School of Psychology

Dr Sarah Coundouris

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Psychology
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Researcher biography

Dr. Sarah Coundouris was awarded her PhD in May 2022. Her work appears in top tier journals that include Psychological Bulletin, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, Computers in Human Behavior, and British Journal of Clinical Psychology. Her early work focused primarily on the cognitive changes associated with Parkinson's disease, with her more recent research focusing on cognition in the context of normal adult ageing. Sarah is particularly interested in social cognition, which broadly refers to our capacity to perceive and interpret social information, and prospection, which is the capacity to envisage, think about, and prepare for the future. Sarah is currently supervising several Honours and postgraduate students.

Sarah is currently employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on an ARC funded Linkage Project led by Professor Julie Henry (ARC Future Fellow, UQ), Dr. Sarah Grainger (DECRA Fellow, UQ), Professor Ruth Hubbard (Masonic Chair of Geriatric Medicine, UQ), and Associate Professor Eric Vanman (UQ). A key focus of this project is to test how age-related changes in social cognition influence resilience and risk for social frailty.

Publications

Journal Articles (17)
Thesis (1)

Journal Articles

Horner, Katherine, Coundouris, Sarah P., Terrett, Gill, Rendell, Peter G. and Henry, Julie D. (2023). Self-initiating and applying episodic foresight in middle childhood. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 233 105696, 105696. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105696
Henry, Julie D., Coundouris, Sarah P., Craik, Fergus I.M., von Hippel, Courtney and Grainger, Sarah A. (2023). The cognitive tenacity of self-directed ageism. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.03.010
Henry, Julie D., Coundouris, Sarah P., Mead, Jessica, Thompson, Brielle, Hubbard, Ruth E. and Grainger, Sarah A. (2023). Social frailty in late adulthood: social cognitive and psychological wellbeing correlates. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 78 (1), 87-96. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac157
Coundouris, Sarah P., von Hippel, Courtney, Lehn, Alexander C. and Henry, Julie D. (2022). The antecedents and consequences of stereotype threat in Parkinson's disease. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 62 (1), 1-9. doi: 10.1111/bjc.12390
Coundouris, Sarah P., Henry, Julie D. and Lehn, Alexander C. (2022). Moving beyond basic emotions in Parkinson’s disease. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 61 (3), 647-665. doi: 10.1111/bjc.12354
Coundouris, Sarah P., Henry, Julie D., Suddendorf, Thomas and Lehn, Alexander C. (2022). Affective forecasting in Parkinson’s disease. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 29 (4), 1-4. doi: 10.1017/s1355617722000388
Coundouris, Sarah P., Henry, Julie D., Rendell, Peter G. and Lehn, Alexander C. (2022). Parkinson’s disease disrupts the ability to initiate and apply episodic foresight. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 29 (3), 1-8. doi: 10.1017/s1355617722000182
Hyde, Melissa K., Masser, Barbara M. and Coundouris, Sarah P. (2022). A review of whole‐blood donors' willingness, motives, barriers and interventions related to donating another substance of human origin. Transfusion Medicine, 32 (2), 95-114. doi: 10.1111/tme.12849
McKay, Kate T., Grainger, Sarah A., Coundouris, Sarah P., Skorich, Daniel P., Phillips, Louise H. and Henry, Julie D. (2021). Visual attentional orienting by eye gaze: a meta-analytic review of the gaze-cueing effect. Psychological Bulletin, 147 (12), 1269-1289. doi: 10.1037/bul0000353
Wright, Janet K. X., Grainger, Sarah A., Coundouris, Sarah P. and Henry, Julie D. (2021). Affective empathy in neurodegenerative disorders: the importance of measurement type. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 127, 808-819. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.05.020
Coundouris, Sarah P., Tyson, Courtney L. and Henry, Julie D. (2021). Social networking site use and relationship quality: a double edged sword. Computers in Human Behavior, 123 106871, 106871. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2021.106871
Demichelis, Olivia P., Coundouris, Sarah P., Grainger, Sarah A. and Henry, Julie D. (2020). Empathy and Theory of Mind in Alzheimer’s Disease: A Meta-analysis. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 26 (10), 1-15. doi: 10.1017/s1355617720000478
Coundouris, Sarah P., Adams, Alexandra G. and Henry, Julie D. (2020). Empathy and theory of mind in Parkinson’s disease: a meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 109, 92-102. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.12.030
Coundouris, Sarah P., Terrett, Gill, Laakso, Liisa, Schweitzer, Daniel, Kneebone, Anthony, Rendell, Peter G. and Henry, Julie D. (2019). A meta-analytic review of prospection deficits in Parkinson’s disease. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, 34-47. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.10.016
Coundouris, Sarah P., Adams, Alexandra G., Grainger, Sarah A. and Henry, Julie D. (2019). Social perceptual function in Parkinson’s disease: a meta-analysis. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 104, 255-267. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.07.011
Lyvers, Michael, McCann, Karrah, Coundouris, Sarah, Edwards, Mark S. and Thorberg, Fred Arne (2018). Alexithymia in Relation to Alcohol Use, Emotion Recognition, and Empathy: The Role of Externally Oriented Thinking. The American Journal of Psychology, 131 (1), 41-51. doi: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.131.1.0041
Lyvers, Michael, Coundouris, Sarah, Edwards, Mark S. and Thorberg, Fred Arne (2017). Alexithymia, reward sensitivity and risky drinking: the role of internal drinking motives. Addiction Research & Theory, 26 (2), 114-122. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2017.1333110

Thesis

Coundouris, Sarah (2022). Not just a movement disorder: prospective and social cognitive impairments in Parkinson’s disease. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/761e0fd