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Category-contingent face adaptation for novel colour categories: Contingent effects are seen only after social or meaningful labellingAnthony C Little
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Cognition 118:116-22. 2011..Results highlight the flexibility of the cognitive visual system to discriminate categories even in adulthood...
Mixed-ethnicity face shape and attractiveness in humansAnthony C Little
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4PA, UK
Perception 41:1486-96. 2012....- Evolution, appearance, and occupational successAnthony C Little
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Evol Psychol 10:782-801. 2012..With respect to certain biases, understanding their origin and current prevalence is important in order to potentially reduce discrimination in the work place... - The perception of attractiveness and trustworthiness in male faces affects hypothetical voting decisions differently in wartime and peacetime scenariosAnthony C Little
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 65:2018-32. 2012.... - Variation in facial masculinity and symmetry preferences across the menstrual cycle is moderated by relationship contextAnthony C Little
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 37:999-1008. 2012..Cyclical preferences could influence women to select a partner who possesses traits that may enhance her offspring's quality at times when conception is most likely and/or serve to improve partner investment when investment is important... - Using composite images to assess accuracy in personality attribution to facesAnthony C Little
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
Br J Psychol 98:111-26. 2007..Individuals do perform better than chance at guessing another's personality from only facial information, providing some support for the popular belief that it is possible to assess accurately personality from faces... 
Symmetry is related to sexual dimorphism in faces: data across culture and speciesAnthony C Little
School of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom
PLoS ONE 3:e2106. 2008..Faces have the potential to be advertisements of mate quality and both symmetry and sexual dimorphism have been linked to the attractiveness of human face shape...- Preferences for masculinity in male bodies change across the menstrual cycleAnthony C Little
School of Psychology, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Horm Behav 51:633-9. 2007.... - Category contingent aftereffects for faces of different races, ages and speciesAnthony C Little
School of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Cognition 106:1537-47. 2008.... - Preferences for symmetry in faces change across the menstrual cycleAnthony C Little
School of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
Biol Psychol 76:209-16. 2007..Such strategic preferences for symmetry may support the role of symmetry in signalling potential good-gene benefits... - Preferences for symmetry in human faces in two cultures: data from the UK and the Hadza, an isolated group of hunter-gatherersAnthony C Little
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:3113-7. 2007..These results imply that symmetry is an evolutionarily relevant trait and that variation in symmetry preference appears strategic both between cultures and within individuals of a single culture... - Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are highest during reproductive age range and lower around puberty and post-menopauseAnthony C Little
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, UK
Psychoneuroendocrinology 35:912-20. 2010..Overall, these results demonstrate the important role of reproductive status and support the notion that preferences for male faces are tied to reproductively relevant hormones... - Exposure to visual cues of pathogen contagion changes preferences for masculinity and symmetry in opposite-sex facesAnthony C Little
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK
Proc Biol Sci 278:2032-9. 2011..Given that cues to pathogens may signal an increase in contagion/mortality risk, it may be adaptive to shift visual preferences in favour of proposed good-gene markers in environments where such cues are more evident... - Social learning and human mate preferences: a potential mechanism for generating and maintaining between-population diversity in attractionAnthony C Little
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:366-75. 2011..Collectively, these issues suggest that social learning mechanisms encourage the spread of preferences for certain traits once they arise within a population and so may explain certain cross-cultural differences... - Attraction independent of detection suggests special mechanisms for symmetry preferences in human face perceptionAnthony C Little
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, PO Box 147, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:3093-9. 2006..Unconscious mechanisms determining face preferences may explain why the reasons behind attraction are often difficult to articulate and demonstrate that detection alone cannot explain symmetry preferences... - Effects of partner beauty on opposite-sex attractiveness judgmentsAnthony C Little
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Arch Sex Behav 40:1119-27. 2011..These data suggest that social transmission of preferences via pairing with attractive/unattractive images is relatively specific to learning about mate preferences but does not influence attractiveness judgments more generally... - Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based researchAnthony C Little
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1638-59. 2011.... - The many faces of research on face perceptionAnthony C Little
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1634-7. 2011..Here, we introduce the central themes of the issue and present an overview of the articles... - Sexual dimorphism of male face shape, partnership status and the temporal context of relationship sought modulate women's preferences for direct gazeClaire A Conway
Face Research Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Br J Psychol 101:109-21. 2010.... - Sociosexuality predicts women's preferences for symmetry in men's facesMichelle C Quist
Face Research Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, UK
Arch Sex Behav 41:1415-21. 2012..Our findings present new evidence for potentially adaptive variation in women's symmetry preferences that is consistent with trade-off theories of attraction... - Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for masculine pitch in men's voicesJovana Vukovic
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Br J Psychol 102:37-48. 2011.... - Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observersBenedict C Jones
