Scientific Journal Articles

In Press
(915 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones, FG Smith & AC Little (in press). Are attractive men's faces masculine or feminine? The importance of controlling confounds in face stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. [abstract»»]
LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, BC Jones & AC Little (in press). Opposite effects of visual versus imagined presentation of faces on subsequent sex perception. Visual Cognition. [abstract»»]
LM DeBruine, BC Jones, JR Crawford, LLM Welling & AC Little (in press). The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: Cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. [abstract»»]
(284 kB) AN Glassenberg, DR Feinberg, BC Jones, AC Little & LM DeBruine (in press). Sex-Dimorphic Face Shape Preference in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women. Archives of Sexual Behavior. [abstract»»]
BC Jones, DR Feinberg, PEG Bestelmeyer, LM DeBruine & AC Little (in press). Adaptation to different mouth shapes influences visual perception of ambiguous lip speech. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. [abstract»»]
(268 kB) BC Jones, LG Boothroyd, DR Feinberg & LM DeBruine (in press). Age at menarche predicts individual differences in women’s preferences for masculinized male voices in adulthood. Personality and Individual Differences. [abstract»»]
(371 kB) BC Jones, JC Main, LM DeBruine, AC Little & LLM Welling (in press). Reading the look of love: Sexually dimorphic cues in opposite-sex faces influence gaze-categorization. Psychological Science. [abstract»»]
(334 kB) AC Little, TK Saxton, SC Roberts, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, J Vukovic, DI Perrett, DR Feinberg & T Chenore (in press). Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are highest during reproductive age-range and lower around puberty and post-menopause. Psychoneuroendocrinology. [abstract»»]
D Martin, SA Cairns, E Orme, LM DeBruine, BC Jones & CN Macrae (in press). Form-Specific Repetition Priming for Unfamiliar Faces. Experimental Psychology. [abstract»»]
J Vukovic, BC Jones, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, LLM Welling & AC Little (in press). Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for masculine pitch in men's voices. British Journal of Psychology. [abstract»»]
2010
(272 kB) PEG Bestelmeyer, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little & LLM Welling (2010). Face aftereffects demonstrate interdependent processing of expressions and the invariant characteristics of sex and race. Visual Cognition, 18(2): 255-274. [abstract»»]
(227 kB) CA Conway, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2010). Sexual dimorphism of male face shape, partnership status and the temporal context of relationship sought modulate women’s preferences for direct gaze. British Journal of Psychology, 101(1): 109-121. [abstract»»]
(333 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones, JM Tybur, D Lieberman & V Griskevicius (2010). Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not moral or sexual disgust. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31(1): 69-74. [abstract»»]
(187 kB) BC Jones, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, AC Little & J Vukovic (2010). A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch. Animal Behaviour, 79(1): 57-62. [abstract»»]
(329 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, JC Main, AC Little, LLM Welling, DR Feinberg & BP Tiddeman (2010). Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 277: 617-624. [abstract»»]
(328 kB) JC Main, LM DeBruine, AC Little & BC Jones (2010). Interactions among the effects of head orientation, emotional expression and physical attractiveness on face preferences. Perception, 39(1): 62-71. [abstract»»]
2009
LM DeBruine (2009). Beyond “just-so stories”: How evolutionary theories led to predictions that non-evolution-minded researchers would never dream of. The Psychologist, 22(11): 930-931. [abstract»»]
(499 kB) LM DeBruine, FG Smith, BC Jones, SC Roberts, M Petrie & TD Spector (2009). Kin recognition signals in adult faces. Vision Research, 49(1): 38-43. [abstract»»]
(340 kB) JC Main, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2009). Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving the dominance of others. Perception, 38(9): 1275-1283. [abstract»»]
(266 kB) TK Saxton, AC Little, LM DeBruine, BC Jones & SC Roberts (2009). Adolescents' preferences for sexual dimorphism are influenced by relative exposure to male and female faces. Personality and Individual Differences, 47: 864-868. [abstract»»]
(310 kB) TK Saxton, LM DeBruine, BC Jones, AC Little & SC Roberts (2009). Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(6): 398-408. [abstract»»]
(202 kB) FG Smith, LM DeBruine, BC Jones, DB Krupp, LLM Welling & CA Conway (2009). Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30(6): 393-397. [abstract»»]
FG Smith, BC Jones, AC Little, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, J Vukovic & CA Conway (2009). Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 7(3): 195-210. [abstract»»]
(231 kB) FG Smith, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2009). Interactions between masculinity-femininity and apparent health in face preferences. Behavioral Ecology, 20(2): 441-445. [abstract»»]
