Dr James Munro

I joined Edinburgh Napier in 2017 as a technician, and became the senior psychology technician in 2018. I work hard to improve student experience and to create a comfortable and challenging working environment for our students. Nothing makes me more proud than student success, and I am really chuffed to have been nominated for an Above and Beyond award at Napier for Outstanding Student Experience in 2020. I have a strong technical background in academia and will assist with most statistical, analytical, methodological and equipment issues if needed.

I completed my PhD in 2016 in cognitive neuroscience, and believe anyone assisting students and academic staff should maintain their understanding of their work. So, I continue to actively publish and you can see a list of publications below. Please get in touch if you need help with anything psychology research-related, are interested in my research, or just want to know more about us here at PsyNaps.

Curley, L. J., Munro, J. R., Lages, M. (in press) No need to throw stones, no matter where you live. Journal of Forensic Sciences

Munro, J., Silas, J., Levy, J., Crossman, M. (in preparation). Not like a monkey: Evidence for goal processing only in the presence of explicitly visual information in a localised human mirror neuron system

Munro, J.R., Murray, J., Curley, L., Duarte, L. N., Thomson, M. (in preparation). Decision making strategies as applied to judgement of suicide risk: Eyetracking and self report.

Munro J.R. (2020, January). Assessing cognitive bias in forensic decisions: A review and outlook. Invited speaker for The Scottish Institute for Policing Research, Edinburgh Napier.

Curley, L. J., Munro, J. R., Lages, M. (2020) An inconvenient truth for forensic science: More rigorous and ecologically valid research is needed to properly understand cognitive bias in forensic decisions. Forensic Science International: Synergy

Curley, L. J., Munro, J. R., Lages, M., Maclean, R., & Murray, J. (2020) Is the definition of task-irrelevant contextual information black and white? Journal of Forensic Sciences

Curley, L. J., Munro, J. R., Lages, M., Maclean, R., & Murray, J. (2020) Assessing cognitive bias in forensic decisions: A review and outlook. Journal of Forensic Sciences

Curley, L. J., Munro, J. R., Murray, J. (in preparation). To be or not to be biased? That is the question: A review of bias in forensic decisions.

Curley, L. J., Munro, J. R., Maclean, R., & Murray, J. (in preparation). Contextual bias in forensic analyst decision making.

Barker, H., Munro, J., Orlov, N., Morgenroth, E., Moser, J., Eysenck, M. W., & Allen, P. (2019). Worry and task dependent neural activation in attention networks

Barker, H., Munro, J., Orlov, N., Morgenroth, E., Moser, J., Eysenck, M. W., & Allen, P. (2018). Worry is associated with inefficient functional activity and connectivity in prefrontal and cingulate cortices during emotional interference. Brain and behavior, 8(12), https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.1137