Education

Courses

• Introduction to Psychology: General and Experimental Psychology (PSY-121)
• Developmental Psychology: Infant and Child (PSY-223)
• Developmental Psychology: Adult (PSY-229)
• Social Psychology (PSY-255)
• Cognitive Psychology (PSY-332)
• History of Psychology (PSY-341)
• Topics in Experimental Psychology (PSY-468)

About

Broadly, my research interests involve the role of experience in shaping our ability to recognize and process faces. As such, I am interested in the various environmental factors that influence how children and adults learn to identify both familiar and unfamiliar faces, such as face race and age, in-group identification, and even educational setting. Outside of my own research, I serve as a reviewer for numerous academic journals. More recently, I have been exploring the history of psychology and how to help undergraduate students engage with this history in a meaningful manner that they can apply to their future careers and everyday life. 

Research Interests

• The development of expertise in face processing
• The role of experience in shaping expertise for certain face categories
• Trait attributions based on facial structure
• The perception of facial attractiveness
• The history of psychology

Selected Research Publications

Hu, Chao S., Haotian Zhang, Lindsey A. Short, and Shuhua Hu. “Individuals with higher suicide risk showed more anger and disgust during rest.” Death Studies 48, no. 1 (2024): 9-15.

Hu, Chao S., Haotian Zhang, Lindsey A. Short, et. al. “Learning of a classmate’s suicide ideation affects emotions when advising the classmate and the helpfulness of the advice provided.” Archives of Suicide Research 28, no. 4 (2023): 1158-1171. 

Short, Lindsey A. “A Christian framework for expertise and biases in face processing: Reconciling modern research in face perception within a creation, fall, redemption narrative.” Christian Scholar’s Review 52, no. 1 (2022): 25-42.

Short, Lindsey A., Catherine J. Mondloch, Julia deJong, and Harmonie Chan. “Evidence for a young adult face bias in accuracy and consensus of age estimates.” The British Journal of Psychology 110, no. 4 (2019): 652-669.

Short, Lindsey A., Benjamin Balas, and Cassandra J. Wilson. “The effect of educational environment on identity recognition and perceptions of within-person variability.” Visual Cognition 25, no. 9-10 (2017): 940-948.

Short, Lindsey A., and Maria C. Wagler. “Social categories alone are insufficient to elicit an in-group advantage in perceptions of within-person variability.” Perception 46, no. 8 (in press): 929-940.

Zhou, Xiaomei, Lindsey A. Short, Harmonie S. J. Chan, and Catherine J. Mondloch. “Judging normality and attractiveness in faces: Direct evidence of a more refined representation for own-race, young adult faces.” Perception 45, no. 9 (2016): 973-990.

Short, Lindsey A., Valentina Proietti, and Catherine J. Mondloch. “Representing young and older adult faces: Shared or age-specific prototypes?” Visual Cognition 23, no. 8 (2015): 939-956.

Short, Lindsey A., Catherine J. Mondloch, and Anne T. Hackland. “Attractiveness judgments and discrimination of mommies and grandmas: Perceptual tuning for young adult faces.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 129 (2015): 1-11.

Short, Lindsey A., Kang Lee, Genyue Fu, and Catherine J. Mondloch. “Category-specific face prototypes are emerging, but not yet mature in 5-year-old children.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 126 (2014): 161-177.

Short, Lindsey A., Thalia Semplonious, Valentina Proietti, and Catherine J. Mondloch. “Differential attentional allocation and subsequent recognition for young and older adult faces.” Visual Cognition 22, no. 9-10 (2014): 1272-1295.

Fu, Genyue, Catherine J. Mondloch, Xiao Pan Ding, Lindsey A. Short, Liping Sun, and Kang Lee. “The neural correlates of the face attractiveness aftereffect: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.” NeuroImage 85, no. 1 (2014): 363-371.

Short, Lindsey A., and Catherine J. Mondloch. “Aging faces and aging perceivers: Young and older adults are less sensitive to deviations from normality in older than in young adult faces.” Perception 42 (2013): 795-812.

Wang, Qiandong, Chao Hu, Lindsey A. Short, and Genyue Fu. “The influence of shyness on the scanning of own- and other-race faces in adults.” PLoS One 7, no. 12 (2012): e52203.

Hu, Chao, Qiandong Wang, Lindsey A. Short, and Genyue Fu. “Speech spectrum’s correlation with speakers’ Eysenck personality traits.” PLoS One 7, no. 3 (2012): e33906.

Short, Lindsey A., Catherine J. Mondloch, Cheryl M. McCormick, et. al. “Detection of propensity for aggression based on facial structure irrespective of face race.” Evolution and Human Behavior 33 (2012): 121-129.

Short, Lindsey A., Alexandra J. Hatry, and Catherine J. Mondloch. “The development of norm-based coding and race-specific face prototypes: An examination of 5- and 8-year-olds’ face space.” Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 108, no. 2 (2011): 338-357.

Short, Lindsey A., and Catherine J. Mondloch. “The importance of social factors is a matter of perception.” Perception 39, no. 11 (2010): 1562-1564.

Anes, Michael D., and Lindsey A. Short. “Adult-like competence in perceptual encoding of facial configuration by the right hemisphere emerges after 10 years of age.” Perception 38, no. 3 (2009): 333-342.

Visiting Research Appointments

• 2011: Visiting researcher at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
• 2011: Visiting researcher at Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, China.