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:

• 18 March 2010 » Ben will be speaking at the Bring Your Own Brain event for Brain Awareness Week.
• 01 December 2009 » The Face of Peterborough project will, in collaboration with the Face Research Lab, produce a portrait of the average face of Peterborough.
• 17 November 2009 » See the averages of the most attractive Dutch celebrities and read about our research in the Dutch magazine, Psychologie.
• 12 November 2009 » Our new research on gaze-categorization and facial appearance has been accepted for publication in Psychological Science.
• 16 October 2009 » Finlay Smith's new paper, Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game, was featured in ScienceNOW.
• 01 October 2009 » We have had a new paper on sex-differences in voice preferences accepted for publication in Animal Behaviour.
• 28 September 2009 » Ben Jones' paper on gaze-cuing and facial dominance has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
• 22 September 2009 » Lisa DeBruine presented some of our recent work on voice perception in an invited symposium at the annual meeting of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience.
• 10 September 2009 » Lisa's talk at the Festival of Science was reported in the Times Online and the Irish Times.
• 01 September 2009 » Our experimental website was featured in the September edition of Eye on the Web, a radio show on the international shortwave station, KNLS.
• 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 presented 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.
• 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.
• 20 August 2008 » The New York Times has listed our experimental website, faceresearch.org, as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests.