Lisa DeBruine, PhD

Senior Lecturer, University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Research field: Psychology - Evolutionary Psychology
faces, facial resemblance, kin recognition, masculinity, voices, attractiveness, visual adaptation, face aftereffects

Publications

Journal Article (45)
- Douglas Martin, Susan A Cairns, Elizabeth Orme et al. (2010) Form-specific repetition priming for unfamiliar faces., 338-45. In Experimental psychology 57 (5).
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20...
- Claire A Conway, Benedict C Jones, Lisa M DeBruine et al. (2010) Sexual dimorphism of male face shape, partnership status and the temporal context of relationship sought modulate women's preferences for direct gaze., 109-21. In British Journal of Psychology 101 (Pt 1).
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19...
- Jovana Vukovic, Benedict C Jones, Lisa M DeBruine et al. (2009) Circum-menopausal effects on women's judgements of facial attractiveness, 62-64. In Biology Letters.
- Finlay G Smith, Benedict C Jones, Anthony C Little et al. (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. In Journal of Evolutionary Psychology.
- Julie C Main, Benedict C Jones, Lisa M DeBruine et al. (2009) Integrating gaze direction and sexual dimorphism of face shape when perceiving others' dominance. In Perception.
- Finlay G Smith, Benedict C Jones, Lisa M DeBruine et al. (2009) Interactions between masculinity-femininity and apparent health in face preferences, 441-445. In Behavioral Ecology 20 (2).
  http://www.beheco.oxfordjournals.org/...
- Lisa M DeBruine, Finlay G Smith, Benedict C Jones et al. (2009) Kin recognition signals in adult faces, 38-43. In Vision Research.
- Lisa L M Welling, Benedict C Jones, Patricia E G Bestelmeyer et al. (2009) View-contingent aftereffects suggest joint coding of face shape and view, 133-141. In Perception.
- Daniel B Krupp, Lisa M DeBruine, Pat Barclay (2008) A cue of kinship promotes cooperation for the public good, 49-55. In Evolution and Human Behavior.
- Benedict C Jones, Lisa M DeBruine, Anthony C Little (2008) Adaptation reinforces preferences for correlates of attractive facial cues, 849-858. In Visual Cognition.
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Awards and Grants

Feb 2012

ESRC Standard Grant (£170,874)
Nov 2011

Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy View website
Sep 2008

ESRC Small Grant (£73,374)
Sep 2007

ESRC Small Grant (£59,514)
Sep 2007

Nuffield Grant (£7,268)
Sep 2004

NSF International Fellowship ($97,858 US)

Biographical Information

My main research interests are kin recognition, facial resemblance and face processing. Specifically, I am interested in how humans use facial resemblance to tell who their kin are and how people respond to cues of kinship in different circumstances. I am also interested in how the visual system learns about faces and what visual adaptation effects can tell us about the face processing system. I have published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals on these topics and am the co-founder of the Face Research Lab at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

I was appointed in 2011 to the Royal Society of Edinburgh's inaugural Young Academy. I am also involved in the running of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES) and the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association (EHBEA).