Amanda Hahn (ERC Postdoc) Do oral contraceptives alter women's mate preferences?
My research focuses on the neurobiological basis of human behaviour. I am interested in the biological and cognitive factors that underpin social perceptions, motivated behavior and, in particular, the reward value of facial cues. I am particularly interested in how adults respond to infant facial characteristics. I started an Assistant Professorship at Humboldt State University in California, USA, in 2016.
I did my postdoctoral work in the Face Research Lab from 2012 to 2016 on Ben Jones' ERC-funded project investigating the effects of both endogenous and exogenous hormones on women's perceptions, behaviours, and appearance. As a PhD student at the University of St Andrews I worked in the Perception Lab, supervised by David Perrett. I completed my Master's Degree in experimental psychology at WWU, as a member of the Human Cognition and Neural Dynamics Lab. As an undergraduate, I studied Biology and Psychology at the University of California, Irvine.
Cobey KD & Hahn AC (2014). The Endocrinology of Female Competition. in Maryanne Fisher (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Women and Competition, Oxford University Press: Oxford [abstract»»]
Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, Hahn AC, Kandrik M, Bovet J, Renoult JP, Simmons D, Garrod O, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2019). Comparing theory-driven and data-driven attractiveness models using images of real women's faces.European Evolution and Human Behaviour Association in Toulouse, France. April 2019.
Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Kandrik M, Wang H, Han C & DeBruine LM (2017). What does women's facial attractiveness cue? in "Signals in Evolutionary and Ecological Context" (Invited Podium Symposium).American Association of Physical Anthropologists in New Orleans, LA, USA. April 2017. [abstract»»]
Hahn AC (2015). Facial coloration tracks changes in women’s hormone levels.Adapted Mind, Adapted Body: the Evolution of Human Behavior and its Neuroendocrine Regulation in Erice, Sicily. June 2015.
Hahn AC (2015). Hormonal regulation of responses to infant cuteness.Scottish Neuroscience Group in Glasgow, Scotland. January 2015.
Hahn AC, Fisher C, Kandrik M, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2015). Women’s, but not men’s, testosterone modulates the reward value of infant cuteness.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Columbia, Missouri, USA. May 2015. [abstract»»]
Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Cobey KD & DeBruine LM (2015). A longitudinal analysis of women’s salivary testosterone and intrasexual competitiveness.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Columbia, Missouri, USA. May 2015. [abstract»»]
Kandrik M, Hahn AC, Wincenciak J, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2015). Emotional expression modulates the effect of stimulus sex on face reward value.5th International Society for Human Ethology Summer Institute in Athens. May 2015. [abstract»»]
Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2014). Women’s testosterone upregulates the reward value of infant cuteness.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Natal, Brazil. July 2014. [abstract»»]
Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM, Sprengelmeyer RH, Perrett DI & Jones BC (2013). Oral contraceptive use and the motivational salience of infant cuteness.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Miami, Florida, USA. July 2013. [abstract»»]
Hahn AC, Whitehead RD & Perrett DI (2011). Hot or not? Measuring thermal reactions to social interactions.International Society for Human Ethology in . July 2011.
Hahn AC, Whitehead RD & Perrett DI (2011). Measuring thermal reactions to interpersonal interactions.Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to Behaviour Research Group in University of Abertay, Dundee. May 2011.
Hahn AC, Sprengelmeyer RH & Perrett DI (2011). The incentive salience of facial beauty: Impact of face type and own perceived attractiveness.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
Fasolt V, Hahn AC, Lee A, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2016). Context-Contingent effects of facial cues on leadership judgments generalise to samples including diverse ages.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Vancouver, Canada. June 2016. [abstract»»]
Fasolt V, Hahn AC, Lee A, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2016). Context-Contingent effects of facial cues on leadership judgments generalise to samples including diverse ages.International Society for Human Ethology in . July 2011. [abstract»»]
Wang H, Hahn AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2016). Do partnered women discriminate men’s faces less along the attractiveness dimension?Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Vancouver, Canada. June 2016. [abstract»»]
Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2015). Sex ratio influences the motivational salience of facial attractiveness.5th International Society for Human Ethology Summer Institute in Athens. May 2015. [abstract»»]
Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2015). The reward value of infant facial cuteness tracks within-subject changes in women’s salivary testosterone.European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Helsinki. March 2015.
Han C, Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2015). The effects of simulated weight change on perceptions of facial attractiveness and health.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Columbia, Missouri, USA. May 2015. [abstract»»]
Wang H, Hahn AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2015). The factor structure of traits predicting the memorability of face photographs.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Columbia, Missouri, USA. May 2015. [abstract»»]
(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»»]
(215 kB)Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2014). Individual differences in the motivational salience of infant facial cuteness.European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Bristol, UK. April 2014. [abstract»»]
(395 kB)Hahn AC, Lefevre CE & Perrett DI (2013). What does sexual arousal look like? Temperature and color changes in the face.European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Amsterdam, Netherlands. March 2013. [abstract»»]
Hahn AC, Sprengelmeyer RH, Perrett DI, Symons LA & Jantzen KJ (2012). Gender differences in brain responses to infant cuteness.Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence in Dundee. May 2012.
Hahn AC & Perrett DI (2012). I’m better looking than that! Own perceived attractiveness affects motivation to view faces.European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Durham, UK. March 2012.
Hahn AC, Sprengelmeyer RH & Perrett DI (2011). Motivational salience of reproductively relevant face classes.Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to Behaviour Research Group in University of Abertay, Dundee. May 2011.
Hahn AC, Lewis JK, Xiao DK & Perrett DI (2010). Impact of attractiveness on the motivation to view faces.Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Eugene, Oregon. June 2010.
Symons LA, Hahn AC & Jantzen KJ (2010). Race-modulated N170 response to the Thatcher Illusion: Evidence for the expertise theory or the other race effect.Vision Sciences Society in Naples, FL. May 2010.
Hahn AC & Symons LA (2008). Seeing in the dark: Does level of illumination give us a sense of eyelid position?Western Psychological Association in Irvine, CA. April 2008.
Hahn AC & Jantzen MG (2008). The effect of phonemic mergers on perceptual discrimination.Western Psychological Association in Irvine, CA. April 2008.
Perrett DI & Hahn AC (2011). Seeing and being motivated by facial attractiveness.Scottish Psychology and Evolution Research Network in Stirling. February 2011.
Hahn AC (2010). "Can't take my eyes off of you": Gender differences in motivation to view attractive faces.PsychFest in Bellingham, WA (Western Washington University). June 2010.
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