Iris Holzleitner (ERC Postdoc) How do humans recognise kin?

My recent research has focused on how 3D face shape can be quantified, visualised and manipulated to investigate how shape cues affect social perception. Within the ERC-funded project “How do humans recognise kin?”, I am working on a data-driven model of facial family resemblance to investigate how facial cues to kinship affect prosocial and sexual attitudes.

I completed my PhD in Psychology at the University of St Andrews, under the supervision of Prof. Dave Perrett. During my undergraduate and master studies in Biology, I was working in the Human Behaviour Research Group at the University of Vienna.

Email: iris.holzleitner@glasgow.ac.uk

Scientific Journal Articles

    Preprint

  1. Holzleitner IJ, O'Shea KJ, Fasolt V, Lee A, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (preprint). Distribution of facial resemblance in romantic couples suggests both positive and negative assortative processes influence human mate choice. PsyArXiv . doi: 10.31234/osf.io/pw5c2 [data] [abstract»»]
  2. Holzleitner IJ, Driebe JC, Arslan RC, Hahn AC, Lee A, O'Shea KJ, Gerlach TM, Penke L, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (preprint). No evidence that inbreeding avoidance is up-regulated during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle. BioRχiv . doi: 10.1101/192054 [preprint] [data] [abstract»»]
  3. Shiramizu VKM, Holzleitner IJ, Fasolt V, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (preprint). Trust among siblings is intuitive. PsyArXiv . [data] [abstract»»]

    4. 2021

  4. Alharbi S, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, Saribay SA & Jones BC (2021). Facial masculinity increases perceptions of men's age, but not perceptions of their health: Data from an Arab sample. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7: 184-188. doi: 10.1007/s40806-020-00263-9 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]
  5. Holzleitner IJ, Jones A, Shiramizu VKM, O'Shea KJ, Fasolt V, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2021). Do 3D face images capture cues of strength, weight, and height better than 2D face images do? Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 7: 209-219. doi: 10.1007/s40750-021-00170-8 [prereg] [preprint] [data] [abstract»»]

    6. 2020

  6. Alharbi S, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, Saribay SA & Jones BC (2020). Women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces: Data from a sample of Arab women. Evolutionary Psychological Science . doi: 10.1007/s40806-020-00244-y [preprint] [data] [abstract»»]
  7. Hansen F, DeBruine LM, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ & Fasolt V (2020). Kin recognition and perceived facial similarity. Journal of Vision, 20(18): . doi: 10.1167/jov.20.6.18 [project] [data] [preprint] [prereg] [abstract»»]
  8. Marcinkowska U & Holzleitner IJ (2020). Stability of women's facial shape throughout the menstrual cycle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 287(1924): . doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2910 [data] [abstract»»]
  9. Stern J, Karastoyanova K, Kandrik M, Torrance JS, Hahn AC, Holzleitner IJ, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2020). Are Sexual Desire and Sociosexual Orientation Related to Men's Salivary Steroid Hormones? . Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology . doi: 10.1007/S40750-020-00148-Y [abstract»»]
  10. Torrance JS, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2020). Evidence Head Tilt Has Dissociable Effects on Dominance and Trustworthiness Judgments, But Does Not Have Category-Contingent Effects on Hypothetical Leadership Judgments . Perception, 49(2): 199-209. doi: 10.1177/0301006619898589 [data] [abstract»»]

    11. 2019

  11. Cai Z, Hahn AC, Zhang L, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2019). No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40: 156-159. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.10.002 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]
  12. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2019). Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin. Collabra, 5(1): 35. doi: 10.1525/collabra.235 [project] [data] [prereg] [abstract»»]
  13. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2019). Contribution of shape and colour cues to kinship detection in 3D face images. Journal of Vision, 19(12): 1-9. doi: 10.1167/19.12.9 [project] [data] [prereg] [abstract»»]
  14. Hahn AC, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, Kandrik M, O'Shea KJ, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2019). Facial masculinity is only weakly correlated with handgrip strength in young adult women. American Journal of Human Biology, 31(1): . doi: 10.1101/425017 [preprint] [data] [data] [abstract»»]
  15. 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. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance . doi: 10.1037/xhp0000685 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]
  16. Wang H, Han C, Hahn AC, Fasolt V, Morrison DK, Holzleitner IJ, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2019). A data-driven study of Chinese participants' social judgments of Chinese faces. PLoS One . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0210315 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]
  17. Zhang L, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, Wang H, Han C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2019). A data-driven test for cross-cultural differences in face preferences. Perception, 48(6): 487-499. doi: 10.1177/0301006619849382 [preprint] [data] [prereg] [abstract»»]

    18. 2018

  18. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2018). Facial Expressions Influence Kin Recognition Accuracy. Human Ethology Bulletin, 33(4): 19-27. doi: 10.22330/heb/334/019-027 [project] [data] [prereg] [abstract»»]
  19. Han C, Wang H, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Kandrik M, Fasolt V, Morrison DK, Lee A, Holzleitner IJ, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2018). Cultural differences in preferences for facial coloration. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(2): 154-15959. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.11.005 [data] [abstract»»]
  20. Han C, Wang H, Fasolt V, Hahn AC, Holzleitner IJ, DeBruine LM, Feinberg DR & Jones BC (2018). No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices. American Journal of Human Biology, 23178: . doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23178 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]
  21. Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Wang H, Kandrik M, Han C, Lee A, Holzleitner IJ & DeBruine LM (2018). No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98: 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.07.026 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]
  22. Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Wang H, Kandrik M, Han C, Fasolt V, Morrison DK, Lee A, Holzleitner IJ, O'Shea KJ, Roberts SC, Little AC & DeBruine LM (2018). No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women's hormonal status. Psychological Science, 29(6): 996-1005. doi: 10.1177/0956797618760197 [preprint] [materials] [data] [abstract»»]
  23. Zhang W, Hahn AC, Cai Z, Lee A, Holzleitner IJ, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2018). No evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is associated with women's sexual desire. PLoS One, 13(7): . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200308 [data] [abstract»»]

