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01 May 2013 » Ben gave a talk at the University of Cambridge's Biological Anthropology department.
26 April 2013 » Congratulations to Michal Kandrik, who was awarded an ESRC Studentship to complete his PhD in our lab.
24 April 2013 » Congratulations to Amanda, who successfully defended her PhD and is now Dr Hahn.
23 April 2013 » Congratulations to Ieva Zeromskaite, who has been awarded a Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship to work in the lab over the summer.
25 March 2013 » The lab presented 1 talk and 3 posters at the 2013 EHBEA conference in Amsterdam.
18 February 2013 » Lisa has progressed to the final round of the ERC Starting Grants competition.
15 February 2013 » Lisa was shortlisted for a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship.
30 January 2013 » Lisa and Corey are both speaking about the Behavioral Immune System today at the the University of Dundee's Evolution and Behavior Workshop.
24 January 2013 » Ben is giving a talk as part of the Vision@UCL seminar series today on the lab's work on pathogens, fertility and mate preferences.
14 January 2013 » Lisa has been appointed Deputy Editor of the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology and as an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Psychology.
13 January 2013 » Several of our papers on individual differences in mate preferences are listed in Elsevier journals' updated lists of the most cited articles since 2008. These journals include Evolution and Human Behavior and Personality and Individual Differences.
20 December 2012 » Ben and Lisa have been appointed as members of the ESRC's Peer Review College.
09 December 2012 » Congratulations to Chris Watkins, who was awarded his PhD today with no corrections. Chris has a permanent lectureship at University of Abertay.
26 November 2012 » Congratulations to Rowan Tinlin, who recently completed an MRes working in the Face Research Lab and will graduate with a Distinction.
14 November 2012 » We have a new paper demonstrating the importance of vulnerability to disease for individual differences in men's mate preference in press with Biological Psychology.
23 October 2012 » Congratulations to our new MSc student, Michal Kandrik, on having his first paper accepted!
18 September 2012 » We have had two new papers demonstrating links between pathogens and mate preferences accepted for publication in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology and Behavioral Ecology.
07 September 2012 » Our event at the British Science Festival, Dating, Mating and Relating, is fully booked.
03 September 2012 » Lisa has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Psychology as an Associate Editor, starting January 2013.
10 August 2012 » Congratulations to Jovana Vukovic, our former PhD student, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at West Texas A&M University. Jovana will start her new job in January 2013.
01 August 2012 » We are delighted to welcome Amanda Hahn to the lab. She has started a 5-year postdoctoral position on our ERC-funded project.
20 July 2012 » Lisa was featured in an article on Science's Careers website on How to Collaborate.

16 July 2012 » A paper reporting our recent work on sociosexuality and partnership status with Don Sacco has been accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences.
12 July 2012 » There is an interesting article in Scientific American that features Corey Fincher's work on pathogens and sociality.
07 July 2012 » We are delighted to welcome Claire Fisher to the lab. Claire will be working as a research assistant on our ERC project.
01 July 2012 » We were recently awarded 1.35 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project to further explore the effects of endogenous and exogenous hormones on various aspects of face perception. This project starts on 1 July 2012.
16 June 2012 » Lisa was awarded the Human Behavior and Evolution Society's Early Career Award for Distinguished Scientific Contribution at the annual conference in New Mexico (USA).
04 June 2012 » Congratulations to our postgraduate student Chris Watkins, who has been offered a full-time, permanent lectureship at University of Abertay. Chris will take up his new position in September.
22 May 2012 » Submissions are now open for the 12 October ECCV interdisciplinary workshop, What's in a Face?, for which Lisa is on the programme committee.
01 May 2012 » We are now seeking applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher and Research Assistant for a five-year ERC-funded project on hormone-mediated perception and behaviour.
27 April 2012 » Our paper on the link between women's testosterone levels and face preferences is currently one of Hormones and Behaviour's ten most cited papers from the last five years. Ben's paper with Tony Little on the effect of menstrual cycle phase on women's preferences for masculine male body shapes is also on the same list.
25 April 2012 » Our paper on kin recognition with our colleague, Danny Krupp, has been accepted for publication at Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
10 April 2012 » A paper reporting some of our recent work on facial adiposity has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Psychology. This work was led by Rowan Tinlin, one our MRes students, and it is her first paper. Congratulations to Rowan. (read more...)
