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Overview

Lisa M. DeBruine is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in the field of psychology. Their work spans several subfields including experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, marketing, and sociology and political science.

The primary research focus lies within evolutionary psychology and human behavior, which encompasses investigations into areas such as the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, body image and dysmorphia studies, face recognition and perception, consumer behavior in brand consumption and identification, scientific computing and data management, and sexual function and dysfunction studies.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Nature Human Behaviour
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology
  • Evolution and Human Behavior
  • Arabixiv (OSF Preprints)

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by DeBruine are:

  • "Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy" (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply?" (2021, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • "Understanding Mixed-Effects Models Through Data Simulation" (2021, Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science)
  • "Putting the Self in Self-Correction: Findings From the Loss-of-Confidence Project" (2021, Perspectives on Psychological Science)
  • "Not within spitting distance: Salivary immunoassays of estradiol have subpar validity for predicting cycle phase" (2022, Psychoneuroendocrinology)

DeBruine frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, notably including:

  • Benedict C. Jones
  • Amanda Hahn
  • Iris J. Holzleitner
  • Anthony J. Lee
  • Victor Kenji Medeiros Shiramizu

Best Publications

  • Facial attractiveness: evolutionary based research.

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

  • Facial resemblance enhances trust

    Lisa Marie Debruine

  • Justify your alpha

    Daniel Lakens;Federico G. Adolfi;Federico G. Adolfi;Casper J. Albers;Farid Anvari

  • Menstrual cycle, trait estrogen level, and masculinity preferences in the human voice.

    D.R. Feinberg;B.C. Jones;B.C. Jones;M.J. Law Smith;F.R. Moore

  • 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

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

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

  • Trustworthy but not lust-worthy: context-specific effects of facial resemblance

    Lisa Marie Debruine

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

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

  • 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

  • Facial correlates of sociosexuality

    Lynda G. Boothroyd;Lynda G. Boothroyd;Benedict C. Jones;Benedict C. Jones;D. Michael Burt;D. Michael Burt;Lisa M. DeBruine

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

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

  • Effects of menstrual cycle phase on face preferences.

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

  • The role of femininity and averageness of voice pitch in aesthetic judgments of women's voices.

    David R. Feinberg;Lisa DeBruine;Benedict Christopher Jones;David I. Perrett

  • Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity

    David R. Feinberg;Lisa M. DeBruine;Benedict C. Jones;Anthony C. Little

  • Exposure to visual cues of pathogen contagion changes preferences for masculinity and symmetry in opposite-sex faces

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

  • Use caution when applying behavioural science to policy.

    Hans IJzerman;Neil A. Lewis;Andrew K. Przybylski;Netta Weinstein

  • A domain-specific opposite-sex bias in human preferences for manipulated voice pitch.

    Benedict C. Jones;David R. Feinberg;Lisa M. DeBruine;Anthony C. Little

  • Sexual Selection on Human Faces and Voices

    David A. Puts;Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine

  • No Compelling Evidence that Preferences for Facial Masculinity Track Changes in Women’s Hormonal Status:

    Benedict C. Jones;Amanda C. Hahn;Claire I. Fisher;Hongyi Wang

  • Sex-contingent face after-effects suggest distinct neural populations code male and female faces

    A. C. Little;Lisa Marie Debruine;Benedict Christopher Jones

  • Facial cues of dominance modulate the short-term gaze-cuing effect in human observers

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

  • Social Perception of Facial Resemblance in Humans

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Anthony C. Little
Anthony C. Little University of Bath
David R. Feinberg
David R. Feinberg McMaster University
Lisa L. M. Welling
Lisa L. M. Welling Oakland University
David I. Perrett
David I. Perrett University of St Andrews
S. Craig Roberts
S. Craig Roberts University of Stirling
Joshua M. Tybur
Joshua M. Tybur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Katarzyna Pisanski
Katarzyna Pisanski French National Centre for Scientific Research
Miguel A. Vadillo
Miguel A. Vadillo Autonomous University of Madrid
Jan Havlíček
Jan Havlíček Charles University

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