Robin Kramer uses experimental and computational approaches to try to answer questions like: “How do we learn new faces?” and “Are we any good at matching face photographs?”
Why you should listen
Robin Kramer is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln. His research is focused on trying to understand the human face from many angles — perception, judgment, identification, learning (and forgetting!), recognition and so on. People’s faces have always fascinated him, which might explain why he also enjoys painting portraits in his spare time. Although he may never grow bored of the human face, he does like to dabble in other topics too. These include online and real-world dating behaviors, as well as other things he can approach using an evolutionary perspective.Kramer’s work has been mentioned in a variety of outlets from The New York Times and Scientific American to Glamour and Cosmopolitan. Perhaps less well-known is his self-illustrated children’s book, which explains why we look like our parents (using animals as examples).
