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  1. Attachment styles and mate-retention: Exploring the mediating role of relationship satisfaction.

    Article • Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, September 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Paul Hanel, Dr Anthony C Little

  2. The varying value of a friendly face: Experimentally induced stress is associated with higher preferences for friendship with people possessing feminine versus masculine face traits

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, August 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  3. Hormonal effects on women's facial masculinity preferences: The influence of pregnancy, post-partum, and hormonal contraceptive use

    Article • Biological Psychology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  4. Primacy in the effects of face exposure: Perception is influenced more by faces that are seen first.

    Article • Archives of Scientific Psychology, December 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  5. Similarities in Human Visual and Declared Measures of Preference for Opposite-Sex Faces

    Article • Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie), December 2014, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr Anthony C Little

  6. Facial appearance and leader choice in different contexts: Evidence for task contingent selection based on implicit and learned face-behaviour/face-ability associations

    Article • The Leadership Quarterly, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  7. In the face of dominance: Self-perceived and other-perceived dominance are positively associated with facial-width-to-height ratio in men

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  8. Further evidence for links between facial width-to-height ratio and fighting success: Commentary on Zilioli et al. (2014)

    Article • Aggressive Behavior, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  9. Facial attractiveness

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  10. Infant's visual preferences for facial traits associated with adult attractiveness judgements: Data from eye-tracking

    Article • Infant Behavior and Development, August 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  11. Partner Choice, Relationship Satisfaction, and Oral Contraception

    Article • Psychological Science, May 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little, S. C. Roberts

  12. Domain Specificity in Human Symmetry Preferences: Symmetry is Most Pleasant When Looking at Human Faces

    Article • Symmetry, April 2014, MDPI AG

    Dr Anthony C Little

  13. Do assortative preferences contribute to assortative mating for adiposity?

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, October 2013, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  14. The other-species effect in human perceptions of sexual dimorphism using human and macaque faces

    Article • Visual Cognition, October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Anthony C Little, Dr Katarzyna Pisanski

  15. The influence of steroid sex hormones on the cognitive and emotional processing of visual stimuli in humans

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  16. Adaptation to Faces and Voices

    Article • Psychological Science, September 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  17. Oral contraceptive use in women changes preferences for male facial masculinity and is associated with partner facial masculinity

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  18. Perceived Aggressiveness Predicts Fighting Performance in Mixed-Martial-Arts Fighters

    Article • Psychological Science, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  19. Voice pitch preferences of adolescents: Do changes across time indicate a shift towards potentially adaptive adult-like preferences?

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  20. Men's strategic preferences for femininity in female faces

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  21. Sex Differences in Attraction to Familiar and Unfamiliar Opposite-Sex Faces: Men Prefer Novelty and Women Prefer Familiarity

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, June 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  22. Environment contingent preferences: Exposure to visual cues of direct male–male competition and wealth increase women's preferences for masculinity in male faces

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  23. Accuracy in discrimination of self-reported cooperators using static facial information

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  24. The effects of relationship context and modality on ratings of funniness

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, March 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  25. Salivary cortisol and pathogen disgust predict men's preferences for feminine shape cues in women's faces

    Article • Biological Psychology, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  26. The organization of conspecific face space in nonhuman primates

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, December 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little, Peter Hancock

  27. Multiple motives in women's preferences for masculine male faces: comment on Scott et al.

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  28. Pathogen disgust predicts women's preferences for masculinity in men's voices, faces, and bodies

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, October 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Anthony C Little

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

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  30. Facial asymmetry is negatively related to condition in female macaque monkeys

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  31. Manipulation of Infant‐Like Traits Affects Perceived Cuteness of Infant, Adult and Cat Faces

    Article • Ethology, July 2012, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  32. Variation in facial masculinity and symmetry preferences across the menstrual cycle is moderated by relationship context

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  33. Cues to the sex ratio of the local population influence women’s preferences for facial symmetry

    Article • Animal Behaviour, February 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little, Dr Christopher D Watkins

