CURRENT
PhD students
Paxton Culpepper
Working on behavioural immunity and evolutionary approaches to religion
Working on behavioural immunity and evolutionary approaches to religion
Faize Eryaman
Faize started in April 2018 and is working on developmental aspects of mate preferences
Faize started in April 2018 and is working on developmental aspects of mate preferences
Francesca Singleton
Francesca started her PhD in October 2017 and is working on hormonal effects on women's behaviour.
Francesca started her PhD in October 2017 and is working on hormonal effects on women's behaviour.
Assistants and MSc students
Zsófia Csajbók
Zsófie is visiting for 6 months in 2018 on an ERASMUS exchange, from her PhD at Charles University in Prague, working on models of mate preferences.
Zsófie is visiting for 6 months in 2018 on an ERASMUS exchange, from her PhD at Charles University in Prague, working on models of mate preferences.
Sophie Iwanikiw
Working on individual assessment through odour, funded by a University Vacation Scholarship
Working on individual assessment through odour, funded by a University Vacation Scholarship
ALUMNI and VISITORS
Research Assistants
Caroline Allen
After finishing her PhD with us, Caroline worked on aspects of fragrance psychology and communicatory signficance of odour, as well as on our contracts with Boots. She has since worked at Edinburgh Napier University and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University.
After finishing her PhD with us, Caroline worked on aspects of fragrance psychology and communicatory signficance of odour, as well as on our contracts with Boots. She has since worked at Edinburgh Napier University and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University.
Julia Baumann
Julia was an undergraduate student at Stirling, and worked in the lab on odour methodology development and validation, funded by a 2016 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship.
Julia was an undergraduate student at Stirling, and worked in the lab on odour methodology development and validation, funded by a 2016 Wellcome Trust Biomedical Vacation Scholarship.
Rob Burriss
Postdoctoral research assistant for ESRC project on consequences of oral contraceptive use during partner choice. 2011-2012. He since held a Research Fellowship at the University of Northumbria, and is now in the Dept of Psychology at Basel University.
Postdoctoral research assistant for ESRC project on consequences of oral contraceptive use during partner choice. 2011-2012. He since held a Research Fellowship at the University of Northumbria, and is now in the Dept of Psychology at Basel University.
Kelly Cobey
Kelly worked on a number of projects on hormonal effects on mating psychology and on odour communication. Part of her time here was funded by a Fyssen Foundation fellowship. She is now a Senior Research Associate at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
Kelly worked on a number of projects on hormonal effects on mating psychology and on odour communication. Part of her time here was funded by a Fyssen Foundation fellowship. She is now a Senior Research Associate at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute.
Camille Ferdenzi-Lemaitre
Fyssen Foundation postdoc working on body odour and communication. 2007-2008. She has since worked at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, and is now in the NEUROPOP group at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center.
Fyssen Foundation postdoc working on body odour and communication. 2007-2008. She has since worked at the Swiss Centre for Affective Sciences, and is now in the NEUROPOP group at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center.
Jitka Fialová
Worked on body odour perception and androstenes while visiting from Charles University in Prague during 2014-15
Worked on body odour perception and androstenes while visiting from Charles University in Prague during 2014-15
Theresa Grod
Worked on hormonal effects on relationship satisfaction during 2016, funded by a University Vacation Scholarship.
Worked on hormonal effects on relationship satisfaction during 2016, funded by a University Vacation Scholarship.
Lydie Kubicova
Lydie worked for several weeks on body odour experiments while visiting in 2012 from Charles University, Prague
Lydie worked for several weeks on body odour experiments while visiting in 2012 from Charles University, Prague
Mike Nicholls
RA working on social consequences of oral contraceptive use, 2014
RA working on social consequences of oral contraceptive use, 2014
Irena Pavela
Irena visited in June and throughout autumn of 2016. She was funded by a British Scholarship Trust grant and worked on hormonal influence on vocal characteristics and vocal perception. She holds a position in the Dept of Psychology at the University of Zadar.
Irena visited in June and throughout autumn of 2016. She was funded by a British Scholarship Trust grant and worked on hormonal influence on vocal characteristics and vocal perception. She holds a position in the Dept of Psychology at the University of Zadar.
