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Dr Jenna Zhao
Project Officer

Dr Jenna Zhao

  • 2018: PhD in Psychology (Visual Cognition) - UNSW Sydney
  • 2014: Bachelor of Psychology (Hons, Class I) - UNSW Sydney
Medicine & Health
School of Clinical Medicine

Jenna manages various projects that aim to build capacity in the health and disability workforces. Her current projects involve managing 3DN's e-learning portfolio and developing intellectual disability health and mental health training programs and resources.

Jenna has a background in Psychology and educational development. She holds a PhD in Psychology (Visual Cognition) and a Bachelor of Psychology (Hons, Class I), both from UNSW Sydney. She has also previously managed the UNSW School of Psychology Peer Mentoring Programs and worked as an educational developer for core Psychology courses at UNSW.

Jenna is passionate about learning and teaching at the university level, and education and training of adults in general. She is currently completing a Master of Education (Educational Psychology).
Phone
+61 2 9065 1742
E-mail
jenna.zhao@unsw.edu.au
  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'Emotional stimuli similarly disrupt attention in both visual fields', Cognition and Emotion, pp. 1 - 17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2187353
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Idtwo: A protocol for a randomised controlled trial of a web-based mental health intervention for australians with intellectual disability', International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052473
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Emotion Induced Blindness in the Left and Right Visual Field', Journal of Vision, 20, pp. 1660 - 1660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.1660
    Journal articles | 2019
    Khoo SYS; Zhao J; Walker A; Kirkman J; Spehar B, 2019, 'Transitions and choices: Graduate student mentoring for psychology honours students. a practice report', Student Success, 10, pp. 147 - 154, http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/ssj.v10i1.648
    Journal articles | 2019
    Zhao JL; Most SB, 2019, 'Manipulations of distractor frequency do not mitigate emotion-induced blindness', Cognition and Emotion, 33, pp. 442 - 451, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2018.1459490
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'I like it by mere association: Conditioning preferences in infants', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 161, pp. 19 - 31, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.03.015
    Journal articles | 2015
    Richmond JL; Zhao JL; Burns MA, 2015, 'What goes where? Eye tracking reveals spatial relational memory during infancy', Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 130, pp. 79 - 91, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.09.013
  • Conference Presentations | 2019
    2019, 'Context matters: Multiple emotional distractors improve target perception', presented at Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Wellington, NZ, 24 April 2019
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Altered perceptual processing in violent video game players: Evidence from emotion-induced blindness', presented at Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Hobart, TAS, 04 April 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Context matters: Reduced emotion-induced blindness through mutual inhibition by multiple distractors', presented at Sydney Postgraduate Psychology Conference, UNSW Sydney, 21 November 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Proactive control through temporal expectancy does not influence emotion-induced blindness', presented at Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Hobart, TAS, 04 April 2018
    Theses / Dissertations | 2018
    2018, Control over emotion-induced blindness: The roles of context, expectation, and motivation, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/20851
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    2017, 'Altered perceptual processing in violent video game players: Evidence from emotion-induced blindness', presented at Psychonomic Society Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, 09 November 2017
    Conference Posters | 2017
    2017, 'Context effects on emotional disruption of perception: Distractor frequency does not mitigate emotion-induced blindness', Vancouver, British Columbia, presented at Object Perception, Attention and Memory Workshop, Vancouver, British Columbia, 08 November 2017
    Conference Posters | 2017
    2017, 'More distractors, less distraction: Multiple valence-matched distractors improve target perception', Boston, Massachusetts, presented at Society for Affective Science Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 27 April 2017
    Conference Presentations | 2017
    2017, 'Spontaneous recruitment of proactive control does not mitigate emotion-induced blindness', presented at Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, Shoal Bay, NSW, 19 April 2017
    Conference Posters | 2016
    2016, 'Distracted from distraction? Additional distractors attenuate the effect of a critical distractor on target perception', University of Melbourne, presented at Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, University of Melbourne, 30 March 2016
    Conference Posters | 2016
    2016, 'Distracted from distraction? Multiple distractors improves target perception in RSVP', Boston, Massachusetts, presented at Object Perception, Attention and Memory Workshop, Boston, Massachusetts, 17 November 2016
    Conference Posters | 2016
    2016, 'I like that one best: Evaluative conditioning and infant preferences', New Orleans, Louisiana, presented at International Congress on Infant Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, 26 May 2016
    Conference Posters | 2016
    2016, 'Object-based effects (and their absence) reveal parallel mechanisms of emotional disruption of perception', St Pete Beach, Florida, presented at Vision Sciences Society Conference, St Pete Beach, Florida, 13 May 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/16.12.88
    Conference Posters | 2015
    2015, 'Does emotion-induced blindness spread according to the perceived structure of the environment?', University of Sydney, presented at Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference, University of Sydney, 08 April 2015

  • 2019: Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Theses from UNSW Sydney (in the top 10% of PhD theses in the opinion of both examiners)
  • 2017: UNSW School of Psychology Exchange Program Scholarship (~$6,000 to conduct research at the University of Toronto)
  • 2017: Best Oral Presentation at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (Shoal Bay, Australia)
  • 2016: Best Student Presentation at the Australasian Experimental Psychology Conference (University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • 2015-2018: Australian Postgraduate Award