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List of works by Lisa M. DeBruine

A cue of kinship promotes cooperation for the public good

A data-driven study of Chinese participants' social judgments of Chinese faces

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch

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A longitudinal analysis of women's salivary testosterone and intrasexual competitiveness

scientific article published on December 2015

A longitudinal study of adolescents’ judgments of the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness and sexual dimorphism

A sex difference in the context-sensitivity of dominance perceptions

Accuracy in discrimination of self-reported cooperators using static facial information

Adaptation reinforces preferences for correlates of attractive facial cues

Adaptation to Antifaces and the Perception of Correct Famous Identity in an Average Face ⬇️

scientific article published on February 17, 2012

Adaptation to different mouth shapes influences visual perception of ambiguous lip speech.

scientific article published in August 2010

Adaptation to faces and voices: unimodal, cross-modal, and sex-specific effects

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Adolescents’ preferences for sexual dimorphism are influenced by relative exposure to male and female faces

Age at menarche predicts individual differences in women’s preferences for masculinized male voices in adulthood

scientific article published in May 2010

Age, puberty and attractiveness judgments in adolescents

Allocentric kin recognition is not affected by facial inversion

scientific article

Apparent health encourages reciprocity

article

Are Men's Perceptions of Sexually Dimorphic Vocal Characteristics Related to Their Testosterone Levels?

scientific article

Are affective factors related to individual differences in facial expression recognition?

scientific article published on 09 September 2020

Are attractive men's faces masculine or feminine? The importance of controlling confounds in face stimuli

scientific article published in June 2010

Are physiological and behavioral immune responses negatively correlated? Evidence from hormone-linked differences in men's face preferences.

scientific article published on 31 October 2016

Assessing the evidentiary value of secondary data analyses: A commentary on Gangestad, Dinh, Grebe, Del Giudice, and Thompson (2019)

scientific article published on 18 August 2019

Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game

article by Finlay G. Smith et al published November 2009 in Evolution and Human Behavior

Auditory adaptation in vocal affect perception

scientific article published in November 2010

Body odor quality predicts behavioral attractiveness in humans.

scientific article published in December 2011

Category contingent aftereffects for faces of different races, ages and species

scientific article published on 17 August 2007

Category-contingent face adaptation for novel colour categories: Contingent effects are seen only after social or meaningful labelling

scientific article

Changes in salivary estradiol predict changes in women's preferences for vocal masculinity

scientific article published on 19 July 2014

Chinese and UK participants' preferences for physical attractiveness and social status in potential mates

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Circum-menopausal changes in women's preferences for sexually dimorphic shape cues in peer-aged faces.

scientific article published on 29 April 2011

Circum-menopausal effects on women's judgements of facial attractiveness

scientific article published on February 2009

Comparing theory-driven and data-driven attractiveness models using images of real women's faces

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Context-Specific Responses to Self-Resembling Faces

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Contribution of shape and surface reflectance information to kinship detection in 3D face images

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Cooperation and Conflict in the Light of Kin Recognition Systems

Correlated Male Preferences for Femininity in Female Faces and Voices ⬇️

scientific article published on August 9, 2010

Correlated preferences for facial masculinity and ideal or actual partner's masculinity

scientific article

Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity

Corrigendum to “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” [Horm. Behav. 48 (2005) 283–290]

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Cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for cues to sex- and stress-hormones in the male face

scientific article

Cues to the sex ratio of the local population influence women’s preferences for facial symmetry

Discrimination of Attractiveness and Health in Men’s Faces: the Impact of Color Cues and Variation in Relation to Sex and Age of Rater

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Dissociating averageness and attractiveness: attractive faces are not always average

scientific article

Do assortative preferences contribute to assortative mating for adiposity?

scientific article

Does Adult Sex Ratio Predict Regional Variation in Facial Dominance Perceptions? Evidence From an Analysis of U.S. States

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Does the Interaction Between Cortisol and Testosterone Predict Men’s Facial Attractiveness?

scientific article published on 30 March 2017

Does the interaction between partnership status and average progesterone level predict women's preferences for facial masculinity?

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Does the interaction between partnership status and average progesterone level reliably predict women's preferences for facial masculinity?

Does the strength of women's attraction to male vocal masculinity track changes in steroid hormones?

article published in 2018

Does women's interpersonal anxiety track changes in steroid hormone levels?

