Face perception is crucial to social interactions, yet people vary in how easily they can
recognize their friends, verify an identification document or notice someone's smile. There …

This chapter reviews studies on voice attractiveness from evolutionary, social, and cognitive
neuroscience perspectives. Taking this interdisciplinary approach, it explores what makes a …

Sexual harassment is pervasive and has adverse effects on its victims, yet perceiving sexual
harassment is wrought with ambiguity, making harassment difficult to identify and …

Evolutionary approaches to human attractiveness have documented several traits that are
proposed to be attractive across individuals and cultures, although both cross-individual and …

Objectives Despite a weak evidence base, daily use of mindfulness-based self-help
smartphone applications (apps) is said to promote wellbeing. However, many do not use …

Manipulations of voice pitch have been shown to alter attractiveness ratings, but whether
preferences extend to very low or very high voice pitch is unknown. Here, we manipulated …

Information from faces and voices combines to provide multimodal signals about a person.
Faces and voices may offer redundant, overlapping (backup signals), or complementary …

Previous studies have shown that women with higher maternal tendencies are shorter and
have lower testosterone levels than those with lower maternal tendencies. Here we report …

Previous research has shown that men prefer higher-pitched women's voices and women
prefer lower-pitched men's voices. However, both men and women can modulate their voice …

Sexual infidelity can be costly to members of both the extra-pair and the paired couple. Thus,
detecting infidelity risk is potentially adaptive if it aids in avoiding cuckoldry or loss of …