Dr Ira Konstantinou

Associate Professor of Psychology

As her last name would strongly indicate Ira Konstantinou was born in Athens, Greece. Being a Plato and Aristotle fan, she searched for answers about the relationship between body and soul by studying Psychology in The American College of Greece. During her undergraduate degree she worked as a laboratory tutor in the college and as a marketing executive in a leading Marketing Research company in Athens. As she was interested to discover more about the way in which the human brain works, she chose to embark on a PhD in Cognitive Psychology. She moved to London to attend a PhD program at City University in 2000. When her supervisor moved to University of Sussex, she followed. She was awarded a Teaching Demonstratorship from the University of Sussex. As part of her demonstratorship, she taught several courses in psychology while completing her PhD. Her doctorate thesis includes studies on the different kinds of awareness that might accompany memory for faces. She has presented part of these studies in major psychology conferences and submitted them for publication in important scientific journals.

Her research interests include subjective awareness during the recognition of faces and own-race bias in memory for faces. She joined Richmond University in Fall 2003 and is currently enjoying the multicultural environment and the welcoming atmosphere Richmond has to offer.

Courses Taught

• PSY 150 Introduction to Psychology
• PSY 251 The Biological Basis of Behavior
• PSY 307 Experimental methods in Psychology
• PSY 315 Theories of Personality
• PSY 351 Cognitive Science

Publications

• Konstantinou, I. , Gregg, V. H., Gardiner, J.M., Karayianni, I. "Reversal of the word frequency effect in recognition memory: A high frequency advantage in knowing following restricted encoding" Submitted for publication 2004.
• Konstantinou, I., Gardiner, J.M, Karayianni, I., & Gregg V. H. "Memory awareness following speeded compared with unspeeded picture recognition" Accepted in Experimental Psychology 2004.
• Konstantinou, I, & Gardiner, J.M. "Conscious control and memory awareness when recognising faces" Accepted in Memory 2004.
• Konstantinou, I., Karayianni, I. & Gardiner, J.M. "Two Recognition Effects that Sometimes Occur in Knowing. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society" 7, 67 2002.

Conferences, Presentations and Proceedings

• 3RD International Conference on Memory, Spain. Presentation of paper entitled "The Remember-Know Paradigm and Response Deadline in Face Recognition Memory"
• 43RD Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, USA Presentation of paper entitled "Two Recognition Effects that Sometimes Occur in Knowing"