Ian S Penton‐voak
Biographic Data
| ID | 3473492 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian S Penton‐voak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian S |
| FAMILY NAME | Penton‐voak |
| SIGNATURE | VOAK I S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4232-0953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Meta-analysis of studies testing cognitive bias modification (CBM) intervention for emotion recognition bias
There is a growing need for cost-effective interventions for depression. Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) techniques have been proposed as economical and scalable interventions that aim to change cognitive biases present in depression, with potential therapeutic effects. Penton-Voak et al. (2012) developed and tested a novel CBM intervention that focuses on retraining negative biases in emotion perception which, over a series of studies, has sho…
Associations between emotion recognition and autistic and callous‐unemotional traits: Differential effects of cueing to the eyes
BACKGROUND: Although autism and callous-unemotional (CU) traits are distinct conditions, both are associated with difficulties in emotion recognition. However, it is unknown whether the emotion recognition difficulties characteristic of autism and CU traits are driven by comparable underpinning mechanisms. METHODS: We tested whether cueing to the eyes improved emotion recognition in relation to autistic and CU traits in a heterogeneous sample of …
Emotional dysregulation in childhood and disordered eating and self‐harm in adolescence: Prospective associations and mediating pathways
BACKGROUND: Emotional dysregulation may be a risk factor for disordered eating and self-harm in young people, but few prospective studies have assessed these associations long-term, or considered potential mediators. We examined prospective relationships between childhood emotional dysregulation and disordered eating and self-harm in adolescence; and social cognition, emotional recognition, and being bullied as mediators. METHODS: We analysed Avo…
Associations between workplace emotional intelligence and micro expression recognition
We investigated relationships between emotional intelligence, micro expression recognition and professional performance in two pre-registered cross-sectional studies. Study 1 (N = 86) explored the relationship between micro expression recognition, emotional intelligence and self-reported subjective professional performance and interpersonal skills in an online sample. Study 2 (N = 125) also utilized an online study to determine if there are diffe…
Effects of state anxiety on gait: A 7.5% carbon dioxide challenge study
We used the 7.5% carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) model of anxiety induction to investigate the effects of state anxiety on normal gait and gait when navigating an obstacle. Healthy volunteers ( n = 22) completed a walking task during inhalations of 7.5% CO 2 and medical air (placebo) in a within-subjects design. The order of inhalation was counterbalanced across participants and the gas was administered double-blind. Over a series of trials, participants …
Examining the bidirectional association between emotion recognition and social autistic traits using observational and genetic analyses
BACKGROUND: There is mixed evidence for an association between autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and emotion recognition deficits. We sought to assess the bidirectionality of this association using phenotypic and genetic data in a large community sample. METHODS: Analyses were conducted in three stages. First, we examined the bidirectional association between social autistic traits at age 8 years and emotion recognition task (ERT) responses at age 2…
Childhood psychosocial adversity and female reproductive timing: A cohort study of the ALSPAC mothers
BACKGROUND: Previous studies of childhood psychosocial adversity and age at menarche mostly evaluated single or a few measures of adversity, and therefore could not quantify total psychosocial adversity. Limited knowledge is currently available regarding childhood psychosocial adversity in relation to age at menopause and reproductive lifespan. METHODS: We examined the associations of total and specific components of childhood psychosocial advers…
The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: It's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something
Shifts in Women’s Mate Preferences Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Critique of Harris (2011) and Harris (2012)
Cross-cultural effects of color, but not morphological masculinity, on perceived attractiveness of men's faces
Another fundamental social category? Spontaneous categorization of people who uphold or violate moral norms
In retreat from nature? Successes and concerns in Darwinian approaches to facial attractiveness
The application of evolutionary biological theory to attractiveness judgments of our own species has revolutionized our understanding of a perenially fascinating phenomenon — the perception of beauty. In this review paper, I hope to briefly discuss how an evolutionary approach has added to our understanding of the psychology of human facial attractiveness judgements. I will also raise some theoretical and methodological concerns, and outline what…
Women’s Probability of Conception Is Associated with their Preference for Flirtatious but not Masculine Facial Movement
Attractiveness in flux: Female preferences for male facial motion depend on mating context and non-additive cues to prosociality and proceptivity
Like facial structure, facial motion is a rich source of information for potential mates, but its relevance may vary across contexts. Perceived flirtatiousness (i.e. proceptivity) may offer information to females about various benefits offered by males, both direct and indirect, and may be weighted more heavily in a short-term mating context. However, proceptivity may interact with other desirable qualities. Prosocial tendencies (i.e. kindness) m…
No reliable effects of emotional facial expression, adult attachment orientation, or anxiety on the allocation of visual attention in the spatial cueing paradigm
Context-dependent preferences for facial dimorphism in a rural Malaysian population
Attractiveness judgements of individuals vary across emotional expression and movement conditions
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the influence of emotional expression and dynamic information on attractiveness judgements of male and female targets. 56 undergraduate participants were presented with video and static stimuli in smiling and neutral conditions (40 targets, 160 stimuli). Our results indicate that smiling and movement influence attractiveness judgements differentially for male and female targets. Smiling increases t…
Male facial attractiveness, perceived personality, and child-directed speech
Facial movement varies by sex and is related to attractiveness
Through rose-tinted glasses: Relationship satisfaction and representations of partners’ facial attractiveness
We investigated individuals’ representations of their partners’ facial appearance as a possible contributory factor to relationship maintenance. Couples completed measures assessing their attitudes to their relationship and their partner, and were photographed. These photographs were manipulated to increase or decrease facial attractiveness. Participants were asked to select the veridical image of their partner from a seven image array (three les…
MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness
Women's physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces
The relationship between shape symmetry and perceived skin condition in male facial attractiveness
High salivary testosterone is linked to masculine male facial appearance in humans
Populational differences in attractiveness judgements of male and female faces
Populational differences in attractiveness judgements of male and female faces
Attractiveness judgements of individuals vary across emotional expression and movement conditions
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the influence of emotional expression and dynamic information on attractiveness judgements of male and female targets. 56 undergraduate participants were presented with video and static stimuli in smiling and neutral conditions (40 targets, 160 stimuli). Our results indicate that smiling and movement influence attractiveness judgements differentially for male and female targets. Smiling increases t…
Another fundamental social category? Spontaneous categorization of people who uphold or violate moral norms
No reliable effects of emotional facial expression, adult attachment orientation, or anxiety on the allocation of visual attention in the spatial cueing paradigm
Through rose-tinted glasses: Relationship satisfaction and representations of partners’ facial attractiveness
We investigated individuals’ representations of their partners’ facial appearance as a possible contributory factor to relationship maintenance. Couples completed measures assessing their attitudes to their relationship and their partner, and were photographed. These photographs were manipulated to increase or decrease facial attractiveness. Participants were asked to select the veridical image of their partner from a seven image array (three les…
Shifts in Women’s Mate Preferences Across the Ovulatory Cycle: A Critique of Harris (2011) and Harris (2012)
In retreat from nature? Successes and concerns in Darwinian approaches to facial attractiveness
The application of evolutionary biological theory to attractiveness judgments of our own species has revolutionized our understanding of a perenially fascinating phenomenon — the perception of beauty. In this review paper, I hope to briefly discuss how an evolutionary approach has added to our understanding of the psychology of human facial attractiveness judgements. I will also raise some theoretical and methodological concerns, and outline what…
Attractiveness in flux: Female preferences for male facial motion depend on mating context and non-additive cues to prosociality and proceptivity
Like facial structure, facial motion is a rich source of information for potential mates, but its relevance may vary across contexts. Perceived flirtatiousness (i.e. proceptivity) may offer information to females about various benefits offered by males, both direct and indirect, and may be weighted more heavily in a short-term mating context. However, proceptivity may interact with other desirable qualities. Prosocial tendencies (i.e. kindness) m…
Childhood psychosocial adversity and female reproductive timing: A cohort study of the ALSPAC mothers
BACKGROUND: Previous studies of childhood psychosocial adversity and age at menarche mostly evaluated single or a few measures of adversity, and therefore could not quantify total psychosocial adversity. Limited knowledge is currently available regarding childhood psychosocial adversity in relation to age at menopause and reproductive lifespan. METHODS: We examined the associations of total and specific components of childhood psychosocial advers…
Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness
Symmetry and Human Facial Attractiveness
Menstrual cycle alters face preference
Female preference for male faces changes cyclically
Facial symmetry and judgements of apparent health
Evolutionary Psychology of Facial Attractiveness
The human face communicates an impressive number of visual signals. Although adults' ratings of facial attractiveness are consistent across studies, even cross-culturally, there has been considerable controversy surrounding attempts to identify the facial features that cause faces to be judged attractive or unattractive. Studies of physical attractiveness have attempted to identify the features that contribute to attractiveness by studying the re…
Investigating an imprinting-like phenomenon in humans
Female condition influences preferences for sexual dimorphism in faces of male humans (Homo sapiens).
