Hongyi (Rebecca) Wang (PhD) Implicit learning and behavioural economics

I am currently working with Professor Ben Jones on an ERC-funded project investigating how exogenous hormones affect women's perceptions, behaviours and appearance. I will begin a a tenure-track senior research fellowship at East China Normal University in Shanghai in 2017.

My research interests focus on the factors that modulate people's facial preferences. I am also interested in cross-cultural variations in social judgments of faces.

I graduated from East China Normal University in 2013 with an MSc in psychology. My previous research investigated the implicit learning of task-irrelevant perceptual sequences. My PhD research, funded by the Chinese Scholarship Council, focused on the implicit learning of trait-appearance associations.

Scientific Journal Articles

    2019

  1. Jones A, Zhang L, Wang H, Lee A & DeBruine LM (2019). Chinese and UK participants’ preferences for physical attractiveness and social status in potential mates. Royal Society Open Science, 6(11): . doi: 10.1098/rsos.181243 [prereg] [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]
  2. 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»»]
  3. 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»»]

    4. 2018

  4. 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»»]
  5. 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»»]
  6. Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Wang H, Kandrik M & DeBruine LM (2018). General sexual desire, but not desire for uncommitted sexual relationships, tracks changes in women's hormonal status. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 88: 153-157. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.12.015 [preprint] [data] [abstract»»]
  7. Jones BC, Hahn AC, Fisher C, Wang H, Kandrik M, Lee A, Tybur JM & DeBruine LM (2018). Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust: Testing the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39: 166-169. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2017.12.004 [preprint] [data] [abstract»»]
  8. 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»»]
  9. 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»»]
  10. Lei N, Wang H, Han C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2018). The influence of facial femininity on Chinese and White UK women’s jealousy. Evolutionary Psychological Science . doi: 10.1007/s40806-018-0171-7 [data] [preprint] [abstract»»]

    11. 2017

  11. Morrison DK, Wang H, Hahn AC, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2017). Predicting the reward value of faces and bodies from social perceptions. PLoS One, 12(9): . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185093 [project] [materials] [data] [preprint] [prereg] [abstract»»]

    12. 2016

  12. Wang H, Hahn AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2016). Do partnered women discriminate men's faces less along the attractiveness dimension? Personality and Individual Differences, 98: 153-156. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.04.024 [abstract»»]
  13. Wang H, Hahn AC, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2016). The Motivational Salience of Faces Is Related to Both Their Valence and Dominance. PLoS One . doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161114 [abstract»»]

    14. 2014

  14. Wang H, Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2014). Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 50: 246-251. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.08.022 [abstract»»]

Conference Presentations

    2017

  1. 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»»]

Posters

    2016

  1. 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»»]

    2. 2015

  2. 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»»]

    3. 2014

  3. (686 kB) Wang H, Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2014). Hormonal modulation of the motivational salience of facial attractiveness. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Bristol, UK. April 2014. [abstract»»]
  4. (778 kB) Wang H, Hahn AC, Fisher C, DeBruine LM & Jones BC (2014). Sex hormones modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Natal, Brazil. July 2014. [abstract»»]
  5. (492 kB) Ying H, Wang H, Jones BC & DeBruine LM (2014). Pathogen disgust predicts men's perception of facial disgust. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association in Bristol, UK. April 2014. [abstract»»]

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