Jennifer Murphy CV
Updated 8th March 2024
Employment
University of Surrey (March 2024 - present)
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Royal Holloway University of London (April 2020- March 2024)
Lecturer in Psychology
Birkbeck University (October 2016 – April 2020)
Demonstrator/Associate Tutor/Teaching Assistant
Guest Lectures (February 2016 – May 2017)
City University London; King’s College London; Birkbeck University
Publications
1. Murphy, J., Ipser, A., Gaigg, S., & Cook, R., (2015). Exemplar variance supports robust learning of facial identity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41, 577–581.
2. Ipser, A., Ring, M., Murphy, J., Gaigg, S. B., & Cook, R. (2016). Similar exemplar pooling processes underlie the learning of facial identity and handwriting style: Evidence from typical observers and individuals with Autism. Neuropsychologia, 85, 169-176.
3. Murphy, J., Gray, K., Cook, R. (2016). The Composite Face Illusion: A review. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1-17.
4. Cook, J. L., Murphy, J., & Bird, G. (2016). Judging the Ability of Friends and Foes. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20, 717-719.
5. Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2017). Interoception and Psychopathology: A Developmental Neuroscience Perspective. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 45-56.
6. Gray, K., Barber, L., Murphy, J., Cook., R (2017) Social interaction contexts bias the perceived expressions of interactants. Emotion, 17, 567 – 571.
7. Gray, K. L. H, Murphy, J., Marsh, J., & Cook, R. (2017). Modulation of the composite face effect by unintended emotion cues. Royal Society Open Science, 4, 160867.
8. Murphy, J., Geary, H., Millgate, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2017). Direct and indirect of age on interoception across the adult lifespan. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1-10.
9. Murphy, J., & Cook, R., (2017). Revealing the mechanisms of human face perception using dynamic apertures. Cognition. 169, 25-35
10. Murphy, J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2017). Alexithymia is a multi-domain, multi-dimensional failure of interoception: evidence from novel tests. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147 (3), 398-408.
11. Murphy, J., Millgate, E., Geary, H., Ichijo, E., Coll, M. P., Brewer, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Knowledge of resting heart rate mediates the relationship between intelligence and the heartbeat counting task. Biological Psychology. 133, 1-3.
12. Murphy, J., Wulff, K., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Alexithymic traits, independent of depression and anxiety, are associated with reduced sleep quality. Personality and Individual Differences, 129, 175-178.
13. Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Hobson, H., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2018). Is alexithymia characterised by impaired interoception? Further evidence, the importance of control variables, and the problems with the Heartbeat Counting Task. Biological psychology, 136, 189-197.
14. van der Cruijsen, R., Murphy, J., Crone, E, A., Bird, G., (2019). Alexithymic traits can explain the association between puberty and symptoms of depression and anxiety in adolescent females. PlosOne, 14(1): e0210519.
15. Ichijo, E., Stantica, M., Chekrouda, S., Murphy, J., Coll, M, P., & Bird, G., (2019). Are controls really controls? Individual differences in mental health traits in control populations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Conference Abstract: 4th International Conference on Educational Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/conf.fnhum.2019.229.00024.
16. Coll, M, P., Murphy, J., Brewer, B., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2019) The importance of stimulus variability when studying face processing using Fast Periodic Visual Stimulation: A novel ‘Mixed-Emotions’ paradigm. Cortex, 117, 182-195.
17. Chard, J., Edey, R., Yon, D., Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Press, C. (2019). Atypical emotion recognition from bodies is associated with perceptual difficulties in healthy ageing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 46, 803-811.
18. Murphy, J., Millgate, E., Geary, H., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2019). No effect of age on emotion recognition after accounting for cognitive factors and depression. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-15.
19. Murphy, J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2019) Classifying individual differences in interoception: implications for the measurement of interoceptive awareness. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 1-5.
20. Murphy, J., Viding, E & Bird, G., (2019). Does atypical interoception following physical change contribute to sex differences in mental illness? Psychological Review, 126(5), 787–789.
21. Murphy, J*., Cheesman, R*., Gregory, A., Lau, J., Ehlers, A., Catmur, C., Bird, G., & Eley, T (2019). Estimating the stability of heartbeat counting in middle childhood: a twin study. Biological Psychology, 148, 107764.
22. Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Coll, M, P., Plans, D., Hall, M., Shiu, S, S., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2019). I feel it in my finger: measurement device affects cardiac interoceptive accuracy. Biological Psychology, 148, 107765.
23. Murphy, J., Brewer, R., Plans, D., Khalsa, S. S., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2020). Testing the independence of self-reported interoceptive accuracy and attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(1), 115-133.
24. Murphy, J*., Prentice, F*., Walsh, R., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2020). Autism and Transgender identity: implications for depression and anxiety. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 69, 101466.
25. Murphy, J., Gray, K., Cook, R. (2020). Inverted faces benefit from whole-face processing. Cognition, 194, 104105.
26. Desmedt, O., Corneille, O., Luminet, O., Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Maurage, P., (2020). Contribution of Estimation strategies to Heartbeat Counting Task Performance under Original and Modified Instructions. Biological Psychology, 154, 107904.
27. Hickman, L., Seyedsalehi, A., Cook, J. L., Bird, G., & Murphy, J. (2020). The relationship between heartbeat counting and heartbeat discrimination: a meta-analysis. Biological Psychology, 107949.
28. Coll, M, P., Hobson, H., Bird, G., & Murphy, J., (2020). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence for a link between the heartbeat-evoked potential and interoception. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 122, 190-200.
29. Cuve, H. C., Murphy, J., Hobson, H., Ichijo, E., Catmur, C., & Bird, G. (2021). Are Autistic and Alexithymic Traits Distinct? A Factor-Analytic and Network Approach. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1-16.
30. Hood, A., Stotesbury, H., Murphy, J., Kölbel, M., Slee, A., Springall, C., Paradis M., Saraí Corral-Fría, N., Reyes Aguilar, A, Cuellar Barboza, A, B., Noser, A., Gomes, S., Mitchell, M., Watkins, S, M., Butsch-Kovacic, M., Kirkham, F, J., & Crosby, L, E., (2021). Attitudes About COVID-19 and Health: A Mixed-Methods Smartphone-App and Online Survey Study. JMIR Mental Health, 8(10): e29963
31. Brewer, R., Murphy, J., & Bird, G. (2021). Atypical interoception as a common risk factor for psychopathology: A review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 130, 470-508.
32. Plans, D., Ponzo, S., Morelli, D., Cairo, M., Ring, C, Keating, C.T, Catmur, C., Murphy, J*., & Bird, G*. (2021). Measuring Interoception: The Phase Adjustment Task. Biological Psychology, 165, 108171.
33. Pisani, S*., Murphy, J*., Conway, J., Millgate, E, M., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2021). The relationship between Alexithymia and Theory of Mind: A systematic review. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 131, 497-524.
34. Prentice, F., & Murphy, J., Sex differences in interoceptive accuracy: A meta-analysis (2022). Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 132, 497-518.
35. Gabriele, E*., Spooner, R*., Brewer, R., & Murphy, J. (2022). Dissociations between interoceptive accuracy and attention: evidence from the interoceptive attention scale. Biological Psychology, 168, 108243.
36. Adams, K, L., Murphy, J., Catmur, C., & Bird, G (2022). The role of interoception in the overlap between eating disorders and autism: methodological considerations. European Eating Disorders Review.
37. Murphy, J., (2022). Propensity to use interoceptive signals: An important individual difference. Biological Psychology.
38. Sevi, L., Stantic, M, Murphy, J., Coll, M, P, Catmur, C & Bird, G. (2022). Biased perception of another’s pain by self-pain is determined by the precision of self-related predictions. Cortex.
39. Prentice, F., Spooner, R., Hobson, H., Murphy, J., (2022). Sex differences in interoceptive accuracy and emotional ability: an explanation for incompatible findings. Neuroscience and Bioebehavioural Reviews.
40. Adams, K, L., Edwards, E., Peart, C., Ellet, L., Mendes, I., Bird, G., Murphy, J. (2022). Interoception and anxiety: a meta-analysis.
41. Lee, K., Murphy, J., Hobson, H., Catmur, C., & Bird, G., (2022). Alexithymia, Language and Emotion: a meta-analysis.
42. Contreras-Huerta, L, S., Coll, M, P., Bird, G., Yu, H., Prosser, A., Lockwood, P., Murphy, J., Crockett, M, J., Apps, M, A, J, (2023). Neural representations of vicarious rewards are linked to interoception and prosocial behaviour. Neuroimage.
