.-R., Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O., Schyns, P. and Caldara, R. (2015) Reconstructing dynamic mental models of facial expressions in prosopagnosia reveals distinct representations for identity and expression. Cortex, 65, pp. 50-64. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.11.015) (PMID:25638352)

Jack, R. (2015) Understanding the face as a dynamic communication tool. Emotion Researcher,

2014

Delis, I., Jack, R. , Garrod, O., Panzeri, S. and Schyns, P. (2014) Characterizing the manifolds of dynamic facial expression categorization. Journal of Vision, 14(10), p. 1384. (doi: 10.1167/14.10.1384)

Gill, D., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2014) On the modulation of social inference from faces across viewing distance. Journal of Vision, 14(10), p. 1281. (doi: 10.1167/14.10.1281)

Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O. G.B. and Schyns, P. G. (2014) Dynamic facial expressions of emotion transmit an evolving hierarchy of signals over time. Current Biology, 24(2), pp. 187-192. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.064) (PMID:24388852)

Yu, H., Garrod, O., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2014) Realistic facial animation generation based on facial expression mapping. In: Fifth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2013), Hong Kong, China, 26-27 Oct 2013, pp. 906903-1. (doi:10.1117/12.2049921)

Gill, D., Garrod, O. G.B., Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2014) Facial movements strategically camouflage involuntary social signals of face morphology. Psychological Science, 25(5), pp. 1079-1086. (doi: 10.1177/0956797614522274)

Richoz, A., Jack, R.E. , Garrod, O.G.B., Schyns, P.G. and Caldara, R. (2014) Reconstructing emotions in motion in prosopagnosia reveals separate representations for identity and emotion. Perception, 43, p. 123.

2013

Gill, D., Garrod, O., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2013) Beyond facial morphology: social impressions from dynamic face gestures. Journal of Vision, 13(9), p. 1270. (doi: 10.1167/13.9.1270)

Jack, R. , Garrod, O. and Schyns, P. (2013) Dynamic signaling of facial expressions transmit social information in a hierarchical manner over time. Journal of Vision, 13(9), p. 1277. (doi: 10.1167/13.9.1277)

Sun, W., Garrod, O. G.B., Schyns, P. G. and Jack, R. E. (2013) Dynamic mental models of culture-specific emotions. Journal of Vision, 13(9), p. 593. (doi: 10.1167/13.9.593)

Jack, R.E. , Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. (2013) Reply to Sauter and Eisner: differences outweigh commonalities in the communication of emotions across human cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(3), E181-E182. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211865110)

Jack, R. E. (2013) Culture and facial expressions of emotion. Visual Cognition, 21(9-10), pp. 1248-1286. (doi: 10.1080/13506285.2013.835367)

2012

Jack, R. , Garrod, O., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P. (2012) Beyond Darwin: revealing culture-specificities in the temporal dynamics of 4D facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 12(9), p. 971. (doi: 10.1167/12.9.971)

Jack, R.E. , Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. (2012) Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), pp. 7241-7244. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1200155109)

Jack, R.E. , Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. (2012) Internal representations reveal cultural diversity in expectations of facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(1), pp. 19-25. (doi: 10.1037/a0023463)

2011

Jack, R. , Garrod, O., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P. (2011) Dynamic cultural representations of facial expressions of emotion are not universal. Journal of Vision, 11(11), p. 563. (doi: 10.1167/11.11.563)

Kelly, D. J., Jack, R. E. , Miellet, S., De Luca, E., Foreman, K. and Caldara, R. (2011) Social experience does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(Art 95), (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00095)

2010

Jack, R. E. , Caldara, R. and Schyns, P. G. (2010) Internal Representations of Facial Expressions Reveal Cultural Diversity. Journal of Vision, 10(7), p. 690. (doi: 10.1167/10.7.690)

Jack, R. E. , Blais, C., Caldara, A.-S., Scheepers, C. and Caldara, R. (2010) Lost in translation: culturally tuned eye movements impair decoding of facial expression signals. Journal of Vision, 8(6), p. 706. (doi: 10.1167/8.6.706)

Kelly, D., Jack, R. , Blais, C., Caldara, A.-S., Rossion, B., Scheepers, C. and Caldara, R. (2010) Inverting faces does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements. Journal of Vision, 8(6), p. 643. (doi: 10.1167/8.6.643)

2009

Jack, R.E. , Blais, C., Scheepers, C. , Schyns, P.G. and Caldara, R. (2009) Cultural confusions show that facial expressions are not universal. Current Biology, 19(18), pp. 1543-1548. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.051)

2008

Blais, C., Jack, R. E. , Scheepers, C., Fiset, D. and Caldara, R. (2008) Culture shapes how we look at faces. PLoS ONE, 3(8), e3022. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003022) (PMID:18714387) (PMCID:PMC2515341)

2007

Jack, R. , Blais, C., Scheepers, C. , Fiset, D. and Caldara, R. (2007) Culture shapes eye movements during face identification. Journal of Vision, 7(9), p. 573. (doi: 10.1167/7.9.573)

2005

Lumsden, M. A. , Bore, M., Millar, K., Jack, R. and Powis, D. (2005) Assessment of personal qualities in relation to admission to medical school. Medical Education, 39(3), pp. 258-265. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02087.x)

2001

Jack, R.E. (2001) Taking a look at ourselves. Psychologist, 14(4), p. 178.