Effects of Partner Beauty on Opposite-Sex Attractiveness Judgments ⬇️

scientific article published on December 1, 2011

Effects of Sexually Dimorphic Shape Cues on Neurophysiological Correlates of Women’s Face Processing

Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences.

scientific article published on February 2008

Environment contingent preferences: Exposure to visual cues of direct male–male competition and wealth increase women's preferences for masculinity in male faces

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Evidence Head Tilt Has Dissociable Effects on Dominance and Trustworthiness Judgments, But Does Not Have Category-Contingent Effects on Hypothetical Leadership Judgments

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Evidence for Menstrual Cycle Shifts in Women's Preferences for Masculinity: A Response to Harris (in Press) “Menstrual Cycle and Facial Preferences Reconsidered”

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Evidence for adaptive design in human gaze preference

scientific article published in January 2008

Evidence for menstrual cycle shifts in women's preferences for masculinity: a response to Harris (in press) “Menstrual cycle and facial preferences reconsidered”.

scientific article

Evidence of adaptation for mate choice within women's memory

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Evidence versus speculation on the validity of methods for measuring masculinity preferences: comment on Scott et al

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Experimental evidence that women speak in a higher voice pitch to men they find attractive

Exposure to sexually attractive men decreases women's preferences for feminine faces

Exposure to visual cues of pathogen contagion changes preferences for masculinity and symmetry in opposite-sex faces ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2010

Extending parasite-stress theory to variation in human mate preferences ⬇️

scientific article published on January 31, 2012

Extraversion predicts individual differences in women’s face preferences

Face aftereffects suggest interdependent processing of expression and sex and of expression and race

Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence

Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research ⬇️

scientific article published on June 12, 2011

Facial coloration tracks changes in women's estradiol

scientific article

Facial correlates of sociosexuality

scientific article published in May 2008

Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

Facial cues to perceived height influence leadership choices in simulated war and peace contexts

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Facial masculinity is a cue to women’s dominance

Facial masculinity is only weakly correlated with handgrip strength in young adult women

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

Facial resemblance enhances trust

scientific article published in July 2002

Facial resemblance increases the attractiveness of same-sex faces more than other-sex faces

scientific article published in 2004

Faking it: deliberately altered voice pitch and vocal attractiveness

article by Paul J. Fraccaro et al published January 2013 in Animal Behaviour

Form-specific repetition priming for unfamiliar faces

scientific article published in January 2010

Further Evidence That Facial Cues of Dominance Modulate Gaze Cuing in Human Observers

Further evidence for regional variation in women's masculinity preferences.

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

General sexual desire, but not desire for uncommitted sexual relationships, tracks changes in women's hormonal status

General sexual desire, but not desire for uncommitted sexual relationships, tracks changes in women's hormonal status

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape

article by F. G. Smith et al published September 2009 in Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust: Testing the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis

Illness in childhood predicts face preferences in adulthood

Impressions of dominance are made relative to others in the visual environment.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Improving Transparency, Falsifiability, and Rigor by Making Hypothesis Tests Machine-Readable

scientific article published on 28 April 2021

Individual differences in dominance perception: Dominant men are less sensitive to facial cues of male dominance

article by Christopher D. Watkins et al published December 2010 in Personality and Individual Differences

Individual differences in empathizing and systemizing predict variation in face preferences

Individual differences in pathogen disgust predict men’s, but not women’s, preferences for facial cues of weight

Individual differences in women's perceptions of other women's dominance

Individual-specific mortality is associated with how individuals evaluate future discounting decisions

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Integrating Gaze Direction and Expression in Preferences for Attractive Faces

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Integrating cues of social interest and voice pitch in men's preferences for women's voices

scientific article

Integrating fundamental and formant frequencies in women’s preferences for men’s voices

article published in 2011

Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving the dominance of others

scientific article published in January 2009

Integrating physical and social cues when forming face preferences: differences among low and high-anxiety individuals.

scientific article published in January 2008

Integrating shape cues of adiposity and color information when judging facial health and attractiveness

scientific article published on January 2014

Integrating social knowledge and physical cues when judging the attractiveness of potential mates

Interactions among the effects of head orientation, emotional expression, and physical attractiveness on face preferences

scientific article published in January 2010

Interactions between masculinity–femininity and apparent health in face preferences

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Interrelationships Among Men's Threat Potential, Facial Dominance, and Vocal Dominance.

