Richard Russell

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Gettysburg College
Psychology Department
300 North Washington Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325

Email: rrussell at gettysburg dot edu
Phone: 717-337-6175
Office: McCreary 319

Spring 2010 Courses

PSYCH 101 : General Psychology
PSYCH 216 : Sensation and Perception

Education and Training

NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, Vision Sciences Lab, Harvard University 2005 - 2009
Ph.D., Cognitive Science, MIT, 2005
Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience, Cambridge University 1998 - 2000
B.A., Neuroscience, Pomona College, 1998

Research Interests

Face recognition; facial attractiveness; aesthetics and visual preference; individual differences in visual perception and preference.
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Selected Publications

Russell, R. (2009) A sex difference in facial pigmentation and its exaggeration by cosmetics. Perception, (38)1211-1219. Download Article
Russell, R., Duchaine, B., & Nakayama, K. (2009) Super-recognizers: People with extraordinary face recognition ability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16(2), 252-257. Download Article
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News

NY Times article on Super-recognizers
The illusion of sex won 3rd prize at the 2009 Best Illusion of the Year Contest
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