- A220, Portland Square, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
- farid.pazhoohi@plymouth.ac.uk
Profiles
Dr Farid Pazhoohi
Lecturer in Psychology
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
I am the Director of the Evolutionary Social Cognition Lab and Co-Director of Plymouth Face Lab.
Research
Research
Research interests
My interdisciplinary research program focuses on the cognitive, social and neural mechanisms of interpersonal perception, and how attention, perception, decision making, social cognition and interpersonal interactions are influenced by appearance, aesthetics and attractiveness. I also explore the nature and mechanisms by which we use our cognitive abilities to make adaptive, goal directed choices, particularly in the context of social cognition and decision making. I approach my research questions using a variety of behavioral and cognitive neuroscience techniques, such as eye-tracking, virtual reality, and electroencephalography, as well as observational and ethological methods.
- Social Cognition
- Interpersonal Perception
- Visual Cognition and Attention
- Proxemics
- Human Behavioural Ecology
- Evolutionary Social Psychology
- Evolutionary Psychology
Publications
Publications
Journals
2020+
- Pazhouhi, S., Garza, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (2024). Association of Life History Strategy and Mate Retention Behavior in Men and Women. Personality & Individual Differences, 225, 112685.
- Forby*, L., Pazhoohi*, F., & Kingstone, A. (2024). Autistic traits and Anthropomorphism: The case of vehicle fascia perception. Cognitive Processing.
- Pazhoohi, F., Afhami, R., Chegeni, R., Dubrov, D., Gałasińska, K., Garza, R., …, Pfuhl, G. (2024). Cross-cultural preferences for women’s waist-to-hip ratio and men’s shoulder-to-hip ratio: Data from Iran, Norway, Poland, and Russia. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
- Groyecka-Bernard et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2024). Conservatism and history of parasitic disease predict creativity: A study across 28 countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
- Aung, T., Hill, A., Hlay, J., Hess, C., Hess, M., Johnson, J., … Pazhoohi, F. …& Puts, D. (2024). Effects of Voice Pitch on Social Perceptions Vary with Relational Mobility and Homicide Rate. Psychological Science.
- Jacobs, O., Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Self-discrepancies in mind perception between actual and ideal selves. PLOS One.
- Meskó et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2023). Exploring Attitudes Towards Sugar Relationship Across 87 Countries: A Global perspective on Exchanges of Resources for Sex and Companionship. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- Pazhoohi, F.& Kingstone, A. (2023). Eyelash length attractiveness across ethnicities. Scientific Reports, 13, 14849.
- Garza, R., Afhami, R., Mora, J., & Pazhoohi, F. (2023). Perceptions of beardedness for attractiveness, masculinity, fighting ability, and partner quality: A cross-cultural examination among Hispanic and Iranian women. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
- Pazhoohi, F., Gojamgunde, S. & Kingstone, A. (2023). Give Me Space: Sex, Attractiveness, and Mind Perception as Potential Contributors to Different Comfort Distances for Humans and Robots. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 90, 102088.
- Jacobs*, O., Pazhoohi*, F., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Contrapposto posture captures visual attention: an online gaze tracking experiment. Visual Cognition.
- Pazhoohi, F., Arantes, J., Kingstone, A., & Pinal, D. (2023). Neural correlates and perceived attractiveness of male and female shoulder-to-hip ratio. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- Pazhoohi, F., Binte Hassan, S. & Kingstone, A. (2023). The Interacting Effects of Men’s Height and Shoulder-to-Hip Ratio on Comfort Distance: A Virtual Reality Study. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
- Jacobs, O., Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (preprint). Brief exposure increases mind perception to ChatGPT and is moderated by the individual propensity to anthropomorphize.
- Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., & Byrd-Craven, J. (2023). Ecological influences and visual attention to infant phenotypes. Culture & Evolution.
- Pazhoohi, F., Garza, R., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Lordosis behavior (arching the back) signals sexual receptivity in women. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
- Forby, L., Anderson, N. C., Karstadt, B., Dawson, J., Pazhoohi, F., Cheng, J. T., Foulsham, T., & Kingstone, A. (2023). Reading the room: Autistic traits, gaze behaviour, and the ability to infer social relationships. PLOS ONE, 18(3), e0282310.
- Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Al-Shawaf, L., Byrd-Craven, J. (2023). An eye tracking study examining the role of mating strategies, perceived vulnerability to disease, and disgust in attention to pathogenic cues. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology.
- Garza, R., & Pazhoohi, F. (2023). Intrasexual competition in women’s likelihood of self-enhancement and perceptions of breast morphology: A Hispanic Sample. Sexes, 4(1), 80-93.
- Sorokowski et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2023). Modernization, Collectivism, and Gender Equality Predict Love Experiences in 45 Countries. Scientific Reports, 3(1), 773.
- Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Preferred Distance from Camera for Online Interactions and its Relation with Individual Differences in Pathogen Sensitivity. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, 101916.
- Pazhoohi, F., Garza, R., & Kingstone, A. (2022). The interacting effects of height and shoulder to hip ratio on perceptions of attractiveness, masculinity, and fighting ability: experimental design and ecological validity considerations. Archives of Sexual Behavior.
- Kowal et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2022). Predictors of enhancing human physical attractiveness: Data from 93 countries. Evolution & Human Behavior, 43(6), 455-474.
- Pazhoohi, F., Capozzi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Physical disabilities in romantic partners: Behavioral immune system theory fails to explain why women and men differ in their perceptions of potential romantic partners who are physically disabled. Personality and Individual Differences, 198, 111821.
- DeLecce, T., Pazhoohi, F., Szala, A., & Shackelford, T. (2022). Extreme metal guitar skill: A case of intrasexual competition, intersexual selection, or byproduct? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.
- Pazhoohi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Unattractive faces are more attractive when the bottom-half is masked, an effect that reverses when the top-half is concealed. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 1-10.
- Pazhoohi, F., Jacobs, O., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Contrapposto Pose Influences Perceptions of Attractiveness, Masculinity, and Dynamicity of Male Statues from Antiquity. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 8(1), 46-55.
- Pazhoohi, F., Garza, R., & Kingstone, A. (2022). Sexual Receptivity Signal of Lordosis Posture and Intra-Sexual Competition in Women. Sexes, 3(1), 59-67.
- Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2022). On the attractiveness of the eyelash length: a previously uninvestigated indicator of beauty. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 16(2), 176–180.
- Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2022). Larger vehicles are perceived as more aggressive, angry, dominant, and masculine. Current Psychology,41, 4195–4199.
- Pazhoohi, F., Capozzi, F., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Physical disability affects women’s, but not men’s perception of opposite sex attractiveness. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 788287.
- Pazhoohi, F., Forby, L., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Facial masks affect emotion recognition in general population and autistic individuals. PLOS ONE, 16(9): e0257740.
- Pazhoohi*, F., Luna*, K., Bischof, W. B., & Kingstone, A. (2021). A life history approach to artistic endeavors and production: The case of metal music. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 8(2), 189-195.
- Marcinkowska et al., (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2021). An exploratory, cross-cultural study on perception of putative cyclical changes in facial fertility cues. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9.
- Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Byrd-Craven, J. (2021). Women’s perceptions of breast size, ptosis, and intermammary distance: Does breast morphology play a role in women’s intrasexual competition? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences.
- Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2021). Associations of Political Orientation, Xenophobia, Right-Wing Authoritarianism, and Concern of COVID-19: Cognitive Responses to An Actual Pathogen Threat. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111081.
- Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Byrd-Craven, J. (2021). Women’s preferences for strong men under perceived harsh versus safe ecological conditions. Evolutionary Psychology, 19(3), 14747049211032351.
- Walter et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2021). Sex Differences in Human Mate Preferences Vary Across Sex Ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288(1955), 20211115.
- Fiala, V., Třebický, V., Pazhoohi, F., Leongómez, J. D., Tureček, P., Saribay, S. A., Akoko, R. M., & Kleisner, K. (2021). Facial attractiveness and preference of sexual dimorphism: A comparison across five populations. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
- Sorokowska et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2021). Affective interpersonal touch: a cross-cultural perspective. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
- Pazhoohi, F., Choi, G., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Larger Distances from Larger Vehicles: Effect of Vehicle Size, Viewing Side, And Their Facia on Comfort Distance in Virtual Reality. Australian Journal of Psychology, 73(2), 179-187.
- Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2021). The Effect of Movie Frame Rate on Viewer Preference: An Eye Tracking Study. Augmented Human Research, 6, 2.
- Jacquet*, P. O., Pazhoohi*, F., Findling, C., Mell, H., Chevallier, C., & Baumard, N. (2021). Predictive modelling of religiosity, prosociality and moralizing in 295,000 individuals from European and non-European populations. Nature’s Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 8, 9.
- Pazhoohi, F., Pazhouhi, S., & Kingstone, A. (2021). Concern about contracting COVID-19 predicts men’s preference for female facial femininity, but not women’s preference for male facial masculinity. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology, 7, 17–27.
- Garza, R., Pazhoohi, F., Byrd-Craven, J. (2020). Does ecological harshness influence men’s perceptions of women’s breast size, ptosis, and intermammary distance? Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7(2), 174-183.
- Sorokowski et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2020). Universality of the triangular theory of love: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the triangular love scale in 25 countries. Journal of Sex Research, 58(1), 106-115.
- Pazhoohi, F. & Kingstone, A. (2020). Parasite Prevalence and Income Inequality Positively Predict Beardedness Across 25 Countries. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology, 6(2), 185–193.
- Pazhoohi, F., Grammer, K., Macedo, F. A., Arantes, J. (2020). The effect of women's leg posture on gazing behavior and perceived attractiveness. Current Psychology, 39, 1049–1054.
- Kowal et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2020). Reasons for Facebook usage: data from 46 countries. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 711.
- Pazhoohi, F., Garza R. & Kingstone, A. (2020). Effects of Breast Size, Intermammary Cleft Distance (Cleavage) and Ptosis on Perceived Attractiveness, Health, Fertility and Age: Do Life History, Self-Perceived Mate Value and Sexism Attitude Play a Role? Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology, 6(1), 75–92.
- Pazhoohi, F., Arantes, J., Kingstone, A., & Pinal, D. (2020). Becoming sexy: Contrapposto pose increases attractiveness ratings and modulates observers’ brain activity. Biological Psychology, 151, 107842.
- Pazhoohi, F., Arantes, J., Kingstone, A., & Pinal, D. (2020). Waist to hip ratio and breast size modulate the processing of female body silhouettes: an EEG study. Evolution & Human Behavior, 41(2), 150-169.
- Walter et al. (including Pazhoohi, F.). (2020). Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale Replication. Psychological Science.
Book Reviews (2020+):
- Pazhoohi, F. (2024). [Review of the book How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures, by R. Dunbar]. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
- Pazhoohi, F. (2023). [Review of the book Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living, by D. Xygalatas]. Evolutionary Psychological Science.
- Pazhoohi, F. (2022). [Review of the book The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World, by N. Raihani]. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 8, 493–494.
- Pazhoohi, F. (2022). [Review of the book Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being, by A. Fuentes]. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 18(4): 494–495.
- Pazhoohi, F. (2021). [Review of the book How Children Invented Humanity: The Role of Development in Human Evolution, by D. F. Bjorklund]. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 8, 105.
- Pazhoohi, F. (2021). [Review of the book Evolution in the Here and Now: How Adaptation and Social Learning Explain Humanity, by N. Barber]. Evolutionary Psychological Science ,7, 442–443.
- Pazhoohi, F. (2021). [Review of the book Life Finds a Way: What Evolution Teaches Us About Creativity, by A. Wagner]. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 7, 94-95.
- Pazhoohi, F. (2020). [Review of the book Sex, Power, and Partisanship: How Evolutionary Science Makes Sense of Our Political Divide, by H. Garcia]. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 6, 292–293.
Chapters
Pazhoohi, F. (2022). Cultural differences and similarities in the nature of infidelity. In T. DeLecce, & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Infidelity. Oxford University Press.
Pazhoohi, F. (2022). Parental Investment Theory. In T. Shackelford (Ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Sexual Psychology (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology, pp. 137-159). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.