scientific article published in January 2017

Justify your alpha ⬇️

Kin recognition signals in adult faces.

scientific article published on 7 November 2008

Kin recognition: evidence that humans can perceive both positive and negative relatedness.

scientific article

Like father, like self: emotional closeness to father predicts women's preferences for self-resemblance in opposite-sex faces

Looking like a leader-facial shape predicts perceived height and leadership ability

scientific article

Mate choice, mate preference, and biological markets: the relationship between partner choice and health preference is modulated by women's own attractiveness

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Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women's faces when their testosterone levels are high

scientific article published on 7 August 2008

Men's, but not women's, sociosexual orientation predicts couples' perceptions of sexually dimorphic cues in own-sex faces

scientific article

Menstrual cycle, trait estrogen level, and masculinity preferences in the human voice

scientific article

No Compelling Evidence that Preferences for Facial Masculinity Track Changes in Women's Hormonal Status

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No clear evidence for correlations between handgrip strength and sexually dimorphic acoustic properties of voices

No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone

No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women's hormonal status

No evidence for associations between men's salivary testosterone and responses on the Intrasexual Competitiveness Scale

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No evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is associated with women's sexual desire

article by Weiqing Zhang et al published 2018 in PLOS ONE

No evidence that inbreeding avoidance is up-regulated during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle

No evidence that partnered and unpartnered gay men differ in their preferences for male facial masculinity

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

No evidence that women using oral contraceptives have weaker preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Observer age and the social transmission of attractiveness in humans: Younger women are more influenced by the choices of popular others than older women

scientific article published on 15 October 2014

Opposite effects of visual versus imagined presentation of faces on subsequent sex perception

Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces.

scientific article

Partner choice, relationship satisfaction, and oral contraception: the congruency hypothesis.

scientific article

Pathogen disgust predicts women’s preferences for masculinity in men’s voices, faces, and bodies

scientific article published in 2012

Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women's health

scientific article

Perceiving infant faces

Perceptions of partner femininity predict individual differences in men's sensitivity to facial cues of male dominance

Positive Sexual Imprinting For Human Eye Color

scholarly article published 8 May 2017

Predicting the reward value of faces and bodies from social perception.

scientific article published on 19 September 2017

Preferences for variation in masculinity in real male faces change across the menstrual cycle: Women prefer more masculine faces when they are more fertile

Preregistered Direct Replication of "Sick Body, Vigilant Mind: The Biological Immune System Activates the Behavioral Immune System"

scientific article published on 20 October 2020

Priming concerns about pathogen threat versus resource scarcity: dissociable effects on women’s perceptions of men’s attractiveness and dominance

scientific article published in 2012

Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project

scientific article published in March 2021

Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings from the Loss-of-Confidence Project

Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings from the Loss-of-Confidence Project

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces.

scientific article published on 24 April 2007

Reading the look of love. Sexually dimorphic cues in opposite-sex faces influence gaze categorization

scientific article published on 5 May 2010

Relationship satisfaction and outcome in women who meet their partner while using oral contraception

scientific article published on 12 October 2011

Reported maternal tendencies predict the reward value of infant facial cuteness, but not cuteness detection

scientific article

Reported sexual desire predicts men's preferences for sexually dimorphic cues in women's faces

scientific article published on 7 January 2011

Resemblance to self increases the appeal of child faces to both men and women

article by Lisa M. DeBruine et al published May 2004 in Evolution and Human Behavior

Salience of emotional displays of danger and contagion in faces is enhanced when progesterone levels are raised

scientific article published on 5 December 2006

Salivary cortisol and pathogen disgust predict men's preferences for feminine shape cues in women's faces

scientific article published on 24 November 2012

Scarcity of female mates predicts regional variation in men's and women's sociosexual orientation across US states

Self-rated attractiveness predicts individual differences in women’s preferences for masculine men’s voices

Self-rated attractiveness predicts preferences for opposite-sex faces, while self-rated sex-typicality predicts preferences for same-sex faces

Sensation seeking and men's face preferences

Sex Categorization of Faces: The Effects of Age and Experience

Sex Differences in Attraction to Familiar and Unfamiliar Opposite-Sex Faces: Men Prefer Novelty and Women Prefer Familiarity ⬇️

scientific article published on June 6, 2013

Sex drive is positively associated with women’s preferences for sexual dimorphism in men’s and women’s faces

