Dr Lee Ai-Suan

Dr Lee Ai-Suan

  • Lecturer
  • Programme Leader of MSc in Psychology
Department of Psychology

Biography

Prior to joining Sunway University, Dr Lee Ai-Suan was an Assistant Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. She obtained her doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 2018 under the supervision of Dr Ian Stephen, Dr Elizabeth Sheppard and Dr David Keeble. Her PhD research examined the role of language and culture in looking and description strategies as well as face and scene processing. Using eye-tracking methods, she explored factors underlying face recognition, looking strategies that individuals use to perceive health and attractiveness cues, and ways to improve body image.

Dr Lee was involved in a worldwide face-rating study under the Psychological Science Accelerator (PSA), which has been accepted in principle as a Stage 1 Registered Report in Nature Human Behaviour. In addition, she has been a recipient of a Poster Award, the UNM Graduate School Travel Prize and the Ernst Mach Grant – Worldwide.

 

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD in Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK (2018)
  • BSc (Hons) Psychology, Lancaster University, UK (2011)

Research Interests

  • Body image
  • Cross-cultural perceptual differences
  • Face processing and recognition
  • Language relativity

Notable Publications

  1. Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J.K., Aczel, B., Adamkovic, M., Alaei, R., … Chartier, C. R. (2018). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour (accepted as a Stage 1 Registered Report). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/n26dy
  2. Lee, A.S., Sheppard, E., & Stephen, I.D. (2014). Using language to prime culture: Comparing looking strategy and verbal description of faces. Proceedings of the European Human Behaviour and Evolution (EHBEA) 2014 Conference, Bristol, UK.
  3. Lee, A.S., Sheppard, E., & Stephen, I.D. (2014). Using language to prime culture: Comparing looking strategy and verbal description of faces. Proceedings of the 3rd Malaysian Psychology Conference (MPC 2013), UTAR Kampar Campus, Perak, Malaysia.
  4. Lee, A.S., Tan, C.B.Y., & Stephen, I.D. (2012). The role of processing orientation on face perception in Malaysian Chinese. Proceedings of the 21st Biennial Conference on Human Ethology (ISHE 2012), Vienna, Austria.