List of works by Anthony C. Little

2D:4D and sexually dimorphic facial characteristics

scientific article

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

article

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

Accuracy in assessment of self-reported stress and a measure of health from static facial information

article

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

Adaptation may cause some of the face caricature effect

scientific article

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 17 February 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

An evolutionary approach to accuracy in social perception.

scientific article published in January 2017

An explanation for enhanced perceptions of attractiveness after alcohol consumption.

scientific article published on 31 May 2010

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

scientific article published in June 2010

Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and voice attractiveness

scientific article published in March 2017

Assortative mating for perceived facial personality traits

Attraction independent of detection suggests special mechanisms for symmetry preferences in human face perception.

scientific article published in December 2006

Average ovarian hormone levels, rather than daily values and their fluctuations, are related to facial preferences among women

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

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

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

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

scientific article published in September 2005

Concordant preferences for opposite-sex signals? Human pheromones and facial characteristics

scientific article published on 22 March 2004

Correlated male preferences for femininity in female faces and voices.

scientific article published on 9 August 2010

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

scientific article

Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity

Costs of reproduction are reflected in women's faces: Post-menopausal women with fewer children are perceived as more attractive, healthier and younger than women with more children

scientific article published on 13 November 2017

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

article

Dissociating averageness and attractiveness: attractive faces are not always average.

scientific article

Do assortative preferences contribute to assortative mating for adiposity?

scientific article

Domain Specificity in Human Symmetry Preferences: Symmetry is Most Pleasant When Looking at Human Faces

article published in 2014

Ecological Validity in the Study of Human Pheromones

Effect of Partnership Status on Preferences for Facial Self-Resemblance

scientific article published on 14 June 2016

Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences.

scientific article published on February 2008

Effects of partner beauty on opposite-sex attractiveness judgments

scientific article published in December 2011

Effects of partner conception risk phase on male perception of dominance in faces

Emotions in context: Anger causes ethnic bias but not gender bias in men but not women

article

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

article

Evidence against perceptual bias views for symmetry preferences in human faces.

scientific article published in September 2003

Evidence for adaptive design in human gaze preference.

scientific article published in January 2008

Evidence from rhesus macaques suggests that male coloration plays a role in female primate mate choice

scientific article published on 01 November 2003

Evidence that androstadienone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women's attributions of men's attractiveness.

scientific article

Evolutionary explanations for financial and prosocial biases: Beyond mating motivation.

scientific article published in January 2017

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 31 January 2012

Extraversion predicts individual differences in women’s face preferences

FACIAL ASYMMETRY IS NEGATIVELY RELATED TO CONDITION IN FEMALE MACAQUE MONKEYS.

scientific article published on September 2012

Face adaptation in an isolated population of African hunter-gatherers: Exposure influences perception of other-ethnicity faces more than own-ethnicity faces

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence

Facial appearance affects voting decisions

Facial attractiveness

scientific article published on 12 September 2014

Facial attractiveness judgements reflect learning of parental age characteristics.

scientific article published in May 2002

Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research

scientific article

Facial averageness and attractiveness in an isolated population of hunter-gatherers

scientific article published on January 2007

Facial coloration tracks changes in women's estradiol

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

Facial masculinity is related to perceived age but not perceived health

scientific article published in September 2005

Facial scarring enhances men’s attractiveness for short-term relationships

Female Preferences for Male Vocal and Facial Masculinity in Videos

Female condition influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces of male humans (Homo sapiens)

scientific article published on 01 September 2003

Female facial attractiveness increases during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle

scientific article

Females Pay Attention to Female Secondary Sexual Color: An Experimental Study in Macaca mulatta

article by Melissa S. Gerald et al published 25 January 2007 in International Journal of Primatology

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

Further evidence for links between facial width-to-height ratio and fighting success: Commentary on Zilioli et al. (2014).

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 8 December 2010

Good genes, complementary genes and human mate preferences

article

Good genes, complementary genes and human mate preferences.

scientific article published on 13 July 2007

Heterogeneity in the Sexual Orientations of Men Who Have Sex with Fa'afafine in Samoa

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Heterosexual romantic couples mate assortatively for facial symmetry, but not masculinity.

