Prof David Perrett

Bishop Wardlaw Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3044

Email

dp@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

David Perrett studies how we recognise facial attributes and understand actions of others. Current projects include the nature of cues in the face to attractiveness and health; the impact of childhood, parental relationships and development across puberty on mate choice in adulthood; attraction to voice and to pheromones; decoding emotional expression and deception; sharing of attention; the role of expectations and cross modal integration in understanding actions; and the use of computer graphics to enhance recognition.

For more information see the Perception Lab.

Selected publications

• Open access

  You are what you eat: Within-subject increases in fruit and vegetable consumption confer beneficial skin-color changes

  Whitehead, R. D., Re, D., Xiao, D., Ozakinci, G. & Perrett, D. I., 7 Mar 2012, In: PLoS One. 7, 3, e32988.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness

  Stirrat, M. R. & Perrett, D. I., Mar 2010, In: Psychological Science. 21, 3, p. 349-354

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Facial adiposity: a cue to health?

  Coetzee, V., Perrett, D. I. & Stephen, I. D., 2009, In: Perception. 38, 11, p. 1700-1711 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Facial skin coloration affects perceived health of human faces

  Stephen, I. D., Law Smith, M. J., Stirrat, M. R. & Perrett, D. I., Dec 2009, In: International Journal of Primatology. 30, 6, p. 845-857

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Seeing the future: Natural image sequences produce “anticipatory” neuronal activity and bias perceptual report

  Perrett, D. I., Xiao, D., Barraclough, N. E., Keysers, C. & Oram, M. W., 2009, In: The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 62, 11, p. 2081-2104

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Emotional expression modulates perceived gaze direction

  Lobmaier, J. S., Tiddeman, B. P. & Perrett, D. I., Aug 2008, In: Emotion. 8, p. 573-577 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sexy sons and sexy daughters: the influence of parents' facial characteristics on offspring

  Cornwell, R. E. & Perrett, D. I., Dec 2008, In: Animal Behaviour. 76, p. 1843-1853 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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