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Number of items: 40.

Articles

Schyns, P. G. , Zhan, J., Jack, R. E. and Ince, R. A.A. (2020) Revealing the information contents of memory within the stimulus information representation framework. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 375, 20190705. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0705) (PMID:32248774)

Hamnett, H. J. and Jack, R. E. (2019) The use of contextual information in forensic toxicology: an international survey of toxicologists' experiences. Science and Justice, 59(4), pp. 380-389. (doi: 10.1016/j.scijus.2019.02.004) (PMID:31256809)

Chen, C. , Crivelli, C., Garrod, O. G.B., Schyns, P. G. , Fernandez-Dols, J.-M. and Jack, R. E. (2018) Distinct facial expressions represent pain and pleasure across cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(43), E10013-E10021. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807862115) (PMID:30297420)

Jack, R. E. , Crivelli, C. and Wheatley, T. (2018) Data-driven methods to diversify knowledge of human psychology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22(1), pp. 1-5. (doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.10.002) (PMID:29126772)

Chen, C. and Jack, R. E. (2017) Discovering cultural differences (and similarities) in facial expressions of emotion. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, pp. 61-66. (doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.06.010)

Rychlowska, M., Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O. G.B., Schyns, P. G. , Martin, J. D. and Niedenthal, P. M. (2017) Functional smiles: tools for love, sympathy, and war. Psychological Science, 28(9), pp. 1259-1270. (doi: 10.1177/0956797617706082) (PMID:28741981)

Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2017) Toward a social psychophysics of face communication. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, pp. 269-297. (doi: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044242) (PMID:28051933)

Delis, I., Chen, C., Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O. G.B., Panzeri, S. and Schyns, P. G. (2016) Space-by-time manifold representation of dynamic facial. Journal of Vision, 16(8), pp. 1-20. 14. (doi: 10.1167/16.8.14) (PMID:27305521) (PMCID:PMC4927208)

Jack, R. E. , Sun, W., Delis, I., Garrod, O. G. B. and Schyns, P. G. (2016) Four not six: revealing culturally common facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(6), pp. 708-730. (doi: 10.1037/xge0000162) (PMID:27077757)

Yu, H., Garrod, O., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2015) A framework for automatic and perceptually valid facial expression generation. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74(21), pp. 9427-9447. (doi: 10.1007/s11042-014-2125-9)

Chen, C. , Garrod, O., Schyns, P. and Jack, R. (2015) The face is the mirror of the cultural mind. Journal of Vision, 15(12), p. 928. (doi: 10.1167/15.12.928) (PMID:26326616)

Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2015) The human face as a dynamic tool for social communication. Current Biology, 25(14), R621-R634. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.05.052) (PMID:26196493)

Richoz, A.-R., Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O., Schyns, P. and Caldara, R. (2015) Reconstructing dynamic mental models of facial expressions in prosopagnosia reveals distinct representations for identity and expression. Cortex, 65, pp. 50-64. (doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2014.11.015) (PMID:25638352)

Jack, R. (2015) Understanding the face as a dynamic communication tool. Emotion Researcher,

Delis, I., Jack, R. , Garrod, O., Panzeri, S. and Schyns, P. (2014) Characterizing the manifolds of dynamic facial expression categorization. Journal of Vision, 14(10), p. 1384. (doi: 10.1167/14.10.1384)

Gill, D., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2014) On the modulation of social inference from faces across viewing distance. Journal of Vision, 14(10), p. 1281. (doi: 10.1167/14.10.1281)

Jack, R. E. , Garrod, O. G.B. and Schyns, P. G. (2014) Dynamic facial expressions of emotion transmit an evolving hierarchy of signals over time. Current Biology, 24(2), pp. 187-192. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.11.064) (PMID:24388852)

Gill, D., Garrod, O. G.B., Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2014) Facial movements strategically camouflage involuntary social signals of face morphology. Psychological Science, 25(5), pp. 1079-1086. (doi: 10.1177/0956797614522274)

Richoz, A., Jack, R.E. , Garrod, O.G.B., Schyns, P.G. and Caldara, R. (2014) Reconstructing emotions in motion in prosopagnosia reveals separate representations for identity and emotion. Perception, 43, p. 123.

