Publications

Publications

This page lists the academic publications associated with the lab.

* denotes student dissertation projects.

In Press

• De La Mare, J. K., Taylor, M. G., & Lee, A. J. (In Press) Belief in gender role stereotypes moderates the use of gender typicality cues when making sexual orientation judgements from faces. Archives of Sexual Behavior. *
  

2024

• Ostrega, J., Shiramizu, V. K. M., Lee, A. J., Jones, B. C., & Feinberg, D. R. (2024) No evidence that averaging voices influences attractiveness. Scientific Reports, 14, 10488. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zhao, A., Sidari, M. J., Lee, A. J., & Zietsch, B. P. (2024) Speed-dating and simulation data explain the discrepancy between stated and revealed mate preferences. European Journal of Personality. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Dong, J., Leger, K., Lee, A. J., Rafiee, Y., Jones, B. C., & Shiramizu, V. K. M. (2024) Re-evaluating the role of partnership-related perceptions in women’s preferences for men with masculine face shapes. Evolutionary Psychology, 22(2), . FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Dixson, B. J. W., Nelson, N. L., Moses, E., Lee, A. J., and Pegna, A. J. (2024) Perceptions of facial trustworthiness and dominance modulate early neural responses to male facial sexual dimorphism. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(6), 106629. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Wainwright, H., Zhao, A., Sidari, M. J., Lee, A. J., Roberts, N., Makras, T., & Zietsch, B. P. (2024) Laughter and ratings of funniness in speed-dating do not support the fitness indicator hypothesis of humour Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(1), 75-81. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2023

• Lee, A. J., Jones, B. C., Zietsch, B. P., Jern, P., Connolly, H., & Marcinkowska, U. (2023) No evidence that sociosexual orientation moderates effects of conception probability on women’s preferences for male facial masculinity. Scientific Reports, 13, 10245. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE *
  


• 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. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE *
  


• Lee, A. J., & McGuire, N. K. J. (2023) Women’s preferences for masculinity in male faces are predicted by material scarcity, but not time or psychological scarcity. Evolutionary Psychology, 21(3), . FULL TEXT AVAILABLE *
  


• 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, 182-197. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE *
  


• Dong, J., Leger, K., Shiramizu, K. M., Marcinkowska, U. M., Lee, A. J., and Jones, B. C. (2023) The importance of face-shape masculinity for perceptions of male dominance depends on study design. Scientific Reports, 13, 12620. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zhao, A., Harrison, K., Holland, A., Wainwright, H., Ceccato, J., 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, 44(4), 315-323. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2022

• Shiramizu, V. K. M., Lee, A. J., Altenburg, D., Feinberg, D. R., & Jones, B. C. (2022) The role of valence, dominance, and pitch in social perceptions of artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents voices. Scientific Reports, 12, 22479. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Tybur, J. M., Jones, B. C., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., Fan, L., & 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. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Harper, K. T., Stanley, F., Sidari, M. J., Lee, A. J., & Zietch, B. P. (2022) The role of accurate self-assessment in optimising mate choice. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin..46E+15. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• 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. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2021

• Lee, A. J., De La Mare, J. K., Moore, H. A., & Umeh, P. C. (2021) Preference for facial symmetry depends on study design. Symmetry, 13(9), 1637. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE *
  


• Sidari, M., Lee, A. J., Murphy, S., Sherlock, J., Dixson, B., & Zietsch, B. (2021) Preferences for sexually dimorphic body characteristics revealed in a large sample of speed daters. Social Psychology and Personality Science, 12(2), 225-236. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Marcinkowska, U. M., Jones, B. C., & Lee, A. J. (2021) Self-rated attractiveness predicts preferences for sexually dimorphic facial characteristics in a culturally diverse sample. Scientific Reports, 11, 10905. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• 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. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE *
  


