Christopher Watkins

Research output

Research output per year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2018 2023

• 38 Article
• 16 Poster
• 4 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
• 3 Paper
• 6 More
  • 2 Chapter
  • 2 Abstract
  • 2 Other

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  A systematic examination of actor and trainee interviewer behaviour during Joint Investigative Interviewing Training

  Nicol, A., Szojka, Z. A., Watkins, C. D., Gabbert, F. & La Rooy, D., 13 Mar 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology. 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Actors 100%
  • Best Practice 50%
  • Simulation 50%
  • Behavior 50%
  • Interviews 50%
  3 Downloads (Pure)
• 2022

  Men say "I love you" before women do: robust across several countries

  Watkins, C. D., Bovet, J., Fernandez, A. M., Leongómez, J. D., Zelazniewicz, A., Correa Varella, M. A. & Wagstaff, D., 1 Jun 2022, In: Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 39, 7, p. 2134-2153 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Research 100%
  • Attachment Style 100%
  • Attachment Theory 50%
  • Stereotype 50%
  • Sex Differences 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  78 Downloads (Pure)

• The great porn experiment V2.0: sexual arousal reduces the salience of familiar women when heterosexual men judge their attractiveness

  Sculley, J. & Watkins, C. D., 1 Aug 2022, In: Archives of Sexual Behavior. 51, 6, p. 3071-3082 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Preference 100%
  • Preregistered 50%
  • Internet Addiction 50%
  • Behavior 50%
  30 Downloads (Pure)
• 2021

  Exogenous testosterone decreases men’s sensitivity to vocal cues of male dominance

  Han, C., Watkins, C. D., Nan, Y., Ou, J., Lei, X., Li, X. & Wu, Y., 1 Jan 2021, In: Hormones and Behavior. 127, 6 p., 104871.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Dominance 100%
  • Testosterone 70%
  • Placebo 30%
  • Challenge Hypothesis 20%
  • Groups 20%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  83 Downloads (Pure)

• Having options alters the attractiveness of familiar versus novel faces: sex differences and similarities

  Sculley, J. R., Ritchie, K. L. & Watkins, C. D., 1 Nov 2021, In: Computers in Human Behavior. 124, 10 p., 106937.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Face 100%
  • Sex Differences 60%
  • Familiarity 40%
  • Judgement 40%
  • Mindset 20%
  51 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Social transmission of leadership preference: knowledge of group membership and partisan media reporting moderates perceptions of leadership ability from facial cues to competence and dominance

  Watkins, C. D., Xiao, D. & Perrett, D. I., 14 Jan 2020, In: Frontiers in Psychology. 10, 9 p., 2996.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Dominance 100%
  • Groups 83%
  • Preference 66%
  • Competence 50%
  • Group Membership 50%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  106 Downloads (Pure)

• Using sexual selection theories to examine contextual variation in heterosexual women’s orientation toward high heels

  Watkins, C. & Leitch, A., 1 Apr 2020, In: Archives of Sexual Behavior. 49, 3, p. 849-860 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Preference 100%
  • Priming 100%
  • Attitudes 50%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  121 Downloads (Pure)
• 2019

  Initial experimental evidence that the ability to choose between items alters attraction to familiar versus novel persons in different ways for men and women

  Sculley, J., Watkins, C. D. & Ritchie, K. L., 9 Feb 2019.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

  Open Access

  File

  • Humans 100%
  • Abilities 50%
  • Goals 50%
  • Priming 50%
  90 Downloads (Pure)

• John Maynard Smith

  Watkins, C. D., 22 May 2019, Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (eds.). Living edition ed. Cham: Springer, 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

  • reference work 100%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Kissing

  Watkins, C. D., 12 Feb 2019, Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (eds.). Living edition ed. Cham: Springer, 3 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• National income inequality predicts cultural variation in mouth to mouth kissing

  Watkins, C. D., Leongómez, J. D., Bovet, J., Zelazniewicz, A., Korbmacher, M., Correa Varella, M. A., Fernandez, A. M., Wagstaff, D. & Bolgan, S., 30 Apr 2019, In: Scientific Reports. 9, 9 p., 6698.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Income Distribution 100%
  • Health 75%
  • Romantic Relationship 50%
  • Cultural Variation 50%
  • Courtship 50%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  110 Downloads (Pure)

• Trait openness and agreeableness are related to a left-leaning political orientation but are negatively related to the endorsement of totalitarian ideals

  Hollick, D. W. & Watkins, C. D., 26 Sept 2019. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

  Open Access

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  • Agreeableness 100%
  • Dominance 100%
  • Personality 100%
  • Personality Trait 100%
  • Openness 100%
  52 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Do national health and wealth predict attitudes toward, and use of mouth-to-mouth kissing in romantic relationships?

