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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 began a permanent lectureship in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen in June of 2006. 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.

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:

  • 12 November 2009 » Our new research on gaze-categorization and facial appearance has been accepted for publication in Psychological Science.
  • 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 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.

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