(213 kB) FG Smith, BC Jones, LLM Welling, AC Little, J Vukovic, JC Main & LM DeBruine (2009). Waist-hip ratio, but not BMI, influences women’s preferences for masculine male faces. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(5): 476-480. [abstract»»]
(123 kB) J Vukovic, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, DR Feinberg & LLM Welling (2009). Circum-menopausal changes in women's face preferences. Biology Letters, 5(1): 62-64. [abstract»»]
(135 kB) LLM Welling, LM DeBruine, AC Little & BC Jones (2009). Extraversion predicts individual differences in women's face preferences. Personality and Individual Differences, 47(8): 996-998. [abstract»»]
(385 kB) LLM Welling, BC Jones, PEG Bestelmeyer, LM DeBruine, AC Little & CA Conway (2009). View-contingent aftereffects suggest joint coding of face shape and view. Perception, 38: 133-141. [abstract»»]
2008
(873 kB) PEG Bestelmeyer, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, DI Perrett, A Schneider, LLM Welling & CA Conway (2008). Sex-contingent face aftereffects depend on perceptual category rather than structural encoding. Cognition, 107(1): 353-365. [abstract»»]
(209 kB) LG Boothroyd, BC Jones, DM Burt, LM DeBruine & DI Perrett (2008). Facial correlates of sociosexuality. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29(3): 211-218. [abstract»»]
(195 kB) CA Conway, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2008). Evidence for adaptive design in human gaze preference. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 275(1630): 63-69. [abstract»»]
(230 kB) CA Conway, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, J Hay, LLM Welling, DI Perrett & DR Feinberg (2008). Integrating physical and social cues when forming face preferences: Differences among low and high anxiety individuals. Social Neuroscience, 3(1): 89-95. [abstract»»]
(903 kB) CA Conway, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little & A Sahraie (2008). Transient pupil constrictions to faces are sensitive to orientation and species. Journal of Vision, 8(3): 17. [abstract»»]
(381 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones, AC Little & DI Perrett (2008). Social Perception of Facial Resemblance in Humans. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(1): 64-77. [abstract»»]
(407 kB) DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, BC Jones & AC Little (2008). Correlated preferences for men’s facial and vocal masculinity. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29(4): 233-241. [abstract»»]
(240 kB) DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, BC Jones & DI Perrett (2008). The role of femininity and averageness of voice pitch in aesthetic judgments of women's voices. Perception, 37(4): 615-623. [abstract»»]
(220 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2008). Adaptation reinforces preferences for correlates of attractive facial cues. Visual Cognition, 16(7): 849-858. [abstract»»]
(208 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, DI Perrett, AC Little, DR Feinberg & MJ Law Smith (2008). Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(1): 78-84. [abstract»»]
(95 kB) BC Jones, DR Feinberg, LM DeBruine, AC Little & J Vukovic (2008). Integrating cues of social interest and voice pitch in men’s preferences for women’s voices. Biology Letters, 4(2): 192-194. [abstract»»]
(284 kB) DB Krupp, LM DeBruine & P Barclay (2008). A cue of kinship promotes cooperation for the public good. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29(1): 49-55. [abstract»»]
(175 kB) AC Little, BC Jones & LM DeBruine (2008). Preferences for variation in masculinity in real male faces change across the menstrual cycle. Personality and Individual Differences, 45(6): 478-482. [abstract»»]
(220 kB) AC Little, RP Burriss, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & CC Caldwell (2008). Social influence in human face preference: men and women are influenced for long-term but not short-term attractiveness decisions. Evolution and Human Behavior, 29(2): 140-146. [abstract»»]
(236 kB) AC Little, BC Jones, LM DeBruine & DR Feinberg (2008). Symmetry and sexual-dimorphism in human faces: Interrelated preferences suggest both signal quality. Behavioral Ecology, 19(4): 902-908. [abstract»»]
(248 kB) J Vukovic, DR Feinberg, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, AC Little & FG Smith (2008). Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women's preferences for masculine men's voices. Personality and Individual Differences, 45(6): 451-456. [abstract»»]
(267 kB) LLM Welling, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little & FG Smith (2008). Exposure to sexually attractive men decreases women’s preferences for feminine faces. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 6(3): 219-230. [abstract»»]
(232 kB) LLM Welling, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, FG Smith, DR Feinberg, AC Little & EAS Al-Dujaili (2008). Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women’s faces when their testosterone levels are high. Hormones and Behavior, 54(5): 703-708. [abstract»»]
(260 kB) LLM Welling, BC Jones & LM DeBruine (2008). Sex drive is positively associated with women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in men's and women's faces. Personality and Individual Differences, 44(1): 161-170. [abstract»»]
2007