Gill, D., Garrod, O., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2013) Beyond facial morphology: social impressions from dynamic face gestures. Journal of Vision, 13(9), p. 1270. (doi: 10.1167/13.9.1270)

Jack, R. , Garrod, O. and Schyns, P. (2013) Dynamic signaling of facial expressions transmit social information in a hierarchical manner over time. Journal of Vision, 13(9), p. 1277. (doi: 10.1167/13.9.1277)

Sun, W., Garrod, O. G.B., Schyns, P. G. and Jack, R. E. (2013) Dynamic mental models of culture-specific emotions. Journal of Vision, 13(9), p. 593. (doi: 10.1167/13.9.593)

Jack, R.E. , Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. (2013) Reply to Sauter and Eisner: differences outweigh commonalities in the communication of emotions across human cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(3), E181-E182. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1211865110)

Jack, R. E. (2013) Culture and facial expressions of emotion. Visual Cognition, 21(9-10), pp. 1248-1286. (doi: 10.1080/13506285.2013.835367)

Jack, R. , Garrod, O., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P. (2012) Beyond Darwin: revealing culture-specificities in the temporal dynamics of 4D facial expressions. Journal of Vision, 12(9), p. 971. (doi: 10.1167/12.9.971)

Jack, R.E. , Garrod, O.G.B., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. (2012) Facial expressions of emotion are not culturally universal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(19), pp. 7241-7244. (doi: 10.1073/pnas.1200155109)

Jack, R.E. , Caldara, R. and Schyns, P.G. (2012) Internal representations reveal cultural diversity in expectations of facial expressions of emotion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141(1), pp. 19-25. (doi: 10.1037/a0023463)

Jack, R. , Garrod, O., Yu, H., Caldara, R. and Schyns, P. (2011) Dynamic cultural representations of facial expressions of emotion are not universal. Journal of Vision, 11(11), p. 563. (doi: 10.1167/11.11.563)

Kelly, D. J., Jack, R. E. , Miellet, S., De Luca, E., Foreman, K. and Caldara, R. (2011) Social experience does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements. Frontiers in Psychology, 2(Art 95), (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00095)

Jack, R. E. , Caldara, R. and Schyns, P. G. (2010) Internal Representations of Facial Expressions Reveal Cultural Diversity. Journal of Vision, 10(7), p. 690. (doi: 10.1167/10.7.690)

Jack, R. E. , Blais, C., Caldara, A.-S., Scheepers, C. and Caldara, R. (2010) Lost in translation: culturally tuned eye movements impair decoding of facial expression signals. Journal of Vision, 8(6), p. 706. (doi: 10.1167/8.6.706)

Kelly, D., Jack, R. , Blais, C., Caldara, A.-S., Rossion, B., Scheepers, C. and Caldara, R. (2010) Inverting faces does not abolish cultural diversity in eye movements. Journal of Vision, 8(6), p. 643. (doi: 10.1167/8.6.643)

Jack, R.E. , Blais, C., Scheepers, C. , Schyns, P.G. and Caldara, R. (2009) Cultural confusions show that facial expressions are not universal. Current Biology, 19(18), pp. 1543-1548. (doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.051)

Blais, C., Jack, R. E. , Scheepers, C., Fiset, D. and Caldara, R. (2008) Culture shapes how we look at faces. PLoS ONE, 3(8), e3022. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003022) (PMID:18714387) (PMCID:PMC2515341)

Jack, R. , Blais, C., Scheepers, C. , Fiset, D. and Caldara, R. (2007) Culture shapes eye movements during face identification. Journal of Vision, 7(9), p. 573. (doi: 10.1167/7.9.573)

Lumsden, M. A. , Bore, M., Millar, K., Jack, R. and Powis, D. (2005) Assessment of personal qualities in relation to admission to medical school. Medical Education, 39(3), pp. 258-265. (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2929.2005.02087.x)

Jack, R.E. (2001) Taking a look at ourselves. Psychologist, 14(4), p. 178.

Conference Proceedings

Chen, C. , Hensel, L. B., Duan, Y., Ince, R. , Garrod, O. G.B., Beskow, J., Jack, R. E. and Schyns, P. G. (2019) Equipping Social Robots with Culturally-Sensitive Facial Expressions of Emotion Using Data-Driven Methods. In: 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2019), Lille, France, 14-18 May 2019, ISBN 9781728100890 (doi:10.1109/FG.2019.8756570)

Chen, C. , Garrod, O. G.B., Zhan, J., Beskow, J., Schyns, P. G. and Jack, R. E. (2018) Reverse Engineering Psychologically Valid Facial Expressions of Emotion into Social Robots. In: 13th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Xi'an, China, 15-19 May 2018, pp. 448-452. ISBN 9781538623350 (doi:10.1109/FG.2018.00072)

Yu, H., Garrod, O., Jack, R. and Schyns, P. (2014) Realistic facial animation generation based on facial expression mapping. In: Fifth International Conference on Graphic and Image Processing (ICGIP 2013), Hong Kong, China, 26-27 Oct 2013, pp. 906903-1. (doi:10.1117/12.2049921)

This list was generated on Thu Sep 17 05:01:44 2020 BST.

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