{{Short description|British psychologist (born 1954)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[Professor]] | name = David Perrett | honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FBA|FRSE}} | image = | alt = | caption = | office = Professor of Psychology, [[University of St Andrews]] | term_start = | term_end = | birth_name = David Ian Perrett | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|04|11|df=yes}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=yes}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = [[Psychologist]] | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} '''David Ian Perrett''' (born 11 April 1954<ref>‘PERRETT, Prof. David Ian’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U56117, accessed 11 May 2013]</ref>) is a [[professor]] of [[psychology]] at the [[University of St Andrews]] in [[Scotland]], where he leads the Perception Lab. The main focus in his team's research is on [[face perception]], including facial cues to health,<ref>{{cite journal|last=Stephen|first=Ian D. |author2=Coetzee, Vinet |author3=Perrett, David I.|title=Carotenoid and melanin pigment coloration affect perceived human health|journal=Evolution and Human Behavior|year=2011|volume=32|issue=3|pages=216–227|doi=10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.09.003 |bibcode=2011EHumB..32..216S }}</ref> effects of physiological conditions on facial appearance, and facial preferences in social settings such as [[Dictator game|trust games]] and [[mate choice]].<ref>[http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/dp.shtml Perrett's profile on the University of St Andrews School of Psychology website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110620151330/http://psy.st-andrews.ac.uk/people/lect/dp.shtml |date=2011-06-20 }}</ref> He has published over 400 [[peer review|peer-reviewed]] articles,<ref>[https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/david-ian-perrett(6a987feb-d99f-4e51-84ed-5f6d87c19dbc)/researchoutput.html David Ian Perrett Research Publications]</ref> many of which appearing in leading scientific journals such as the ''[[Proceedings of the Royal Society|Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B—Biological Sciences]]'',<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1098/rspb.2010.1678 |title=Evidence for the stress-linked immunocompetence handicap hypothesis in human male faces |year=2010 |last1=Moore |first1=F. R. |last2=Cornwell |first2=R. E. |last3=Law Smith |first3=M. J. |last4=Al Dujaili |first4=E. A. S. |last5=Sharp |first5=M. |last6=Perrett |first6=D. I. |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=278 |issue=1706 |pages=774–780|pmc=3030856 |pmid=20843854}}</ref> ''[[Psychological Science (journal)|Psychological Science]]'',<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1177/0956797610362647 |title=Valid Facial Cues to Cooperation and Trust: Male Facial Width and Trustworthiness |year=2010 |last1=Stirrat |first1=M. |last2=Perrett |first2=D.I. |journal=Psychological Science |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=349–354 |pmid=20424067|s2cid=23420343 }}</ref> and ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/29772 |year=1998 |last1=Perrett |first1=D. I. |last2=Lee |first2=K. J. |last3=Penton-Voak |first3=I. |last4=Rowland |first4=D. |last5=Yoshikawa |first5=S. |last6=Burt |first6=D. M. |last7=Henzi |first7=S. P. |last8=Castles |first8=D. L. |last9=Akamatsu |first9=S. |journal=Nature |volume=394 |issue=6696 |pages=884–887 |pmid=9732869 |title=Effects of sexual dimorphism on facial attractiveness |bibcode=1998Natur.394..884P |s2cid=204999982 |url=https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1599110 }}</ref>
Perrett received the [[British Psychological Society]] President's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge in 2000,<ref>[http://www.thepsychologist.org.uk/archive/archive_home.cfm?volumeID=15&editionID=76&ArticleID=352 Putting beauty back in the eye of the beholder], ''The Psychologist'', January 2002, Award Article for BPS President's Award.</ref> the Golden Brain Award of [[Minerva Foundation]] in 2002,<ref>[http://brain.berkeley.edu/the-golden-brains/press/perrett-press.html Vision Scientist Wins Golden Brain Award for Research Showing How the Brain Interprets Faces] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718223401/http://brain.berkeley.edu/the-golden-brains/press/perrett-press.html |date=2011-07-18 }}, The Minerva Foundation.</ref> the Experimental Psychology Society Mid-Career prize (2008),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~mwo/Papers/Perret_etal_QJEP_2009.pdf |title=EPS Mid-Career Award 2008 Seeing the future: Natural image sequences produce "anticipatory" neuronal activity and bias perceptual report |access-date=2011-08-18}}</ref> and a British Academy Wolfson Research Professorship (2009–2012).<ref>[http://www.wolfson.org.uk/grant-applicants/education/research-prof/ British Academy Wolfson Research Professorships 2009] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930044544/http://www.wolfson.org.uk/grant-applicants/education/research-prof/ |date=2011-09-30 }}</ref>
Perrett received a BSc in psychology from the [[University of St Andrews]] in 1976.<ref name=CG&A>{{cite journal |last1=Tiddeman |first1=Bernard |last2=Burt |first2=Michael |last3=Perrett |first3=David |title=Prototyping and transforming facial features for perception research |journal=IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications |date=2001 |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=42–50 |doi=10.1109/38.946630 |bibcode=2001ICGA...21e..42T |hdl=10023/1596 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Perrett received a DPhil in psychology from [[Oxford University]] in 1981,<ref name=CG&A/> under [[Edmund Rolls]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Perrett |first1=David |title=Charlie Gross: An inspiration |journal=Progress in Neurobiology |date=2020 |volume=195 |article-number=101928 |doi=10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101928 |pmid=33075448 |hdl=10023/24150 |s2cid=222814014 |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301008220301830 |access-date=26 February 2023|hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Spillmann |first1=Lothar |title=Re-viewing 25 years of ECVP—A personal view |journal=Perception |date=2003 |volume=32 |issue=7 |pages=777–791 |doi=10.1068/p5112 |pmid=12974564 |s2cid=26492469 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/p5112 |access-date=26 February 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Works== * {{Cite book |title=In Your Face. The New Science of Human Attraction |last=Perrett |first=David |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-230-20129-3 |location=Basingstoke}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Further reading== *"Face It: Average Just Isn't Beautiful", ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'', 17 March 1994. *"Average Faces Get Low Beauty Rating", ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]'', 17 March 1994. *"[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15921494.700-why-boyzone-has-them-swooning.html Why Boyzone has them swooning]", ''[[New Scientist]]'', 29 August 1998. *"[https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16221924.300-a-bit-on-the-side.html A bit on the side]", ''[[New Scientist]]'', 26 June 1999. *"Playing the Mating Game: When will a woman go for the hunk or the hubby?", ''[[Newsweek]]'', 5 July 1999. *"Top Brass: A voyage of discovery around the human mind; The 10 leading psychologists in Britain, as chosen by their peers", ''[[The Independent]]'', 14 October 2001. *"Like father like husband", ''[[New Scientist]]'', 2 February 2002.
== External links == * [http://www.perceptionlab.com Perception Lab] * [https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/persons/david-perrett Profile at the University of St Andrews website] {{Evolutionary psychologists}} {{Authority control}}
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