Sex ratio influences the motivational salience of facial attractiveness

scientific article

Sex-Specificity in the Reward Value of Facial Attractiveness

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Sex-contingent face after-effects suggest distinct neural populations code male and female faces

scientific article published in November 2005

Sex-contingent face aftereffects depend on perceptual category rather than structural encoding.

scientific article published on 17 September 2007

Sex-dimorphic face shape preference in heterosexual and homosexual men and women

scientific article

Sexual Conflict and the Ovulatory Cycle

Sexual dimorphism of male face shape, partnership status and the temporal context of relationship sought modulate women's preferences for direct gaze

scientific article published on 20 May 2009

Sexual selection on human faces and voices

scientific article

Shifts in Women’s Mate Preferences Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Critique of Harris (2011) and Harris (2012)

Social influence in human face preference: men and women are influenced more for long-term than short-term attractiveness decisions

Social learning and human mate preferences: a potential mechanism for generating and maintaining between-population diversity in attraction ⬇️

scientific article published on February 12, 2011

Social perception of facial resemblance in humans

scientific article published on February 2008

Social support influences preferences for feminine facial cues in potential social partners

scientific article published in January 2012

Social transmission of face preferences among humans

scientific article published in March 2007

Sociosexuality predicts women's preferences for symmetry in men's faces

scientific article published in September 2011

Symmetry and sexual dimorphism in human faces: interrelated preferences suggest both signal quality

scientific article published in 2008

Taller men are less sensitive to cues of dominance in other men

article by C. D. Watkins et al published 27 June 2010 in Behavioral Ecology

Testing the Utility of a Data-Driven Approach for Assessing BMI from Face Images

scientific article

The Motivational Salience of Faces Is Related to Both Their Valence and Dominance

scientific article

The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces.

scientific article

The many faces of research on face perception ⬇️

scientific article published on June 12, 2011

The perception of attractiveness and trustworthiness in male faces affects hypothetical voting decisions differently in wartime and peacetime scenarios

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

The relative contributions of facial shape and surface information to perceptions of attractiveness and dominance

scientific article

The reward value of infant facial cuteness tracks within-subject changes in women's salivary testosterone

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

The role of femininity and averageness of voice pitch in aesthetic judgments of women's voices.

scientific article

The role of symmetry in attraction to average faces

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

The roles of sociosexual orientation and relationship status in women’s face preferences

The valence of experiences with faces influences generalized preferences

The voice and face of woman: One ornament that signals quality?

scientific article published in September 2005

To Which World Regions Does the Valence-Dominance Model of Social Perception Apply?

To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Transient pupil constrictions to faces are sensitive to orientation and species

scientific article published on 24 March 2008

Trustworthy but not lust-worthy: context-specific effects of facial resemblance

scientific article

Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy

scientific article published on 09 October 2020

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

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

View-contingent aftereffects suggest joint coding of face shape and view

scientific article published in January 2009

Visual adaptation to masculine and feminine faces influences generalized preferences and perceptions of trustworthiness

Vocal indicators of body size in men and women: a meta-analysis

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Voice parameters predict sex-specific body morphology in men and women

Voice pitch preferences of adolescents: Do changes across time indicate a shift towards potentially adaptive adult-like preferences?

Waist–hip ratio predicts women’s preferences for masculine male faces, but not perceptions of men’s trustworthiness

article published in 2009

What's a face worth: Noneconomic factors in game playing

article published in 2003

Women's Preference for Attractive Makeup Tracks Changes in Their Salivary Testosterone

scientific article

Women's attractiveness judgments of self-resembling faces change across the menstrual cycle.

scientific article

Women's facial attractiveness is related to their body mass index but not their salivary cortisol

scientific article published on 26 September 2015

Women's hormone levels modulate the motivational salience of facial attractiveness and sexual dimorphism

scientific article

Women's physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces

scientific article published in November 2005

Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are highest during reproductive age range and lower around puberty and post-menopause

scientific article

Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by pathogen disgust, but not by moral or sexual disgust

Women's voice pitch is negatively correlated with health risk factors

article

Women’s own voice pitch predicts their preferences for masculinity in men’s voices

scientific article published in 2010

Women’s self-perceived health and attractiveness predict their male vocal masculinity preferences in different directions across short- and long-term relationship contexts

scientific article published in 2011

‘Eavesdropping’ and perceived male dominance rank in humans

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