43. Murphy., J., (2023). Interoception – where do we go from here? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
44. Brand, S.,* Göhler, A, C*., Tünte, M, R*., Murphy, J., Woller, J, P., Jungmann, S, M., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar, M., Hermann, C, M., & Ventura-Bort, C. (2023 – in press). A Multi-site German Validation of the Interoceptive Accuracy Scale and its Relation to Psychopathological Symptom Burden. Communications Psychology
45. Lin, X., Shen, H., Lin, J., Murphy, J., Wang, Y, Sun, Y., Wang, N., Wang, J., Wei, G., & Luo, F. Psychometric Validation and Refinement of the Chinese Interoceptive Accuracy Scale (IAS) in General and Clinical Populations. (2023 – in press). Journal of Psychosomatic Research.
46. Tünte, M, R*., Petzke T, M.,*, Brand, S., Murphy, J., Witthöft, M., Hoehl, S., Weymar, M., & Ventura-Bort, C* (2024 - in press). Differential Effects of Self-Reported Interoceptive Attention and Accuracy on Subclinical Psychopathology. Journal of Personality Assessment.
47. Viding, E., Lloyd, A., Law, R., Martin, P., Lucas,L., Wu, T., Steinbeis, N., Midgley, N., Veenstra, R., Smith, J., Ly, L., Bird, G., Murphy, J., Plans, D., Deighton, J., Richards, K., Richards, M & Fearon, P. (2024 – in press). Developing A School-Based, Transdiagnostic, Preventative Intervention for Adolescent Mental Health: The ReSET Protocol Paper. Trials.
48. Murphy, J., & Bird, G (2024- in press). Auditing measures of interoceptive accuracy: important clarifications. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews.
49. Poerio, G, L., Klabunde, M., Bird, G., & Murphy, J., (2024 – in press). Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience sampling study. Philosophical Transactions B.
50. Todd, J., Plans, D., Lee, M, C., Bird, J., Ponzo, S., Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Aspell, J., E. (2024 – in press). Heightened Interoception in Adults with Fibromyalgia. Biological Psychology.
Under revision/submitted/forthcoming
1. Yorke, I*., Murphy, J*., Rijsdijk., F., Colvert, E., Lietz, S., Bird, G., Happe, F. (under review). Alexithymia explains the genetic relationship between autism and sensory sensitivity.
2. Conway, E., Kirkham, F, J., Crosby, L, E., Slee, A., Reyes-Aguilar, A., Cuellar Barboza, A, B., Stotesbury, H., Murphy, J., Kölbel, M., Springall, C., Corral-Fríasa, N, A., & Hood, A, M., (under review). Parenting and Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Caregivers in Mexico and the United Kingdom.
3. Biotti, F., Barker, M., Carr, L., Pickard, H., Brewer, R., & Murphy, J., The effects of the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic on self-reported interoception and mental health (submitted).
4. Hadji-Michael, M., Carr, L., Bird, G., Murphy, J.,* and Brewer, R* (in prep). Interoception and alexithymia in children and adolescents with Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Tourette syndrome.
5. Murphy, J., & Bourne, V., (in prep). Predictors of programming anxiety in UK undergraduate students.
6. Spooner, R., Bird, J., Clemente, R., Irigoras Izagirre, N., Fernandez Fueyo, E., Watling, D., Brewer, R., Bird, G., & Murphy, J (in prep). No differences between remote and lab-based testing of cardiac interoceptive accuracy.
7. Bird, J., Spooner, R., Irigoras Izagirre, N., Clemente, R., Fernandez Fueyo, E., Budworth, G., Cocirla, D., Todd, J., Aspell, J., Leganes, M., Plans, D., Watling, D., Brewer, R., & Murphy, J., (in prep). Exploring sex differences in cardiac interoceptive accuracy.
8. Murphy, J., Drysdale, R., & Shinskey, J., (in prep). Measuring cardiac interoceptive accuracy in infancy: lessons from the adult literature.