  Watkins, C. D., Loengomez, J. D., Bovet, J., Zelazniewicz, A., Korbmacher, M., Correa Varella, M. A., Fernandez, A. M., Wagstaff, D. & Bolgan, S., 7 Sept 2018, p. 104. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

• Formidability and alliance politics in humans and nonhuman species

  Watkins, C. D., 26 Sept 2018, The facial displays of leaders. Senior, C. (ed.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 27-49 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • Research 100%
  • Humans 100%
  • Politics 100%
  • Biological Sciences 50%
  • Technology 50%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• If the shoe fits? Using sexual selection theories to examine potential between-women and within- women variation in their responses to high heels

  Watkins, C. D. & Leitch, A., 2018, p. 88. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

  Open Access

  • Women 100%
  • Preference 30%
  • Priming 30%
  • Competition 23%
  • Effectiveness 7%

• Negative effects of makeup use on perceptions of leadership ability across two ethnicities

  James, E. A., Jenkins, S. & Watkins, C. D., 1 May 2018, In: Perception. 47, 5, p. 540-549 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Abilities 100%
  • Dominance 50%
  • Competence 25%
  • Social Dominance 25%
  • Mating 25%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  1305 Downloads (Pure)

• Personality, gender, and culture

  Watkins, C. D., 15 Feb 2018, Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (eds.). Living edition ed. Cham: Springer, 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• The coolidge effect and online dating: primed choice of both potential dates and resources directly reduces the attractiveness of familiar faces (SFA)

  Sculley, J., Watkins, C. D. & Ritchie, K. L., 7 Sept 2018, p. 138. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
• 2017

  Creating beauty: creativity compensates for low physical attractiveness when individuals assess the attractiveness of social and romantic partners

  Watkins, C. D., 19 Apr 2017, In: Royal Society Open Science. 4, 11 p., 160955.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Physical Attractiveness 100%
  • Groups 50%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  101 Downloads (Pure)

• Own attractiveness and dissatisfaction with physical appearance independently predict the salience of facial cues to size when women judge other women’s attractiveness

  Watkins, C. D., 1 Nov 2017, In: Perception. 46, 11, p. 1321-1328 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Health 100%
  • Preference Task 50%
  • Resources 50%
  • Evaluation 50%
  • Psychometrics 50%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  227 Downloads (Pure)

• Own attractiveness and perceived relationship quality shape sensitivity in women’s memory for other men on the attractiveness dimension

  Watkins, C. D., Nicholls, M. J., Batres, C., Xiao, D., Talamas, S. & Perrett, D. I., 1 Jun 2017, In: Cognition. 163, p. 146–154 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Romantic Relationship 100%
  • Biases 75%
  • False Memory 25%
  • Peers 25%
  • Psychometrics 25%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  178 Downloads (Pure)

• Own attractiveness and perceived relationship quality shape sensitivity in women’s memory for other men on the attractiveness dimension

  Watkins, C. D., Nicholls, M. J., Batres, C., Xiao, D., Talamas, S. & Perrett, D. I., 3 Jun 2017.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

  • Peers 100%
  • Psychometrics 100%
  • Priming 100%
  • Romantic Relationship 100%

• Selective memory and the sex ratio: attractive women have better memory for how men look when men outnumber women

  Watkins, C. D. & Perrett, D., 3 Jun 2017, p. 136. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
• 2016

  Competition-related factors directly influence preferences for facial cues of dominance in allies

  Watkins, C. D. & Jones, B. C., 1 Dec 2016, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 70, 12, p. 2071-2079 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Preference 100%
  • Competition 50%
  • Dominance 33%
  • Social Intelligence 33%
  • Humans 33%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  90 Downloads (Pure)

• It’s the way he tells them (and who is listening): men’s dominance is positively correlated with their preference for jokes told by dominant-sounding men