Valentina Piccoli
Valentina spent a few months with us during 2013, from the University of Trieste, and worked on hormonal influences on female competition.
Valentina spent a few months with us during 2013, from the University of Trieste, and worked on hormonal influences on female competition.
Vít Třebický
Worked on perception of formidability in faces, while visiting from Charles University in Prague during 2014-15.
Worked on perception of formidability in faces, while visiting from Charles University in Prague during 2014-15.
Former PhD students
Caroline Allen
Caroline worked on fragrances and effects on perception of body odour, 2012-2015. She is currently working in the lab on various projects, and as a research assistant at Napier University, Edinburgh.
Caroline worked on fragrances and effects on perception of body odour, 2012-2015. She is currently working in the lab on various projects, and as a research assistant at Napier University, Edinburgh.
Kelly Cobey
PhD on how intimate relationships and social behaviors are shaped by hormones and how use of hormonal contraception influence mate preferences and behaviors. Her PhD was at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 2009-2013. I was her secondary supervisor.
PhD on how intimate relationships and social behaviors are shaped by hormones and how use of hormonal contraception influence mate preferences and behaviors. Her PhD was at University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 2009-2013. I was her secondary supervisor.
Juan David Leongomez
PhD on music from an evolutionary perspective and how music transmits information, experimentally studying the implicated human behaviours and comparing them to the non-verbal codes of language. He is now teaching at the Universidad El Bosque, Colombia.
PhD on music from an evolutionary perspective and how music transmits information, experimentally studying the implicated human behaviours and comparing them to the non-verbal codes of language. He is now teaching at the Universidad El Bosque, Colombia.
Alice Murray
PhD on behavioural effects of the 16-androstenes and male body odour, University of Liverpool, 2008-2012 (spending the last two years of her studentship here in Stirling). She has then worked as Executive Editor at BioMed Central and is now Research Governance Facilitator at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London.
PhD on behavioural effects of the 16-androstenes and male body odour, University of Liverpool, 2008-2012 (spending the last two years of her studentship here in Stirling). She has then worked as Executive Editor at BioMed Central and is now Research Governance Facilitator at Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London.
Tamsin Saxton
PhD on individual variation in human mate choice, University of Liverpool, 2005-2008. Tamsin then held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Prof David Perrett at St Andrews and a Lectureship at Abertay University. She is now Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Northumbria.
PhD on individual variation in human mate choice, University of Liverpool, 2005-2008. Tamsin then held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with Prof David Perrett at St Andrews and a Lectureship at Abertay University. She is now Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Northumbria.
Jim Swaffield
PhD on evolutionary perspectives on diet and appetite at University of Stirling, 2012-2018. Now Assistant Professor at University of the Fraser Valley, Canada.
PhD on evolutionary perspectives on diet and appetite at University of Stirling, 2012-2018. Now Assistant Professor at University of the Fraser Valley, Canada.
Tony Vakirtzis
PhD on mate choice copying in humans, University of Liverpool, 2009-2012.
PhD on mate choice copying in humans, University of Liverpool, 2009-2012.
MSc Dissertation students
Callum Edwards 2017-18 Discrimination of attractiveness among homosexual adults
Caitlin Rennie 2017-18 Early life experience and olfactory preferences in adulthood
Maria Koutsonanou 2017-18 Conservatism and threat management
Vikki Martin 2017-18 Human olfactory communication
Mia Oebels 2016-17 Changes in addictive behaviour across the menstrual cycle
Faize Eryaman 2015-16 Mutual odour recognition between mother and child
Hannah Turrell 2015-16 Odour and Equine therapy
Francesca Singleton 2014-15 Oral contraceptive use and relationship satisfaction
Devin Johnson 2013-14 Evolutionary perspectives on perception of crime
Julia Sanz-Vidania 2013-14 Verbal and non-verbal elements of language - are they linked?
