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Recent Publications

Books 

Clifford, C.W.G., & Rhodes, G. (Eds.) (2005). Fitting the Mind to the World: Adaptation and aftereffects in high level vision. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Peterson, M. & Rhodes, G. (2003). Advances in Visual Cognition, Volume 2. Perception of Faces Objects and Scenes: Analytic and holistic processes._ Cambridge, MA: Oxford University Press.
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Rhodes, G., & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2002). Advances in Visual Cognition, Volume 1, Facial attractiveness: Evolutionary, Cognitive and Social Perspectives. Westport, CT: Ablex.
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Rhodes, G. (1996). Superportraits: Caricatures and recognition. Hove: The Psychology Press.

Journal Articles

2008

 

Hayward, W. G., Rhodes, G., & Schwaninger, A. (2008). An own-race advantage for components as well as configurations in face recognition. Cognition, 106, 1017-1027.

Hancock, K., & Rhodes, G. (2008). Contact, inversion and the other-race effect in face recognition. British Journal of Psychology, 99, 45-56.

Jaquet, E., & Rhodes, G. (2008). Face aftereffects indicate dissociable, but not distinct, coding of male and female faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, in press [accepted 23/7/07]

Jaquet, E., Rhodes, G., & Hayward, W. G. (2008). Race-contingent aftereffects suggest distinct perceptual norms for different race faces. Visual Cognition, in press [accepted 19/3/07].

Jaquet, E., Rhodes, G., & Hayward, W. G. (2008). Opposite aftereffects for Chinese and Caucasian faces are selective for social category information and not just physical face differences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, in press [accepted 19/4/07].

Nishimura, M., Maurer, D., Jeffery, L., Pellicano, E., & Rhodes, G. (2008). Fitting the child's mind to the world: Adaptive norm-based coding of facial identity in 8-year-olds. Developmental Science, in press [accepted 20/8/07].

Peters, M., Rhodes, G., & Simmons, L. W. (2008). Attractiveness in men does not provide cues to semen quality. Journal of Evolutional Biology, in press. [accepted 17/10/07]

 

 

2007

 

Jeffery, L., Rhodes, G., & Busey, T. (2007). Broadly tuned, view-specific coding of face shape: Opposing figural aftereffects can be induced in different views. Vision Research, 47, 3070-3077.

McKone, E., Brewer, J. L., MacPherson, A., Rhodes, G., & Hayward, W. G. (2007). Familiar other-race faces show normal holistic processing and are robust to perceptual stress. Perception, 36, 224-248.

Palermo, R., & Rhodes, G. (2007). Are you always on my mind? A review of how face perception and attention interact. Neuropsychologia, 45, 75-92.

Pellicano, E., Jeffery, L., Burr, D., & Rhodes, G. (2007). Abnormal adaptive face-coding mechanisms in children with autism spectrum disorder. Current Biology, 17, 1508-1512.

Peters, M., Rhodes, G., & Simmons, L. W. (2007). Contributions of the face and body to overall attractiveness. Animal Behaviour,73, 937-942

Potter, T., Corneille, O., Ruys, K. I., & Rhodes, G. (2007). She's just another pretty face: A multidimensional scaling approach to face attractiveness and variability. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 368-372.

Rhodes, G., Jeffery, L., Clifford, C. W. G., & Leopold, D. A. (2007). The timecourse of higher-level face aftereffects. Vision Research, 47, 2291-2296.

Rhodes, G., Maloney, L. T., Turner, J., & Ewing, L. (2007). Adaptive face coding and discrimination around the average face. Vision Research, 47, 974-989.

Rhodes, G., Peters, M., & Ewing, L. A. (2007). Specialized mechanisms for facial symmetry detection and preference, Perception, in press.

Rhodes, G., Yoshikawa, S., Palermo, R., Simmons, L. W., Peters, M., Lee, K., Halberstadt, J., & Crawford, J. R. (2007). Perceived health contributes to the attractiveness of facial symmetry, averageness and sexual dimorphism. Perception, in press [accepted 20/2/07].

 

2006

 

 

Jeffery, L., Rhodes, G., & Busey, T. (2006). View-specific norms code face shape.  Psychological Science,17, 501-505.

 

Koehler, N., Rhodes, G., Simmons, L. W., & Zebrowitz, L. A. (2006). Do cyclic changes in women's face preferences target cues to long-term health? Social Cognition, 24, 525-541.