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Hormonal contraceptive use and mate retention behavior in women and their male partners.

scientific article

Hormonal effects on women's facial masculinity preferences: the influence of pregnancy, post-partum, and hormonal contraceptive use.

scientific article published on 25 November 2014

Human perception of fighting ability: facial cues predict winners and losers in mixed martial arts fights

scientific article published in 2015

Human preference for masculinity differs according to context in faces, bodies, voices, and smell

scientific article published in 2011

Human preferences for facial masculinity change with relationship type and environmental harshness

article by Anthony C. Little et al published 19 December 2006 in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Infant's visual preferences for facial traits associated with adult attractiveness judgements: data from eye-tracking

scientific article

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 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 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

article

It’s the way he tells them (and who is listening): men’s dominance is positively correlated with their preference for jokes told by dominant-sounding men

article published in 2016

MHC-assortative facial preferences in humans

scientific article

MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness

article

Manipulation of body odour alters men's self-confidence and judgements of their visual attractiveness by women.

scientific article published in February 2009

Mate retention Strategies, Self-Esteem, Mate Value and Facial Attractiveness Disparity in Brazil and in the UK

article

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 strategic preferences for femininity in female faces.

scientific article published on 22 June 2013

Menstrual cycle, pregnancy and oral contraceptive use alter attraction to apparent health in faces

scientific article published on 22 February 2005

Mixed-ethnicity face shape and attractiveness in humans

scientific article published in January 2012

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

article

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

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

Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for male facial masculinity and is associated with partner facial masculinity.

scientific article published on 23 March 2013

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

scientific article

Partnership status and the temporal context of relationships influence human female preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape.

scientific article published in June 2002

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

scientific article published in 2012

Perceived aggressiveness predicts fighting performance in mixed-martial-arts fighters.

scientific article published in July 2013

Perceived differences in social status between speaker and listener affect the speaker's vocal characteristics.

scientific article

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

Personality Judgments from Natural and Composite Facial Images: More Evidence For A “Kernel Of Truth” In Social Perception

Positive Sexual Imprinting For Human Eye Color

scholarly article published 8 May 2017

Preferences for Symmetry in Conspecific Facial Shape Among Macaca mulatta

Preferences for masculinity in male bodies change across the menstrual cycle

scientific article published on 24 March 2007

Preferences for symmetry in faces change across the menstrual cycle

scientific article published on 22 August 2007

Preferences for symmetry in human faces in two cultures: data from the UK and the Hadza, an isolated group of hunter-gatherers.

scientific article published in December 2007

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

Pregnancy coloration in macaques may act as a warning signal to reduce antagonism by conspecifics

scientific article published on 8 August 2008

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

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

scientific article published on 7 January 2011

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

scientific article published on 24 November 2012

Selective attention toward female secondary sexual color in male rhesus macaques

scientific article

Sensation seeking and men's face preferences

Sex Differences in the Perceived Dominance and Prestige of Women With and Without Cosmetics

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

Sex differences in attraction to familiar and unfamiliar opposite-sex faces: men prefer novelty and women prefer familiarity

scientific article

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

Similarities in human visual and declared measures of preference for opposite-sex faces

scientific article published in January 2014

Smelling human sex hormone-like compounds affects face gender judgment of men.

scientific article published in June 2004

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

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

Static and Dynamic Facial Images Cue Similar Attractiveness Judgements

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

scientific article published in 2008

Symmetry is related to sexual dimorphism in faces: data across culture and species

scientific article

Symmetry, sexual dimorphism in facial proportions and male facial attractiveness.

scientific article published in August 2001

Testosterone exposure, dopaminergic reward, and sensation-seeking in young men.

scientific article published on 21 December 2009

The effects of relationship context and modality on ratings of funniness

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

scientific article

The influence of steroid sex hormones on the cognitive and emotional processing of visual stimuli in humans

scientific article published on 26 August 2013

The many faces of research on face perception

scientific article published on June 2011

The organization of conspecific face space in nonhuman primates

scientific article

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 role of masculinity and distinctiveness in judgments of human male facial attractiveness.

scientific article published in November 2002

The role of symmetry in attraction to average faces

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

The valence of experiences with faces influences generalized preferences

The varying value of a friendly face: Experimentally induced stress is associated with higher preferences for friendship with people possessing feminine versus masculine face traits

scientific article published on 4 September 2015

Trade-offs between markers of absolute and relative quality in human facial preferences

scientific article published in 2009

Transient pupil constrictions to faces are sensitive to orientation and species

scientific article published on 24 March 2008

Using composite images to assess accuracy in personality attribution to faces.

scientific article published in February 2007

Variation in facial masculinity and symmetry preferences across the menstrual cycle is moderated by relationship context

scientific article published on 15 December 2011

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

Viewing Time and Self-Report Measures of Sexual Attraction in Samoan Cisgender and Transgender Androphilic Males

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

Viewing time measures of sexual orientation in Samoan cisgender men who engage in sexual interactions with fa'afafine

scientific article

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

Vocal fundamental and formant frequencies affect perceptions of speaker cooperativeness

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

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

article published in 2009

What is good is beautiful: Face preference reflects desired personality

When facial attractiveness is only skin deep.

scientific article published on January 2004

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

scientific article published in 2010

‘Eavesdropping’ and perceived male dominance rank in humans

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