01 March 2012 » In July 2012, our lab will be moving to the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of Glasgow.
25 February 2012 » Congratulations to Michelle Quist who, having received a distinction for her MRes in the lab, has secured a fully-funded PhD studentship at the University of Houston.
01 February 2012 » We welcome Corey Fincher, our new ESRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow.
16 January 2012 » Tony Little, Peter Hancock, Lisa and Ben just had a paper accepted by Frontiers in Perception Science for a special issue on face aftereffects: Adaptation to antifaces and the perception of correct famous identity in an average face.
23 December 2011 » Our paper “Integrating social knowledge and physical cues when judging the attractiveness of potential mates” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
29 November 2011 » We have been awarded 1.35 million euros by the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project to further explore the effects of endogenous and exogenous hormones on various aspects of face perception.
14 November 2011 » With Tony Little from Stirling University, Ben has a new paper on the effects of hormone levels on women's masculinity preferences in press at the journal Psychneuroendocrinology.
10 November 2011 » Lisa has been named a ‘Rising Star’ by the APS Observer.
03 November 2011 » Ben gave a keynote address on the lab's research at the annual meeting of the European Society of Sexual Medicine in Milan, Italy.
01 October 2011 » We'd like to welcome our newest postgraduate students, Rowan Tinlin and Natalie Zimmerman, who have just started the MRes programme.
19 September 2011 » Congratulations to David Smith and Kevin Allan on their paper (in collaboration with Ben Jones and David Feinberg) on A modulatory effect of male voice pitch on long-term memory in women in Memory & Cognition. This paper has gotten quite a bit of press, including the New York Times and National Public Radio.
16 September 2011 » Congratulations to Craig Roberts for his recently accepted paper in Proceedings B on Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraception. We are pleased to have been able to collaborate on this project.
05 September 2011 » Lisa was one of 68 academics, entrepreneurs, artists and professionals in Scotland appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's inaugural Young Academy.
15 August 2011 » Congratulations to Michelle Quist, who had her second first-authored paper accepted by Archives of Sexual Behavior, titled Sociosexuality predicts women's preferences for symmetry in men's faces.
01 August 2011 » We are now seeking applications for a 2-Year ESRC-Funded Postdoctoral Position starting 1 October 2011. The Research Fellow will be responsible for conducting a longitudinal study of mate choice and face preferences. Online applications are due 31 August 2011.
11 July 2011 » Lisa and Ben have both just been added to the editorial board of the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
01 July 2011 » Lisa was elected to the position of Council Member at Large for the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
23 June 2011 » Congratulations to Ben Jones, who was just promoted to Professor Jones!
09 June 2011 » Our paper, Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces was just accepted by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
27 May 2011 » Lisa and Ben were awarded a 2-year Research Grant from the ESRC for a project titled “Preference versus choice: How experimental tests of face preferences relate to actual partner choice”.
27 May 2011 » The Face of Peterborough has been unveiled at the John Clare Theatre. It is a hand-drawing of the average of about 1,000 residents of Peterborough. Thanks to our wonderful postgrads for delineating and averaging all of those faces!
18 May 2011 » Chris and Michelle each gave talks at a workshop organized by Abertay's Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to Behaviour Research Group.
01 May 2011 » The theme issue 'Face perception: Social, neuropsychological and comparative perspectives' that we have edited with Anthony Little is now out in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
26 April 2011 » Congratulations to Maciej Czerkawski, who has been awarded a Nuffield Foundation Undergraduate Research Bursary to work in our lab over the summer. Maciej's project will investigate the effects of facial cues of dominance on attention.
24 April 2011 » A paper reporting our recent work on Circum-menopausal changes in women's face preferences has been accepted for publication in Biological Psychology.
29 March 2011 » Congratulations to (Dr) Finlay Smith on passing his viva with flying colours. His examiners were Prof. Neil Macrae and Prof. David Perrett.
25 March 2011 » We have a new paper on the importance of social learning for dominance perception in press now with Animal Behaviour.
22 March 2011 » The lab attended the annual EHBEA conference in Giessen, Germany. Lisa gave a talk and Chris and Michelle presented posters.
10 February 2011 » Lisa gave a talk at the inaugural meeting of the Scottish Psychology and Evolution Research Network in Stirling.
07 February 2011 » Ben gave a seminar at Strathclyde University in Glasgow.
26 January 2011 » Michelle Quist's first paper, Facial masculinity is a cue to women's dominance, was accepted for publication by Personality and Individual Differences.
20 December 2010 » Our new paper on sexual desire and men's mate preferences is now in press with Archives of Sexual Behavior.
09 December 2010 » The Economist reported our research on Further evidence for regional variation in women's masculinity preferences and Cues of pathogen load and mate preferences.
18 November 2010 » Our new paper, Further evidence for regional variation in women's masculinity preferences, has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
13 November 2010 » Our paper with Tony Little on cues of pathogen load and mate preferences has been accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.
23 October 2010 » Chris Watkins has had an article reviewing his work on individual differences in dominance perception accepted for publication in The Psychologist.
01 October 2010 » Welcome to Michelle Quist, our new postgraduate student who is joining the lab from Texas. Michelle is studying the relationship between women's appearance and indices of their dominance.
26 September 2010 » Lisa presented a seminar on “Evoked culture and mate preferences” in the Anthropology department at University College London.
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.
01 December 2009 » The Face of Peterborough project will, in collaboration with the Face Research Lab, produce a portrait of the average face of Peterborough.
17 November 2009 » See the averages of the most attractive Dutch celebrities and read about our research in the Dutch magazine, Psychologie.
12 November 2009 » Our new research on gaze-categorization and facial appearance has been accepted for publication in Psychological Science.
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 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 September 2009 » Our experimental website was featured in the September edition of Eye on the Web, a radio show on the international shortwave station, KNLS.
01 June 2009 » Lisa DeBruine's research on trust is featured in the cover article of the Harvard Business Review.
30 May 2009 » Ben, Lisa, Jovana and Finlay are enjoying HBES 2009
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.
27 April 2009 » Lisa DeBruine's paper on male facial attractiveness has been accepted for publication in JEP:HPP.
18 April 2009 » Finlay's papers on women's masculinity preferences have been accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences and Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
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.
12 November 2008 » Jovana's paper on menopause and face preferences was reported in the New Scientist and many other news venues.
23 October 2008 » Congratulations to Finlay Smith, who had his first first-authored paper accepted this month in Behavioural Ecology. [more»]
03 October 2008 » Filming has just finished in our lab for The Science of Sex Appeal, to be shown on The Discovery Channel in December.
02 October 2008 » Lisa was on BBC Radio 4's The Material World talking about faces with Roberto Caldara.
18 September 2008 » Ben and Lisa gave a talk on “Hormone-mediated face perception” at Innovate with Aberdeen. The research we will talk about has been reported by the BBC, The Telegraph, The Herald, The Scotsman, The Independent and The Evening Express.
08 September 2008 » The BBC reported our talk at the BA Festival of Science: Declaring Love Boosts Sex Appeal
08 September 2008 » Watch a clip of Ben being interviewed by the BBC at the BA Festival of Science.
25 August 2008 » The National ran an article on our research, titled The biological rules of attraction.
20 August 2008 » The New York Times has listed our experimental website, faceresearch.org, as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests.
28 July 2008 » Congratulations to our postgrad, Claire Conway, who successful defended her PhD thesis today.
25 June 2008 » Ben Jones was promoted to senior lecturer today.
16 June 2008 » Our postgraduate student, Lisa Welling, has successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
04 June 2008 » The lab went to Kyoto, Japan for the annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society and presented a total of 8 pieces of research. We also saw some snow monkeys.
19 May 2008 » Jovana Vukovic's first paper, “Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices”, has been accepted for publication by Personality and Individual Differences. [more»]
09 April 2008 » Our paper with Lynda Boothroyd, “Facial correlates of sociosexuality”, has been reported in BBC News, Times, Scotsman, Daily Mail, and many other news venues. [more »]
03 January 2008 » World Science features an article about our paper on face averageness, recently published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
08 November 2007 » Our paper, “Evidence for adaptive design in human gaze preference”, has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. It has received much publicity, notably from the BBC and New Scientist. [more»]
01 October 2007 » We would like to welcome our new postgraduate student, Jovana Vukovic, who hails from Toronto, Canada.
13 September 2007 » We would like to welcome the newest addition to the Face Research Lab, Robert DeBruine Jones, who was born today at 10:03.