  Cowan, M. L., Watkins, C. D., Fraccaro, P. J., Feinberg, D. R. & Little, A. C., Mar 2016, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 37, 2, p. 97-104 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Dominance 100%
  • Friendships 40%
  • Preference 40%
  • Research 20%
  • Judgement 20%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

  117 Downloads (Pure)

• Own attractiveness and perceived relationship quality shape sensitivity in women’s memory for other men on the attractiveness dimension

  Watkins, C. D., Nicholls, M. J., Batres, C., Xiao, D., Talamas, S. & Perrett, D. I., 5 Aug 2016, p. 101. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

  Open Access

• Vocal indicators of dominance

  Watkins, C. D. & Pisanski, K., 16 Dec 2016, Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science. Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. A. (eds.). 1 ed. Springer, 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
• 2015

  It's the way he tells them: men's dominance is well-correlated with their predictions for jokes told by dominant-sounding men

  Cowan, M. L., Watkins, C. D., Fraccaro, P. J., Feinberg, D. R. & Little, A. C., 2015.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Dominance 100%
  • Friendships 40%
  • Research 20%
  • Preference 20%
  • Judgement 20%

• Perceptions of facial dominance, trustworthiness and attractiveness predict managerial pay awards in experimental tasks

  Fruhen, L. S., Watkins, C. D. & Jones, B. C., 1 Dec 2015, In: Leadership Quarterly. 26, 6, p. 1005-1016 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Dominance 100%
  • Physical Attractiveness 33%
  • Research 33%
  • Workplace 33%
  • Biases 33%
  35 Citations (Scopus)

  1110 Downloads (Pure)

• Social support influences preferences for feminine facial cues in potential social partners

  Watkins, C. D., Debruine, L. M., Little, A. C. & Jones, B. C., 1 Apr 2015, p. 109. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
• 2014

  A sex difference in the context sensitivity of dominance perceptions

  Watkins, C. D., Debruine, L. M., Feinberg, D. R. & Jones, B. C., 2014, p. 76. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

  Open Access

  • Dominance 100%
  • Perception 66%
  • Competition 33%
  • Social Interaction 16%
  • Priming 16%

• Beauty in the eye of the beholder: potentially adaptive individual differences in human mate preferences

  Debruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Roberts, S. C., Little, A. C. & Watkins, C. D., 31 Jan 2014, Animal behavior: how and why animals do the things they do. Yasukawa, K. & Tang-Martinez, Z. (eds.). Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, Vol. 3: Integration and application with case studies. p. 311-345 35 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Do romantic partners impose greater financial costs than other social partners?

  Cunningham, C. L., Tilley, E. B. & Watkins, C. D., 25 Oct 2014.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

• Priming concerns about pathogen threat versus resource scarcity: dissociable effects on women’s perceptions of men’s attractiveness and dominance

  Watkins, C. D., DeBruine, L. M., Little, A. C., Feinberg, D. R. & Jones, B. C., 2014.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

  • Resources 100%
  • Dominance 50%
  • Priming 37%
  • Research 12%
  • Preference 12%
• 2013

  A sex difference in the context-sensitivity of dominance perceptions

  Watkins, C. D., DeBruine, L. M., Feinberg, D. R. & Jones, B. C., Sept 2013, In: Evolution and Human Behavior. 34, 5, p. 366–372 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Dominance 100%
  • Perception 75%
  • Competition 37%
  • Social Interaction 12%
  • Motivation 12%
  11 Citations (Scopus)

  199 Downloads (Pure)

• Cues derived from facial appearance in security-related contexts: a biological and socio-cognitive framework

  Watkins, C. D., 16 May 2013, In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 7, 4 p., 204.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Identity 100%
  • Explanation 100%
  • Resources 100%
  • Process Security 66%
  • Costs 66%
  69 Downloads (Pure)

• Experimental tests of mate preferences predict real-world mate choice

  Fincher, C., Debruine, L., Watkins, C. D., Little, A. & Jones, B., 27 Mar 2013. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

  Open Access

• Pathogen disgust predicts women’s preferences for masculinity in men’s voices, faces, and bodies

  Jones, B. C., Feinberg, D. R., Watkins, C. D., Fincher, C. L., Little, A. C. & DeBruine, L. M., Mar 2013, In: Behavioral Ecology. 24, 2, p. 373-379 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Preference 100%
  • Disgust 100%
  • Individual Differences 83%
  43 Citations (Scopus)

• Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women's health

  Tinlin, R. M., Watkins, C. D., Welling, L. L. M., DeBruine, L. M., Al-Dujaili, E. A. S. & Jones, B. C., May 2013, In: British Journal of Psychology. 104, 2, p. 235-248 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Health 100%
  • Progesterone 20%
  • Body Weight 20%
  • Fitness 20%
  • Humans 20%
  40 Citations (Scopus)

• Salivary cortisol and pathogen disgust predict men's preferences for feminine shape cues in women's faces

  Jones, B. C., Fincher, C. L., Welling, L. L. M., Little, A. C., Feinberg, D. R., Watkins, C. D., Al-Dujaili, E. A. S. & DeBruine, L. M., Feb 2013, In: Biological Psychology. 92, 2, p. 233-240 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Preference 100%
  • Disgust 66%
  • Individual Differences 33%
  • Face 33%
  • Femininity 25%
  24 Citations (Scopus)
• 2012

  Cues to the sex ratio of the local population influence women’s preferences for facial symmetry

  Watkins, C. D., Jones, B. C., Little, A. C., DeBruine, L. M. & Feinberg, D. R., Feb 2012, In: Animal Behaviour. 83, 2, p. 545-553 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Preference 100%
  • Sex Ratio 35%
  • Humans 21%
  • Women 21%
  • Competition 7%
  31 Citations (Scopus)

  168 Downloads (Pure)

• Individual differences in women's perceptions of other women's dominance

  Watkins, C. D., Quist, M. C., Smith, F. G., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C., 1 Jan 2012, In: European Journal of Personality. 26, 1, p. 79–86 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Dominance 100%
  • Individual Differences 66%
  • Perception 41%
  • Judgement 16%
  • Questionnaires 16%
  18 Citations (Scopus)

• Opposite-sex siblings decrease attraction, but not prosocial attributions, to self-resembling opposite-sex faces

  DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Watkins, C. D., Roberts, S. C., Little, A. C., Smith, F. G. & Quist, M. C., 27 Mar 2012, p. 48. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

• Perceived facial adiposity conveys information about women’s health

  Tinlin, R. M., Watkins, C. D., Welling, L. L. M., DeBruine, L. M., Al-Dujaili, E. A. S. & Jones, B. C., 17 Jun 2012. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster

• Priming concerns about pathogen threat versus resource scarcity: dissociable effects on women’s perceptions of men’s attractiveness and dominance

  Watkins, C. D., DeBruine, L. M., Little, A. C., Feinberg, D. R. & Jones, B. C., Dec 2012, In: Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 66, 12, p. 1549–1556 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Resources 100%
  • Dominance 50%
  • Priming 37%
  • Research 12%
  • Preference 12%
  24 Citations (Scopus)

  255 Downloads (Pure)

• Priming men with different contest outcomes modulates their dominance perceptions

  Watkins, C. D. & Jones, B. C., 2012, In: Behavioral Ecology. 23, 3, p. 539-543 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Dominance 100%
  • Priming 33%
  • Priming Effect 11%
  • Contextual Cue 11%
  • Behavior 11%
  20 Citations (Scopus)

  92 Downloads (Pure)

• Priming men with different contest outcomes modulates their dominance perceptions

  Watkins, C. D. & Jones, B. C., 17 Jun 2012. 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Other

• Reproductive ambition predicts partnered, but not unpartnered, women's preferences for masculine men

  Watkins, C. D., Aug 2012, In: British Journal of Psychology. 103, 3, p. 317–329 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Preference 100%
  • Health 28%
  • Individual Differences 14%
  • Reasoning 14%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Social support influences preferences for feminine facial cues in potential social partners

  Watkins, C. D., DeBruine, L. M., Little, A. C. & Jones, B. C., 2012, In: Experimental Psychology. 59, 6, p. 340-347 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  File

  • Preference 100%
  • Social Support 57%
  • Individual Differences 14%
  • Priming 14%
  • Judgement 14%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  213 Downloads (Pure)

• Sociosexuality predicts women’s preferences for symmetry in men’s faces

  Quist, M. C., Watkins, C. D., Smith, F. G., Little, A. C., DeBruine, L. M. & Jones, B. C., Dec 2012, In: Archives of Sexual Behavior. 41, 6, p. 1415–1421 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Preference 100%
  • Attitudes 14%
  • Health 14%
  • Individual Differences 14%
  • Personality 14%
  28 Citations (Scopus)