Mike Nicholls 2012-13 Consequences of using oral contraceptives during mate choice
Claire Binnie 2012-13 Personality and altruistic punishment: an experimental approach
Lauren Marshall 2011-12 Consequences of using oral contraceptives during mate choice
Gillian Crawford 2009-10 Height and perceived attractiveness
Andrew Pool 2009-10 Clothing colour and attractiveness judgements
Kelly Cobey 2008-09 Behavioural changes across the menstrual cycle
Attila Jardan 2008-09 Male hirsuteness and physical attractiveness
Simon Utstoel 2008-09 Attentional bias across the menstrual cycle
Heather Williams 2008-09 From mate preference to partner choice
Juan David Leongomez 2008-09 Variation in human voice in response to intra- and inter-sexual stimuli
Ruth Scutter 2007-08 Correlates of MHC heterozygosity
Lilja Kristjansdottir 2007-08 Personality and punishment: how willingness to punish varies between different personalities
Gabrielle Tamosaityte 2007-08 Facial similarity and attractiveness in couples with the use of static and dynamic imagery
Jessica Mallach 2007-08 Correlates of cooperation in children and young adults
James Garrity 2007-08 Perceived attractiveness between static and dynamic images
Micheal De Barra 2007-08 The role of facial resemblance in human mate choice
David Mobbs 2006-07 Is confidence really attractive?
Ting Gao 2006-07 Female physical attractiveness across the menstrual cycle - a cross-cultural investigation
Scott Poglitsch 2005-06 Body size and physical attractiveness
Antonios Vakirtzis 2005-06 Mate choice copying in humans
Cara Evans 2005-06 Contraceptive pill use: an investigation of potential evolutionary implications
Christina Boulter 2005-06 Effect of hair length on attractiveness
Victor Lane 2005-06 Seeing red
Caitlin Rennie 2017-18 Early life experience and olfactory preferences in adulthood
Maria Koutsonanou 2017-18 Conservatism and threat management
Vikki Martin 2017-18 Human olfactory communication
Mia Oebels 2016-17 Changes in addictive behaviour across the menstrual cycle
Faize Eryaman 2015-16 Mutual odour recognition between mother and child
Hannah Turrell 2015-16 Odour and Equine therapy
Francesca Singleton 2014-15 Oral contraceptive use and relationship satisfaction
Devin Johnson 2013-14 Evolutionary perspectives on perception of crime
Julia Sanz-Vidania 2013-14 Verbal and non-verbal elements of language - are they linked?
Mike Nicholls 2012-13 Consequences of using oral contraceptives during mate choice
Claire Binnie 2012-13 Personality and altruistic punishment: an experimental approach
Lauren Marshall 2011-12 Consequences of using oral contraceptives during mate choice
Gillian Crawford 2009-10 Height and perceived attractiveness
Andrew Pool 2009-10 Clothing colour and attractiveness judgements
Kelly Cobey 2008-09 Behavioural changes across the menstrual cycle
Attila Jardan 2008-09 Male hirsuteness and physical attractiveness
Simon Utstoel 2008-09 Attentional bias across the menstrual cycle
Heather Williams 2008-09 From mate preference to partner choice
Juan David Leongomez 2008-09 Variation in human voice in response to intra- and inter-sexual stimuli
Ruth Scutter 2007-08 Correlates of MHC heterozygosity
Lilja Kristjansdottir 2007-08 Personality and punishment: how willingness to punish varies between different personalities
Gabrielle Tamosaityte 2007-08 Facial similarity and attractiveness in couples with the use of static and dynamic imagery
Jessica Mallach 2007-08 Correlates of cooperation in children and young adults
James Garrity 2007-08 Perceived attractiveness between static and dynamic images
Micheal De Barra 2007-08 The role of facial resemblance in human mate choice
David Mobbs 2006-07 Is confidence really attractive?
Ting Gao 2006-07 Female physical attractiveness across the menstrual cycle - a cross-cultural investigation
Scott Poglitsch 2005-06 Body size and physical attractiveness
Antonios Vakirtzis 2005-06 Mate choice copying in humans
Cara Evans 2005-06 Contraceptive pill use: an investigation of potential evolutionary implications
Christina Boulter 2005-06 Effect of hair length on attractiveness
Victor Lane 2005-06 Seeing red
