Dr Lidia Suarez ~ Senior Lecturer Psychology

Lidia Suárez is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and registered research supervisor at James Cook University (Singapore).  Lidia holds a PhD and MSSc from the National University of Singapore, a MPsych(Clinical) from James Cook University, a MBA from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and a BPsych from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.  Her research interests include mindfulness, quality of life, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, and memory. She has validated measures in Singapore such as the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF) and others. She has published her work in journals such as Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Memory & Cognition, Quality of Life Research, and PLOS ONE.

Teaching

• PY2103: Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis (Level 2; CNS, SIN & TSV)
• PY2112: Memory and Cognition (Level 2; SIN)
• PY4401: Biological, Behavioural and Cognitive Psychology (Level 4; SIN)

Interests

Professional

• I am member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science. I embraced the philosophy behind Acceptance and Committed Therapy. I am committed to help my clients to live meaningful lives in spite of their emotional difficulties. You can see my profile at https://contextualscience.org/civicrm/profile/view?reset=1&id=121070&gid=17

Research

• I am interested in topics relating to mindfulness, quality of life, psycholinguistics, and memory.

Teaching

• I have taught statistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, cognitive psychology, introduction to psychology, psychometrics, and learning and behaviour.

Experience

• 2019 to present - Clinical Psychologist in Training, James Cook University (Singapore)
• 2010 to present - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, James Cook University (Singapore)

Research Disciplines

• Social and personality psychology (5205)
• Cognitive and computational psychology (5204)
• Applied and developmental psychology (5201)

Awards

• 2013 - Best Research Paper award for the paper "Visuo-spatial memory advantage of biscriptal bilinguals" at the 2nd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology Conference (CBP, 2013).

These are the most recent publications associated with this author. To see a detailed profile of all publications stored at JCU, visit ResearchOnline@JCU. Hover over Altmetrics badges to see social impact.

Journal Articles

• Teo D, Suarez L and Oei T (in press) Psychometric properties of the problem solving inventory in a Singapore young male adult sample. Current Psychology, , DOI:10.1007/s12144-018-0073-7.
• Lin P and Suarez L (2020) The Effect of Supernatural Priming on Cheating Behaviour. Religions, 11 (6), Article: 315, DOI:10.3390/rel11060315.
• Suárez L, Tay B and Abdullah F (2018) Psychometric properties of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment in Singapore. Quality of Life Research, 27 (11), pp. 2945-2952, DOI:10.1007/s11136-018-1947-8.
• Teo D, Suarez L and Oei T (2018) Validation of the interpersonal needs questionnaire of young male adults in Singapore. PLoS One, 13 (6), DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0198839.
• Toh W and Suárez L (2017) Above, on, or shang (上)? Language and spatial representations among English–Mandarin bilinguals. Perception & Psychophysics, 79 (8), pp. 2235-245, DOI:10.3758/s13414-017-1433-3.
• Hartanto A and Suárez L (2016) Conceptual representation changes in Indonesian-English bilinguals. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 45 (5), pp. 1201-1217, DOI:10.1007/s10936-015-9399-6.
• Suárez L, Elangovan S and Au A (2016) Cross-sectional study on the relationship between music training and working memory in adults. Australian Journal of Psychology, 68 (1), pp. 38-46, DOI:10.1111/ajpy.12087.
• Suárez L and Goh W (2013) Recognition memory for foreign language lexical stress. Memory and Cognition, 41 (6), pp. 872-885, DOI:10.3758/s13421-013-0305-x.

Book Chapters

• Goh W, Suárez L and Yeo K (2014) Uncovering bilingual memory representations. In: South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 305-314

Conference Papers

• Lim J, Suárez L, Sim L, Broekman B, Yap S, Kwek K, Gluckman P, Saw S, Meaney M and Rifkin-Graboi A (2015) Cultural differences in mirror self-recognition in 18 month-old Singaporean toddlers. Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology. In: CBP 2015: 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, 9-10 Singapore 2015, Singapore
• Suárez L and Sathiasilan S (2014) Visuo-spatial memory and language acquisition skills of bilinguals with different writing systems. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology. In: CBP 2014: 3rd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, 24-25 February 2014, Singapore
• Suárez L, Beevi I, Soh J, Lim R and Teo S (2013) Visuo-spatial memory advantage of biscriptal bilinguals. Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioural Phsychology. In: 2nd Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioural Phsychology, 25-26 February 2013, Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 33+ research outputs authored by Dr Lidia Suarez from 2005 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Cross-Validation of Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) and Developmental Milestones (PEDS:DM) for Early Detection of Developmental Delay in Children in India" (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Academic expectation and suicide behaviour among Singaporean and Malaysian youths (PhD , Secondary Advisor)