ABOUT ME

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Northumbria University. Trained as an evolutionary biologist, I study human behavior with different approaches.

Broadly, I try to understand how evolution shaped our preferences, and what its consequences are in our contemporary lives. ​

My work has covered various topics such as parent-offspring conflict over mate choice, variation in feminine beauty standards through history, sexual selection on age at menopause, and mate preferences for homogamy in facial features. ​

​I mix various methods and academic fields. For example, I use eye-tracking techniques, laboratory based and online experiments, geometric morphometric analyses, image manipulation of faces, artworks datasets and fieldwork in China.

My co-authors come from biology, economics, psychology, marketing and anthropology.

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-  Sexual selection   -   Human mate choice   -   Preferences   -    Evolutionary tradeoffs   -   Historical, geographical and individual differences in preferences  -