    24. 2017

  24. Han C, Kandrik M, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Feinberg DR, Holzleitner IJ, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2017). Interrelationships among men’s threat potential, facial dominance, and vocal dominance. Evolutionary Psychology, 15(1): 1-4. doi: 10.1177/1474704917697332 [abstract»»]

Conference Presentations

    2019

  1. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2019). Contribution of shape and colour cues to kinship detection in 3D face images. Human Behaviour and Evolution Society in Boston, USA. May 2019. [abstract»»]
  2. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2019). Methods comparison in third party kin recognition; or how everyone finds a different answer to the same question. International Society for Human Ethology in Zadar.. [abstract»»]
  3. 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.

    4. 2017

  4. DeBruine LM, Fasolt V, Markova N, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, Jones BC & O'Shea KJ (2017). Perceived resemblance is affected by both actual and perceived kinship. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Boise, Idaho. May 2017. [abstract»»]
  5. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2017). The Effect of Methodology in Third-Party Kin Recognition Research. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Boise, Idaho. May 2017. [abstract»»]
  6. Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, Fasolt V, O'Shea KJ, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2017). Testing the facial homogamy hypothesis in a 3D sample of UK romantic partners. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Boise, Idaho. May 2017.

    7. 2016

  7. Holzleitner IJ, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Lee A, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2016). Hormone levels predict women’s response to self-resembling faces. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Vancouver, Canada. June 2016.

Posters

    2019

  1. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2019). Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin. European Evolution and Human Behaviour Association in Toulouse, France. April 2019. [abstract»»]
  2. Holzleitner IJ, Querci T, Fasolt V, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2019). Developing methods for more ecologically valid face stimuli in kinship research. Human Behaviour and Evolution Society in Boston, USA. May 2019.
  3. Holzleitner IJ, Querci T, Fasolt V, O'Shea KJ & DeBruine LM (2019). Developing methods for more ecologically valid face stimuli in kinship research. Human Behaviour and Evolution Society in Boston, USA. May 2019. [abstract»»]

    4. 2018

  4. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, O'Shea KJ, Lee A, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2018). Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin. Human Behaviour and Evolution Society in Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 2018. [abstract»»]
  5. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, O'Shea KJ, Lee A, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2018). Children resemble women more than men, regardless of kinship status. European Evolution and Human Behaviour Association in Pécs, Hungary. April 2018. [abstract»»]
  6. Holzleitner IJ, O'Shea KJ, Fasolt V, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2018). Which 3D shape cues drive perceptions of facial similarity? in .. [abstract»»]

    7. 2017

  7. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2017). Facial expression & 3rd Party Kin Recognition. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Paris, France. April 2017. [abstract»»]
  8. Fasolt V, Holzleitner IJ, Lee A, O'Shea KJ, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2017). Third Party Kin Recognition. International Society for Human Ethology in Boise, USA. June 2017. [abstract»»]
  9. O'Shea KJ, Holzleitner IJ, Fasolt V, Lee A, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2017). Do Kinship Cues Influence Prosocial Behavior in the Ultimatum Game? Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Boise, Idaho. May 2017. [abstract»»]

Invited Talks

    2019

  1. Holzleitner IJ (2019). Preregistration & the OSF [workshop at ISHE Summer School]. in ..

Non-Face Research Lab Publications

  1. Henderson, A. J., Holzleitner, I. J., Talamas, S. N., and Perrett, D. I. (2016). Perception of health from facial cues. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1693), 20150380. (doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0380)
  2. Holzleitner, I. J., and Perrett, D. I. (2016). Perception of strength from 3D faces is linked to facial cues of physique. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(3), pp. 217-229. (doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.11.004)
  3. Holzleitner, I. J., Hunter, D. W., Tiddeman, B. P., Seck, A., Re, D. E., and Perrett, D. J. (2014). Men's facial masculinity: when (body) size matters. Perception, 43(11), pp. 1191-1202. (doi:10.1068/p7673)
  4. Re, D.E., Holzleitner, I.J., Coetzee, V., Tiddeman, B.P., Xiao, D.-K., and Perrett, D.I. (2013). Wie viel Gewicht liegt im Gesicht?: Veränderungen der dreidimensionalen Gesichtsform = How much weight is in the face?: Perceptual thresholds for three-dimensional facial form changes associated with body weight. Journal für Ästhetische Chirurgie, 6(3), pp. 141-146. (doi:10.1007/s12631-013-0240-5)
  5. Oberzaucher, E., Katina, S., Schmehl, S.F., Holzleitner, I.J., Mehu-Blantar, I., and Grammer, K. (2012). The myth of hidden ovulation: Shape and texture changes in the face during the menstrual cycle. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 10(4), pp. 163-175. (doi:10.1556/JEP.10.2012.4.1)
  6. Re, D. E., Dzhelyova, M., Holzleitner, I. J., Tigue, C. C., Feinberg, D. R., and Perrett, D. I. (2012). Apparent height and body mass index influence perceived leadership ability in three-dimensional faces. Perception, 41(12), pp. 1477-1485. (doi:10.1068/p7342)
  7. Pflüger, L. S., Oberzaucher, E., Katina, S., Holzleitner, I. J., and Grammer, K. (2012). Cues to fertility: perceived attractiveness and facial shape predict reproductive success. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33(6), pp. 708-714. (doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2012.05.005)

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