Dr
Kate Muir
- Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
- Email: k.muir@bathspa.ac.uk
- School: School of Sciences
- Campus: Newton Park
- Website:
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
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