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 ERC (Europe), ESRC (UK), National Science Foundation (USA), Nuffield Foundation (UK), and NSERC (Canada).
Face perception: social, neuropsychological and comparative perspectives, the special issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B guest edited by Anthony Little, Benedict Jones and Lisa DeBruine, is now available online.
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. It was recently listed by the New York Times as one of the Best Online Psychology Tests. You can also learn about the technology we use for face research.
Recent News:
- 01 February 2012 » We welcome Corey Fincher, our new ESRC-funded postdoctoral research fellow.
- 16 January 2012 » Tony Little, Peter Hancock, Lisa and Ben just had a paper accepted by Frontiers in Perception Science for a special issue on face aftereffects: Adaptation to antifaces and the perception of correct famous identity in an average face.
- 23 December 2011 » Our paper “Integrating social knowledge and physical cues when judging the attractiveness of potential mates” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
- 29 November 2011 » We have been awarded substantial funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for a five-year project to further explore the effects of endogenous and exogenous hormones on various aspects of face perception.
- 14 November 2011 » With Tony Little from Stirling University, Ben has a new paper on the effects of hormone levels on women's masculinity preferences in press at the journal Psychneuroendocrinology.
- 10 November 2011 » Lisa has been named a ‘Rising Star’ by the APS Observer.
- 03 November 2011 » Ben gave a keynote address on the lab's research at the annual meeting of the European Society of Sexual Medicine in Milan, Italy.
- 01 October 2011 » We'd like to welcome our newest postgraduate students, Rowan Tinlin and Natalie Zimmerman, who have just started the MRes programme.
- 19 September 2011 » Congratulations to David Smith and Kevin Allan on their paper (in collaboration with Ben Jones and David Feinberg) on A modulatory effect of male voice pitch on long-term memory in women in Memory & Cognition. This paper has gotten quite a bit of press, including the New York Times and National Public Radio.
- 16 September 2011 » Congratulations to Craig Roberts for his recently accepted paper in Proceedings B on Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraception. We are pleased to have been able to collaborate on this project.
- 05 September 2011 » Lisa was one of 68 academics, entrepreneurs, artists and professionals in Scotland appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's inaugural Young Academy.
- 15 August 2011 » Congratulations to Michelle Quist, who had her second first-authored paper accepted by Archives of Sexual Behavior, titled Sociosexuality predicts women's preferences for symmetry in men's faces.
- 11 July 2011 » Lisa and Ben have both just been added to the editorial board of the Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- 01 July 2011 » Lisa was elected to the position of Council Member at Large for the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
- 23 June 2011 » Congratulations to Ben Jones, who was just promoted to Professor Jones!
- 09 June 2011 » Our paper, Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces was just accepted by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- 27 May 2011 » Lisa and Ben were awarded a 2-year Research Grant from the ESRC for a project titled “Preference versus choice: How experimental tests of face preferences relate to actual partner choice”.
- 27 May 2011 » The Face of Peterborough has been unveiled at the John Clare Theatre. It is a hand-drawing of the average of about 1,000 residents of Peterborough. Thanks to our wonderful postgrads for delineating and averaging all of those faces!
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