20 August 2007 » Ben and Lisa chaired a symposium on Face Perception at the BPS XXIV Annual Cognitive Section Conference, featuring talks by Dave Perrett, Brad Duchaine, Peter Hancock, Tony Little, Ben Jones and Roberto Caldara.
26 July 2007 » Our paper in collaboration with Patricia Bestelmeyer on category-contingent face aftereffects has just been accepted for publication in the journal Cognition [more»]
23 July 2007 » Our paper on anxiety and face preferences has just been accepted for publication in the journal Social Neuroscience [more»]
30 May 2007 » Our lab presented 4 talks and 1 poster at the international annual conference of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
28 March 2007 » Our lab presented one talk and five posters at the second annual European Evolution and Human Behavior Conference.
21 January 2007 » Our paper on testosterone and masculinity preferences has just been accepted for publication in the journal Hormones and Behavior [more»]
18 January 2007 » Our paper on averageness and attractiveness has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance [more»]
17 January 2007 » Our paper, Social transmission of face preferences among humans, has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B and has been getting quite a bit of media attention.
17 January 2007 » Our paper, ‘Social transmission of face preferences among humans’, has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B and has been getting quite a bit of media attention. [more»]
08 December 2006 » Lisa Welling's paper on vulnerability to disease and face preferences has just been accepted for publication in the Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology. [more»]
07 December 2006 » We have just had a manuscript on social transmission of face preferences accepted for publication by Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. [more»]
01 December 2006 » Our paper ‘Salience of emotional displays of danger and contagion in faces is enhanced when progesterone levels are raised’ has now been published in Hormones & Behavior. [more»]
01 October 2006 » We would like to welcome Finlay Smith as the newest postgraduate student in the lab.
30 September 2006 » We would like to welcome Danny Krupp from McMaster University in Ontario. He will be visiting the lab for three months to collaborate on the role of face preferences in experimental economic decisions.
19 August 2006 » The whole lab travelled to St Petersburg, Russia, for the European Conference on Visual Perception where we presented 3 posters and 2 talks. [pictures»]
01 July 2006 » Our paper, ‘Integration of gaze and expression in preferences for attractive faces’, was published in the July issue of Psychological Science (the flagship journal of the American Psychological Society). [more»]
07 June 2006 » Our paper, ‘Correlated Preferences for Facial Masculinity and Ideal or Actual Partner's Masculinity’, was published in the June issue of Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. [more»]
05 June 2006 » Both Ben Jones and Lisa DeBruine's talks at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society conference in Philadelphia were among the 9 finalists for the postdoctoral competition.
14 March 2006 » FaceResearch.org registered its 20,000th participant today.
02 March 2006 » Our work on facial masculinity was featured in the Economist.
01 January 2006 » 12,059 people registered at FaceResearch.org in 2005.
07 December 2005 » Our paper, 'Correlated Preferences for Facial Masculinity and Ideal or Actual Partner's Masculinity', was accepted by Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. [more»]
07 November 2005 » Our paper, Sex-contingent face aftereffects suggest distinct neural populations code male and female faces, by Tony Little, Lisa DeBruine and Ben Jones has been published by Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. [more»]
03 November 2005 » We welcome our two new postgraduate students, Claire Conway from Aberdeen, Scotland, and Lisa Welling from New Brunswick, Canada, who are now settled in and running their own lab projects.
31 October 2005 » We have just had a paper on Integration of gaze and expression in preferences for attractive faces accepted by Psychological Science (the flagship journal of the American Psychological Society).
10 October 2005 » We presented our work at the French Science Week in Paris along with Bernie Tiddeman and his face transformer. We want to thank everyone from the British Council and especially Meg Tiddeman and Benjamin Sylvand.
11 August 2005 » We have recently had two papers accepted by Hormones and Behavior and Evolution and Human Behavior on attraction to voices. This work was in collaboration with David Feinberg, who just successfully defended his PhD in the Perception Lab at the University of St Andrews before moving to a postdoctoral position at Harvard.
03 August 2005 » Ben Jones and Lisa DeBruine both presented at the International Behavioral Development Symposium in Minot, North Dakota.
05 July 2005 » Daniel Krupp, Lisa DeBruine and Pat Barclay won the New Young Investigator Award at the International Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference in Austin, Texas for the paper, “A Cue of Kinship Affects Cooperation in a ‘Tragedy of the Commons’”.

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