David Ian Perrett FBA

FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". This soci ...

(born 11 April 1954) is a

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psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

at the

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, where he leads the Perception Lab. The main focus in his team's research is on

face perception Facial perception is an individual's understanding and interpretation of the face. Here, perception implies the presence of consciousness and hence excludes automated facial recognition systems. Although facial recognition is found in other spec ...

, including facial cues to health, effects of physiological conditions on facial appearance, and facial preferences in social settings such as trust games and

mate choice Mate choice is one of the primary mechanisms under which evolution can occur. It is characterized by a "selective response by animals to particular stimuli" which can be observed as behavior.Bateson, Paul Patrick Gordon. "Mate Choice." Mate Choic ...

. He has published over 400

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articles, many of which appearing in leading scientific journals such as the '' Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences'', ''

Psychological Science ''Psychological Science'', the flagship journal of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), is a monthly, peer-reviewed, scientific journal published by SAGE Publications. Publication scope ''Psychological Science'' publishes research r ...

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''. Perrett received the

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President's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in 2000, the Golden Brain Award of

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in 2002, the Experimental Psychology Society Mid-Career prize (2008), and a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship (2009–2012). Perrett received a BSc in psychology from the

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in 1976. Perrett received a DPhil in psychology from

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in 1981, under

Edmund Rolls Edmund T. Rolls is a neuroscientist and Professor at the University of Warwick. Rolls is a neuroscientist with research interests in computational neuroscience, including the operation of real neuronal networks in the brain involved in vision, m ...

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