Corey Fincher (ESRC Postdoc) Mate preference versus choice

I worked in the Face Research Lab from 2011 to 2013, after which I started a Assistant Professorship in the University of Warwick Department of Psychology.

My research over the past few years has focused on questions regarding topics such as where cultural variation and other forms of biological diversity come from, and how the evolved response to infectious disease stress variation contributes to human value systems and national development. Ultimately, though, my interests include the evolved psychology of all organisms.

I earned my PhD in Biology from the University of New Mexico in 2008 with Randy Thornhill and Paul Watson as my committee chairs. I also earned my M.S. in Biology from UNM with Thornhill and Watson. Prior to this I conducted graduate studies and research at Oklahoma State University with the guidance of David Duvall. I earned my B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Ecology from Oklahoma State University.

My Webpage from UNM

Email: coreylanefincher@gmail.com

Scientific Journal Articles

    2015

  1. Wincenciak J, Fincher CL, Fisher C, Hahn AC, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2015). Mate choice, mate preference, and biological markets: The relationship between partner choice and health preference is modulated by women’s own attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(4): 274-278. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.12.004 [abstract»»]

    2. 2014

  2. Fisher C, Fincher CL, Hahn AC, Little AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2014). Do assortative preferences contribute to assortative mating for adiposity? British Journal of Psychology, 105: 474-485. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12055 [abstract»»]
  3. Kandrik M, Fincher CL, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2014). Men's, but not women's, sociosexual orientation predicts couples' perceptions of sexually dimorphic cues in own-sex faces. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 43(5): 965-971. doi: 10.1007/s10508-013-0202-1 [abstract»»]

    4. 2013

  4. Fisher C, Fincher CL, Hahn AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2013). Individual differences in pathogen disgust predict men’s, but not women’s, preferences for facial cues of weight. Personality and Individual Differences, 55(7): 860-863. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2013.07.015 [abstract»»]
  5. Jones BC, Feinberg DR, Watkins CD, Fincher CL, Little AC & DeBruine LM (2013). Pathogen disgust predicts women’s preferences for masculinity in men’s voices, faces, and bodies. Behavioral Ecology, 24: 373-379. doi: 10.1093/beheco/ars173
  6. Jones BC, Fincher CL, Welling LLM, Little AC, Feinberg DR, Watkins CD, Al-Dujaili EAS & DeBruine LM (2013). Salivary cortisol and pathogen disgust predict men’s preferences for feminine shape cues in women’s faces. Biological Psychology, 92(2): 233-240. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.11.014 [abstract»»]

Book Chapters

    In Press

  1. Letendre K, Fincher CL & Thornhill R (in press). Parasite stress may cause non-state wars, revolutions and coups, terrorism, and the absence of peace across the world. in T Shackelford and V Weekes-Shackelford (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Violence, Homicide, and War, Oxford University Press: Oxford

Conference Presentations

    2013

  1. DeBruine LM, Re DE, Perrett DI, Fincher CL & Jones BC (2013). Morphological versus perceptual measures of masculinity. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2013. [abstract»»]
  2. Kandrik M, Fincher CL, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2013). Men’s, but not women’s, sociosexual orientation predicts couples’ perceptions of sexually dimorphic cues in own-sex faces. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Miami, Florida, USA. July 2013. [abstract»»]

Posters

    2014

  1. (694 kB) Fisher C, Fincher CL, Hahn AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2014). Individual differences in pathogen disgust predict men’s, but not women’s, preferences for facial cues of adiposity. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Bristol, UK. April 2014. [abstract»»]
  2. (287 kB) Wincenciak J, Fincher CL, Fisher C, Hahn AC, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2014). Own attractiveness moderates the relationship between face preference and mate choice. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Bristol, UK. April 2014. [abstract»»]

    3. 2013

  3. Fincher CL, DeBruine LM, Watkins CD, Little AC & Jones BC (2013). Experimental tests of mate preferences predict real-world mate choice. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2013. [abstract»»]
  4. Fisher C, Fincher CL, Little AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2013). Assortative mating for weight is not due to assortative preferences. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2013. [abstract»»]
  5. Kandrik M, Jones BC, Fincher CL & DeBruine LM (2013). Men’s, but not women’s, sociosexual orientation predicts couples’ sensitivity to sexually dimorphic cues in own-sex faces. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2013. [abstract»»]

    6. 2012

  6. DeBruine LM, Fincher CL, Watkins CD, Little AC & Jones BC (2012). Preference versus Choice: Do face preferences predict actual partner choice? Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Albuquerque, New Mexico. June 2012.

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