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Barnaby J. W. Dixson

Barnaby J. W. Dixson

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Psychology

D-Index
43
Citations
5710
World Ranking
7357
National Ranking
434

Overview

Barnaby J. W. Dixson is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. The primary field of research is Psychology, with a specific focus on multiple subfields including Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sociology and Political Science, and Social Psychology.

Their work covers several main topics, such as Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Eating Disorders and Behaviors, Face Recognition and Perception, and Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Dixson include Sara Álvarez Solas, John Jamir Benzon R. Aruta, Anthony J. Lee, Neil R. Caton, and Martin Voracek.

The most common venues where Dixson's research articles have been published are Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology, Evolution and Human Behavior, Nature Human Behaviour, Biology Letters, and Archives of Sexual Behavior.

Recent papers associated with Dixson, including their titles, years, and publication venues, are:

  • Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age (2023) - Body Image
  • A multivariate analysis of women's mating strategies and sexual selection on men's facial morphology (2020) - Royal Society Open Science
  • Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample (2022) - Nature Human Behaviour
  • Multivariate Intra-Sexual Selection on Men's Perceptions of Male Facial Morphology (2020) - Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
  • Facial width-to-height ratio predicts fighting success: A direct replication and extension of Zilioli et al. (2014) (2022) - Aggressive Behavior

Best Publications

  • The Psychological Science Accelerator: Advancing Psychology through a Distributed Collaborative Network

    Hannah Moshontz;Lorne Campbell;Charles R. Ebersole;Hans Ijzerman

  • Evidence from Meta-Analyses of the Facial Width-to-Height Ratio as an Evolved Cue of Threat

    Shawn N. Geniole;Thomas F. Denson;Barnaby J. Dixson;Justin M. Carré

  • Cross-cultural consensus for waist–hip ratio and women's attractiveness

    Devendra Singh;B.J. Dixson;T.S. Jessop;B. Morgan

  • Eye-Tracking of Men’s Preferences for Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Breast Size of Women

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Gina M. Grimshaw;Wayne L. Linklater;Alan F. Dixson

  • To which world regions does the valence–dominance model of social perception apply?

    Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine;Jessica K. Flake;Marco Tullio Liuzza

  • Studies of human physique and sexual attractiveness: Sexual preferences of men and women in China

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Alan F. Dixson;Baoguo Li;M.J. Anderson

  • The role of facial hair in women's perceptions of men's attractiveness, health, masculinity and parenting abilities

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Robert C. Brooks

  • Beards augment perceptions of men's age, social status, and aggressiveness, but not attractiveness

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Paul L. Vasey

  • Human physique and sexual attractiveness in men and women: a New Zealand-U.S. comparative study.

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Alan F. Dixson;Phil J. Bishop;Amy Parish

  • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Ke Wang;Amit Goldenberg;Charles A. Dorison;Jeremy K. Miller

  • Standardized protocols for characterizing women's fertility: A data-driven approach

    Khandis R. Blake;Barnaby J.W. Dixson;Siobhan M. O'Dean;Thomas F. Denson

  • Are badges of status adaptive in large complex primate groups

    Cyril C. Grueter;Karin Isler;Barnaby J. Dixson

  • Human Physique and Sexual Attractiveness: Sexual Preferences of Men and Women in Bakossiland, Cameroon

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Alan F. Dixson;Bethan Morgan;Matthew J. Anderson

  • Sexual selection and the evolution of visually conspicuous sexually dimorphic traits in male monkeys, apes, and human beings

    Alan Dixson;Barnaby Dixson;Matthew Anderson

  • Cross-cultural variation in men's preference for sexual dimorphism in women's faces.

    Urszula M. Marcinkowska;Mikhail V. Kozlov;Huajian Cai;Jorge Contreras-Garduño

  • Women's preferences for men's facial masculinity are strongest under favorable ecological conditions

    Urszula M. Marcinkowska;Urszula M. Marcinkowska;Markus J. Rantala;Anthony J. Lee;Mikhail V. Kozlov

  • Negative frequency-dependent preferences and variation in male facial hair.

    Zinnia J. Janif;Robert C. Brooks;Barnaby J. Dixson

  • The masculinity paradox: facial masculinity and beardedness interact to determine women's ratings of men's facial attractiveness

    B. J. W. Dixson;D. Sulikowski;A. Gouda‐Vossos;M. J. Rantala

  • Men’s Preferences for Women’s Breast Morphology in New Zealand, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Paul L. Vasey;Katayo Sagata;Nokuthaba Sibanda

  • Eye-tracking women’s preferences for men’s somatotypes

    Barnaby J. Dixson;Gina M. Grimshaw;Diane K. Ormsby;Alan F. Dixson

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas F. Denson
Thomas F. Denson University of New South Wales
Paul L. Vasey
Paul L. Vasey University of Lethbridge
Anthony C. Little
Anthony C. Little University of Bath
Stefan Stieger
Stefan Stieger Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences
Martin Voracek
Martin Voracek University of Vienna
William J. Chopik
William J. Chopik Michigan State University
Miguel A. Vadillo
Miguel A. Vadillo Autonomous University of Madrid
Huajian Cai
Huajian Cai University of Oklahoma
Norman P. Li
Norman P. Li Singapore Management University
Heather L. Urry
Heather L. Urry Tufts University

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