Recent Publications
Bjornsdottir, R. T., & Beacon, E. (2024). Stereotypes bias social class perception from faces: The roles of race, gender, affect, and attractiveness. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 17470218241230469. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218241230469
Bjornsdottir, R. T., Hensel, L. B., Zhan, J., Garrod, O. G., Schyns, P. G., & Jack, R. E. (2024). Social class perception is driven by stereotype-related facial features. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-46937-001
Lowes, J., Hancock, P.J.B., & Bobak, A. K. (2024). Evidence for different visual processing strategy for non-face stimuli in developmental prosopagnosia. https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr800704
Lowes, J., Hancock, P. J. B., & Bobak, A. K. (2024). A new way of classifying developmental prosopagnosia: Balanced Integration Score. Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 172, 159–184.
Ritchie, K. L., Carragher, D. J., Davis, J. P., Read, K., Jenkins, R. E., Noyes, E., Gray, K. L. H., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2024). Face masks and fake masks: The effect of real and superimposed masks on face matching with super-recognisers, typical observers, and algorithms. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 9(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00532-2
Shiramizu, V. K. M., Dong, J., Leger, K., Lee, A. J., Jones, A. L., Rafiee, Y., Elliott, Z., DeBruine, L. M., & Jones, B. C. (2024). Consensus in social judgments of faces across world regions is driven by effects of distinctiveness on perceptions of prosociality, rather than effects of masculinity. https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr791667
Bartlome, R. I., & Lee, A. J. (2023). Facial Attractiveness, but not Facial Masculinity, is Used as a Cue to Paternal Involvement in Fathers. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 9(2), 182–197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-023-00217-y
Bilgen, E., Zagefka, H., Bjornsdottir, R. T., & Abayhan, Y. (2023). ‘Are they refugees or economic migrants?’ The effect of asylum seekers’ motivation to migrate on intentions to help them. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53(10), 996–1011. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12991
Bobak, A. K., Jones, A. L., Hilker, Z., Mestry, N., Bate, S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2023). Data-driven studies in face identity processing rely on the quality of the tests and data sets. Cortex, 166, 348–364.
Dong, J., Leger, K., Shiramizu, V. K., Marcinkowska, U. M., Lee, A. J., & Jones, B. C. (2023). The importance of face-shape masculinity for perceptions of male dominance depends on study design. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 12620.
De La Mare, J. K., & Lee, A. J. (2023). Assortative preferences for personality and online dating apps: Individuals prefer profiles similar to themselves on agreeableness, openness, and extraversion. Personality and Individual Differences, 208, 112185.
Lee, A. J., Jones, B. C., Zietsch, B. P., Jern, P., Connolly, H., & Marcinkowska, U. M. (2023). No evidence that sociosexual orientation moderates effects of conception probability on women’s preferences for male facial masculinity. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 10245.
Wainwright, H. M., Zhao, A. A., Sidari, M. J., Lee, A. J., Roberts, N., Makras, T., & Zietsch, B. P. (2023). Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour. Evolution and Human Behavior. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513823000831
Zhao, A. A., Harrison, K., Holland, A., Wainwright, H. M., Ceccato, J.-M., Sidari, M. J., Lee, A. J., & Zietsch, B. P. (2023). Objectively measured facial traits predict in-person evaluations of facial attractiveness and prosociality in speed-dating partners. Evolution and Human Behavior. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S109051382300051X
Berger, A., Fry, R., Bobak, A. K., Juliano, A., & DeGutis, J. (2022). Distinct abilities associated with matching same identity faces versus discriminating different faces: Evidence from individual differences in prosopagnosics and controls. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 75(12), 2256–2271. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221076817
Bjornsdottir, R. T., Cheso, D., & Rule, N. O. (2022). Beyond categories: Perceiving sexual attraction from faces. British Journal of Psychology, 113(1), 226–247. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12523
Bjornsdottir, R. T., Hehman, E., Agboh, D., & Rule, N. O. (2022). Parsing the Mechanisms Underlying Ingroup Facial Resemblance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(5), 782–792. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211025206
Bjornsdottir, R. T., Hehman, E., & Human, L. J. (2022). Consensus Enables Accurate Social Judgments. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 13(6), 1010–1021. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506211047095
Carragher, D. J., Towler, A., Mileva, V. R., White, D., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2022). Masked face identification is improved by diagnostic feature training. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00381-x
Erickson, W. B., Brown, C., Portch, E., Lampinen, J. M., Marsh, J. E., Fodarella, C., Petkovic, A., Coultas, C., Newby, A., Date, L., Hancock, P. J. B., & Frowd, C. D. (2022). The impact of weapons and unusual objects on the construction of facial composites. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2079643
Holzleitner, I. J., Driebe, J. C., Arslan, R. C., Hahn, A. C., Lee, A. J., O’Shea, K. J., Gerlach, T. M., Penke, L., Jones, B. C., & DeBruine, L. M. (2022). No increased inbreeding avoidance during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 4, e47.