 

Pellicano, E., Rhodes, G., & Peters, M. (2006). Are preschoolers sensitive to configural information in faces? Developmental Science, 9, 270-277.

 

Rhodes. G. (2006). The evolution of facial attractiveness.  Annual Review of Psychology, 57, 199-226.

 

Rhodes, G., Hayward, W. G., & Winkler, C. (2006). Expert face coding: Configural and component coding of own-race and other-race faces. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 499-505.

 

Rhodes, G., & Jeffery, L. (2006). Adaptive norm-based coding of facial identity. Vision Research, 46, 2977-2987.

 

 

2005

 

 

Leopold, D. A., Rhodes, G., Müller, K-M & Jeffery, L. (2005). The dynamics of visual adaptation to faces.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272, 897–904.

 

Rhodes, G, Halberstadt, J., Jeffery, L., & Palermo, R. (2005).  The attractiveness of average faces is not a generalized mere exposure effect.  Social Cognition, 23, 205-217.

  

Rhodes, G., Lee, K., Palermo, R., Weiss, M., Yoshikawa, S., Clissa, P., Williams, T., & Peters, M. (2005).  Attractiveness of own-race, other-race and mixed-race faces.  Perception, 34, 319-340.

 

Rhodes, G., Peters, M., Lee, K., Morrone, C. M., & Burr, D. (2005).  Higher-level mechanisms detect facial symmetry.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272, 1379-1384.

 

Rhodes, G. Simmons, L., & Peters, M. (2005).  Attractiveness and sexual behavior:  Does attractiveness enhance mating success?  Evolution & Human Behavior, 26, 186-201.

 

Winkler, C., & Rhodes, G.  (2005).  Perceptual adaptation affects the attractiveness of female bodies.  British Journal of Psychology, 96, 141-154.

 

 

2004

 

 

Byatt, G., & Rhodes, G. (2004).  Identification of own-race and other-race faces:  Implications for the representation of race in face-space.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11(40), 735-741.

 

Koehler, N., Simmons, L. W., & Rhodes, G. (2004).  How well does second to fourth digit ratio in hands correlate with other indications of masculinity in males? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Suppl.), 271, S296-S298.

 

Koehler, N., Simmons, L. W., Rhodes, G., & Peters, M. (2004).  The relationship between sexual dimorphism in human faces and fluctuating asymmetry. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Suppl.), 271, S233-S236. (DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0146).

 

Rhodes, G. (2004).  Facial attractiveness:  The role of evolutionary mechanisms and experience.  Journal of Cultural and Evolutionary Psychology, 2, 81-92.  [Invited contribution to special issue on Social Cognition: Evolutionary and cultural perspectives, Eds. J. Forgas, J. Laszlo & C. Pleh].

 

Rhodes, G., Byatt, G., Michie, P. T., & Puce, A. (2004). Is the fusiform face area specialized for faces, individuation or expert individuation? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1-15.

 

Rhodes, G., Jeffery, L., Watson, T., Jaquet, E., Winkler, C., Clifford, C. W. G. (2004).  Orientation-contingent face aftereffects and implications for face coding mechanisms.  Current Biology, 14, 2119-2123.

 

Simmons, L. W., Firman, R. C., Rhodes, G., & Peters, M. (2004).  Human sperm competition:  testis size, sperm production, and rates of extra-pair copulations.  Animal Behaviour, 68, 297-302.

 

Simmons, L. W., Rhodes, G., Peters, M. & Koehler, N. (2004).  Are human preferences for facial symmetry focused on signals of developmental instability?  Behavioral Ecology, 15, 864-871.

 

Zebrowitz, L. A., & Rhodes, G. (2004).  Sensitivity to “bad genes” and the anomalous face overgeneralization effect:  Cue validity, cue utilization, and accuracy in judging intelligence and health.  Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 28, 167-185.

 

 

2003

 

 

Halberstadt, J., & Rhodes, G. (2003).  It’s not just the average face that’s attractive:  The attractiveness of averageness in computer-manipulated birds, fish and automobiles.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10(1), 149-156.

 

Palermo, R., & Rhodes, G. (2003).  Change detection in the flicker paradigm:  Do faces have an advantage?  Visual Cognition, 10, 683-713.

 

Pellicano, L., & Rhodes, G. (2003).  Holistic processing of faces in preschool children and adults.  Psychological Science, 14, 618-622.

 

Pellicano, L., & Rhodes, G. (2003).  The role of eye gaze in understanding other minds.  British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 21, 33-43.

