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Lizzy Sheppard

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science

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Autism

I have a wide range of research interests relating to autism. At the moment I am particularly interested in how autistic people make inferences about other people's mental states and personality traits. Conversely, how do typical adults form impressions of autistic people? What type of perceptual information do people rely on to make these judgments? I am also interested in the more general question of what kind of beliefs people in the population hold about autism, and whether they differ across cultures

Psychology of driving

I'm interested in cognitive processes involved in driving, including perceptual, attentional and decision-making processes. I'm particularly interested in how these processes differ between people who have learned to drive in environments where driver behaviour, accident and fatality rates dramatically differ: for instance, we have carried out a number of studies comparing drivers from the UK with drivers from Malaysia. I'm also interested in how other individual differences may influence performance within the driving domain, including how being autistic affects aspects of driving performance.

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