• Satchell, L. P., Mayes, H. S., Lee, A. J., O’Reilly, L., Akehurst, L., & Morris, P. (2021) Is threat in the way they move? Influences of static and gait information on threat judgments of unknown people. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7(1), 61-69. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Alharbi, S. A. H., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., Saribay, A., & Jones, B. C. (2021) Facial masculinity increases perceptions of men’s age, but not perceptions of their health: Data from an Arab sample Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7(2), 184-188. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• van Eijk, L., Zhu, D., Couvy-Duschesne, 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 behaviour? Psychological Science, 32(8), 1183-1197. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zietsch, B. P., Sidari, M. M., Murphy, S. C., Sherlock, J. M., & Lee, A. J. (2021) For the good of evolutionary psychology, let’s reunite proximate and ultimate explanations. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(1), 76-78. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Alharbi, S. A. H., Holzleitner, I. J., Jones, B. C., Saribay, A., & 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. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Marcinkowska, U. M., Jones, B. C., Cai, H., Contreras-Garduno, J., Onyishi, I. E., 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, 16911. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2020

• Lee, A. J., Sidari, M. J., Murphy, S. C., Sherlock, J. M. & Zietsch, B. P. (2020) Sex differences in misperceptions of sexual interest can be explained by sociosexual orientation and men projecting their own interest onto women. Psychological Science, 31(2), 184-192. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Stower, R. E., Lee, A. J., McIntosh, T. L., Sidari, M. J., Sherlock, J. M., & Dixson, B. J. W. (2020) Mating strategies and the masculinity paradox: How relationship context, relationship status and sociosexuality shape women’s preferences for facial masculinity and beardedness. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 49(3), 809-820. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Docherty, C., Lee, A. J., Hahn, A. C., & Jones, B. C. (2020) Do more attractive women show stronger preferences for male facial masculinity? Evolution and Human Behavior, 41(4), 312-317. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Thai, M., Lee, A. J., Axt, J. R., Hornsey, M. J., & Barlow, F. K. (2020) Discrepancies in Asian Americans’ perceived actual and ideal phenotypic facial features. Asian American Journal of Psychology, 11(3), 117-125. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Craig, B. M., & Lee, A. J. (2020) Stereotypes and structure in the interaction between facial emotional expression and sex characteristics. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, 212-235. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Dixson, B. J. W, & Lee, A. J. (2020) Cross-cultural variation in men’s beardedness. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, 490-500. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Torrance, J. S., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B .C. (2020) Evidence head tilt has dissociable effects on dominance and trustworthiness judgments, but does have not category-contingent effects on hypothetical leadership judgments. Perception, 49(2), 119-209. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Alharbi, S. A. H., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., Saribay, A., & Jones, B. C. (2020) Women’s preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces: Data from a sample of Arab women. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 6, 328-334. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Hansen, F., DeBruine, L. M., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., O’Shea, K. J., & Fasolt, V. (2020) Kin recognition and perceived facial similarity Journal of Vision, 20(6), 18. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Alharbi, S. A. H., Button, K., Zhang, L., O’Shea, K. J., Fasolt, V., Lee, A. J., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C. (2020) Are affective factors related to individual differences in facial expression recognition? Royal Society Open Science, 7, 190699. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Clarkson, T. R., Sidari, M. J., Sains, R., Alexander, M., Harrison, M., Mefodeva, V., Pearson, S., Lee, A. J. & Dixson, B. J. W. (2020) A multivariate analysis of women’s mating strategies and sexual selection on men’s facial morphology. Royal Society Open Science, 7(1), 191209. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Mefodeva, V., Sidari, M. J., Chau, H., Fitzsimmons, B., Antoine G., Clarkson, T. R., Pearson, S. Lee, A. J., & Dixson, B. J. W. (2020) Multivariate intra-sexual selection on men’s preceptions of male facial morphology. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 6, 143-169. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2019

