My research investigates the effects of facial appearance on cooperation and trust in social economic interactions. For example, my recent paper in Evolution and Human Behavior showed that attractive individuals were more likely to cooperate when they thought others could see them, while relatively unattractive individuals were less likely to cooperate when they thought others could see them. I completed my PhD in March 2011 and am now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a face recognition project with Mike Burton.
(615 kB)LM DeBruine, BC Jones, CD Watkins, SC Roberts, AC Little, FG Smith & M Quist (2011). Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(28): 11710-11714. doi:10.1073/pnas.1105919108 [abstract»»]
(154 kB)J Vukovic, BC Jones, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, LLM Welling & AC Little (2011). Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for masculine pitch in men's voices.British Journal of Psychology, 102(1): 37-48. doi:10.1348/000712610X498750 [abstract»»]
(233 kB)CD Watkins, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, J Vukovic & PJ Fraccaro (2011). Like father, like self: Emotional closeness to father predicts women's preferences for self-resemblance in opposite-sex faces.Evolution and Human Behavior, 32(1): 70-75. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.09.001 [abstract»»]
(342 kB)LM DeBruine, BC Jones, FG Smith & AC Little (2010). Are attractive men's faces masculine or feminine? The importance of controlling confounds in face stimuli.Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36(3): 751-758. doi:10.1037/a0016457 [abstract»»]
(272 kB)FG Smith, BC Jones & LM DeBruine (2010). Individual differences in empathizing and systemizing predict variation in face preferences.Personality and Individual Differences, 49(6): 655-658. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.023 [abstract»»]
(473 kB)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. doi:10.1556/JEP.7.2009.3.1 [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. doi:10.1093/beheco/arn141 [abstract»»]
LM DeBruine, BC Jones, CD Watkins, SC Roberts, AC Little, FG Smith & M Quist (2011). Domain specificity in the effects of opposite-sex siblings on attitudes to cues of kinship.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Facial masculinity is a cue to women's dominance.Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to Behaviour Research Group in University of Abertay, Dundee. May 2011. [abstract»»]
FG Smith, BC Jones & LM DeBruine (2011). Individual differences in empathizing and systemizing predict variation in face preferences.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
J Vukovic, BC Jones, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, LLM Welling & AC Little (2011). Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women’s preferences for masculine pitch in men’s voices.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
CD Watkins, M Quist, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Individual differences in women's perceptions of other women's dominance.Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to Behaviour Research Group in University of Abertay, Dundee. May 2011. [abstract»»]
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»»]
(249 kB)LM DeBruine, BC Jones, CD Watkins, SC Roberts, AC Little, FG Smith & M Quist (2012). Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces.European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in Durham, UK. March 2012. [abstract»»]
(603 kB)M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Facial masculinity is a cue to women’s dominance.European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in Giessen, Germany. March 2011.
M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Facial masculinity is a cue to women’s dominance.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
CD Watkins, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, J Vukovic & PJ Fraccaro (2010). Like father, like self: Emotional closeness to father, but not mother, predicts women's preferences for self-resemblance in opposite-sex, but not same-sex, faces.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Eugene, Oregon. June 2010. [abstract»»]
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»»]
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