Kieran O'Shea (ERC Postdoc) How do humans recognise kin?

I obtained an MA in Psychology from the University of Glasgow before going on to complete an MSc in Brain Imaging in 2013. My PhD research was funded by the ESRC and focussed on audience design in language production. More specifically, my work investigated whether retrieval fluency in memory acts as a heuristic in audience design. During my PhD, I worked in Dr. Dale Barr's TalkLab at the University of Glasgow. In November 2016, I joined the Face Research Lab to work in the KINSHIP team on the ERC funded project “How do humans recognise kin?”

Email: kieran.oshea@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. 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»»]

    5. 2020

  5. Alharbi S, Button K, Bagshaw A, Zhang L, O'Shea KJ, Fasolt V, Lee A, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2020). Are affective factors related to individual differences in facial expression recognition? Royal Society Open Science, 7(9): . doi: 10.1098/rsos.190699 [preprint] [prereg] [data] [abstract»»]
  6. 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»»]

    7. 2019

  7. 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»»]
  8. 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»»]
  9. 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»»]
  10. O'Shea KJ, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2019). Further evidence for associations between short-term mating strategy and sexual disgust. Personality and Individual Differences, 138: 333-335. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2018.10.019 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]

    11. 2018

  11. 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»»]
  12. 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»»]

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. O'Shea KJ, Lai R, Feinberg DR, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2019). Kinship signalling in the human voice. Human Behaviour and Evolution Society in Boston, USA. May 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.

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»»]

Non-Face Research Lab Publications

  1. O'Shea, K.J., Ralston, D.F. and Barr, D.J. (2015) Is retrieval fluency a heuristic in audience design? Poster presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) 2015. University of Malta, Valletta, Malta.
  2. Kessler K., Cao L., O'Shea K.J. & Wang H. (2014) A cross-culture, cross-gender comparison of perspective taking mechanisms. Proc. R. Soc. B. Vol.281 pp 1-9 doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0388
  3. O'Shea, K.J., Ralston, D.F. and Barr, D.J. (2015) Tailoring descriptions to suit the listener's needs: does retrieval fluency impact upon audience design in joint communication? Poster presented at the 6th Joint Action Meeting (JAM). Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
  4. O'Shea, K.J., Ralston, D.F. and Barr, D.J. (2015) Does retrieval fluency impact upon audience design in referential communication? Talk presented at the Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group (PsyPAG) Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

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