 

Rhodes, G., Chan, J., Zebrowitz, L. A., & Simmons, L. W. (2003).  Does sexual dimorphism in human faces signal health?  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Suppl.), 270, S93-95.  (DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2003.0023).

 

Rhodes, G., Jeffery, L., Watson, T. L., Clifford, C. W. G., & Nakayama, K. (2003).  Fitting the mind to the world:  Face adaptation and attractiveness aftereffects.  Psychological Science, 14, 558-566.

 

Scognamillo, R., Rhodes, G., Morrone, C., & Burr, D. (2003).  A feature-based model of symmetry detection.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 270, 1727-1733.

 

 

2002

 

 

Faulkner, T. F., Rhodes, G., Palermo, R., Pellicano, E., & Ferguson, D. (2002).  Recognizing the un-real McKoy:  Priming and the modularity of face recognition.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 327-334.

 

Koehler, N., Rhodes, G., & Simmons, L. (2002).  Are human female preferences for symmetrical male faces enhanced when conception is likely?  Animal Behaviour, 64, 233-238.

 

Palermo, R., & Rhodes, G. (2002).  The influence of divided attention on holistic face perception.  Cognition, 82, 225-257.

 

Rhodes, G., Geddes, K., Jeffery, L., Dziurawiec, S., & Clark, A. (2002).  Are average and symmetric faces attractive to infants?  Discrimination and looking preferences.  Perception, 31, 315-322.

 

Zebrowitz, L. A., Hall, J. A., Murphy, N. A., & Rhodes, G. (2002).  Looking smart and looking good:  Facial cues to intelligence and their origins.  Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, 28, 238-249.

 

 

2001

 

 

Ferguson, D. P., Rhodes, G., Lee, K., & Sriram, N. (2001). “They all look alike to me”: Prejudice and cross-race face recognition.  British Journal of Psychology, 92, 567-577.

 

Rhodes, G., Yoshikawa, S., Clark, A., Lee, K., McKay, R., & Akamatsu, S. (2001).  Attractiveness of facial averageness and symmetry in non-Western populations:  In search of biologically based standards of beauty.  Perception, 30, 611-625.

 

Rhodes, G., Halberstadt, J., & Brajkovich, G. (2001). Generalization of mere exposure effects in social stimuli. Social Cognition, 19, 57-70.

 

Rhodes, G., Zebrowitz, L. A., Clark, A., Kalick, S. M., Hightower, A., & McKay, R. (2001).  Do facial averageness and symmetry signal health?  Evolution & Human Behavior, 22, 31-46.

 

 

2000

 

 

Murray, J. E., Yong, E., & Rhodes, G. (2000). Revisiting the perception of upside-down faces.  Psychological Science, 11, 498-502.

 

Halberstadt, J., & Rhodes, G. (2000).  The attractiveness of non-face averages:  Implications for an evolutionary explanation of the attractiveness of average faces. Psychological Science, 11, 285-289.

 

Lee, K., Byatt, G., & Rhodes, G. (2000).  Caricature effects, distinctiveness and identification:  Testing the face-space framework. Psychological Science, 11, 379-385.

 

Rhodes, G., Hickford, C., & Jeffery, L. (2000).  Sex-typicality and attractiveness:  Are supermale and superfemale faces super-attractive. British Journal of Psychology, 91, 125-140.

 

 

1999

 

 

Rhodes, G., Roberts, J., & Simmons, L. (1999).  Reflections on symmetry and attractiveness. Psychology, Evolution and Gender, 1, 279-295.

 

Rhodes, G., Sumich, A., & Byatt, G. (1999).  Are average facial configurations only attractive because of their symmetry?  Psychological Science, 10, 52-58.

 

 

1998

 

 

Rhodes, G., Proffitt, F., Grady, J. M., & Sumich, A. (1998).  Facial symmetry and the perception of beauty.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 5, 659-669.

 

Rhodes, G., Carey, S., Byatt, G., & Proffitt, F. (1998).  Coding spatial variations in facesces and simple shapes:  A test of two models.  Vision Research, 38, 2307-2321.

 

Byatt, G., & Rhodes, G. (1998).  Recognition of own-race and other-race caricatures:  Implications for models of face recognition.  Vision Research, 38, 2455-2468.

 

 

For further information please contact:

 


Professor Gill Rhodes
School of Psychology
University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009
phone: 61 8 6488 3251
fax: 61 8 6488 1006
gill@psy.uwa.edu.au