• Lee, A. J., Jones, B. C. & DeBruine, L. M. (2019) Investigating the association between mating-relevant self-concepts and mate preferences through a data-driven analysis of online personal descriptions. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(3), 325-335. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Armstrong, M. M., Lee, A. J., & Feinberg, D. R. (2019) A house of cards: Bias in perception of body size mediates the relationship between voice pitch and perceptions of dominance. Animal Behaviour, 147, 43-51. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zhang, L., Lee, A. J., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C. (2019) Are sex differences in preferences for physical attractiveness and good earning capacity in potential mates smaller in countries with greater gender equality? Evolutionary Psychology, 17(2), . FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., Hahn, A. C., Kandrik, M., Bovet, J., Renoult, J., Simmons, D., Garrod, O., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C. (2019) Comparing theory-driven and data-driven attractiveness models using images of real women’s faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 45(12), 1589-1595. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Marcinkowska, U. M., Rantala, M., Lee, A. J., Kozlov, M., Aavik, M. V., Cai, H., Contreras-Garduno, J., Oana, D., Kaminski, G., Li, N. P., Onyishi, I. E., Prasai, K., Pazhoohi, F., Prokop, P., Rosales Cardozo, S. L., Sydney, N. Taniguchi, H., Krams, I. & Dixson, B. J. W. (2019) Women’s preferences for men’s facial masculinity are strongest under favorable ecological conditions. Scientific Reports, 9, 3387. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Dixson, B. J. W., Kennedy-Costantini, S., Lee, A. J., & Nelson, N. L. (2019) Mothers are sensitive to men’s beards as a cue to paternal investment. Hormones and Behavior, 113, 55-66. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Nelson, N. L., Kennedy-Costantini, S., Lee, A. J. & Dixson, B. J. W. (2019) Children’s judgements of facial hair are influenced by biological development and experience. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(6), 551-556. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zhang, L., Wang, H., Lee, A. J., DeBruine L. M., & Jones, B. C. (2019) Chinese and UK participants’ preferences for physical attractiveness and social status in potential mates (Stage 2 Registered Report). Royal Society Open Science, 6(11), 181243. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Fasolt, V., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., O’Shea, K. J., & DeBruine, L. M. (2019) Contribution of shape and surface reflectance information to kinship detection in 3D images Journal of Vision, 19(12), 9. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zhang, L., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., Wang, H., Han, C., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C. (2019) A data-driven test for cross-cultural differences in face-shape preferences. Perception, 48(6), 487-499. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Hahn, A. C., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., Kandrik, M., O’Shea, K. J., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C. (2019) Facial masculinity is only weakly correlated with handgrip strength in young adult women. American Journal of Human Biology, 31(1), e23203. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Fasolt, V., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., O’Shea, K. J. & DeBruine, L. M. (2019) Birth order does not affect ability to detect kin. Collabra, 5(1), 35. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Cai, Z., Hahn, A. C., Zhang, W., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., DeBruine, L. M., & Jones, B. C. (2019) No evidence that facial attractiveness, femininity, averageness, or coloration are cues to susceptibility to infectious illnesses in a university sample of young adult women. Evolution and Human Behavior, 40(2), 156-159. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2018

• Lee, A. J., DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C. (2018) Individual-specific mortality is associated with how individuals evaluate future discounting decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 285, 20180304. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Dixson, B. J. W., Lee, A. J., Blake, K. R., Jasienska, G., & Marcinkowska, U. (2018) Women’s preferences for men’s beards show no relation to their obarian cycle phase and sex hormone levels. Hormones and Behavior, 97, 137-144. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Torrance, J., Kandrik, M., Lee, A. J., DeBruine, L. M., & Jones, B.C. (2018) Does adult sex ratio predict regional variation in facial dominance perceptions? Evidence from an analysis of US states. Evolutionary Psychology, 16(2), . FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Fasolt, V., Holzleitner, I. J., Lee, A. J., O’Shea, K. J., & DeBruine, L. M. (2018) Facial expressions influence kin recognition accuracy. Human Ethology Bulletin, 33 (4), 19-27. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zhang, W., Hahn, A. C., Cai, Z., Lee, A. J., Holzleitner, I. J., DeBruine, L. M., & Jones, B. C. (2018) No evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) is associated with women’s sexual desire. PLoS ONE, 13(1), e0200308. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Jones, B. C., Hahn, A. C., Fisher, C. I., Wang, H., Kandrik, M., Lee, A. J., Tybur, J. M., & DeBruine, L. M. (2018) Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust: Testing the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(2), 166-169. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Jones, B. C., Hahn, A. C., Fisher, C. I., Wang, H., Kandrik, M., Lee, A. J., Tybur, J. M., & DeBruine, L. M. (2018) Reply to Fleischman and Fessler’s (2018) comment on “Hormonal correlates of pathogen disgust: testing the Compensatory Prophylaxis Hypothesis”. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(4), 470-471. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Jones, B. C., Hahn, A. C., Fisher, C. I., Wang, H., Kandrik, M., Lao, J., Han, C., Lee, A. J., Holzleitner, I. J., & DeBruine, L. M. (2018) No compelling evidence that more physically attractive young adult women have higher estradiol or progesterone. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 98, 1-29. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Han, C., Wang, H., Hahn, A. C., Fisher, C. I., Kandrik, M., Fasolt, V., Morrison, D. K., Lee, A. J., Holzleitner, I. J., DeBruine, L. M., & Jones, B. C. (2018) Cultural differences in preferences for facial coloration. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(2), 154-159. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Jones B. C., Hahn, A. C., Fisher, C. I., Wang, H., Kandrik, M. Han, C., Fasolt, V., Morrison, D., Lee, A. J., Holzleitner, I. J., Roberts, C., Little, A., & DeBruine, L. M. (2018) No compelling evidence that preferences for facial masculinity track changes in women’s hormonal status. Psychological Science, 29(6), 996-1005. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2017

