Lisa DeBruine » Facial Resemblance and Kin Recognition

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I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen. Ben Jones and I head the Face Research Lab.

This webpage is about my research on kin recognition, facial resemblance and face processing. Specifically, I am interested in how humans use facial resemblance to tell who their kin are and how people respond to cues of kinship in different circumstances. I am also interested in how the visual system learns about faces and what visual adaptation effects can tell us about the face processing system. I have published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals on these topics.

I was recently appointed to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's inaugural Young Academy. I am on the committee and run the website for EHBEA, the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association. I am also a Council Member at Large from the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.

I completed my PhD in 2004 in the Daly-Wilson Lab and in 2006 completed an NSF International Fellowship at the University of St Andrews, working with David Perrett.

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.
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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