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Overview

Anthony C. Little is affiliated with the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the broad field of psychology and intersects with social sciences.

Their work spans multiple subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, sociology and political science, marketing, social psychology, and molecular biology. The main topics of their research cover evolutionary psychology and human behavior, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, marriage and sexual relationships, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, attachment and relationship dynamics, demographic trends and gender preferences, as well as sex work and related issues.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Anthony C. Little include Meike Scheller, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Bruna da Silva Nascimento, Lori A. Brotto, and Francine Matorres.

Their research contributions have been published in various academic journals, with repeated appearances in venues such as Archives of Sexual Behavior, The Journal of Sex Research, Current Psychology, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, and Symmetry.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Anthony C. Little include:

  • The Role of Vision in the Emergence of Mate Preferences, 2021, Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • The Role of Sexual and Romantic Attraction in Human Mate Preferences, 2023, The Journal of Sex Research
  • Heterogeneity in the Sexual Orientations of Men Who Have Sex with Fa'afafine in Samoa, 2020, Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Relationship satisfaction mediates the association between perceived partner mate retention strategies and relationship commitment, 2020, Current Psychology
  • Attachment styles and mate-retention: Exploring the mediating role of relationship satisfaction., 2021, Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences

Best Publications

  • Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research.

    Anthony C. Little;Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine

  • Testosterone and financial risk preferences

    Coren L. Apicella;Anna Dreber;Anna Dreber;Benjamin Campbell;Peter B. Gray

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

    A. C. Little;Benedict Christopher Jones;I. S. Penton-Voak;D. M. Burt

  • Self-perceived attractiveness influences human female preferences for sexual dimorphism and symmetry in male faces

    A. C. Little;D. M. Burt;I. S. Penton-Voak;D. I. Perrett

  • Facial appearance affects voting decisions.

    Anthony C. Little;Anthony C. Little;Robert P. Burriss;Benedict C. Jones;S. Craig Roberts

  • Manipulations of fundamental and formant frequencies influence the attractiveness of human male voices

    D. R. Feinberg;Benedict Christopher Jones;A. C. Little;D. M. Burt

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

    I. S. Penton-Voak;Benedict Christopher Jones;A. C. Little;S. Baker

  • Facial symmetry and judgements of apparent health: Support for a “good genes” explanation of the attractiveness–symmetry relationship

    Benedict Christopher Jones;A. C. Little;I. S. Penton-Voak;B. P. Tiddeman

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

    S. Craig Roberts;Jan Havlicek;Jaroslav Flegr;Martina Hruskova

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

    Lisa M. DeBruine;Benedict C. Jones;John R. Crawford;Lisa L. M. Welling

  • Personality judgments from natural and composite facial images: More evidence for a "kernel of truth" in social perception

    Ian S. Penton-Voak;Nicholas Pound;Anthony C. Little;David I. Perrett

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

    Lisa M DeBruine;Benedict C Jones;Anthony C Little;Lynda G Boothroyd

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

    I. S. Penton-Voak;A. C. Little;Benedict C. Jones;D. M. Burt

  • 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.

    B.C. Jones;A.C. Little;L.G. Boothroyd;L.M. Debruine

  • When Facial Attractiveness is Only Skin Deep

    Benedict C Jones;Anthony C Little;D Michael Burt;David I Perrett

  • Raised salivary testosterone in women is associated with increased attraction to masculine faces.

    Lisa Welling;Benedict Christopher Jones;Lisa Marie Debruine;C. A. Conway

  • Preferences for masculinity in male bodies change across the menstrual cycle.

    Anthony C. Little;Benedict C. Jones;Robert P. Burriss;Robert P. Burriss

  • Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences.

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;David I. Perrett;Anthony C. Little

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

    Corri Waitt;Anthony C. Little;Sarah Wolfensohn;Paul Honess

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

    Benedict C. Jones;D. I. Perrett;A. C. Little;L. Boothroyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Lisa M. DeBruine
Lisa M. DeBruine University of Glasgow
David R. Feinberg
David R. Feinberg McMaster University
S. Craig Roberts
S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling
David I. Perrett
David I. Perrett University of St Andrews
Lisa L. M. Welling
Lisa L. M. Welling Oakland University
Ian S. Penton-Voak
Ian S. Penton-Voak University of Bristol
Coren L. Apicella
Coren L. Apicella University of Pennsylvania
Jan Havlíček
Jan Havlíček Charles University
Barnaby J. W. Dixson
Barnaby J. W. Dixson University of Queensland

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