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Gillian Rhodes is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research spans neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience and experimental and cognitive psychology. Their scholarly contributions also extend into clinical psychology, statistics, probability and uncertainty, and developmental and educational psychology.

The research topics explored in their work include:

  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Frequent publication venues for Gillian Rhodes highlight their engagement with leading scholarly outlets across psychology and neuroscience:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Behavior Research Methods
  • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Rhodes include:

  • Individual differences in trust evaluations are shaped mostly by environments, not genes (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Accuracy in Facial Trustworthiness Impressions: Kernel of Truth or Modern Physiognomy? A Meta-Analysis (2021), Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
  • Immune function during early adolescence positively predicts adult facial sexual dimorphism in both men and women (2020), Evolution and Human Behavior
  • An objective and reliable electrophysiological marker for implicit trustworthiness perception (2020), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
  • Beyond Likert ratings: Improving the robustness of developmental research measurement using best-worst scaling (2021), Behavior Research Methods

Collaboration is an important aspect of their research profile, working frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Clare Sutherland
  • Nichola Burton
  • Jemma Collova
  • Romina Palermo
  • Yong Zhi Foo

Best Publications

  • The evolutionary psychology of facial beauty.

    Gillian Rhodes

  • Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact.

    Romina Palermo;Gillian Rhodes

  • Facial symmetry and the perception of Beauty

    Gillian Rhodes;Fiona Proffitt;Jonathon M. Grady;Alex Sumich

  • What's lost in inverted faces?

    Gillian Rhodes;Susan Brake;Anthony P. Atkinson

  • Attractiveness and sexual behavior: Does attractiveness enhance mating success?

    Gillian Rhodes;Leigh W. Simmons;Marianne Peters

  • Identification and ratings of caricatures: implications for mental representations of faces.

    Gillian Rhodes;Susan Brennan;Susan Carey

  • Does sexual dimorphism in human faces signal health

    Gillian Rhodes;Janelle Chan;Leslie A. Zebrowitz;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Expertise and configural coding in face recognition.

    Gillian Rhodes;Susan Brake;Karyn Taylor;Shirley Tan

  • Fitting the Mind to the World: Face Adaptation and Attractiveness Aftereffects

    Gillian Rhodes;Linda Jeffery;Tamara L. Watson;Colin W.G. Clifford

  • Attractiveness of Facial Averageness and Symmetry in Non-Western Cultures: In Search of Biologically Based Standards of Beauty

    Gillian Rhodes;Sakiko Yoshikawa;Alison Clark;Kieran Lee

  • Averageness, Exaggeration, and Facial Attractiveness

    Gillian Rhodes;Tanya Tremewan

  • The effects of sex hormones on immune function: a meta-analysis.

    Yong Zhi Foo;Shinichi Nakagawa;Shinichi Nakagawa;Gillian Rhodes;Leigh W. Simmons

  • Looking Smart and Looking Good: Facial Cues to Intelligence and Their Origins

    L.A. Zebrowitz;J.A. Hall;N.A. Murphy;Gillian Rhodes

  • Do facial averageness and symmetry signal health

    Gillian Rhodes;Leslie A. Zebrowitz;Alison Clark;S. Michael Kalick

  • ARE AVERAGE FACIAL CONFIGURATIONS ATTRACTIVE ONLY BECAUSE OF THEIR SYMMETRY

    Gillian Rhodes;Alex Sumich;Graham Byatt

  • Looking at Faces: First-Order and Second-Order Features as Determinants of Facial Appearance

    Gillian Rhodes

  • SENSITIVITY TO ''BAD GENES'' AND THE ANOMALOUS FACE OVERGENERALIZATION EFFECT: CUE VALIDITY, CUE UTILIZATION, AND ACCURACY IN JUDGING INTELLIGENCE AND HEALTH

    Leslie A. Zebrowitz;Gillian Rhodes

  • Sex-typicality and attractiveness: are supermale and superfemale faces super-attractive?

    Gillian Rhodes;Catherine Hickford;Linda Jeffery

  • A Comparative View of Face Perception

    David A. Leopold;Gillian Rhodes

  • Adaptive norm-based coding of facial identity.

    Gillian Rhodes;Linda Jeffery

Frequent Co-Authors

Linda Jeffery
Linda Jeffery Curtin University
Romina Palermo
Romina Palermo University of Western Australia
Elizabeth Pellicano
Elizabeth Pellicano University College London
Andrew J. Calder
Andrew J. Calder University of Cambridge
Colin W. G. Clifford
Colin W. G. Clifford University of New South Wales
Elinor McKone
Elinor McKone Australian National University
Daphne Maurer
Daphne Maurer McMaster University
Leslie A. Zebrowitz
Leslie A. Zebrowitz Brandeis University
Jamin Halberstadt
Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago
Stefan R. Schweinberger
Stefan R. Schweinberger Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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