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:

• 26 August 2010 » Lisa and Ben each gave talks at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre Seminar on Sexual Selection.
• 11 August 2010 » Congratulations to Ben, who has just had his 100th peer-reviewed paper accepted!
• 02 August 2010 » Ben and Lisa's ESRC-funded project on social learning has been graded “Outstanding” by the ESRC.
• 26 July 2010 » Ben and Lisa each gave invited talks at the annual meeting of the International Academy of Sex Researchers in Prague, Czech Republic.
• 14 July 2010 » Our paper, Women's own voice pitch predicts their preferences for masculinity in men's voices, was published in Behavioral Ecology and was reported in the Guardian.
• 21 June 2010 » Our paper, Reading the look of love, has been published in Psychological Science.
• 16 June 2010 » Chris' poster received an honourable mention at the annual HBES conference in Eugene, Oregon.
• 14 June 2010 » Finlay's paper, Individual differences in empathizing and systemizing predict variation in face preferences, was accepted for publication by Personality and Individual Differences.
• 04 June 2010 » Congratulations to Jovana Vukovic, who successfully defended her PhD!
• 02 May 2010 » Chris Watkins' first paper, Taller men are less sensitive to cues of dominance in other men, was accepted for publication in Behavioral Ecology. Well done Chris!
• 16 April 2010 » Our paper, Adaptation to different mouth shapes influences visual perception of ambiguous lip speech, has been accepted for publication in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• 27 March 2010 » Our research was reported in the Wall Street Journal.
• 25 March 2010 » Ben and Lisa each gave talks at the EHBEA Conference in Wroclaw, Poland. Lisa's talk won a prize for Best Abstract.
• 18 March 2010 » Ben spoke at the Bring Your Own Brain event for Brain Awareness Week.
• 17 March 2010 » Lisa's new paper, The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences, has been published online by Proceedings B and has also received quite a bit of press: Nature, Daily Mail, Telegraph, Scotsman, The Guardian, Caledonian Mercury, The Press and Journal, Metro, Sify News, and AFP.
• 16 March 2010 » Jovana Vukovic has just had three new papers accepted by Behavioral Ecology, Journal of Evolutionary Psychology and British Journal of Psychology.
• 01 December 2009 » The Face of Peterborough project will, in collaboration with the Face Research Lab, produce a portrait of the average face of Peterborough.
• 17 November 2009 » See the averages of the most attractive Dutch celebrities and read about our research in the Dutch magazine, Psychologie.
• 16 October 2009 » Finlay Smith's new paper, Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game, was featured in ScienceNOW.
• 01 June 2009 » Lisa DeBruine's research on trust is featured in the cover article of the Harvard Business Review.
• 09 February 2009 » Our lab was featured in the Discovery Channel documentary, The Science of Sex Appeal.
• 20 August 2008 » The New York Times has listed our experimental website, faceresearch.org, as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests.