Dr Viktoria Mileva is a Lecturer in Psychology (FHEA), on a Teaching and Scholarship contract at the University of Stirling. She is the Faculty of Natural Sciences AI Lead, the Deputy Lead Scholar for the Community of Scholars, and leads the Psychology Communities programme.
Her current focus is on developing best practice in critical AI literacy and exploring how AI can be meaningfully integrated into assessments and wider teaching and learning. She is also interested in creating a skills-based, democratic curriculum that foregrounds social, global, and environmental justice.
Viktoria supervises final-year undergraduate and MSc dissertations and is committed to advancing inclusive, student-centred pedagogical approaches.
Her research focuses on three key areas:
AI use amongst students and staff, including critical AI literacy and its implications for higher education
Personality and Individual Differences, particularly in relation to people's AI (and climate crisis) behaviours and well-being
climate change psychology, exploring how people think, feel, and act in response to the climate crisis.
Article
Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training
Carragher DJ, Towler A, Mileva VR, White D & Hancock PJB (2022) Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (1), Art. No.: 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00381-x
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Visual search performance in 'CCTV' and mobile phone-like video footage
Mileva VR, Hancock PJB & Langton SRH (2021) Visual search performance in 'CCTV' and mobile phone-like video footage. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6, Art. No.: 63. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00326-w
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Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways
Hancock PJB, Somai RS & Mileva VR (2020) Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways. Royal Society Open Science, 7 (10), Art. No.: 200595. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200595
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A grey area: How does image hue affect unfamiliar face matching?
Bobak A, Mileva V & Hancock P (2019) A grey area: How does image hue affect unfamiliar face matching?. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4, Art. No.: 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0174-3
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Bobak AK, Mileva VR & Hancock PJB (2019) Facing the facts: Naive participants have only moderate insight into their face recognition and face perception abilities. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 (4), pp. 872-881. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818776145
Newspaper Article
Want to know if your partner’s cheating on you? Just listen to their voice
Mileva VR & Leongomez JD (2018) Want to know if your partner’s cheating on you? Just listen to their voice. The Conversation. 06.03.2018. https://theconversation.com/want-to-know-if-your-partners-cheating-on-you-just-listen-to-their-voice-92387
Newspaper Article
We change our voice when we talk to high-status people, shows new study
Mileva VR (2017) We change our voice when we talk to high-status people, shows new study. The Conversation. 28.06.2017. https://theconversation.com/we-change-our-voice-when-we-talk-to-high-status-people-shows-new-study-80053
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Leongomez JD, Mileva VR, Little A & Roberts SC (2017) Perceived differences in social status between speaker and listener affect the speaker's vocal characteristics. PLoS ONE, 12 (6), Art. No.: e0179407. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179407
Newspaper Article
Can science produce better passport control officers?
Mileva VR, Bobak AK & Hancock PJB (2017) Can science produce better passport control officers?. The Conversation. 20.03.2017. https://theconversation.com/can-science-produce-better-passport-control-officers-74649
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Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics
Mileva VR, Jones AL, Russell R & Little A (2016) Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics. Perception, 45 (10), pp. 1166-1183. https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006616652053
Newspaper Article
How makeup makes other women jealous
Mileva VR & Jones AL (2016) How makeup makes other women jealous. The Conversation. 10.06.2016. https://theconversation.com/how-makeup-makes-other-women-jealous-60744
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Mileva VR, Cowan ML, Cobey KD, Knowles K & Little A (2014) In the face of dominance: Self-perceived and other-perceived dominance are positively associated with facial-width-to-height ratio in men. Personality and Individual Differences, 69, pp. 115-118. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.05.019
Book Review
At the Crossroad of Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism
Cobey KD & Mileva VR (2013) At the Crossroad of Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism. Review of: Evolution’s Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of Women. M. Fisher, J. R. Garcia, and R. Chang (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, 485 pp., ISBN # 978-0-19-989274-7. Evolutionary Psychology, 11 (2), pp. 426-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/147470491301100213
I teach on both UG and PG courses including:
PSYU901 - UG - Introductory Psychology (Individual Differences)
PSYU9IN - UG - Individual Differences, Coordinator
PSYU9E8 - UG - Advanced Topics in Psychology II, Coordinator
PSYPDSS - PG - The Development of the Self in the Social World (Individual Differences)
PRMP143 - PG - Key Skills in Psychology (Using AI)
PRMPICE - PG - Climate And Environmental Psychology (Individual Differences)