In some species, female condition correlates positively with preferences for male secondary sexual traits. Women's preferences for sexually dimorphic characteristics in male faces (facial masculinity) have recently been reported to covary with self-reported attractiveness. As women's attractiveness has been proposed to signal reproductive condition, the findings in human (Homo sapiens) and other species may reflect similar processes. The current …
The relationship between shape symmetry and perceived skin condition in male facial attractiveness
High salivary testosterone is linked to masculine male facial appearance in humans
Populational differences in attractiveness judgements of male and female faces
MHC-heterozygosity and human facial attractiveness
Women's physical and psychological condition independently predict their preference for apparent health in faces
Male facial attractiveness, perceived personality, and child-directed speech
Facial movement varies by sex and is related to attractiveness
Through rose-tinted glasses: Relationship satisfaction and representations of partners’ facial attractiveness
We investigated individuals’ representations of their partners’ facial appearance as a possible contributory factor to relationship maintenance. Couples completed measures assessing their attitudes to their relationship and their partner, and were photographed. These photographs were manipulated to increase or decrease facial attractiveness. Participants were asked to select the veridical image of their partner from a seven image array (three les…
Context-dependent preferences for facial dimorphism in a rural Malaysian population
Attractiveness judgements of individuals vary across emotional expression and movement conditions
The primary aim of this study was to investigate the influence of emotional expression and dynamic information on attractiveness judgements of male and female targets. 56 undergraduate participants were presented with video and static stimuli in smiling and neutral conditions (40 targets, 160 stimuli). Our results indicate that smiling and movement influence attractiveness judgements differentially for male and female targets. Smiling increases t…
Attractiveness in flux: Female preferences for male facial motion depend on mating context and non-additive cues to prosociality and proceptivity
Like facial structure, facial motion is a rich source of information for potential mates, but its relevance may vary across contexts. Perceived flirtatiousness (i.e. proceptivity) may offer information to females about various benefits offered by males, both direct and indirect, and may be weighted more heavily in a short-term mating context. However, proceptivity may interact with other desirable qualities. Prosocial tendencies (i.e. kindness) m…
No reliable effects of emotional facial expression, adult attachment orientation, or anxiety on the allocation of visual attention in the spatial cueing paradigm
Women’s Probability of Conception Is Associated with their Preference for Flirtatious but not Masculine Facial Movement
In retreat from nature? Successes and concerns in Darwinian approaches to facial attractiveness
The application of evolutionary biological theory to attractiveness judgments of our own species has revolutionized our understanding of a perenially fascinating phenomenon — the perception of beauty. In this review paper, I hope to briefly discuss how an evolutionary approach has added to our understanding of the psychology of human facial attractiveness judgements. I will also raise some theoretical and methodological concerns, and outline what…
Cross-cultural effects of color, but not morphological masculinity, on perceived attractiveness of men's faces
Another fundamental social category? Spontaneous categorization of people who uphold or violate moral norms
The watching eyes effect in the Dictator Game: It's not how much you give, it's being seen to give something
Psychology (30 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (26 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Attractiveness (19 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification (13 works) · Animal Behavior and Reproduction (12 works) · Facial attractiveness (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works)