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The Face Research Lab is run by Ben Jones and Lisa DeBruine and is based in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen.

Our research on face perception has been funded by the National Science Foundation (USA), Nuffield Foundation (UK), ESRC (UK), and NSERC (Canada).

Visit FaceResearch.org, our online psychology testing website where the Face Research Lab is running a number of short, interesting online psychology experiments about face and voice preferences.

Recent News:

  • 01 June 2009 » Lisa DeBruine's research on trust is featured in the cover article of the Harvard Business Review.
  • 27 May 2009 » Our lab are presenting 4 papers and 3 posters at the annual meeting of the International Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Fullerton, California.
  • 22 May 2009 » Our new paper on women's preferences for masculinity was reported in the Sunday Express.
  • 27 April 2009 » Lisa DeBruine's paper on male facial attractiveness has been accepted for publication in JEP:HPP.
  • 18 April 2009 » Finlay's papers on women's masculinity preferences have been accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences and Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
  • 12 March 2009 » Congratulations to Julie Main who has had her first first-authored paper accepted for publication in Perception. The research investigated the effects of gaze direction and face shape on perceptions of dominance.
  • 09 February 2009 » Our lab was featured in the Discovery Channel documentary, The Science of Sex Appeal.
  • 17 January 2009 » Our lab was featured in the cover story of Science News.
  • 12 November 2008 » Jovana's paper on menopause and face preferences was reported in the New Scientist and many other news venues.
  • 23 October 2008 » Congratulations to Finlay Smith, who had his first first-authored paper accepted this month in Behavioural Ecology. [more»]
  • 02 October 2008 » Lisa was on BBC Radio 4's The Material World talking about faces with Roberto Caldara.
  • 18 September 2008 » Ben and Lisa gave a talk on “Hormone-mediated face perception” at Innovate with Aberdeen. The research we will talk about has been reported by the BBC, The Telegraph, The Herald, The Scotsman, The Independent and The Evening Express.
  • 08 September 2008 » Watch a clip of Ben being interviewed by the BBC at the BA Festival of Science.
  • 20 August 2008 » The New York Times has listed our experimental website, faceresearch.org, as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests.
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