The Face Research Lab is run by Ben Jones and Lisa DeBruine and is based in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen.

Our research on face perception has been funded by the National Science Foundation (USA), Nuffield Foundation (UK), ESRC (UK), and NSERC (Canada).

Visit FaceResearch.org, our online psychology testing website where the Face Research Lab is running a number of short, interesting online psychology experiments about face and voice preferences.

Recent News:

• 09 April 2008 » Our paper with Lynda Boothroyd, “Facial correlates of sociosexuality”, has been reported in BBC News, Times, Scotsman, Daily Mail, and many other news venues. [more »]
• 03 January 2008 » World Science features an article about our paper on face averageness, recently published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
• 08 November 2007 » Our paper, “Evidence for adaptive design in human gaze preference”, has been published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. It has received much publicity, notably from the BBC and New Scientist. [more»]
• 01 October 2007 » We would like to welcome our new postgraduate student, Jovana Vukovic, who hails from Toronto, Canada.
• 13 September 2007 » We would like to welcome the newest addition to the Face Research Lab, Robert DeBruine Jones, who was born today at 10:03.
• 20 August 2007 » Ben and Lisa chaired a symposium on Face Perception at the BPS XXIV Annual Cognitive Section Conference, featuring talks by Dave Perrett, Brad Duchaine, Peter Hancock, Tony Little, Ben Jones and Roberto Caldara.