• Lee, A. J., Hibbs, C., Wright, M. J., Martin, N. G., Keller, M. C. & Zietsch, B. P. (2017) Assessing the accuracy of perceptions of intelligence based on heritable facial features. Intelligence, 64, 1-8. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Lee, A. J., Wright, M. J., Martin, N. G., Keller, M. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2017) Facial trustworthiness is associated with heritable facial attributes. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, 3(4), 351-264. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Dixson, B. J. W., Lee, A. J., Sherlock, J. M., & Talamas, S. N. (2017) Beneath the beard: Do facial morphometrics influences the strength judgments of men’s beardedness? Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(2), 164-174. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• McIntosh, T., Lee, A. J., Sidari, M., Stower, R., Sherlock, J. M., & Dixson, B. J. W. (2017) Microbes and masculinity: Does exposure to pathogenic cues alter women’s preferences for male facial masculinity and beardedness? PLoS ONE, 12(6), e 0178206. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2016

• Lee, A. J., Mitchem, D. G., Wright, M. J., Martin, N. G., Keller, M. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2016) Facial averageness and genetic quality: Testing heritability, genetic correlation with attractiveness, and the paternal age effect. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(1), 61-66. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Louis, W. R., Bastian, B., McKimmie, B., & Lee, A. J. (2016) Teaching psychology in Australia: Does class attendance matter for performance? Australian Journal of Psychology, 68(1), 47-51. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2015

• Lee, A. J., Brooks, R. C., Potter, K. J., & Zietsch, B. P. (2015) Pathogen disgust sensitivity and resource scarcity are associated with mate preference for different waist-to-hip ratios, shoulder-to-hip ratios, and body mass index. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(1), 480-488. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Lee, A. J., & Zietsch, B. P. (2015) Women’s pathogen disgust predicting preference for facial masculinity may be specific to age and study design. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(4), 249-255. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Zietsch, B. P., Lee, A. J., Sherlock, J. M., & Jern, P. (2015) Variation in women’s preferences regarding male facial masculinity is better explained by genetic differences than by previously identified context-dependent effects. Psychological Science, 26(9), 1440-1448. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Haysom, H. J., Mitchem, D. G., Lee, A. J., Wright, M. J., Martin, N. G., Keller, M. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2015) A test of the facultative calibration/reactive heritability model of extraversion. Evolution and Human Behavior, 36(5), 414-419. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2014

• Lee, A. J., Mitchem, D. G., Wright, M. J., Martin, N. G., Keller, M. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2014) Genetic factors increasing male facial masculinity decrease facial attractiveness of female relatives. Psychological Science, 25(2), 476-484. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  


• Lee, A. J., Dubbs, S. L., von Hippel, W., Brooks, R. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2014) A multivariate approach to human mate preference. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(3), 193-203. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2013

• Lee, A. J., Dubbs, S. L., Kelly, A. J., von Hippel, W., Brooks, R. C., & Zietsch, B. P. (2013) Human facial attributes, but not perceived intelligence, are used as cues of health and resource provision potential. Behavioral Ecology, 24(3), 779-787. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE
  

2011

• Lee, A. J. & Zietsch, B. P. (2011) Experimental evidence that women’s mate preferences are directly influenced by cues of pathogen prevalence and resource scarcity. Biology Letters, 7(6), 892-895. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE