Lisa L M Welling
Biographic Data
| ID | 204278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa L M Welling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa L M |
| FAMILY NAME | Welling |
| SIGNATURE | WELLING L L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oakland University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3555-5965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Holy swipes
Popular online dating platforms such as Tinder structure mate evaluation through rapid, appearance-based evaluations of potential mates using limited visual and textual cues. Facial masculinity is a putative cue to genetic fitness, yet it is also associated with short-term mating strategies and reduced perceived trustworthiness. Similarly, biographic content may provide cues to either trustworthy or deceptive intentions. The current study investi…
Ejaculate Adjustment in Response to Sperm Competition Risk in Humans
Asexual individuals report high preferences for femininity in male and female faces
Preferences for sexual dimorphism in male and female faces can vary based on the viewers' gender, sexual orientation, and intensity of sexual desire. Asexual individuals, who experience little to no sexual attraction, may display different preferences for sexual dimorphism than has been observed in allosexual samples. Researchers have hypothesised that gender conformity may likewise impact preferences for sexual dimorphism. Participants (N = 182)…
Asexuality and relationship investment
Sexual attraction is a component of most romantic relationships, making it difficult to disentangle from other motives to invest in relationships. Despite the lack of sexual attraction that characterises asexuality, many self-identified asexual individuals report the desire to enter a romantic relationship. These understudied individuals provide a unique opportunity to study relationship investment in the absence of sexual attraction. We compared…
Robert Axelrod
The primacy of trust within romantic relationships
David Wasserman
Jealousy, Consent, and Compersion Within Monogamous and Consensually Non-Monogamous Romantic Relationships
Evolutionary psychological research has studied romantic jealousy extensively within monogamous relationships, but has largely ignored jealousy among partners who mutually consent to forming extra-pair relationships (i.e., consensual non-monogamy; CNM). We examined monogamous (n = 529) and CNM (n = 159) individuals' reactions to imagining their romantic partner(s)'s extra-pair involvement. For each romantic partner, men and women completed measur…
Psychology
The Risk of a Lifetime
The impact of relationship‐contingent self‐esteem on mate retention and reactions to threat
Relationship‐contingent self‐esteem (RCSE) refers to when feelings of self‐worth are derived from romantic relationships. RCSE influences views of the self and the functioning of romantic relationships. The relationship between RCSE and mate retention behaviors was examined across three studies. Study 1 examined whether self‐esteem level and RCSE predicted mate retention behaviors. Studies 2 and 3 examined whether self‐esteem level and RCSE predi…
Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and voice attractiveness
Philippa Foot
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Monogamy versus Consensual Non-Monogamy
The Relative Importance of Sexual Dimorphism, Fluctuating Asymmetry, and Color Cues to Health during Evaluation of Potential Partners' Facial Photographs
How valid are assessments of conception probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications
Ovulation
Women’s faces and voices are cues to reproductive potential in industrial and forager societies
How Well Do Men’s Faces and Voices Index Mate Quality and Dominance
Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men's traits
Self-Reported Sexual Desire in Homosexual Men and Women Predicts Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Facial Cues
Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women's health
Although several prominent theories of human facial attractiveness propose that some facial characteristics convey information about people's health, empirical evidence for this claim is somewhat mixed. While most previous research into this issue has focused on facial characteristics such as symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism, a recent study reported that ratings of facial adiposity (i.e., perceptions of fatness in the face) were posit…
Men's masculinity and attractiveness predict their female partners' reported orgasm frequency and timing
Why Women Have Orgasms
Monogamy versus Consensual Non-Monogamy
Jealousy, Consent, and Compersion Within Monogamous and Consensually Non-Monogamous Romantic Relationships
Evolutionary psychological research has studied romantic jealousy extensively within monogamous relationships, but has largely ignored jealousy among partners who mutually consent to forming extra-pair relationships (i.e., consensual non-monogamy; CNM). We examined monogamous (n = 529) and CNM (n = 159) individuals' reactions to imagining their romantic partner(s)'s extra-pair involvement. For each romantic partner, men and women completed measur…
Why Women Have Orgasms
Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape
Women demonstrate stronger preferences for femininity when assessing men's attractiveness for long-term rather than short-term relationships. One explanation of this effect is that the pro-social traits associated with femininity are particularly important for long-term relationships. This explanation has recently been challenged, however, following null findings for effects of pro-social attributions on women's preferences for feminine long-term…
Self-Reported Sexual Desire in Homosexual Men and Women Predicts Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Facial Cues
Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women's health
Although several prominent theories of human facial attractiveness propose that some facial characteristics convey information about people's health, empirical evidence for this claim is somewhat mixed. While most previous research into this issue has focused on facial characteristics such as symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism, a recent study reported that ratings of facial adiposity (i.e., perceptions of fatness in the face) were posit…
Reported Sexual Desire Predicts Men’s Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Cues in Women’s Faces
Perceived vulnerability to disease is positively related to the strength of preferences for apparent health in faces
People who are particularly vulnerable to disease may reduce their likelihood of contracting illnesses during social interactions by having particularly strong aversions to individuals who appear ill. Consistent with this proposal, here we show that men and women who perceive themselves to be particularly vulnerable to disease have stronger preferences for apparent health in dynamic faces than individuals who perceive themselves to be relatively …
The Relative Importance of Sexual Dimorphism, Fluctuating Asymmetry, and Color Cues to Health during Evaluation of Potential Partners' Facial Photographs
Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for masculine pitch in men's voices
Several studies have found that women tend to demonstrate stronger preferences for masculine men as short‐term partners than as long‐term partners, though there is considerable variation among women in the magnitude of this effect. One possible source of this variation is individual differences in the extent to which women perceive masculine men to possess antisocial traits that are less costly in short‐term relationships than in long‐term relati…
Asexuality and relationship investment
Sexual attraction is a component of most romantic relationships, making it difficult to disentangle from other motives to invest in relationships. Despite the lack of sexual attraction that characterises asexuality, many self-identified asexual individuals report the desire to enter a romantic relationship. These understudied individuals provide a unique opportunity to study relationship investment in the absence of sexual attraction. We compared…
How Well Do Men’s Faces and Voices Index Mate Quality and Dominance
Visual adaptation to masculine and feminine faces influences generalized preferences and perceptions of trustworthiness
Sensation seeking and men's face preferences
Perceived vulnerability to disease is positively related to the strength of preferences for apparent health in faces
People who are particularly vulnerable to disease may reduce their likelihood of contracting illnesses during social interactions by having particularly strong aversions to individuals who appear ill. Consistent with this proposal, here we show that men and women who perceive themselves to be particularly vulnerable to disease have stronger preferences for apparent health in dynamic faces than individuals who perceive themselves to be relatively …
Exposure to sexually attractive men decreases women's preferences for feminine faces
Here we show that women's preferences for femininity (vs. masculinity) in men's faces are decreased after viewing a slideshow of images of highly attractive men, but not after viewing a slideshow of relatively unattractive men. As masculinity is thought to be a cue of men's heritable fitness, and viewing images of highly attractive opposite-sex individuals increases sexual motivation, this may indicate that women increase their preferences for ma…
Attractiveness qualifies the effect of observation on trusting behavior in an economic game
Hormonal contraceptive use and perceptions of trust modulate the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for sexual dimorphism in male face shape
Women demonstrate stronger preferences for femininity when assessing men's attractiveness for long-term rather than short-term relationships. One explanation of this effect is that the pro-social traits associated with femininity are particularly important for long-term relationships. This explanation has recently been challenged, however, following null findings for effects of pro-social attributions on women's preferences for feminine long-term…
Mate retention behavior modulates men's preferences for self-resemblance in infant faces
Reported Sexual Desire Predicts Men’s Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Cues in Women’s Faces
Variation in perceptions of physical dominance and trustworthiness predicts individual differences in the effect of relationship context on women's preferences for masculine pitch in men's voices
Several studies have found that women tend to demonstrate stronger preferences for masculine men as short‐term partners than as long‐term partners, though there is considerable variation among women in the magnitude of this effect. One possible source of this variation is individual differences in the extent to which women perceive masculine men to possess antisocial traits that are less costly in short‐term relationships than in long‐term relati…
Men's masculinity and attractiveness predict their female partners' reported orgasm frequency and timing
Why Women Have Orgasms
Quantifying the strength and form of sexual selection on men's traits
Self-Reported Sexual Desire in Homosexual Men and Women Predicts Preferences for Sexually Dimorphic Facial Cues
Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women's health
Although several prominent theories of human facial attractiveness propose that some facial characteristics convey information about people's health, empirical evidence for this claim is somewhat mixed. While most previous research into this issue has focused on facial characteristics such as symmetry, averageness, and sexual dimorphism, a recent study reported that ratings of facial adiposity (i.e., perceptions of fatness in the face) were posit…
Women’s faces and voices are cues to reproductive potential in industrial and forager societies
How Well Do Men’s Faces and Voices Index Mate Quality and Dominance
How valid are assessments of conception probability in ovulatory cycle research? Evaluations, recommendations, and theoretical implications
Ovulation
Are there vocal cues to human developmental stability? Relationships between facial fluctuating asymmetry and voice attractiveness
Philippa Foot
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Monogamy versus Consensual Non-Monogamy
The Relative Importance of Sexual Dimorphism, Fluctuating Asymmetry, and Color Cues to Health during Evaluation of Potential Partners' Facial Photographs
Psychology
The Risk of a Lifetime
Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (26 works) · Psychology (26 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Attractiveness (13 works) · Biology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (8 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (8 works) · Mating (8 works)