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Kate Muir – Bath Spa University

Personal statement

I am a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. My research generally concerns interpersonal communication, and how interacting with others impacts various elements of cognition and social relationships.  

I have previously explored what language use can tell us about an individual’s personality, behavior and relationships, and what factors influence non-conscious language use in terms of linguistic style accommodation.

I am currently interested in persuasion, manipulation, and coercion, and how these concepts are defined and perceived in interpersonal dialogue. I am also interested in how the power of persuasion can be harnessed for social good.

I am the Programme Leader for the Forensic Psychology degree course, and module leader for the Level 5 module The Psychology of Criminal Investigations. I also teach on Level 4 Introduction to Criminal and Forensic Psychology, and Level 6 Forensic Mental Health.

 

Academic qualifications

  • PhD, Psychology, University of Leeds
  • BSc (Hons), Psychology, University of Leeds
  • PGCHE, Bath Spa University

Professional Memberships

  • Chartered Member and Associate Fellow, British Psychological Society
  • Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Teaching specialisms

  • Forensic Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology

Research supervision

I welcome potential research students in the areas of forensic linguistics, autobiographical memory and emotions, or eyewitness testimony.

Research and academic outputs

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A model of trust manipulation: exploiting communication mechanisms and authenticity cues to deceive
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Williams, E.J and Muir, K (2019) 'A model of trust manipulation: exploiting communication mechanisms and authenticity cues to deceive.' In: Docan-Morgan, T, ed. The Palgrave handbook of deceptive communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 249-265. ISBN 9783319963334


Finding Zelig in text: a measure for normalising linguistic accommodation
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Jones, S, Cotterill, R, Dewdney, N, Muir, K and Joinson, A (2014) 'Finding Zelig in text: a measure for normalising linguistic accommodation.' In: Tsujii, J and Hajic, J, eds. Proceedings of COLING 2014, the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: technical papers. Dublin City University/ACL, Dublin, Ireland, pp. 455-465. ISBN 9781941643266


The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the healthy fading of emotions in autobiographical memory mediated via in-person social disclosures
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Muir, K and Brown, C (2024) 'The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the healthy fading of emotions in autobiographical memory mediated via in-person social disclosures.' Applied Cognitive Psychology, 38 (1). e4149. ISSN 0888-4080


Reflective rumination mediates the effects of neuroticism upon the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory
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Muir, K, Madill, A and Brown, C (2023) 'Reflective rumination mediates the effects of neuroticism upon the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory.' Self and Identity, 22 (1). pp. 102-128. ISSN 1529-8876


When asking ‘what’ and ‘how’ helps you win: mimicry of interrogative terms facilitates successful online negotiations
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Muir, K, Joinson, A, Collins, E, Cotterill, R and Dewdney, N (2020) 'When asking ‘what’ and ‘how’ helps you win: mimicry of interrogative terms facilitates successful online negotiations.' Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. ISSN 1750-4708


An exploratory study into the negotiation of cyber-security in the family home
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Muir, K and Joinson, A (2020) 'An exploratory study into the negotiation of cyber-security in the family home.' Frontiers in Psychology, 11. e424. ISSN 1664-1078


Conversational patterns and listener responses associated with an enhanced fading affect bias after social disclosure
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Muir, K, Brown, C and Madill, A (2019) 'Conversational patterns and listener responses associated with an enhanced fading affect bias after social disclosure.' Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 38 (5-6). pp. 552-585. ISSN 0261-927X


Linguistic style accommodation shapes impression formation and rapport in computer-mediated communication
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Muir, K, Joinson, A, Cotterill, R and Dewdney, N (2017) 'Linguistic style accommodation shapes impression formation and rapport in computer-mediated communication.' Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 36 (5). pp. 525-548. ISSN 0261-927X


Individual differences in emotional processing and autobiographical memory: interoceptive awareness and alexithymia in the fading affect bias
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Muir, K, Madill, A and Brown, C (2017) 'Individual differences in emotional processing and autobiographical memory: interoceptive awareness and alexithymia in the fading affect bias.' Cognition and Emotion, 31 (7). pp. 1392-1404. ISSN 0269-9931


Characterizing the linguistic chameleon: personal and social correlates of linguistic style accommodation
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Muir, K, Joinson, A, Cotterill, R and Dewdney, N (2016) 'Characterizing the linguistic chameleon: personal and social correlates of linguistic style accommodation.' Human Communication Research, 42 (3). pp. 462-484. ISSN 0360-3989


Identifying linguistic correlates of power
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Cotterill, R, Muir, K, Joinson, A and Dewdney, N (2015) 'Identifying linguistic correlates of power.' International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Applications, 6 (1). pp. 11-24. ISSN 0976-0962


The fading affect bias: effects of social disclosure to an interactive versus non-responsive listener
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Muir, K, Brown, C and Madill, A (2015) 'The fading affect bias: effects of social disclosure to an interactive versus non-responsive listener.' Memory, 23 (6). pp. 829-847. ISSN 0965-8211


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