Dissertation Supervision
I supervise dissertation students as part of the psychology
undergraduate and MSc programmes at the University of Stirling - this
involves developing and conducting a research project in collaboration
with students. This includes all stages of the research process,
including developing a research question, designing a study to test
hypotheses, collecting the data, analysing the data, and interpreting
and writing up the findings in a dissertation.
For
undergraduate or MSc students considering me as a potential supervisor,
my aim with dissertation projects is to conduct high-quality research
that could lead to a publication in a scientific journal. I’m usually
happy for students to explore their own topics of interest related to
evolutionary psychology or the social perception of faces. If there is a
potential idea that you would like to explore, I would encourage you to
email me at
anthony.lee@stir.ac.uk.
Listed below are
papers that include work from dissertation projects.
Undergraduate Dissertations
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.
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Does resource scarcity predict women's attraction to masculine men?
Nikita was interested in women's preference for facial masculinity, and I suggested she investigate the impact of resource scarcity. As predicted, we found that material scarcity (and not other types of scarcity) was associated with women's preference for facial masculinity.
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).
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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.
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Postgraduate (MSc) Dissertations
Are people attracted to those with a similar personality?
Jess was interested in whether people are attracted to those who have a similar personality in online dating apps. Jess created realistic dating profiles that varied in personality, and measured the personality of participants. Indeed, this seems to be the case for some personality traits, such as agreeableness, openness, and extraversion. Jess went on to do a PhD in the lab.
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.
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Can you tell a good father from his face?
Ronja was interested in perceptions of parental involvement from male faces, and conducted an ambitious project for her dissertation where she collected facial photographs of fathers and had them rated on parental involvement. She found that people use facial attractiveness as a cue when estimating parental ability.
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.
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What developmental factors predicts engagement in sexual coercive behaviours?
Aoife and Roisin were psychology conversion students interested in forensic psychology, so we developed a project investigating factors that would predict men's engagement in sexual coercive behaviours from an evolutionary psychology perspective. This included developing a new scale to measure sexual coercive behaviours from participants.
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.
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