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Overview

S. Craig Roberts is affiliated with the University of Stirling in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant body of work in experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and sensory systems. They also contribute to biomedical engineering and nutrition and dietetics. The scientist's work spans several interconnected topics, notably evolutionary psychology and human behavior, olfactory and sensory function studies, advanced chemical sensor technologies, attachment and relationship dynamics, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, animal behavior and reproduction, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Their publication record includes frequent contributions to several academic venues. The most common are:

  • Human Ethology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior
  • Evolution and Human Behavior

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by S. Craig Roberts are the following:

  • "Human olfactory communication: current challenges and future prospects," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "More Than Smell-COVID-19 Is Associated With Severe Impairment of Smell, Taste, and Chemesthesis," 2020, Chemical Senses
  • "How and why patterns of sexual dimorphism in human faces vary across the world," 2021, Scientific Reports
  • "Major histocompatibility complex-associated odour preferences and human mate choice: near and far horizons," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The best COVID-19 predictor is recent smell loss: a cross-sectional study," 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist frequently collaborates with peers, including Piotr Sorokowski, Jan Havlíček, Marta Kowal, Agnieszka Sorokowska, and Tomasz Frąckowiak.

Best Publications

  • Facial appearance affects voting decisions.

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

  • More Than Smell-COVID-19 Is Associated With Severe Impairment of Smell, Taste, and Chemesthesis.

    Valentina Parma;Kathrin Ohla;Maria G Veldhuizen;Masha Y Niv

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

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

  • MHC-correlated mate choice in humans: A review

    Jan Havlicek;S. Craig Roberts

  • Scent-marking by male mammals: Cheat-proof signals to competitors and mates

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  • Women's preference for dominant male odour: effects of menstrual cycle and relationship status

    Jan Havlicek;S. Craig Roberts;Jaroslav Flegr

  • MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness

    S. Craig Roberts;S. Craig Roberts;Anthony C. Little;L. Morris Gosling;David I. Perrett

  • MHC-correlated odour preferences in humans and the use of oral contraceptives.

    S. Craig Roberts;L. Morris Gosling;Vaughan Carter;Marion Petrie

  • 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

  • Genetic similarity and quality interact in mate choice decisions by female mice

    S Craig Roberts;L Morris Gosling

  • Variability of Affective Responses to Odors: Culture, Gender, and Olfactory Knowledge

    Camille Ferdenzi;S Craig Roberts;S Craig Roberts;Annett Schirmer;Sylvain Delplanque

  • Good genes, complementary genes and human mate preferences

    S. Craig Roberts;Anthony C. Little

  • Distinguishing between Perceiver and Wearer Effects in Clothing Color-Associated Attributions

    S. Craig Roberts;Roy C. Owen;Jan Havlicek

  • Evidence that androstadienone, a putative human chemosignal, modulates women's attributions of men's attractiveness.

    Tamsin K. Saxton;Anna Lyndon;Anthony C. Little;S. Craig Roberts

  • Methods of Human Body Odor Sampling: The Effect of Freezing

    Pavlina Lenochova;S. Craig Roberts;Jan Havlicek

  • The perception of attractiveness and trustworthiness in male faces affects hypothetical voting decisions differently in wartime and peacetime scenarios

    Anthony C. Little;S. Craig Roberts;Benedict C. Jones;Lisa M. DeBruine

  • Vocal and Facial Attractiveness Judgments of Children, Adolescents and Adults: the Ontogeny of Mate Choice

    Tamsin K. Saxton;Peter G. Caryl;S. Craig Roberts

  • Kin recognition signals in adult faces.

    Lisa M. DeBruine;Finlay G. Smith;Benedict C. Jones;S. Craig Roberts

  • He sees, she smells? Male and female reports of sensory reliance in mate choice and non-mate choice contexts

    Jan Havlicek;Tamsin K. Saxton;S. Craig Roberts;Eva Jozifkova

  • Applied Evolutionary Psychology

    S. Craig Roberts

  • MHC-assortative facial preferences in humans.

    S. Craig Roberts;Anthony C Little;L. Morris Gosling;Benedict C Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Havlíček
Jan Havlíček Charles University
Anthony C. Little
Anthony C. Little University of Bath
Benedict C. Jones
Benedict C. Jones University of Strathclyde
Lisa M. DeBruine
Lisa M. DeBruine University of Glasgow
Abraham P. Buunk
Abraham P. Buunk University of Groningen
Thomas V. Pollet
Thomas V. Pollet Northumbria University
Sylvain Delplanque
Sylvain Delplanque University of Geneva
David Sander
David Sander University of Geneva
Annett Schirmer
Annett Schirmer University of Innsbruck
David I. Perrett
David I. Perrett University of St Andrews

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