9. Afzali Shamsabad, S., Edwards, A., & Murphy, J., (in prep). A systematic review and meta-analysis of sex differences in the relationship between cardiac interoceptive accuracy and emotion.
10. Clemente, R., Murphy, A., & Murphy, J., (in prep). The relationship between anxiety and self-reported interoception: a meta-analysis.
11. Knott, L., Murphy, J., & Bird, G., (in prep). False Memory Production in Adults with ASD: The Role of Associative Responses at Study.
*Denotes equal contributions
Funding
March (2023). Royal Holloway University of London Research Strategy Fund
November (2022). MRC New Investigator Research Grant
June (2022). Royal Holloway University of London Research Strategy Fund
March (2021): ESRC Business Collaboration Fund
Sept (2020): British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant
May (2020): Royal Holloway University of London Research Strategy Fund
May (2019): King’s College London Travel Award
June (2018): Mary Clark Travel Award
May (2018): King’s College London Travel Award
April (2018): Award for Women’s Mental Health course; King’s College London
April (2018): SPSAN Travel Award
May (2017): Guarantors of Brain Travel Award
May (2017): King’s College London Travel Award
April (2017): EPS and BPS vacation scholarship (on behalf of Edward Millgate)
April (2017): Grindley Grant from the Experimental Psychological Society
April (2017): American Psychological Society travel award
May (2015): ESRC 1+3 Studentship at Kings College London
June (2014): Wellcome trust biomedical vacation scholarship
Sept (2012): Lord Mayor’s scholarship from the Sir John Cass foundation
Awards
February (2024): Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award.
January (2024): European Society For Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Young Investigator Award.
June (2023): Royal Holloway Team Teaching Prize Commendation: Bringing psychology to life: active in-class replications of taught psychological effects. Joint Award with Samuel Fairlamb and Anat Bardi.
May (2021): British Psychological Society Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research Contributions to Psychology.
November (2020): Frith Prize from the Experimental Psychology Society for exceptional PhD work.
September (2020): Gottesman-Shields PhD Award from the Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (King’s College London) for Best PhD Thesis.
July (2020): King’s College London Outstanding PhD Thesis Prize.
March (2017): Finalist; King’s College London 3-minute thesis competition.
August (2015): First Prize BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference undergraduate essay competition.
July (2015): British Psychological Society Undergraduate Award for highest degree grade.
Sept (2014): Highly commended (top 10% of submissions) by the Undergraduate Awards.
Conference proceedings
Talks
Murphy, J., et al., (2014). False Memories: Factors that facilitate and inhibit. The Undergraduate awards global summit. Dublin, Ireland.
Murphy, J., et al., (2016). Alexithymia as impaired interoception. Seminar Series, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. Denmark Hill, UK.
Murphy, J et al., (2017). Alexithymia is associated with a general failure of interoception. American Psychological Society 29th Annual Conference. Boston, USA.
Murphy, J., et al., (2017). Direct and indirect effects of age on interoceptive accuracy and sensibility across the adult lifespan. Seminar Series, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. Denmark Hill, UK.
Murphy, J et al., (2017). Associations between alexithymia and interoception evidence across domains and dimensions of measurement. Alexithymia Workshop. Denmark Hill, UK. Invited talk.
Murphy, J et al., (2018). Is alexithymia characterised by impaired interoception? Further evidence, the importance of control variables, and the problems with the Heartbeat Counting Task. Seminar Series, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. Denmark Hill, UK.
Murphy J et al., (2018). The relationship between alexithymia and interoception across domains and dimensions of measurement. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Leiden, Netherlands. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2018). Developing a measure of interoceptive propensity. Respiratory Interoception workshop. Oxford University, UK. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2019). Interoception: Developmental Trajectory, Measurement and Future Directions. Seminar Series, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre. Denmark Hill, UK.
Murphy J et al., (2019). Characterising and measuring interoception. University of Birmingham. Birmingham, UK. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2020). Characterising and measuring interoception. Deakin University. Melbourne, Australia. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2021). What is interoception and how do we measure it?. Birkbeck University. London, UK. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2021). What is interoception and how do we measure it?. Reading University. Reading, UK. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2022). Interoception in men and women. Gender institute Royal Holloway University of London. Egham, UK. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2022). Interoceptive ability: measurement, conceptualisation, and individual differences. Experimental Psychology Society. Keele University, UK. Invited keynote talk. Prize Talk.