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Proc Biol Sci 277:617-24. 2010.... - Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferencesBenedict C Jones
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Arch Sex Behav 37:78-84. 2008.... - Social transmission of face preferences among humansBenedict C Jones
Face Research Laboratory, School of Psychology, William Guild Building, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, UK
Proc Biol Sci 274:899-903. 2007..Our findings demonstrate that social transmission of face preferences influences judgments of men's attractiveness, potentially demonstrating a mechanism for social transmission of mate preferences... - Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinityLisa M DeBruine
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, UK
Proc Biol Sci 273:1355-60. 2006.... - Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving the dominance of othersJulie C Main
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Regent Walk, Aberdeen AB9 1FX, Scotland, UK
Perception 38:1275-83. 2009..Integrating information from face shape and gaze cues may increase the efficiency with which we perceive the dominance of others... - Circum-menopausal changes in women's preferences for sexually dimorphic shape cues in peer-aged facesBenedict C Jones
Face Research Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Biol Psychol 87:453-5. 2011..These data present novel evidence for circum-menopausal variation in face perception and confirm that the circum-menopausal variation in face preferences observed previously was not an artefact of the young faces employed as stimuli... - View-contingent aftereffects suggest joint coding of face shape and viewLisa L M Welling
Face Research Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, Scotland, UK
Perception 38:133-41. 2009..Dissociable aftereffects for different views of upright faces, but not for different views of inverted faces, suggest that neurons that code face view can also code other aspects of face shape... - Circum-menopausal effects on women's judgements of facial attractivenessJovana Vukovic
Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, UK
Biol Lett 5:62-4. 2009..To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate circum-menopausal changes in women's face preferences... - Interactions among the effects of head orientation, emotional expression, and physical attractiveness on face preferencesJulie C Main
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Regent Walk, Aberdeen AB9 1FX, Scotland, UK
Perception 39:62-71. 2010.... - When facial attractiveness is only skin deepBenedict C Jones
School of Psychology, St Mary s College, University of St Andrews, South Street, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JP, Scotland, UK
Perception 33:569-76. 2004.... - Social perception of facial resemblance in humansLisa M DeBruine
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
Arch Sex Behav 37:64-77. 2008.... - Sex-contingent face after-effects suggest distinct neural populations code male and female facesAnthony C Little
University of Liverpool, School of Biology, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
Proc Biol Sci 272:2283-7. 2005..Because after-effects reflect changes in responses of neural populations that code faces, our findings indicate that distinct neural populations code male and female faces... - Adaptation to different mouth shapes influences visual perception of ambiguous lip speechBenedict C Jones
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Psychon Bull Rev 17:522-8. 2010..These findings present novel evidence that adaptation to natural variations in facial appearance influences face perception, and they extend previous research on face aftereffects to visual perception of lip speech... - Are attractive men's faces masculine or feminine? The importance of controlling confounds in face stimuliLisa M DeBruine
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom AB24 3FX mail
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 36:751-8. 2010..g. hairstyle) were eliminated through masking. We conclude that care must be taken to control potential confounds in stimuli and that the influence of nonface cues on preferences for facial masculinity deserves further study... - Dissociating averageness and attractiveness: attractive faces are not always averageLisa M DeBruine
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 33:1420-30. 2007..The authors discuss important implications for the interpretation of studies using a visual adaptation paradigm to investigate attractiveness... - Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraceptionS Craig Roberts
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Proc Biol Sci 279:1430-6. 2012..Our results demonstrate that widespread use of hormonal contraception may contribute to relationship outcome, with implications for human reproductive behaviour, family cohesion and quality of life... - Reported sexual desire predicts men's preferences for sexually dimorphic cues in women's facesBenedict C Jones
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Arch Sex Behav 40:1281-5. 2011.... - Body odor quality predicts behavioral attractiveness in humansS Craig Roberts
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Arch Sex Behav 40:1111-7. 2011..Our results demonstrate that nonverbal kinesic cues could reliably reveal mate quality, at least in males, and could corroborate and contribute to mate assessment based on other physical traits... - Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women's faces when their testosterone levels are highLisa L M Welling
Face Research Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK
Horm Behav 54:703-8. 2008.... - Integrating cues of social interest and voice pitch in men's preferences for women's voicesBenedict C Jones
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 2UB, UK
Biol Lett 4:192-4. 2008.... - Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex facesLisa M DeBruine
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, United Kingdom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:11710-4. 2011.... - Good genes, complementary genes and human mate preferencesS Craig Roberts
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Genetica 134:31-43. 2008..Humans may be an ideal model species in which to explore these interesting complexities... - Concordant preferences for opposite-sex signals? Human pheromones and facial characteristicsR Elisabeth Cornwell
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9JU, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:635-40. 2004..Our findings suggest that putative sex pheromones and sexually dimorphic facial characteristics convey common information about the quality of potential mates... - Facial attractiveness judgements reflect learning of parental age characteristicsDavid I Perrett
