Jo-Maree Ceccato

Jo-Maree Ceccato is a Teaching Associate at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland. She is available for supervision and holds a Bachelor (Honours) of Psychology with First Class Honours from UQ.

• Position: Teaching Associate, School of Psychology
• Qualifications: BPsych (Hons I) from University of Queensland

Her research explores psychological mechanisms in social interactions, focusing on facial perception and cognitive processes. Key themes include:

• Evolutionary underpinnings of facial attractiveness
• Prosocial behavior prediction in dating contexts
• Cognitive phenomena like repetition priming and blindness
• Attentional mechanisms with distractor stimuli

Recent publications examine facial trait analysis in real-world social evaluations (2023) and cognitive processing limitations in experimental settings (2019). She operates within UQ's psychology research ecosystem, contributing to both theoretical understanding and methodological approaches in behavioral science.