(364 kB) CA Conway, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, LLM Welling, MJ Law Smith, DI Perrett, M Sharp & EAS Al-Dujaili (2007). Salience of emotional displays of danger and contagion in faces is enhanced when progesterone levels are raised. Hormones and Behavior, 51(2): 202-206. [abstract»»]
(741 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones, L Unger, AC Little & DR Feinberg (2007). Dissociating averageness and attractiveness: Attractive faces are not always average. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(6): 1420-1430. [abstract»»]
(573 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, CA Conway, LLM Welling & FG Smith (2007). Sensation seeking and men's face preferences. Evolution and Human Behavior, 28(6): 439-446. [abstract»»]
(215 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, RP Burriss & DR Feinberg (2007). Social transmission of face preferences among humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 274(1611): 899-903. [abstract»»]
(170 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine & AC Little (2007). The role of symmetry in attraction to average faces. Perception & Psychophysics, 69(8): 1273-1277. [abstract»»]
(73 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little & DR Feinberg (2007). The valence of experience with faces influences generalized preferences. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5: 119-129. [abstract»»]
(368 kB) AC Little, LM DeBruine, BC Jones & C Waitt (2007). Category contingent aftereffects for faces of different races, ages and species. Cognition, 106(3): 1537-1547. [abstract»»]
(85 kB) LLM Welling, CA Conway, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2007). Perceived vulnerability to disease predicts variation in preferences for apparent health in faces. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, 5: 131-139. [abstract»»]
(348 kB) LLM Welling, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, CA Conway, MJ Law Smith, AC Little, DR Feinberg, M Sharp & EAS Al-Dujaili (2007). Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces. Hormones and Behavior, 52(2): 156-161. [abstract»»]
2006
(124 kB) G Buckingham, LM DeBruine, AC Little, LLM Welling, CA Conway, BP Tiddeman & BC Jones (2006). Visual adaptation to masculine and feminine faces influences generalized preferences and perceptions of trustworthiness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 27(5): 381-389. [abstract»»]
(242 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones, AC Little, LG Boothroyd, DI Perrett, IS Penton-Voak, PA Cooper, L Penke, DR Feinberg & BP Tiddeman (2006). Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinity. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 273: 1355-1360. [abstract»»]
(179 kB) DR Feinberg, BC Jones, MJ Law Smith, FR Moore, LM DeBruine, RE Cornwell, SG Hillier & DI Perrett (2006). Menstrual cycle, trait estrogen level and masculinity preferences in the human voice. Hormones and Behavior, 49: 215-222. [abstract»»]
(651 kB) BC Jones, LM DeBruine, AC Little, CA Conway & DR Feinberg (2006). Integrating gaze direction and expression in preferences for attractive faces. Psychological Science, 17(7): 588-591. [abstract»»]
2005
(238 kB) LM DeBruine (2005). Trustworthy but not lust-worthy: Context-specific effects of facial resemblance. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 272: 919-922. [abstract»»]
(176 kB) LM DeBruine, BC Jones & DI Perrett (2005). Women's attractiveness judgments of self-resembling faces change across the menstrual cycle. Hormones and Behavior, 47(4): 379-383. [abstract»»]
(162 kB) DR Feinberg, BC Jones, LM DeBruine, FR Moore, MJ Law Smith, RE Cornwell, BP Tiddeman, LG Boothroyd & DI Perrett (2005). The voice and face of woman: One ornament that signals quality? Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(5): 398-408. [abstract»»]
(197 kB) BC Jones, AC Little, LG Boothroyd, LM DeBruine, DR Feinberg, MJ Law Smith, RE Cornwell, FR Moore & DI Perrett (2005). Commitment to relationships and preferences for femininity and apparent health in faces are strongest on days of the menstrual cycle when progesterone level is high. Hormones and Behavior, 48(3): 283-290. [abstract»»]
(92 kB) BC Jones, AC Little, LG Boothroyd, DR Feinberg, RE Cornwell, LM DeBruine, SC Roberts, IS Penton-Voak, MJ Law Smith, FR Moore, HP Davis & DI Perrett (2005). Women's physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(6): 451-457. [abstract»»]
(239 kB) AC Little, LM DeBruine & BC Jones (2005). Sex-contingent face aftereffects suggest distinct neural populations code male and female faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 272(1578): 2283-2287. [abstract»»]
2004
(207 kB) LM DeBruine (2004). Facial resemblance increases the attractiveness of same-sex faces more than other-sex faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 271(1552): 2085-2090. [abstract»»]
(654 kB) LM DeBruine (2004). Resemblance to self increases the appeal of child faces to both men and women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 25: 142-154. [abstract»»]
2003
(590 kB) PJ Hancock & LM DeBruine (2003). What's a face worth: Noneconomic factors in game playing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 26(2): 162-163. [abstract»»]
2002
(344 kB) LM DeBruine (2002). Facial resemblance enhances trust. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269(1498): 1307-1312. [abstract»»]

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