Murphy J et al., (2022). Interoception: measurement and individual differences conceptualisation, and individual differences. UCLouvain, Belgium. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2022). Interoception: measurement and individual differences. Laureate institute of brain research, Tulsa, USA. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2022). Interoception: measurement and individual differences. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Vienna, Austria. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2022). Interoception: measurement and individual differences. Seminar Series, Southampton University. Online talk. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2023). Interoception: measurement and individual differences. Seminar Series, McMaster University, Canada. Online talk. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2023). Interoception: measurement and individual differences. Society for affective sciences, Los Angeles USA. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2023). Interoception: measurement and individual differences. Interdisciplinary conference on the study of mental health, Heidelberg, Germany. Invited talk (online due to illness).
Murphy J et al., (2023). Interoception: measurement and individual differences. International Conference on Mental Health and Rehabilitation. University of the Punjab, Pakistan. Invited keynote (online).
Murphy J et al., (2024). Interoception: measurement and individual differences UCLouvain, Belgium. Invited talk.
Murphy J et al., (2024). Interoception: measurement and individual differences University of Bristol, UK. Invited talk.
Poster presentations
Murphy, J., & Cook, R., (2015). Viewing faces through apertures. de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Murphy, J., & Cook, R., (2017). Viewing faces through apertures. Vision Sciences Society. Florida, USA.
Murphy, J et al., (2017). Interoception and alexithymia across the adult lifespan, determinants and relation to social cognition. de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Murphy, J et al., (2017). Interoception and alexithymia across the adult lifespan, determinants and relation to social cognition. King’s College London Student Showcase. Denmark Hill, UK.
Murphy, J et al., (2018). Factors predicting emotion and identity recognition across the adult lifespan. Vision Sciences Society. Florida, USA.
Murphy, J et al., (2018). Validation of the interoceptive accuracy scale (IAS) supports distinction between self-reported interoceptive accuracy and awareness. Sao Paulo School for Affective Neuroscience. Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Murphy, J., et al., (2019). Holistic processing of inverted faces. Vision Sciences Society. Florida, USA.
Workshops
Murphy, J. (2023). Hosted workshop on interoceptive measurement. Society for affective sciences, Los Angeles USA.
Public engagement
Talks
Murphy, J., (2022) Making Sense of What you Sense. Stadium Generale (Utrecht, Netherlands). Video: https://www.sg.uu.nl/video/2022/11/making-sense-what-you-sense
Murphy, J., (2020) Passion, Obsession and Perversion: a discussion of The Handmaiden. NIIHR Psychoanalytic Film Club (Belfast, UK; Online talk due to COVID-19).
Murphy, J (2019). Inferences from Faces. Level 39: Vivace Annual conference. (London, UK)
Murphy, J (2019). What’s in a face? Vivace: United Kingdom Government Home Office. (London, UK)
Murphy, J (2019). Establishing trust and rapport in a sales context. Citibank. (London, UK).
Murphy, J (2018). Memory on Trial. Vivace: United Kingdom Government Home Office. (London, UK)
Murphy, J. et al., (2017). Ageing and emotion recognition. U3A Science group (Eltham, UK)
Writing
Murphy, J., Bird, G., & Adams, K (2023). How signals from your body could be making you anxious. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-signals-from-your-body-could-be-making-you-anxious-200786 *invited article.
Prentice, F., & Murphy, J., (2022). Differences in how men and women perceive internal body signals could have implications for mental health. The Conversation.
Barker, M., Brewer, R., & Murphy, J., (2021). What is interoception, and why is it important? Frontiers for Young Minds.
R, Brewer., Murphy, J. (2016). People with autism can read emotions, feel empathy. Spectrum News. (Reproduced in Scientific American).
Other activities
Interviewed for Scientific American and New Scientist Magazine
PsychologiCALL University of Edinburgh (Podcast)
PhDPals (Podcast)
The Circle of Insight (Podcast)
Psychology Debrief (Podcast; episodes on ‘interoception’ and ‘doing a PhD’)
Inner Sense (Podcast)
Unseen Being (Kinda Studios; Podcast)
Dark Hedges Film Festival (Panel discussion of Duncan Jones’ film “Moon”)