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Face Research Lab: average face

Face Research Lab: average face

Face Research Lab: average face

Face Research Lab: average face

Face Research Lab: average face

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Ben Jones and I head the Face Research Lab. I am on the committee and run the website for EHBEA, the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association.

This webpage is about my research on face processing, facial resemblance and kin recognition. Specifically, I am interested in how humans use facial resemblance to tell who their kin are and how people respond to cues of kinship in different circumstances. I am also interested in how the visual system learns about faces and what visual adaptation effects can tell us about the face processing system.

I completed my PhD in 2004 in the Daly-Wilson Lab and in 2006 completed an NSF International Fellowship at the University of St Andrews, working with David Perrett.

Recent News:

26 August 2010 » Lisa and Ben each gave talks at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre Seminar on Sexual Selection.
11 August 2010 » Congratulations to Ben, who has just had his 100th peer-reviewed paper accepted!
02 August 2010 » Ben and Lisa's ESRC-funded project on social learning has been graded “Outstanding” by the ESRC.
26 July 2010 » Ben and Lisa each gave invited talks at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Researchers in Prague, Czech Republic.
14 July 2010 » Our paper, Women's own voice pitch predicts their preferences for masculinity in men's voices, was published in Behavioral Ecology and was reported in the Guardian.
21 June 2010 » Our paper, Reading the look of love, has been published in Psychological Science.
16 June 2010 » Chris' poster received an honourable mention at the annual HBES conference in Eugene, Oregon.
14 June 2010 » Finlay's paper, Individual differences in empathizing and systemizing predict variation in face preferences, was accepted for publication by Personality and Individual Differences.
04 June 2010 » Congratulations to Jovana Vukovic, who successfully defended her PhD!
02 May 2010 » Chris Watkins' first paper, Taller men are less sensitive to cues of dominance in other men, was accepted for publication in Behavioral Ecology. Well done Chris!
16 April 2010 » Our paper, Adaptation to different mouth shapes influences visual perception of ambiguous lip speech, has been accepted for publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
27 March 2010 » Our research was reported in the Wall Street Journal.
25 March 2010 » Ben and Lisa each gave talks at the EHBEA Conference in Wroclaw, Poland. Lisa's talk won a prize for Best Abstract.
18 March 2010 » Ben spoke at the Bring Your Own Brain event for Brain Awareness Week.
17 March 2010 » Lisa's new paper, The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences, has been published online by Proceedings B and has also received quite a bit of press: Nature, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Scotsman, The Guardian, Caledonian Mercury, The Press and Journal, Metro, Sify News, and AFP.
16 March 2010 » Jovana Vukovic has just had three new papers accepted by Behavioral Ecology, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology and British Journal of Psychology.
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 June 2009 » Lisa DeBruine's research on trust is featured in the cover article of the Harvard Business Review.
09 February 2009 » Our lab was featured in the Discovery Channel documentary, The Science of Sex Appeal.
20 August 2008 » The New York Times has listed our experimental website, faceresearch.org, as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests.

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