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 ERC (Europe), ESRC (UK), National Science Foundation (USA), Nuffield Foundation (UK), and NSERC (Canada).

Special issue Face perception: social, neuropsychological and comparative perspectives, the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B guest edited by Anthony Little, Benedict Jones and Lisa DeBruine, is now available online.

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. It was recently listed by the New York Times as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests. You can also learn about the technology we use for face research.

Recent News:

  • 01 May 2012 » We are now seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Assistant for a five-year ERC-funded project on hormone-mediated perception and behaviour.
  • 27 April 2012 » Our paper on the link between women's testosterone levels and face preferences is currently one of Hormones and Behaviour's ten most cited papers from the last five years. Ben's paper with Tony Little on the effect of menstrual cycle phase on women's preferences for masculine male body shapes is also on the same list.
  • 25 April 2012 » Our paper on kin recognition with our colleague, Danny Krupp, has been accepted for publication at Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
  • 13 April 2012 » Lisa has been awarded the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution, which will be presented to her at the annual conference in New Mexico (USA) this June.
  • 10 April 2012 » A paper reporting some of our recent work on facial adiposity has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Psychology. This work was led by Rowan Tinlin, one our MRes students, and it is her first paper. Congratulations to Rowan. (read more...)
  • 01 March 2012 » In July 2012, our lab will be moving to the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow.
  • 25 February 2012 » Congratulations to Michelle Quist who, having received a distinction for her MRes in the lab, has secured a fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of Houston.
  • 01 February 2012 » We welcome Corey Fincher, our new ESRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow.
  • 29 November 2011 » We have been awarded 1.35 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project to further explore the effects of endogenous and exogenous hormones on various aspects of face perception.
  • 10 November 2011 » Lisa has been named a ‘Rising Star’ by the APS Observer.
  • 05 September 2011 » Lisa was one of 68 academics, entrepreneurs, artists and professionals in Scotland appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's inaugural Young Academy.
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