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9JU, UK
Proc Biol Sci 269:873-80. 2002..These data indicate that judgements of facial attractiveness in humans reflect the learning of parental characteristics... - Evidence from rhesus macaques suggests that male coloration plays a role in female primate mate choiceCorri Waitt
Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Proc Biol Sci 270:S144-6. 2003..The duration and direction of gaze were measured to discern visual preferences. Females exhibited preferences for the red versions of male faces. It is proposed that male coloration might provide a cue to male quality... - Integrating gaze direction and expression in preferences for attractive facesBenedict C Jones
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Psychol Sci 17:588-91. 2006.... - Salivary cortisol and pathogen disgust predict men's preferences for feminine shape cues in women's facesBenedict C Jones
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK Electronic address
Biol Psychol 92:233-40. 2013..Together, these findings suggest that disease-related factors are important for individual differences in men's mate preferences... - The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male facesLisa M DeBruine
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3FX, UK
Proc Biol Sci 277:2405-10. 2010..These findings show non-arbitrary cross-cultural differences in facial attractiveness judgements and demonstrate the use of trade-off theory for investigating cross-cultural variation in women's mate preferences... - The role of symmetry in attraction to average facesBenedict C Jones
Face Research Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
Percept Psychophys 69:1273-7. 2007..Importantly, this latter finding was not explained by the greater perceived similarity between versions offaces that varied in averageness, but not symmetry, than between versions of faces that varied in both averageness and symmetry... - Correlated male preferences for femininity in female faces and voicesPaul J Fraccaro
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
Evol Psychol 8:447-61. 2010.... - Extending parasite-stress theory to variation in human mate preferencesLisa M DeBruine
School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 3FX, Scotland, United Kingdom
Behav Brain Sci 35:86-7. 2012..We discuss evidence from prior correlational and experimental studies that support this claim. We also reanalyze data from two of those studies using F&T's new parasite stress measures... - Evidence against perceptual bias views for symmetry preferences in human facesAnthony C Little
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9JU, UK
Proc Biol Sci 270:1759-63. 2003.... - Good genes, complementary genes and human mate preferencesS Craig Roberts
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Crown St, Liverpool L69 7ZB, UK
Genetica 132:309-21. 2008..Humans may be an ideal model species in which to explore these interesting complexities... - Adaptation to antifaces and the perception of correct famous identity in an average faceAnthony C Little
School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling Stirling, Scotland
Front Psychol 3:19. 2012..Overall, our studies delineate several aspects of identity aftereffects and support the proposal that identity is coded relative to other faces with special reference to a relatively sex-specific mean face representation... - The role of masculinity and distinctiveness in judgments of human male facial attractivenessAnthony C Little
School of Psychology, University of St Andrews, UK
Br J Psychol 93:451-64. 2002..Averaging in both shape and texture were found to increase attractiveness independently, showing that the increased attractiveness of composites is due to the combined action of these two manipulations... - Evidence that androstadienone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women's attributions of men's attractivenessTamsin K Saxton
School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZB, UK
Horm Behav 54:597-601. 2008..The results suggest that androstadienone can influence women's attraction to men, and also that research into the modulatory effects of androstadienone should be made within ecologically valid contexts... - Adaptation may cause some of the face caricature effectPeter J B Hancock
Psychology, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK
Perception 40:317-22. 2011..These data suggest a role for adaptation in generating caricature preferences while also suggesting such preferences are not inevitable... - Smelling human sex hormone-like compounds affects face gender judgment of menGyula Kovacs
Center for Cognitive Sciences, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, H 1111, Hungary
Neuroreport 15:1275-7. 2004..Our results provide evidence for specific cross-sensory effects of the gender-specific chemosensory cues on the categorization of visual face gender... - MHC-assortative facial preferences in humansS Craig Roberts
School of Clinical Medical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4HH, UK
Biol Lett 1:400-3. 2005..Although unexpected, this MHC-similar facial preference is consistent with other studies documenting assortative preferences in humans, including for facial phenotype... - 2D:4D and sexually dimorphic facial characteristicsRobert P Burriss
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Liverpool, Biosciences Building, Crown Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZB England
Arch Sex Behav 36:377-84. 2007..These aspects may be associated with perceptions of the self by others that are important in the social environment, particularly in terms of intra-sexual competition and mate acquisition... - Facial averageness and attractiveness in an isolated population of hunter-gatherersCoren L Apicella
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Perception 36:1813-20. 2007.... - Selective attention toward female secondary sexual color in male rhesus macaquesCorri Waitt
Cayo Santiago, Caribbean Primate Research Center, Punta Santiago, Puerto Rico
Am J Primatol 68:738-44. 2006..This suggests that female facial coloration may serve an alternative purpose to that of attracting males, and that the signal function of sexual skin and the intended recipients may vary across anatomical regions... - Female facial attractiveness increases during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycleS Craig Roberts
School of Biology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4HH, UK
Proc Biol Sci 271:S270-2. 2004..This heightened allure could be an adaptive mechanism for raising a female's relative value in the mating market at the time in the cycle when the probability of conception is at its highest...