Search Results - "Jones, Benedict C"

Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research by Little, Anthony C., Jones, Benedict C., DeBruine, Lisa M.

“…Face preferences affect a diverse range of critical social outcomes, from mate choices and decisions about platonic relationships to hiring decisions and…”
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Further evidence for associations between short-term mating strategy and sexual disgust by O'Shea, Kieran J., DeBruine, Lisa M., Jones, Benedict C.

“…Al-Shawaf et al. (2015, Evolution & Human Behavior, 36, 199–205) found that people who were more interested in pursuing a short-term mating strategy (indexed…”
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Mapping physical characteristics in face images to social judgements by Jones, Benedict C., Jones, Alex L., Shiramizu, Victor

“…Sutherland and Young (Br. J. Psychol., 113, 2022, 1056) provide a comprehensive and timely overview of recent developments in research on social judgements of…”
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No evidence that averaging voices influences attractiveness by Ostrega, Jessica, Shiramizu, Victor, Lee, Anthony J., Jones, Benedict C., Feinberg, David R.

“…Vocal attractiveness influences important social outcomes. While most research on the acoustic parameters that influence vocal attractiveness has focused on…”
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Sexual orientation predicts men's preferences for sexually dimorphic face-shape characteristics: A replication study by Shiramizu, Victor, Docherty, Ciaran, DeBruine, Lisa M, Jones, Benedict C

“…Many researchers have proposed that straight men prefer women's faces displaying feminine shape characteristics at least partly because mating with such women…”
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Self-rated attractiveness predicts preferences for sexually dimorphic facial characteristics in a culturally diverse sample by Marcinkowska, Urszula M., Jones, Benedict C., Lee, Anthony J.

“…Individuals who are more attractive are thought to show a greater preference for facial sexual dimorphism, potentially because individuals who perceive…”
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Is Pathogen Disgust Increased on Days of the Menstrual Cycle when Progesterone is High? Evidence from a Between-Subjects Study Using Estimated Progesterone Levels by Rafiee, Yasaman, Jones, Benedict C., Shiramizu, Victor

“…Objective The Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis proposes that women will show increased pathogen disgust at points in the menstrual cycle when progesterone…”
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Predicting the reward value of faces and bodies from social perception by Morrison, Danielle, Wang, Hongyi, Hahn, Amanda C, Jones, Benedict C, DeBruine, Lisa M

“…Social judgments of faces are thought to be underpinned by two perceptual components: valence and dominance. Recent work using a standard key-press task to…”
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The importance of face-shape masculinity for perceptions of male dominance depends on study design by Dong, Junzhi, Leger, Kathlyne, Shiramizu, Victor K. M., Marcinkowska, Urszula M., Lee, Anthony J., Jones, Benedict C.

“…Dominance perceptions play an important role in social interactions. Although many researchers have proposed that shape masculinity is an important facial cue…”
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Does testosterone predict women's preference for facial masculinity? by Marcinkowska, Urszula M, Helle, Samuli, Jones, Benedict C, Jasienska, Grazyna

“…The influence of sex hormones on women's mate preferences has been an intensively discussed topic for more than a decade. Yet the extent to which levels of sex…”
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Assessing the roles of shape prototypicality and sexual dimorphism in ratings of the trustworthiness of faces by Leger, Kathlyne, Dong, Junzhi, DeBruine, Lisa M., Jones, Benedict C., Shiramizu, Victor K. M.

“…Perceptions of the trustworthiness of faces predict important social outcomes, including economic exchange and criminal sentencing decisions. However, the…”
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The role of valence, dominance, and pitch in perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents’ voices by Shiramizu, Victor Kenji M., Lee, Anthony J., Altenburg, Daria, Feinberg, David R., Jones, Benedict C.

“…There is growing concern that artificial intelligence conversational agents (e.g., Siri, Alexa) reinforce voice-based social stereotypes. Because little is…”
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No evidence that sociosexual orientation moderates effects of conception probability on women’s preferences for male facial masculinity by Lee, Anthony J., Jones, Benedict C., Zietsch, Brendan P., Jern, Patrick, Connolly, Henry, Marcinkowska, Urszula M.

“…Although many researchers have proposed that women will show stronger preferences for male facial masculinity when conception probability is high, empirical…”
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No evidence that partnered and unpartnered gay men differ in their preferences for male facial masculinity by Cassar, Rachel, Shiramizu, Victor, DeBruine, Lisa M, Jones, Benedict C

“…Women's preferences for masculine characteristics in men's faces have been extensively studied. By contrast, little is known about how gay men respond to…”
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The many faces of research on face perception by Little, Anthony C., Jones, Benedict C., DeBruine, Lisa M.

“…Face perception is fundamental to human social interaction. Many different types of important information are visible in faces and the processes and mechanisms…”
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A data-driven study of Chinese participants' social judgments of Chinese faces by Wang, Hongyi, Han, Chengyang, Hahn, Amanda C, Fasolt, Vanessa, Morrison, Danielle K, Holzleitner, Iris J, DeBruine, Lisa M, Jones, Benedict C

“…Social judgments of faces made by Western participants are thought to be underpinned by two dimensions: valence and dominance. Because some research suggests…”
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Testing the Utility of a Data-Driven Approach for Assessing BMI from Face Images by Wolffhechel, Karin, Hahn, Amanda C, Jarmer, Hanne, Fisher, Claire I, Jones, Benedict C, DeBruine, Lisa M

“…Several lines of evidence suggest that facial cues of adiposity may be important for human social interaction. However, tests for quantifiable cues of body…”
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Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers by Jones, Benedict C., DeBruine, Lisa M., Main, Julie C., Little, Anthony C., Welling, Lisa L. M., Feinberg, David R., Tiddeman, Bernard P.

“…Responding appropriately to gaze cues is essential for fluent social interaction, playing a crucial role in social learning, collaboration, threat assessment…”
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Social learning and human mate preferences: a potential mechanism for generating and maintaining between-population diversity in attraction by Little, Anthony C., Jones, Benedict C., DeBruine, Lisa M., Caldwell, Christine A.

“…Inspired by studies demonstrating mate-choice copying effects in non-human species, recent studies of attractiveness judgements suggest that social learning…”
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Context-specific effects of facial dominance and trustworthiness on hypothetical leadership decisions by Ferguson, Hannah S, Owen, Anya, Hahn, Amanda C, Torrance, Jaimie, DeBruine, Lisa M, Jones, Benedict C

“…Social judgments of faces predict important social outcomes, including leadership decisions. Previous work suggests that facial cues associated with…”
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