Christopher Watkins (PhD) Individual differences in dominance perceptions

My research investigates individual differences in dominance perception. For example, my recent papers in Behavioral Ecology and Personality and Individual Differences showed that more dominant individuals are less sensitive to cues of others' dominance, potentially because dominant individuals will incur fewer costs if they underestimate the dominance of rivals. I am due to complete my PhD in 2013.

Email: r01cdw9@abdn.ac.uk

Scientific Journal Articles

    In Press

  1. M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, AC Little, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (in press). Sociosexuality predicts women's preferences for symmetry in men's faces. Archives of Sexual Behavior. [abstract»»]
  2. CD Watkins & BC Jones (in press). Priming men with different contest outcomes modulates their dominance perceptions. Behavioral Ecology. [abstract»»]
  3. CD Watkins (in press). Reproductive ambition predicts partnered, but not unpartnered, women’s preferences for masculine men. British Journal of Psychology. [abstract»»]

    4. 2012

  4. CD Watkins, BC Jones, AC Little, LM DeBruine & DR Feinberg (2012). Cues to the sex ratio of the local population influence women’s preferences for facial symmetry. Animal Behaviour, 83(2): 545-553. [abstract»»]
  5. (229 kB) CD Watkins, M Quist, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2012). Individual differences in women’s perceptions of other women’s dominance. European Journal of Personality, 26(1): 79-86. [abstract»»]

    6. 2011

  6. (615 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones, CD Watkins, SC Roberts, AC Little, FG Smith & M Quist (2011). Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(28): 11710-11714. [abstract»»]
  7. (126 kB) PJ Fraccaro, BC Jones, J Vukovic, FG Smith, CD Watkins, DR Feinberg, AC Little & LM DeBruine (2011). Experimental evidence that women speak in a higher voice pitch to men they find attractive. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 9(1): 57-67. [abstract»»]
  8. (175 kB) BC Jones, AC Little, CD Watkins, LLM Welling & LM DeBruine (2011). Reported sexual desire predicts men's preferences for sexually dimorphic cues in women’s faces. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 40(6): 1281-1285. [abstract»»]
  9. (478 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, CD Watkins & DR Feinberg (2011). ‘Eavesdropping’ and perceived male dominance rank in humans. Animal Behaviour, 81(6): 1203-1208. [abstract»»]
  10. (419 kB) M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Facial masculinity is a cue to women’s dominance. Personality and Individual Differences, 50: 1089-1093. [abstract»»]
  11. CD Watkins (2011). Dominant themes. The Psychologist, 24(7): 550-551. [abstract»»]
  12. (233 kB) CD Watkins, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, J Vukovic & PJ Fraccaro (2011). Like father, like self: Emotional closeness to father predicts women's preferences for self-resemblance in opposite-sex faces. Evolution and Human Behavior, 32(1): 70-75. [abstract»»]
  13. CD Watkins, LM DeBruine, AC Little, DR Feinberg, PJ Fraccaro & BC Jones (2011). Perceptions of partner femininity predict individual differences in men's sensitivity to facial cues of male dominance. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 9(1): 69-82. [abstract»»]

    14. 2010

  14. (148 kB) PJ Fraccaro, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, AC Little, CD Watkins & BC Jones (2010). Correlated male preferences for femininity in female faces and voices. Evolutionary Psychology, 8(3): 447-461. [abstract»»]
  15. (454 kB) CD Watkins, BC Jones & LM DeBruine (2010). Individual differences in dominance perception: Dominant men are less sensitive to facial cues of male dominance. Personality and Individual Differences, 49(8): 967-971. [abstract»»]
  16. (136 kB) CD Watkins, PJ Fraccaro, FG Smith, J Vukovic, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2010). Taller men are less sensitive to cues of dominance in other men. Behavioral Ecology, 21(5): 943-947. [abstract»»]

Conference Presentations

    2011

  1. LM DeBruine, BC Jones, CD Watkins, SC Roberts, AC Little, FG Smith & M Quist (2011). Domain specificity in the effects of opposite-sex siblings on attitudes to cues of kinship. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
  2. M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Facial masculinity is a cue to women's dominance. Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to Behaviour Research Group in University of Abertay, Dundee. May 2011. [abstract»»]
  3. CD Watkins, BC Jones, AC Little, LM DeBruine & DR Feinberg (2011). Cues to the sex ratio of the local population influence women’s preferences for facial symmetry. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
  4. CD Watkins, M Quist, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Individual differences in women's perceptions of other women's dominance. Evolutionary and Biological Approaches to Behaviour Research Group in University of Abertay, Dundee. May 2011. [abstract»»]

Posters

    2011

  1. (603 kB) M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Facial masculinity is a cue to women’s dominance. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in Giessen, Germany. March 2011.
  2. M Quist, CD Watkins, FG Smith, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2011). Facial masculinity is a cue to women’s dominance. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Montpellier, France. June 2011.
  3. (867 kB) CD Watkins, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, J Vukovic & PJ Fraccaro (2011). Like Father, Like Self. European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in Giessen, Germany. March 2011. [abstract»»]

    4. 2010

  4. PJ Fraccaro, BC Jones, J Vukovic, FG Smith, CD Watkins, DR Feinberg, AC Little & LM DeBruine (2010). Women's voice pitch changes when viewing attractive men. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Eugene, Oregon. June 2010. [abstract»»]
  5. CD Watkins, PJ Fraccaro, FG Smith, J Vukovic, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2010). Are taller men less sensitive to cues of dominance in other men? European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference in Wroclaw, Poland. March 2010.
  6. CD Watkins, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, J Vukovic & PJ Fraccaro (2010). Like father, like self: Emotional closeness to father, but not mother, predicts women's preferences for self-resemblance in opposite-sex, but not same-sex, faces. Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Eugene, Oregon. June 2010. [abstract»»]

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