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Julie Main

I completed a Masters of Research in Psychology under the supervision of Dr Ben Jones in 2009. My research focused on the gaze cuing effect - the tendency to respond faster to stimuli that appear in the location in space at which a previous face target directed its gaze. I investigated which aspects of perceived facial appearance, for example masculinity/femininity, attractiveness, health, distinctiveness, dominance and trustworthiness, affect the magnitude of the gaze cuing effect. I was also involved in a project that investigated the effects of gaze direction and sexual dimorphism on judgements of perceived dominance.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Aberdeen this year. My research was conducted in a different lab in the university and focused on differences in hand use between right- and left-handers. In summer 2004 I completed a project funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which also investigated handedness.

Email: julie.main@abdn.ac.uk

Scientific Journal Articles

2010
(329 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, JC Main, AC Little, LLM Welling, DR Feinberg & BP Tiddeman (2010). Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277: 617-624. [abstract»»]
(265 kB) BC Jones, JC Main, LM DeBruine, AC Little & LLM Welling (2010). Reading the look of love: Sexually dimorphic cues in opposite-sex faces influence gaze-categorization. Psychological Science, 21(6): 796-798. [abstract»»]
(328 kB) JC Main, LM DeBruine, AC Little & BC Jones (2010). Interactions among the effects of head orientation, emotional expression and physical attractiveness on face preferences. Perception, 39(1): 62-71. [abstract»»]
(120 kB) J Vukovic, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, DR Feinberg, FG Smith, AC Little, LLM Welling & JC Main (2010). Women’s own voice pitch predicts their preferences for masculinity in men’s voices. Behavioral Ecology, 21(4): 767-772. [abstract»»]
2009
(340 kB) JC Main, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2009). Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving the dominance of others. Perception, 38(9): 1275-1283. [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»»]

Conference Presentations

2010
BC Jones, LM DeBruine, JC Main, AC Little, LLM Welling, DR Feinberg & BP Tiddeman (2010). Facial cues of dominance modulate reflexive gaze-following in human observers. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in Wroclaw, Poland. March 2010. [abstract»»]
2009
BC Jones, LM DeBruine, JC Main, AC Little, LLM Welling & DR Feinberg (2009). Facial cues of dominance modulate reflexive gaze-cuing in human observers. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Fullerton, CA, USA. May 2009. [abstract»»]
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»»]

Posters

2009
(990 kB) JC Main, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2009). Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving others' dominance. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in St Andrews, Scotland. April 2009. [abstract»»]
JC Main, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2009). Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving others' dominance. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Fullerton, CA, USA. May 2009. [abstract»»]
(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»»]

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