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Finlay Smith

My research interests revolve around the reasons that people place trust in other individuals. Through the use of economic games, and more recently the manipulation of attributes of the face, I hope to discover the relationship between appearance and individual differences in the way that people place trust in another individual whilst in various different circumstances (e.g. being taught by them, having information conveyed by them as a peer, or by competing with them). As well as the characteristic of trustworthiness, I am also looking to see how an individual's own social characteristics (such as warmth, attractiveness and empathy) affect their face preferences and interactions with other individuals who posses the same, and different, social characteristics.

In addition to this, I have an interest in human-computer interactions and the things that make people more likely to interact with digital media.

My previous studies have all been carried out at the University of Aberdeen, beginning with a degree in Computing Science, and then in Psychology where as an Undegraduate I entered the Face Reseach Lab and completed my thesis on the integration of information between health and sexual dimorphism in the formation of face preferences.

Email: f.smith@abdn.ac.uk

Scientific Journal Articles

In Press
(915 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones, FG Smith & AC Little (in press). Are attractive men's faces masculine or feminine? The importance of controlling confounds in face stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [abstract»»]
2009
(499 kB) LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, SC Roberts, M Petrie & TD Spector (2009). Kin recognition signals in adult faces. Vision Research, 49(1): 38-43. [abstract»»]
(202 kB) FG Smith, LM DeBruine, BC Jones, DB Krupp, LLM Welling & CA Conway (2009). Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(6): 393-397. [abstract»»]
FG Smith, BC Jones, AC Little, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, J Vukovic & CA Conway (2009). Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7(3): 195-210. [abstract»»]
(231 kB) FG Smith, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2009). Interactions between masculinity-femininity and apparent health in face preferences. Behavioral Ecology, 20(2): 441-445. [abstract»»]
(213 kB) FG Smith, BC Jones, LLM Welling, AC Little, J Vukovic, JC Main & LM DeBruine (2009). Waist-hip ratio, but not BMI, influences women’s preferences for masculine male faces. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(5): 476-480. [abstract»»]
2008
(248 kB) J Vukovic, DR Feinberg, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, AC Little & FG Smith (2008). Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices. Personality and Individual Differences, 45(6): 451-456. [abstract»»]
(267 kB) LLM Welling, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little & FG Smith (2008). Exposure to sexually attractive men decreases women’s preferences for feminine faces. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 6(3): 219-230. [abstract»»]
(232 kB) LLM Welling, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, DR Feinberg, AC Little & EAS Al-Dujaili (2008). Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women’s faces when their testosterone levels are high. Hormones and Behavior, 54(5): 703-708. [abstract»»]
2007
(573 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, CA Conway, LLM Welling & FG Smith (2007). Sensation seeking and men's face preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28(6): 439-446. [abstract»»]

Conference Presentations

2009
FG Smith, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, J Vukovic, JC Main & AC Little (2009). Waist-hip ratio predicts women's preferences for masculine male faces, but not perceptions of men's trustworthiness. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Fullerton, CA, USA. May 2009. [abstract»»]
LLM Welling, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, DR Feinberg, AC Little & EAS Al-Dujaili (2009). Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women's faces when their testosterone levels are high. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in St Andrews, Scotland. April 2009. [abstract»»]
2008
J Vukovic, DR Feinberg, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, AC Little & FG Smith (2008). Self-rated attractiveness influences women's preferences for masculine men's voices. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Kyoto University, Japan. June 2008. [abstract»»]
2007
LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones & SC Roberts (2007). Kin Recognition Signals in Adult Faces. Face Recognition Research Seminar in Aberdeen, UK. April 2007. [abstract»»]
LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, SC Roberts & M Petrie (2007). Kin Recognition Signals in Adult Faces. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Williamsburg, VA, USA. May 2007. [abstract»»]
FG Smith, LM DeBruine, BC Jones, DB Krupp, CA Conway & LLM Welling (2007). Own attractiveness affects strategies in an economic game. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Williamsburg, VA, USA. May 2007. [abstract»»]

Posters

2009
(199 kB) FG Smith, LM DeBruine, BC Jones, LLM Welling, J Vukovic & JC Main (2009). Waist-hip ration, but not BMI, influences women's preferences for masculine male faces. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in St Andrews, Scotland. April 2009. [abstract»»]
2008
FG Smith, BC Jones, AC Little, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, J Vukovic & CA Conway (2008). Individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Kyoto University, Japan. June 2008. [abstract»»]
2007
(291 kB) FG Smith, LM DeBruine, DB Krupp, CA Conway & LLM Welling (2007). Own attractiveness affects strategies in an economic game. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Conference in London School of Economics, UK. March 2007. [abstract»»]
2006
(461 kB) FG Smith, LM DeBruine, BC Jones, DB Krupp, CA Conway & LLM Welling (2006). Own attractiveness affects strategies in an economic game. BPS Scottish Branch Conference in Perth, UK. November 2006. [abstract»»]

Invited Talks

2007
LM DeBruine, BC Jones, AC Little, PEG Bestelmeyer, FG Smith, CA Conway & E Drane (2007). Computer-graphic methods for investigating face perception and preferences. University of Dundee School of Computer Science in Dundee, UK. March 2007. [abstract»»]

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