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Overview

Ian S. Penton-Voak is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their academic focus lies predominantly within the field of Psychology, with extensive work in Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The scientist's research covers a variety of topics, including:

  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies

Ian S. Penton-Voak has contributed to several publications in a range of journals. Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by them include:

  • "A Randomized Controlled Trial of Computerized Interpretation Bias Training for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder: A Fast-Fail Study" (2021), published in Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • "The effects of age at menarche and first sexual intercourse on reproductive and behavioural outcomes: A Mendelian randomization study" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "The role of state and trait anxiety in the processing of facial expressions of emotion" (2022), published in Royal Society Open Science
  • "Emotional recognition training modifies neural response to emotional faces but does not improve mood in healthy volunteers with high levels of depressive symptoms" (2020), published in Psychological Medicine
  • "Cohort profile for the STratifying Resilience and Depression Longitudinally (STRADL) study: A depression-focused investigation of Generation Scotland, using detailed clinical, cognitive, and neuroimaging assessments" (2021), published in Wellcome Open Research

The primary venues where Ian S. Penton-Voak's work appears include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • PLoS ONE

Frequent collaborators in their research encompass:

  • Marcus R. Munafò
  • Angela S. Attwood
  • Helen Bould
  • Steph Suddell
  • Zoe E. Reed

Best Publications

  • Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science

    Alexander A. Aarts;Joanna E. Anderson;Christopher J. Anderson;Peter R. Attridge;Peter R. Attridge

  • Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness

    David I. Perrett;Kieran J Lee;Kieran J Lee;Ian S. Penton-Voak;Duncan Rowland

  • Menstrual cycle alters face preference

    I. S. Penton-Voak;D. I. Perrett;D. L. Castles;D. L. Castles;T. Kobayashi

  • Symmetry and human facial attractiveness.

    David I Perrett;D.Michael Burt;Ian S Penton-Voak;Kieran J Lee

  • Female preference for male faces changes cyclically: Further evidence

    I.S Penton-Voak;D.I Perrett

  • Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Attractiveness

    Bernhard Fink;Ian Penton-Voak

  • 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

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

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

  • High salivary testosterone is linked to masculine male facial appearance in humans.

    Ian S Penton-Voak;Jennie Y Chen

  • 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

  • Oxytocin and social perception: oxytocin increases perceived facial trustworthiness and attractiveness.

    Angeliki Theodoridou;Angela C. Rowe;Ian S. Penton-Voak;Peter J. Rogers

  • 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

  • Meta-analysis of emotion recognition deficits in major depressive disorder.

    Michael N Dalili;Ian S Penton-Voak;Catherine Harmer;Marcus R Munafo

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

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

  • Speeding up an internal clock in humans? Effects of click trains on subjective duration

    I. S. Penton-Voak;Helen Edwards;Andrew Percival;J. H. Wearden

  • 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

  • The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: it's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something

    Daniel Nettle;Zoe Harper;Adam Kidson;Rosie Stone

  • Feeling the heat: body temperature and the rate of subjective time, revisited.

    J H Wearden;I S Penton-Voak

  • Populational differences in attractiveness judgements of male and female faces: Comparing British and Jamaican samples

    Ian S Penton-Voak;A Jacobson;R Trivers

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
David I. Perrett
David I. Perrett University of St Andrews
Catherine J. Harmer
Catherine J. Harmer University of Oxford
Anthony C. Little
Anthony C. Little University of Bath
Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Christopher Jarrold
Christopher Jarrold University of Bristol
Lisa M. DeBruine
Lisa M. DeBruine University of Glasgow
S. Craig Roberts
S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling
Emily A. Holmes
Emily A. Holmes Uppsala University
David R. Feinberg
David R. Feinberg McMaster University

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