  34. Extending parasite-stress theory to variation in human mate preferences

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Anthony C Little

  35. Sexual Conflict and the Ovulatory Cycle

    Article • January 2012

    Dr Anthony C Little

  36. Mixed-Ethnicity Face Shape and Attractiveness in Humans

    Article • Perception, January 2012, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  37. Hormonal contraceptive use and mate retention behavior in women and their male partners

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  38. Adaptation to Antifaces and the Perception of Correct Famous Identity in an Average Face

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2012, Frontiers

    Dr Anthony C Little, Peter Hancock

  39. Further Evidence That Facial Cues of Dominance Modulate Gaze Cuing in Human Observers

    Article • Swiss Journal of Psychology, December 2011, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr Anthony C Little

  40. Accuracy in assessment of self-reported stress and a measure of health from static facial information

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  41. Effects of Partner Beauty on Opposite-Sex Attractiveness Judgments

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  42. Sociosexuality Predicts Women’s Preferences for Symmetry in Men’s Faces

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, September 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  43. Circum-menopausal changes in women's preferences for sexually dimorphic shape cues in peer-aged faces

    Article • Biological Psychology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  44. Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2011, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Anthony C Little

  45. ‘Eavesdropping’ and perceived male dominance rank in humans

    Article • Animal Behaviour, June 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  46. Human preference for masculinity differs according to context in faces, bodies, voices, and smell

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, May 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  47. The many faces of research on face perception

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2011, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  48. Reported Sexual Desire Predicts Men’s Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Cues in Women’s Faces

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  49. Category-contingent face adaptation for novel colour categories: Contingent effects are seen only after social or meaningful labelling

    Article • Cognition, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  51. Facial Attractiveness

    Article • November 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  52. Adaptation to different mouth shapes influences visual perception of ambiguous lip speech

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, August 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  53. Women's preferences for masculinity in male faces are highest during reproductive age range and lower around puberty and post-menopause

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, July 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  54. Opposite effects of visual versus imagined presentation of faces on subsequent sex perception

    Article • Visual Cognition, June 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Anthony C Little

  55. Are attractive men's faces masculine or feminine? The importance of controlling confounds in face stimuli.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, June 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  56. Reading the Look of Love

    Article • Psychological Science, May 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  57. Transient pupil constrictions when viewing human and macaque faces

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2010, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  58. The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: cross-cultural variation in women's preferences for masculinized male faces

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, March 2010, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  59. Interactions among the Effects of Head Orientation, Emotional Expression, and Physical Attractiveness on Face Preferences

    Article • Perception, January 2010, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  60. Adolescents’ preferences for sexual dimorphism are influenced by relative exposure to male and female faces

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, December 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  61. Extraversion predicts individual differences in women’s face preferences

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, December 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  62. Face and voice attractiveness judgments change during adolescence

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  63. The relative importance of the face and body in judgments of human physical attractiveness

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  64. Sex-Dimorphic Face Shape Preference in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, October 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  65. Waist–hip ratio predicts women’s preferences for masculine male faces, but not perceptions of men’s trustworthiness

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  66. Static and Dynamic Facial Images Cue Similar Attractiveness Judgements

    Article • Ethology, May 2009, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  67. Pregnancy coloration in macaques may act as a warning signal to reduce antagonism by conspecifics

    Article • Behavioural Processes, January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  68. View-Contingent Aftereffects Suggest Joint Coding of Face Shape and View

    Article • Perception, January 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  69. Integrating Gaze Direction and Sexual Dimorphism of Face Shape When Perceiving the Dominance of Others

    Article • Perception, January 2009, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  70. Facial scarring enhances men’s attractiveness for short-term relationships

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  71. Men report stronger attraction to femininity in women's faces when their testosterone levels are high

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  72. Preferences for variation in masculinity in real male faces change across the menstrual cycle: Women prefer more masculine faces when they are more fertile

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  73. Adaptation reinforces preferences for correlates of attractive facial cues

    Article • Visual Cognition, October 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Anthony C Little

  74. Exposure to sexually attractive men decreases women's preferences for feminine faces

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, September 2008, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Anthony C Little