Shiramizu, V. K. M., Lee, A. J., Altenburg, D., Feinberg, D. R., & Jones, B. C. (2022). The role of valence, dominance, and pitch in perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents’ voices. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 22479.
Somai, R. S., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2022). Exploring perceptual similarity and its relation to image-based spaces: An effect of familiarity. Visual Cognition, 30(7), 443–456. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2022.2089416
Tybur, J. M., Fan, L., Jones, B. C., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., & DeBruine, L. M. (2022). Re-evaluating the relationship between pathogen avoidance and preferences for facial symmetry and sexual dimorphism: A registered report. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(3), 212–223.
Alharbi, S. A. H., Holzleitner, I. J., Saribay, S. A., Jones, B. C., & Lee, A. J. (2021). Does Self-rated Attractiveness Predict Women’s Preferences for Facial Masculinity? Data From an Arab Sample. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 7(2), 105–113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-021-00163-7
Bjornsdottir, R. T., & Rule, N. O. (2021). Perceiving acculturation from neutral and emotional faces. Emotion, 21(4), 720.
Hancock, P. J. B. (2021). Familiar faces as islands of expertise. Cognition, 214, 104765.
Lee, A. J., De La Mare, J. K., Moore, H. R., & Umeh, P. C. (2021). Preference for facial symmetry depends on study design. Symmetry, 13(9), 1637.
Marcinkowska, U. M., Jones, B. C., Cai, H., Contreras-Garduno, J., Onyishi, I. E., Orjiakor, C. T., Prasai, K., Pazhoohi, F., Taniguchi, H., & Lee, A. J. (2021). An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 16911.
McCollam, R., Mullaney, A., & Lee, A. J. (2021). Is the link between endorsement and engagement in sexual coercion associated with life history strategy? Personality and Individual Differences, 180, 110999.
Mileva, V. R., Hancock, P. J. B., & Langton, S. R. H. (2021). Visual search performance in ‘CCTV’ and mobile phone-like video footage. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 63. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00326-w
Van Eijk, L., Zhu, D., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Strike, L. T., Lee, A. J., Hansell, N. K., Thompson, P. M., De Zubicaray, G. I., McMahon, K. L., Wright, M. J., & Zietsch, B. P. (2021). Are Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure Associated With Sex Differences in Behavior? Psychological Science, 32(8), 1183–1197. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797621996664
Carragher, D. J., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2020). Surgical face masks impair human face matching performance for familiar and unfamiliar faces. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(1), 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00258-x
Gregory, S. E. A., Langton, S. R. H., Yoshikawa, S., & Jackson, M. C. (2020). A cross-cultural investigation into the influence of eye gaze on working memory for happy and angry faces. Cognition and Emotion, 34(8), 1561–1572. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2020.1782353
Hancock, P. J. B., Somai, R. S., & Mileva, V. R. (2020). Convolutional neural net face recognition works in non-human-like ways. Royal Society Open Science, 7(10), 200595. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200595
Millen, A. E., Hope, L., & Hillstrom, A. P. (2020). Eye spy a liar: Assessing the utility of eye fixations and confidence judgments for detecting concealed recognition of faces, scenes and objects. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5(1), 38. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00227-4
Bobak, A. K., Mileva, V. R., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2019). A grey area: How does image hue affect unfamiliar face matching? Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(1), 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0174-3
Millen, A. E., & Hancock, P. J. B. (2019). Eye see through you! Eye tracking unmasks concealed face recognition despite countermeasures. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0169-0
Ramon, M., Bobak, A. K., & White, D. (2019). Towards a ‘manifesto’ for super‐recognizer research. British Journal of Psychology, 110(3), 495–498. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12411