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Kristen Knowles successfully defended her PhD thesis. Well done Kristen! Patricia Bestelmeyer and Peter Hancock were her examiners. 2015-16-01 15:10:10 PM


Mary Cowan successfully defended her PhD thesis! Well done Mary! David Perrett and Phyllis Lee were her examiners. 2014-22-10 16:45:58 PM


Tony Little had an article looking at how we judge leaders based on their facial appearance accepted for publication: Little AC. (2014). Facial appearance and leader choice in different contexts: Evidence for task contingent selection based on implicit and learned face-behaviour or face-ability associations. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(5), 865-874. 2014-08-04 14:10:12 PM


We had an article looking at how age influences social learning accepted for publication: Little AC, Caldwell CA, Jones BC, & DeBruine LM. (In Press). Observer age and the social transmission of attractiveness in humans: Younger women are more influenced by the choices of popular others than older women. British Journal of Psychology.. 2014-04-09 14:30:54 PM


Tony Little had a review article entitiled "Facial Attractiveness" accepted for publication: Little AC. (2014). Facial Attractiveness. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews (WIREs): Cognitive Science, 5, 621-634. 2014-04-08 17:25:34 PM


Jack Griffey had his 1st paper published from his PhD work: Griffey JAF & Little AC. (In Press). Similarities in human visual and declared measures of preference for opposite-sex faces. Experimental Psychology. 2013-12-01 2:45:58 PM


We have a new paper on how exposure influences perception of faces and voices: Little AC, Feinberg DR, DeBruine LM, & Jones BC. (2013). Adaptation of faces and voices: uni-modal, cross-modal, and sex-specific effects. Psychological Science 24, 2297-305. 2013-11-28 2:42:44 PM


Mary Cowan had her 2nd paper published from herPhD work: Cowan ML & Little AC . (2013). The attractiveness of humour types in personal advertisements: Affiliative and aggressive humour are differentially preferred in long-term versus short-term partners. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 11(4), 159–170. 2013-10-18 2:50:49 PM


We have a new paper about the influence of hormonal contraception on preferences and partner choice: Little AC, Burriss RP, Petrie M, Jones BC, & Roberts SC. (2013). Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for male facial masculinity and is associated with partner facial masculinity. Psychoneuroendocrinology 38, 1777-1785. 2013-09-02 2:53:56 PM


Our symposium at Behaviour 2013 in Newcastle on sexual selection in humans was well attended 2013-08-29 9:30:04 AM


Tony Little presented at Behaviour 2013 in Newcastle about how exposure to visual cues to pathogens influences preferences 2013-08-29 9:30:04 AM