  75. Correlated preferences for men's facial and vocal masculinity

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  76. Symmetry and sexual dimorphism in human faces: interrelated preferences suggest both signal quality

    Article • Behavioral Ecology, May 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  77. Symmetry Is Related to Sexual Dimorphism in Faces: Data Across Culture and Species

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2008, PLOS

    Dr Anthony C Little

  78. Good genes, complementary genes and human mate preferences

    Article • Genetica, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  79. Category contingent aftereffects for faces of different races, ages and species

    Article • Cognition, March 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  80. Transient pupil constrictions to faces are sensitive to orientation and species

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2008, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  81. Effects of Menstrual Cycle Phase on Face Preferences

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  82. Preferences for symmetry in human faces in two cultures: data from the UK and the Hadza, an isolated group of hunter-gatherers

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  83. Social Perception of Facial Resemblance in Humans

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, December 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  84. Facial Averageness and Attractiveness in an Isolated Population of Hunter-Gatherers

    Article • Perception, December 2007, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  85. The role of symmetry in attraction to average faces

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, November 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  86. Sensation seeking and men's face preferences

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  87. Preferences for symmetry in faces change across the menstrual cycle

    Article • Biological Psychology, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

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

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, August 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  89. Good genes, complementary genes and human mate preferences

    Article • Genetica, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  90. Preferences for masculinity in male bodies change across the menstrual cycle

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, May 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  91. Duchenne smiles and the perception of generosity and sociability in faces

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Anthony C Little

  92. The valence of experiences with faces influences generalized preferences

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Anthony C Little

  93. Attribution to red suggests special role in dominance signalling

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, March 2007, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr Anthony C Little

  94. Using composite images to assess accuracy in personality attribution to faces

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, February 2007, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  95. Females Pay Attention to Female Secondary Sexual Color: An Experimental Study in Macaca mulatta

    Article • International Journal of Primatology, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  96. 2D:4D and Sexually Dimorphic Facial Characteristics

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, January 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  97. Dissociating averageness and attractiveness: Attractive faces are not always average.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  98. Facial appearance affects voting decisions

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, January 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  99. Human preferences for facial masculinity change with relationship type and environmental harshness

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, December 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

  100. Viewing attractive or unattractive same-sex individuals changes self-rated attractiveness and face preferences in women

    Article • Animal Behaviour, November 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  101. What is good is beautiful: Face preference reflects desired personality

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, October 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  102. Visual adaptation to masculine and feminine faces influences generalized preferences and perceptions of trustworthiness

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, September 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  103. Effects of partner conception risk phase on male perception of dominance in faces

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  104. Integrating Gaze Direction and Expression in Preferences for Attractive Faces

    Article • Psychological Science, July 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  105. Selective attention toward female secondary sexual color in male rhesus macaques

    Article • American Journal of Primatology, June 2006, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little

  106. Assortative mating for perceived facial personality traits

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, April 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  107. Preferences for Symmetry in Conspecific Facial Shape Among Macaca mulatta

    Article • International Journal of Primatology, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little

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

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, November 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  109. Women's physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, November 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  110. 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

    Article • Hormones and Behavior, September 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Anthony C Little

  111. Menstrual cycle, pregnancy and oral contraceptive use alter attraction to apparent health in faces

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2005, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  112. When Facial Attractiveness is Only Skin Deep

    Article • Perception, May 2004, SAGE Publications

    Dr Anthony C Little

  113. Evidence against perceptual bias views for symmetry preferences in human faces

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, September 2003, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  114. Female condition influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces of male humans (Homo sapiens).

    Article • Journal of Comparative Psychology, January 2003, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Anthony C Little

  115. The role of masculinity and distinctiveness in judgments of human male facial attractiveness

    Article • British Journal of Psychology, November 2002, Wiley

    Dr Anthony C Little, Peter Hancock

  116. Self-perceived attractiveness influences human female preferences for sexual dimorphism and symmetry in male faces

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2001, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Anthony C Little

  117. The evolutionary cognitive neuropsychology of face preferences

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Anthony C Little

  118. Ecological Validity in the Study of Human Pheromones

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Anthony C Little